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			Call for Papers 
  Fourth International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2006)
			Shanghai, China
		      Tuesday May 23, 2006

   **** Paper submission deadline extended to February 5, 2006) ****

	   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~ngupta/WODA06/

		    Co-located with ICSE 2006
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			Important Dates:

	Paper submission deadline:      5 February, 2006
                                       (Extended from February 1, 2006)
	Notification of acceptance:     1 March, 2006
	Camera-ready copy due:    	7 March, 2006

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    WODA 2006  brings together researchers and practitioners working 
    in all  areas of  dynamic analysis. Dynamic analysis  techniques 
    reason  over  program  executions and show promise in aiding the 
    development of  robust  and reliable large-scale systems. It has 
    become  increasingly  clear  that limitations of static analysis 
    can be  overcome by integrating static and dynamic analyses, and 
    that  the  performance  and  value  of  dynamic  analysis can be 
    improved  by  static analysis.  Hence, in  addition  to  dynamic 
    program  analysis,  one  key  focus  of  the workshop will be on 
    hybrid analyses that involve both static and dynamic components.

    WODA 2006  will  be  a  one-day workshop structured to encourage
    discussion and develop research collaborations and thus all pre-
    sentations will  be  limited to 20 minutes  with additional time 
    for  discussions. It will  build on the  success  of  WODA 2005, 
    WODA 2004  and  WODA 2003,  which  were held in conjunction with 
    ICSE 2005, ICSE 2004 and ICSE 2003, respectively.

    Prospective participants  are invited to submit technical papers
    up to 7 pages in the ACM SIG Proceedings Format. Papers must not 
    have been previously  published or concurrently  submitted else-
    where. Paper submissions are invited on (but are not limited to)
    applications of statistics/data-mining/machine-learning to dyna-
    mic analysis,  profiling,   dynamic  slicing,   testing,  hybrid 
    analysis,  runtime  monitoring,  security,  fault  detection and 
    debugging,  capture/replay, impact analysis, remote analysis and 
    measurement, optimization techniques, tools and  frameworks  for
    dynamic analysis, performance analysis, empirical studies, usage
    analysis and visualization of dynamic behavior of software.                                         

    To  promote  discussion  and  interaction  we ask the authors to 
    include  sections on why the proposed idea might succeed and why 
    it  might  fail.  We are  more interested in undeveloped new and 
    exciting ideas than in well-developed but less innovative ideas.

    Submissions  will be  reviewed by at least three reviewers, with  
    content  quality, workshop  relevance, and potential to generate  
    discussion as the deciding  criteria for acceptance. Each accep-
    ted paper must have  at least  one author  in attendance  at the 
    workshop. The accepted papers will be published by the ACM Press
    in the  workshop proceedings. The  workshop  proceedings will be  
    bundled  together  with  the  ICSE  conference  proceedings  and 
    distributed on-site  together with the ICSE proceedings via USB-
    Stick or CD-ROM and will  also be  available via the ACM Digital 
    Library.

    Organizers:
      Neelam Gupta, University of Arizona, USA  
         (ngupta AT cs.arizona.edu)
      Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University, USA 
         (andy AT eecs.case.edu)

    Program Committee:
      Michael Ernst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
      Neelam Gupta, University of Arizona, USA 
      Pankaj Jalote, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 
      Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
      Alex Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
      Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University, USA
      Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA
      Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA
      Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University, USA
      Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA

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