ETAPS 2002 was the ?fth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. ETAPS is an annual federated conference that was established in 1998by combining a number of existing and new conferences. This year it comprised 5 conferences (FOSSACS, FASE, ESOP, CC, TACAS), 13 satellite workshops (ACL2, AGT, CMCS, COCV, DCC, INT, LDTA, SC, SFEDL, SLAP, SPIN, TPTS, and VISS), 8invited lectures (not including those speci?c to the satellite events), and several tutorials. The events that comprise ETAPS address various aspects of the system - velopment process, including speci?cation, design, implementation, analysis, and improvement. The languages, methodologies, and tools which support these - tivities are all well within its scope. Di?erent blends of theory and practice are represented, with an inclination towards theory with a practical motivation on one hand and soundly-based practice on the other. Many of the issues involved in software design apply to systems in general, including hardware systems, and the emphasis on software is not intended to be exclusive. Tool Demonstrations.- LISA: An Interactive Environment for Programming Language Development.- Building an Interpreter with Vmgen.- Compiler Construction Using LOTOS NT.- Analysis and Optimization.- Data Compression Transformations for Dynamically Allocated Data Structures.- Evaluating a Demand Driven Technique for Call Graph Construction.- A Graph-Free Approach to Data-Flow Analysis.- A Representation for Bit Section Based Analysis and Optimization.- Low-Level Analysis.- Online Subpath Profiling.- Precise Exception Semantics in Dynamic Compilation.- Decompiling Java Bytecode: Problems, Traps and Pitfalls.- Grammars and Parsing.- Forwarding in Attribute Grammars for Modular Language Design.- Disambiguation Filters for Scannerless Generalized LR Parsers.- Invited Talk.- Modular Static Program Analysis.- Domain-Specific Languages and Tools.- StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications.- Compiling Mercury to High-Level C Code.- CIL: Intermediate Language and Tools for Analysis and Transformation of C Programs.- Energy Consumption Optimizations.- Linear Scan Register Allocation in the Context of SSA Form and Register Constraints.- Global Variable Promotion: Using Registers to Reduce Cache Power Dissipation.- Optimizing Static Power Dissipation by Functional Units in Superscalar Processors.- Influence of Loop Optimizations on Energy Consumption of Multi-bank Memory Systems.- Loop and Array Optimizations.- Effective Enhancement of Loop Versioning in Java.- Value-Profile Guided Stride Prefetching for Irregular Code.- A Comprehensive Approach to Array Bounds Check Elimination for Java. Nigel Horspool is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria. His main focus for research and teaching has been programming languages and compilers. He is the author or co-author of three books, which cover the C language, Unix and the C sharp language. He is currently the co- editor of the journal ';Software: Practice and Experience';. He has a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada in Computer Science.
