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Call for papers
PLAS 2026
Co-located with CCS'26 (November 15-19)
The Hague, The Netherlands
https://plas26.github.io/
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TL;DR: Submission Deadline: June 20, 2026 AoE

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Overview
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The Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS) explores the use of programming language and program analysis techniques to improve software security across compilers, machine learning models, and smart contracts. It promotes speculative, forward-looking ideas and insightful discussions at the intersection of programming languages and security.

The 21th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2026) will be co-located with CCS 2026 (November 15-19) in The Hague, The Netherlands. The workshop will be held during the first or last day of the conference (the precise date will be communicated later).

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Submission Guidelines
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The workshop has no formal published proceedings; hence, we encourage the submission of papers that are likely to generate lively discussion as well as papers covering ongoing and future work. Presenting a paper at the workshop does not preclude submission to or publication in other venues that are before, concurrent, or after the workshop. Papers presented at the workshop will be made available to workshop participants only.

We invite both short papers and long papers.
- Full papers: There is no page limit on long papers. Papers in this category are expected to have relatively mature content. Papers that present promising preliminary and exploratory work, or recently published work are particularly welcome in this category. Long papers may receive longer talk slots at the workshop than short papers, depending on the number of accepted submissions.
- Short papers: should be at most 2 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper.
There is no restriction on paper format other than the page limits stated above.

A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop is:
- Side-channel vulnerability detection and elimination
- Verification techniques applied to adversarial learning and smart contracts
- Software isolation (e.g., SFI, sandboxing)
- Compiler/runtime-based hardening and monitoring
- Program analysis, binary analysis, and fuzzing
- Security enforcement mechanisms
- Cryptographic protocol verification
- Information flow and access control
- Security in web, IoT, and cloud programming languages

Submissions will be made (in PDF format) via the following website: https://plas26.hotcrp.com.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission: June 20, 2026 AoE
Author notification: August 7, 2026
Workshop date: first or last day of CCS'26 (November 15-19, 2026)

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Program Committee
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Gilles Barthe (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Germany)
Dominique Devriese (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Joshua Gancher (Northeastern University, USA)
Roberto Guanciale (KTH, Sweden)
Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Adrien Koutsos (Inria Paris, France) (co-chair)
Robert Künnemann (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany)
Hamed Nemati (KTH, Sweden) (co-chair)
Marco Patrignani (University of Trento, Italy)

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Contact
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For more information, please refer to https://plas26.github.io or email us at adrien.koutsos@inria.fr and hnnemati@kth.se.