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2nd CfP: SLE 2023 - 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering
by Andrei Chis 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2023) October 22-27, 2023 Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.sleconf.org/2023/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2023), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2023. The conference will be hosted in Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal on October 22-27, 2023. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE covers software language engineering rather than engineering a specific software language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Software Language Design and Implementation - Approaches to and methods for language design - Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) - Techniques for specifying behavioral/executable semantics - Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) - Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Software Language Validation - Verification and formal methods for languages - Testing techniques for languages - Simulation techniques for languages * Software Language Integration and Composition - Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools - Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) - Traceability between languages - Deployment of languages to different platforms * Software Language Maintenance - Software language reuse - Language evolution - Language families and variability, language and software product lines * Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) * Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools - User studies evaluating usability - Performance benchmarks - Industrial applications * Synergies between Language Engineering and emerging/promising research areas - AI and ML language engineering (e.g., ML compiler testing, code classification) Quantum language engineering (e.g., language design for quantum machines) - Language engineering for physical systems (e.g., CPS, IoT, digital twins) - Socio-technical systems and language engineering (e.g., language evolution to adapt to social requirements) - Etc. --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE accepts the following types of papers: * Research papers: These are “traditional” papers detailing research contributions to SLE. Papers may range from 6 to 12 pages in length and may optionally include 2 further pages of bibliography/appendices. Papers will be reviewed with an understanding that some results do not need 12 full pages and may be fully described in fewer pages. * New ideas/vision papers: These papers may describe new, unconventional software language engineering research positions or approaches that depart from standard practice. They can describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. They could also provide new evidence to challenge common wisdom, present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that provides novel insight or that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches, or apply SLE technology to radically new application areas. New ideas/vision papers must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography/appendices. * SLE Body of Knowledge: The SLE Body of Knowledge (SLEBoK) is a community-wide effort to provide a unique and comprehensive description of the concepts, best practices, tools, and methods developed by the SLE community. In this respect, the SLE conference will accept surveys, essays, open challenges, empirical observations, and case study papers on the SLE topics. These can focus on, but are not limited to, methods, techniques, best practices, and teaching approaches. Papers in this category can have up to 20 pages, including bibliography/appendices. * Tool papers: These papers focus on the tooling aspects often forgotten or neglected in research papers. A good tool paper focuses on practical insights that will likely be useful to other implementers or users in the future. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography/appendices. They may optionally include an appendix with a demo outline/screenshots and/or a short video/screencast illustrating the tool. **Workshops**: Workshops will be organized by SPLASH. Please inform us and contact the SPLASH organizers if you would like to organize a workshop of interest to the SLE audience. Information on how to submit workshops can be found on the SPLASH 2023 Website. --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- All dates are Anywhere on Earth. * Abstract submissions: June 26, 2023 * Paper submissions: June 30, 2023 * Review notification: August 11, 2023 (starting of the rebuttal) * Author response period: August 18, 2023 (end of the rebuttal) * Notification: August 25, 2023 * Artifact submissions: August 30, 2023 * Artifact kick-the-tires Author response: September 15, 2023 * Artifact notification: September 29, 2023 * Conference: October 22-27, 2023 (co-located with SPLASH, precise dates to be announced) --------------------------- Format --------------------------- Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart"(http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format) please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template(https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolida…, and that the document class definition is `\documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}`. Do not make any changes to this format! Ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes in figures and tables are legible. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. In this line, SLE will follow the double-blind process. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. All submissions must be in PDF format. The submission website is: https://sle23.hotcrp.com --------------------------- Concurrent Submissions --------------------------- Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN’s Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication) Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy) Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. --------------------------- Policy on Human Participant and Subject Research --------------------------- Authors conducting research involving human participants and subjects must ensure that their research comply with their local governing laws and regulations and the ACM’s general principles as stated in the ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip…) Submissions that violate this policy will be rejected. --------------------------- Reviewing Process --------------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas/vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. SLEBoK papers will be reviewed on their significance, readability, topicality and capacity of presenting/evaluating/demonstrating a piece of BoK about SLE. