Overview
PLAS explores the use of programming language and program analysis techniques to improve software security across compilers, machine learning models, and smart contracts. It promotes speculative, forward-looking ideas and insightful discussions at the intersection of programming languages and security.
Scope
- Side-channel vulnerability detection and elimination
- Verification techniques applied to adversarial learning and smart contracts
- Software isolation (e.g., SFI, sandboxing)
- Compiler/runtime-based hardening and monitoring
- Program analysis, binary analysis, and fuzzing
- Security enforcement mechanisms
- Cryptographic protocol verification
- Information flow and access control
- Security in web, IoT, and cloud programming languages
Submission Guidelines
We invite both short papers and long papers. For short papers, we especially encourage the submission of position papers that are likely to generate lively discussion as well as short papers covering ongoing and future work.
- Full papers: There is no page limit on long papers. Papers in this category are expected to have relatively mature content. Papers that present promising preliminary and exploratory work, or recently published work are particularly welcome in this category. Long papers may receive longer talk slots at the workshop than short papers, depending on the number of accepted submissions.
- Short papers: should be at most 2 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper.
The workshop has no published workshop proceedings and there is no restriction on paper format other than the page limits stated above. Presenting a paper (either short or long) at the workshop does not preclude submission to or publication in other venues that are before, concurrent, or after the workshop. Papers presented at the workshop will be made available to workshop participants only.
Please submit your submissions (in PDF format) via the following website: https://plas25.hotcrp.com. We follow a single-blind reviewing process, so you do not need to anonymize your submissions.
Important Dates
- Paper submission:
June 20June 30, 2025 AoE - Author notification: August 8, 2025
- Workshop date: October 13, 2025
Program Committee
- Amir Ahmadian (KTH, Sweden)
- Sebastien Bardin (CEA, France)
- Abhishek Bichhawat (IIT Gandhinagar, India) (co-chair)
- Ferhat Erata (Yale, USA)
- Jana Hofmann (MPI-SP, Germany) (co-chair)
- Adrien Koutsos (Inria, France)
- McKenna McCall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Toby Murray (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Sabine Oechsner (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)