Programming Languages and Systems: 15th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2006, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006, Vienna, Austria, March 27-28, 2006. Proceedings

Sophia Drossopoulou, Dave Clarke, James Noble (auth.), Peter Sestoft (eds.)354033095X, 9783540330950

ETAPS 2006 was the ninth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. ETAPS is an annual federated conference that was established in 1998 by combining a number of existing and new conferences. This year it comprised ?ve conferences (CC, ESOP, FASE, FOSSACS, TACAS), 18 satellite workshops (AC- CAT, AVIS, CMCS, COCV, DCC, EAAI, FESCA, FRCSS, GT-VMT, LDTA, MBT, QAPL, SC, SLAP, SPIN, TERMGRAPH, WITS and WRLA), two tutorials, and seven invited lectures (not including those that were speci?c to the satellite events). We – ceived over 550 submissions to the ?ve conferences this year, giving an overall acc- tance rate of 23%, with acceptance rates below 30% for each conference. Congratu- tions to all the authors who made it to the ?nal programme! I hope that most of the other authorsstill founda way of participatingin this excitingevent and I hope you will continue submitting. The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system devel- ment process, including speci?cation, design, implementation, analysis and impro- ment. The languages, methodologies and tools which support these activities are all well within its scope. Di?erent blends of theory and practice are represented, with an inclination towards theory with a practical motivation on the one hand and soundly based practice on the other. Many of the issues involved in software design apply to systems in general, including hardware systems, and the emphasis on software is not intended to be exclusive.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Types for Hierarchic Shapes….Pages 1-6
Linear Regions Are All You Need….Pages 7-21
Type-Based Amortised Heap-Space Analysis….Pages 22-37
Haskell Is Not Not ML….Pages 38-53
Coinductive Big-Step Operational Semantics….Pages 54-68
Step-Indexed Syntactic Logical Relations for Recursive and Quantified Types….Pages 69-83
Approaches to Polymorphism in Classical Sequent Calculus….Pages 84-99
Pure Pattern Calculus….Pages 100-114
A Verification Methodology for Model Fields….Pages 115-130
ILC: A Foundation for Automated Reasoning About Pointer Programs….Pages 131-145
Bisimulations for Untyped Imperative Objects….Pages 146-161
A Typed Assembly Language for Confidentiality….Pages 162-179
Flow Locks: Towards a Core Calculus for Dynamic Flow Policies….Pages 180-196
A Basic Contract Language for Web Services….Pages 197-213
Types for Dynamic Reconfiguration….Pages 214-229
Size-Change Termination Analysis in k -Bits….Pages 230-245
Path Optimization in Programs and Its Application to Debugging….Pages 246-263
Inference of User-Defined Type Qualifiers and Qualifier Rules….Pages 264-278
Assertion Checking over Combined Abstraction of Linear Arithmetic and Uninterpreted Functions….Pages 279-293
Embedding Dynamic Dataflow in a Call-by-Value Language….Pages 294-308
Polymorphic Type Inference for the JNI….Pages 309-324
Type Safety of Generics for the .NET Common Language Runtime….Pages 325-341
The Weird World of Bi-directional Programming….Pages 342-342
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