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the seventh year, SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit artifacts. For more information, please have a look at the Artifact Evaluation (http://www.sleconf.org/2023/ArtifactEvaluation.html) page. --------------------------- Awards --------------------------- - **Distinguished paper**: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - **Distinguished artifact**: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. **AUTHORS TAKE NOTE**: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. --------------------------- SLE and Doctoral Students --------------------------- SLE encourages students to submit to the SPLASH doctoral symposium. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work to the SLE audience, too. --------------------------- Organisation --------------------------- Chairs: * General chair: João Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal * PC co-chair: Thomas Degueule, CNRS/LaBRI, France * PC co-chair: Elizabeth Scott, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom * Publicity chair: Andrei Chis, feenk gmbh, Switzerland Program committee: Jean-Christophe Bach, IMT Atlantique, France Thomas van Binsbergen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Jordi Cabot, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Horatiu Cirstea, University of Lorraine and Loria, France Romina Eramo, University of l’Aquila, Italy Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Görel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Felienne Hermans, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam, Germany Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Ivan Kurtev, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Julien Lange, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Stefan Marr, University of Kent, UK Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada Oscar Nierstrasz, feenk GmbH, Switzerland Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Casper Bach Poulsen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Juri Di Rocco, University of l’Aquila, Italy Davide Di Ruscio, University of l’Aquila, Italy Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Neil Sculthorpe, Nottingham Trent University, UK Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Australian National University, Australia Tijs van der Storm, CWI and University of Groningen, Netherlands Tamás Szabó, GitHub Next, Germany Mauricio Verano Merino, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Vadim Zaytsev, University of Twente, Netherlands Philipp Zech, University of Innsbruck, Austria --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers, please get in touch with the program co-chairs (E.Scott at rhul.ac.uk and thomas.degueule at labri.fr).

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Onward! 2023 @ SPLASH: Call for Papers & Essays
by Tijs van der Storm 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

## Onward! @ SPLASH 2023 – Call for Papers & Essays https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-papers https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-Essays ### Important dates - *Fri 28 Apr 2023*: submission deadline - Wed 21 Jun 2023: first round notifications - Fri 21 Jul 2023: revision due - Fri 11 Aug 2023: final notification - Sun 10 Sep 2023: camera ready deadline Submission site Onward! Papers: https://onward23papers.hotcrp.com/ Submission site Onward! Essays https://onward23essays.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the PC chairs at onward(a)splashcon.org. Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet fully proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. ### Onward! Papers Onward! Papers is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But it is not looking for research-as-usual papers; conferences like OOPSLA are the place for that. Those conferences require rigorous validation such as theorems or empirical experiments, which are necessary for scientific progress, but which typically preclude discussion of early-stage ideas. Onward! papers must also supply some degree of validation because mere speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Onward! accepts less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use of worked-out examples to support new ideas is strongly encouraged. ### Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Senior Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Professor in Software Engineering at University of Groningen (RUG) http://www.cwi.nl/~storm

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1st CfP: SLE 2023 - 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering
by Andrei Chis 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2023) October 22-27, 2023 Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.sleconf.org/2023/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2023), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2023. The conference will be hosted in Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal on October 22-27, 2023. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE covers software language engineering rather than engineering a specific software language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Software Language Design and Implementation - Approaches to and methods for language design - Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) - Techniques for specifying behavioral/executable semantics - Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) - Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Software Language Validation - Verification and formal methods for languages - Testing techniques for languages - Simulation techniques for languages * Software Language Integration and Composition - Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools - Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) - Traceability between languages - Deployment of languages to different platforms * Software Language Maintenance - Software language reuse - Language evolution - Language families and variability, language and software product lines * Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) * Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools - User studies evaluating usability - Performance benchmarks - Industrial applications * Synergies between Language Engineering and emerging/promising research areas - AI and ML language engineering (e.g., ML compiler testing, code classification) Quantum language engineering (e.g., language design for quantum machines) - Language engineering for physical systems (e.g., CPS, IoT, digital twins) - Socio-technical systems and language engineering (e.g., language evolution to adapt to social requirements) - Etc. --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE accepts the following types of papers: * Research papers: These are “traditional” papers detailing research contributions to SLE. Papers may range from 6 to 12 pages in length and may optionally include 2 further pages of bibliography/appendices. Papers will be reviewed with an understanding that some results do not need 12 full pages and may be fully described in fewer pages. * New ideas/vision papers: These papers may describe new, unconventional software language engineering research positions or approaches that depart from standard practice. They can describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. They could also provide new evidence to challenge common wisdom, present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that provides novel insight or that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches, or apply SLE technology to radically new application areas. New ideas/vision papers must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography/appendices. * SLE Body of Knowledge: The SLE Body of Knowledge (SLEBoK) is a community-wide effort to provide a unique and comprehensive description of the concepts, best practices, tools, and methods developed by the SLE community. In this respect, the SLE conference will accept surveys, essays, open challenges, empirical observations, and case study papers on the SLE topics. These can focus on, but are not limited to, methods, techniques, best practices, and teaching approaches. Papers in this category can have up to 20 pages, including bibliography/appendices. * Tool papers: These papers focus on the tooling aspects often forgotten or neglected in research papers. A good tool paper focuses on practical insights that will likely be useful to other implementers or users in the future. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography/appendices. They may optionally include an appendix with a demo outline/screenshots and/or a short video/screencast illustrating the tool. **Workshops**: Workshops will be organized by SPLASH. Please inform us and contact the SPLASH organizers if you would like to organize a workshop of interest to the SLE audience. Information on how to submit workshops can be found on the SPLASH 2023 Website. --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- All dates are Anywhere on Earth. * 1st round submissions - Abstract submissions: March 31, 2023 - Paper submissions: April 7, 2023 - Notification: May 5, 2023 * 2nd round submissions - Abstract submissions: June 26, 2023 - Paper submissions: June 30, 2023 - Review notification: August 11, 2023 (starting of the rebuttal) - Author response period: August 18, 2023 (end of the rebuttal) - Notification: August 25, 2023 * Artifact submissions: August 30, 2023 * Artifact kick-the-tires Author response: September 15, 2023 * Artifact notification: September 29, 2023 * Conference: October 22-27, 2023 (co-located with SPLASH, precise dates to be announced) --------------------------- Format --------------------------- Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart"(http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format) please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template(https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolida…, and that the document class definition is `\documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}`. Do not make any changes to this format! Ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes in figures and tables are legible. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. In this line, SLE will follow the double-blind process. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. All submissions must be in PDF format. The submission website is: https://sle23.hotcrp.com --------------------------- Concurrent Submissions --------------------------- Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN’s Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication) Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy) Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. --------------------------- Policy on Human Participant and Subject Research --------------------------- Authors conducting research involving human participants and subjects must ensure that their research comply with their local governing laws and regulations and the ACM’s general principles as stated in the ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip…) Submissions that violate this policy will be rejected. --------------------------- Reviewing Process --------------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas/vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. SLEBoK papers will be reviewed on their significance, readability, topicality and capacity of presenting/evaluating/demonstrating a piece of BoK about SLE. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the seventh year, SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit artifacts. For more information, please have a look at the Artifact Evaluation (http://www.sleconf.org/2023/ArtifactEvaluation.html) page. --------------------------- Awards --------------------------- - **Distinguished paper**: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - **Distinguished artifact**: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. **AUTHORS TAKE NOTE**: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. --------------------------- SLE and Doctoral Students --------------------------- SLE encourages students to submit to the SPLASH doctoral symposium. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work to the SLE audience, too. --------------------------- Organisation --------------------------- Chairs: * General chair: João Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal * PC co-chair: Thomas Degueule, CNRS/LaBRI, France * PC co-chair: Elizabeth Scott, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom * Publicity chair: Andrei Chis, feenk gmbh, Switzerland --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers, please get in touch with the program co-chairs (E.Scott at rhul.ac.uk and thomas.degueule at labri.fr).

