ECOOP 2022
Mon 6 June - Thu 7 July 2022 Berlin, Germany
Wed 8 Jun 2022 16:00 - 16:20 at Aurora Borealis 1 - Language Design Chair(s): Simon Fowler
Thu 30 Jun 2022 16:00 - 16:30 at Zoom - VCOOP 7 Chair(s): Philipp Haller

Decentralized applications (dApps) consist of smart contracts that run on blockchains and clients that model collaborating parties. dApps are used to model financial and legal business functionality. Today, contracts and clients are written as separate programs – in different programming languages – communicating via send and receive operations. This makes distributed program flow awkward to express and reason about, increasing the potential for mismatches in the client-contract interface, which can be exploited by malicious clients, potentially leading to huge financial losses.

In this paper, we present Prisma, a language for tierless decentralized applications, where the contract and its clients are defined in one unit and pairs of send and receive actions that “belong together” are encapsulated into a single direct–style operation, which is executed differently by sending and receiving parties. This enables expressing distributed program flow via standard control flow and renders mismatching communication impossible. We prove formally that our compiler preserves program behavior in presence of an attacker controlling the client code. We systematically compare Prisma with mainstream and advanced programming models for dApps and provide empirical evidence for its expressiveness and performance.

Wed 8 Jun

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

15:30 - 17:00
Language DesignResearch Papers / Expert Discussion at Aurora Borealis 1
Chair(s): Simon Fowler University of Glasgow
15:30
30m
Panel
Programming languages and semanticsExpert Discussion
Expert Discussion
P: Alexander J. Summers University of British Columbia, P: Gorel Hedin Lund University, A: Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen
16:00
20m
Talk
Prisma: A tierless language for enforcing contract-client protocols in decentralized appsArtifacts Evaluated - ReusableArtifacts Evaluated - FunctionalVCOOP 2022ECOOP 2022
Research Papers
David Richter Technical University of Darmstadt, David Kretzler Technical University of Darmstadt, Pascal Weisenburger University of St. Gallen, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen, Sebastian Faust Technical University of Darmstadt, Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt
Pre-print Media Attached
16:20
20m
Talk
JavaScript Sealed ClassesArtifacts Evaluated - ReusableArtifacts Evaluated - FunctionalECOOP 2022
Research Papers
16:40
20m
Talk
Functional programming for distributed systems with XCDistinguished Artifact AwardArtifacts Evaluated - ReusableArtifacts Evaluated - FunctionalVCOOP 2022ECOOP 2022
Research Papers
Giorgio Audrito Università di Torino, Roberto Casadei University of Bologna, Italy, Ferruccio Damiani University of Turin, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen, Mirko Viroli Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Pre-print

Thu 30 Jun

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

15:00 - 16:30
VCOOP 7Research Papers at Zoom
Chair(s): Philipp Haller KTH
15:00
30m
Talk
What If We Don’t Pop the Stack? The Return of Second-Class ValuesArtifacts Evaluated - FunctionalVCOOP 2022
Research Papers
Anxhelo Xhebraj Purdue University, Oliver Bračevac Purdue University, Guannan Wei Purdue University, Tiark Rompf Purdue University
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15:30
30m
Talk
NWGraph: A Library of Generic Graph Algorithms and Data Structures in C++20VCOOP 2022
Research Papers
Andrew Lumsdaine TileDB, Inc., University of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Luke Dalessandro Indiana University, Jesun Sahariar Firoz Pacific Northwest National Lab, Xu Liu University of Washington, Phil Ratzloff SAS, Scott McMillan Carnegie Mellon University, Marcin Zalewski, Kevin Deweese Cadence
16:00
30m
Talk
Prisma: A tierless language for enforcing contract-client protocols in decentralized appsArtifacts Evaluated - ReusableArtifacts Evaluated - FunctionalVCOOP 2022ECOOP 2022
Research Papers
David Richter Technical University of Darmstadt, David Kretzler Technical University of Darmstadt, Pascal Weisenburger University of St. Gallen, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen, Sebastian Faust Technical University of Darmstadt, Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt
Pre-print Media Attached