Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden

Together with the group of Patrick McDaniel (Penn State) and Yves le Traon (University of Luxembourg), we have recently won a highly competitive Google Faculty Award to facilitate collaborative research on the Android infrastructure. The project “Plotting a Map of Android Inter-App Communication” is supported with 50,000 USD, but more importantly the award also gives us direct access to the related Google employees. Another award went to Prof. Michael Waidner for a collaborative project with Goethe Universität Frankfurt on “More Privacy in Online Social Networks”.

Google awards about 100 Google Faculty Awards twice a year to promote promising research projects in the field of computer science. For the current awards 600 entries have been submitted from 46 countries, 102 were successful.

Read more about the two funded projects here.

Andreas Thies from Fenruni Hagen will be presenting our award-winning tool RefaFlex at this year’s CeBIT, at Hall 9 at  stand E08 of Fraunhofer SIT. RefaFlex is our novel tool for securing programs against unintentional program changes provoked by refactorings on reflective Java programs. In case you are visiting CeBIT, make sure to stop by!

2013 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform

The Java platform is multi-faceted, covering a rich diversity of systems, languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques. PPPJ’13 – the 10th conference in the PPPJ series – provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of programming on the Java platform including virtual machines, languages, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. Read the rest of this entry »

Co-located with PLDI, at Seattle, submit by April 4th

For more than a decade, the Soot analysis framework has enabled hundreds of users to carry out research in static analysis of Java applications. To help bring together the community, the Soot community organized a first International Workshop on the State Of the Art in JavaProgram Analysis (SOAP) in 2012. As expected, discussions and presentations at this workshop helped catalyze future development of the Soot framework, spurring discussions and collaborations between different groups using Soot and other compiler frameworks. SOAP’13 will continue that positive experience. Although the focus of SOAP will be on the Soot framework, we warmly welcome influences and inspirations from other compilers and analysis frameworks. We are particularly interested in exciting framework ideas and innovative design approaches. The agenda for SOAP will also include discussions and work on integrating external contributions into the main Soot framework, as well as explorations of potential future extensions to Soot. Find out more here.

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