Fifth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects
of Programming Languages
QAPL'07
24-25 March, 2007
Braga (Portugal)
Satellite Event of
ETAPS 2007

History
QAPL is an international workshop on quantitative aspects of programming languages. Its first edition, QAPL 2001, was held in Florence, Italy. It was a satellite event to the ACM Principles, Logics, and Implementations of high-level programming languages, PLI 2001. The proceedings appeared as volume 59(3) of ENTCS. Its second edition, QAPL 2004, was held in Barcelona, Spain. Since then, it has become a yearly appointment with ETAPS. The proceedings appeared as volume 112 of ENTCS. Based on the QAPL 2004 event, a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science was published in volume 346(1). The third edition, QAPL 2005, was held in Edinburgh, UK. The 2006 edition took place in Vienna, Austria. Also the proceedings of these last two editions will appear in ENTCS.

Scope
Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes essential in characterising the behaviour and determining the properties of systems. They are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for reliability, security and trust). Such quantities play a central role in defining both the model of systems (architecture, language design, semantics) and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and verification of system properties.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the explicit use of quantitative information such as time and probabilities either directly in the model or as a tool for the analysis of systems.
In particular, the workshop focuses on:

  • the design of probabilistic and real-time languages and the definition of semantical models for such languages;

  • the discussion of methodologies for the analysis of probabilistic and timing properties (e.g. security, safety, schedulability) and of other quantifiable properties such as reliability (for hardware components), trustworthiness (in information security) and resource usage (e.g., worst-case memory/stack/cache requirements);

  • the probabilistic analysis of systems which do not explicitly incorporate quantitative aspects (e.g. performance, reliability and risk analysis);

  • applications to safety-critical systems, communication protocols, control systems, asynchronous hardware, and to any other domain involving quantitative issues.

Topics
Topics include (but are not limited to) probabilistic, timing and general quantitative aspects in:
Language design Information systems Asynchronous HW analysis
Language extension Multi-tasking systems Automated reasoning
Language expressiveness Logic Verification
Quantum languages Semantics Testing
Time-critical systems Performance analysis Safety
Embedded systems Program analysis Risk and hazard analysis
Coordination models Protocol analysis Scheduling theory
Distributed systems Model-checking Security
Biological systems Concurrent systems