11 Jun
2025
11 Jun
'25
11:34 a.m.
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Second call for papers
PLAS 2025 <http://plas25.github.io>(co-located with CCS '25)
Taipei, Taiwan
13th October, 2025
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TL;DR: Submission Deadline: June 20, 2025 AoE
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Overview
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The Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (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.
The 20th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS
2025) <http://plas25.github.io> will
be held on the 13th of October, 2025, co-located with CCS 2025 in Taipei,
Taiwan.
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Submission Guidelines
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The workshop has no formal published proceedings; hence, we encourage the
submission of
papers that are likely to generate lively discussion as well as papers
covering ongoing and
future work. Presenting a paper 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.
We invite both short papers and long papers.
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.
There is no restriction on paper format other than the page limits stated
above.
A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop is:
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
Submissions will be made (in PDF format) via the following website:
https://plas25.hotcrp.com.
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Important Dates
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Paper submission: *June 20, 2025 AoE*
Author notification: August 8, 2025
Workshop date: October 13, 2025
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Program Committee
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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)
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Contact
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For more information, please refer to plas25.github.io or
email us at abhishek.b(a)iitgn.ac.in and jana.hofmann(a)mpi-sp.org
Best Regards,
Jana and Abhishek