Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:42 - 17:06 at Grand Station 1 - 8. Static Analysis Chair(s): Werner Dietl

The design and implementation of static analyzers has become increasingly systematic. Yet for a given language or analysis feature, it often requires tedious and error prone work to implement an analyzer and prove it sound. In short, static analysis features and their proofs of soundness do not compose well, causing a dearth of reuse in both implementation and metatheory. We solve the problem of systematically constructing static analyzers by introducing Galois transformers: monad transformers that transport Galois connection properties. In concert with a monadic interpreter, we define a library of monad transformers that implement building blocks for classic analysis parameters like context, path, and heap (in)sensitivity. Moreover, these can be composed together independent of the language being analyzed. Significantly, a Galois transformer can be proved sound once and for all, making it a reusable analysis component. As new analysis features and abstractions are developed and mixed in, soundness proofs need not be reconstructed, as the composition of a monad transformer stack is sound by virtue of its constituents. Galois transformers provide a viable foundation for reusable and composable metatheory for program analysis. Finally, these Galois transformers shift the level of abstraction in analysis design and implementation to a level where non-specialists have the ability to synthesize sound analyzers over a number of parameters.

Thu 29 Oct

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15:30 - 17:30
8. Static AnalysisOOPSLA at Grand Station 1
Chair(s): Werner Dietl University of Waterloo
15:30
24m
Talk
Static Analysis of Event-Driven Node.js JavaScript Applications
OOPSLA
Magnus Madsen University of Waterloo, Frank Tip Samsung Research America, Ondřej Lhoták University of Waterloo
DOI Media Attached
15:54
24m
Talk
EXPLORER : Query- and Demand-Driven Exploration of Interprocedural Control Flow Properties
OOPSLA
Yu Feng University of Texas at Austin, USA, Xinyu Wang UT Austin, Işıl Dillig University of Texas at Austin, USA, Calvin Lin University of Texas at Austin, USA
Pre-print Media Attached
16:18
24m
Talk
Giga-Scale Exhaustive Points-To Analysis for Java in Under a MinuteOOPSLA Artifact
OOPSLA
Jens Dietrich Massey University, New Zealand, Nicholas Hollingum University of Sydney, Australia, Bernhard Scholz Oracle Labs, Australia
DOI Media Attached
16:42
24m
Talk
Galois Transformers and Modular Abstract Interpreters: Reusable Metatheory for Program Analysis
OOPSLA
David Darais University of Maryland, College Park, Matthew Might University of Utah, USA, David Van Horn University of Maryland at College Park, USA
DOI Media Attached
17:06
24m
Talk
Learning a Strategy for Adapting a Program Analysis via Bayesian Optimisation
OOPSLA
Hakjoo Oh Korea University, South Korea, Hongseok Yang University of Oxford, UK, Kwangkeun Yi Seoul National University, South Korea
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