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Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on
practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal
verification and certification as an essential paradigm for their work. CPP
spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education.
CPP 2024 (https://popl24.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2024) will be held on 15-16
January 2024 and will be co-located with POPL 2024 in London, UK. CPP 2024 is
sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG.
CPP 2024 will welcome contributions from all members of the community. The CPP
2024 organizers will strive to enable both in-person and remote participation,
in cooperation with the POPL 2024 organizers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadlines expire at the end of the day, anywhere on earth. Abstract and
submission deadlines are strict and there will be no extensions.
DISTINGUISHED PAPER AWARDS
Around 10% of the accepted papers at CPP 2024 will be designated as
Distinguished Papers. This award highlights papers that the CPP program
committee thinks should be read by a broad audience due to their relevance,
originality, significance and clarity.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of
programs and proofs. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of
interest to CPP:
certified or certifying programming, compilation, linking, OS kernels,
runtime systems, security monitors, and hardware;
certified mathematical libraries and mathematical theorems;
proof assistants (e.g, ACL2, Agda, Coq, Dafny, F*, HOL4, HOL Light, Idris,
Isabelle, Lean, Mizar, Nuprl, PVS, etc);
new languages and tools for certified programming;
mechanized metatheory, formalized programming language semantics, and
logical frameworks;
higher-order logics, dependent type theory, proof theory, logical systems,
separation logics, and logics for security;
verification of correctness and security properties;
certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra, polynomial
systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest;
certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality, first-order
logic, and higher-order unification;
certificates for program termination;
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Prior to the paper submission deadline, the authors should upload their
anonymized paper in PDF format through the HotCRP system at
The submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to
allow the program committee to assess the merits of the contribution. They
must be formatted following the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format using the
acmart style with the sigplan option, which provides a two-column style, using
10 point font for the main text, and a header for double blind review
submission, i.e.,
\documentclass[sigplan,10pt,anonymous,review]{acmart}
\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false}
The submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures,
but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be
self-contained without the appendices. Shorter papers are welcome and will be
given equal consideration. Submissions not conforming to the requirements
concerning format and maximum length may be rejected without further
consideration.
CPP 2024 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process following
the process from previous years. To facilitate this, the submissions must
adhere to two rules:
(1) author names and institutions must be omitted, and
(2) references to authors’ own related work should be in the third person
(e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the
work of ...").
The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to
an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible
for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done
in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of
reviewing it more difficult. In particular, important background references
should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors are free to
disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their papers as usual. For
example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on
their research ideas. Note that POPL 2024 itself will employ full double-blind
reviewing, which differs from the light-weight CPP process. This FAQ from
previous SIGPLAN conference addresses many common concerns:
https://popl20.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2020-Research-Papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ
We strongly encourage the authors to provide any supplementary material that
supports the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental
data. This material must be uploaded at submission time, as an archive, not
via a URL. Two forms of supplementary material may be submitted:
(1) Anonymous supplementary material is made available to the reviewers before
they submit their first-draft reviews.
(2) Non-anonymous supplementary material is made available to the reviewers
after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and have learned the
identity of the authors.
Please use anonymous supplementary material whenever possible, so that it can
be taken into account from the beginning of the reviewing process.
The submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy
(https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/) and the ACM Policy
on Plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism).
Concurrent submissions to other conferences, journals, workshops with
proceedings, or similar forums of publication are not allowed. The PC chairs
should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or
journal in advance of submission. One author of each accepted paper is
expected to present it at the (possibly virtual) conference.
PUBLICATION, COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS
The CPP 2024 proceedings will be published by the ACM, and authors of accepted
papers will be required to choose one of the following publication options:
(1) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive
permission-to-publish license and, optionally, licenses the work under a
Creative Commons license.
(2) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive
permission-to-publish license.
(3) Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM.
For authors who can afford it, we recommend option (1), which will make the
paper Gold Open Access, and also encourage such authors to license their work
under the CC-BY license. ACM will charge you an article processing fee for
this option (currently, US$700), which you have to pay directly with the ACM.
You don’t need to pay this fee if the corresponding author’s affiliating
institution is part of ACM OPEN
(https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/open-participants).
For everyone else, we recommend option (2), which is free and allows you to
achieve Green Open Access, by uploading a preprint of your paper to a
repository that guarantees permanent archival such as arXiv or HAL. This is
anyway a good idea for timely dissemination even if you chose option 1.
The official CPP 2024 proceedings will also be available via SIGPLAN OpenTOC
(http://www.sigplan.org/OpenTOC/#cpp).
For ACM’s take on this, see their Copyright Policy
(http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and Author Rights
(http://authors.acm.org/main.html).
Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes, France (co-chair)
Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada (co-chair)
ORGANIZERS
Amin Timany, Aarhus University, Denmark (conference co-chair)
Dmitriy Traytel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (conference co-chair)
Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes (PC co-chair)
Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada (PC co-chair)
CONTACT
For any questions please contact the two PC chairs:
Sandrine Blazy <sandrine.blazy@irisa.fr>
Brigitte Pientka <bpientka@cs.mcgill.ca>
Last updated: Apr 29 2024 at 04:18 UTC