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CfP: Journal of Systems and Software - Special Issue on Software Language Engineering
by Andrei Chis 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Dear Colleagues, We invite submissions for the Journal of Systems and Software Special Issue on «Software Language Engineering». This special issue is related to the 2022 edition of the Software Language Engineering Conference (https://2022.splashcon.org/home/sle-2022?) but **it is open to all authors.** Details follow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal of Systems and Software Software Language Engineering Special Issue Guest Editors ● Lola Burgueño, University of Malaga, Spain ● Walter Cazzola, Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy ● Dimitris Kolovos, Professor, University of York, United Kingdom Special issue information: With the ubiquity of computers, software has become the dominating intellectual asset of our time. In turn, this software depends on software languages, namely the languages it is written in, the languages used to describe its environment, and the languages driving its development process. Given that everything depends on software and that software depends on software languages, it seems fair to say that for many years to come, everything will depend on software languages. Software language engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modeling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. While SLE is certainly driven by its meta-circular character (software languages are engineered using software languages), SLE is not self-satisfying: its scope extends to the engineering of languages for all and everything. This special issue will represent a further step in identification, definition and tooling of software languages. Topics of interest related to the special issue, but are not limited to: ● Software Language Design and Implementation ○ Approaches to and methods for language design ○ Static semantics (e.g. design rules, well-formedness constraints) ○ Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics ○ Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) ○ Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches ● Software Language Validation ○ Verification and formal methods for languages ○ Testing techniques for languages ○ Simulation techniques for languages ● Software Language Integration and Composition ○ Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools ○ Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) ○ Traceability between languages ○ Deployment of languages to different platforms ● Software Language Maintenance ○ Software language reuse ○ Language evolution ○ Language families and variability, language and software product lines ○ Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) ● Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools ○ User studies evaluating usability ○ Performance benchmarks ○ Industrial applications ● Synergies between Language Engineering and emerging/promising research areas ○ AI and ML language engineering (e.g., ML compiler testing, code classification) ○ Quantum language engineering (e.g., language design for quantum machines) ● Language engineering for physical systems (e.g., CPS, IoT, digital twins) ○ Socio-technical systems and language engineering (e.g., language evolution to adapt to social requirements) Manuscript submission information: Proposed Dates and Outcomes ● Submission: 15 February 2023 ● Notification to authors (first round): 15 April 2023 ● Submission of revised papers (second round): 15 June 2023 ● Notification to authors (second round): 15 August 2023 ● Submission after second review: 15 October 2023 ● Final acceptance: 15 November 2023 ● Date of publication: 15 December 2023 Submission Guidelines The call for this special issue is an open call. We invite innovative research with a sound scientific or technological basis and validation. We accept submissions of original and previously unpublished manuscripts and we especially encourage the submission of revised and extended papers from the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022). If a previous version of the manuscript has been published in a conference or journal, then authors must explicitly explain the novelty of this new submission and provide at least 30% new material. Surveys, literature reviews and mapping studies would not be considered as part of this special issue. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jssoftware/default1.aspx. Follow the submission instructions given on this site. During the submission process, select the article type "VSI:SLE" from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu. All submissions must adhere to the general principles of the Journal of Systems and Software articles. Submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors, available on the journal website, and must follow the format specified in the JSS Guide for Authors https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-systems-and-software/0164-1212…. For more information about the special issue, please contact the guest editors.

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Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium – 2nd Call for Papers
by Andrei Chis 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Due to the untimely passing of Eelco Visser, members of his former research communities TU Delft, CWI, OOPSLA, SLE, and IFIP Working Groups 2.11 & 2.16 have joined in organizing the Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium. The event will be held on the occasion of the first anniversary of his passing in April of next year. You are cordially invited to contribute to this symposium, by writing a paper and giving a presentation related to Eelco and his influential work, or by just attending. Please see the CfP below. Best regards, The EVCS Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS) 5 April 2023 Delft, The Netherlands https://symposium.eelcovisser.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eelco Visser (1966–2022) was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Programming Languages Group in the Department of Software Technology at TU Delft. His research career started with studies at the University of Amsterdam and CWI, followed by appointments at Oregon Graduate Institute and Utrecht University. He was highly influential in the software language engineering and programming language design communities. His many scientific contributions about meta-languages and domain-specific languages have been of high importance in both the scientific and industrial communities. He was a founding member of IFIP Working Groups 2.11 (Program Generation) and 2.16 (Programming Language Design). Eelco Visser’s work on the cutting-edge language workbench Spoofax started with a ground-breaking publication in 2010, for which he received a Most Influential Paper award at OOPSLA 2020. As a strong advocate of tool-supported programming education, he led the development of WebLab, a learning management system that is in use for a range of programming languages and courses at TU Delft. He also led the design, implementation and use of conf.researchr.org, a content management system for scientific events used for hundreds of international events since 2014. --------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------- A commemorative symposium for Eelco Visser is to be held on the first anniversary of his untimely passing in April 2022. It will bring together colleagues from various communities, with presentations of papers on topics related to his research and his other academic activities. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Language engineering - Program transformation - Language workbenches - Declarative language specification - Name binding and scope graphs - Type soundness and intrinsically-typed interpreters - Language specification testing - Language implementation generation - Domain-specific programming languages - DSLs for software deployment - DSLs for web application development - Tool-supported programming education --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- - Friday 30 September 2022: Declaration of intent to submit - Friday 28 October 2022: Paper submission deadline - Monday 28 November 2022: Notifications - Wednesday 5 April 2023: Symposium --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- - **Unpublished research**: These are extended abstracts of novel research contributions related to Eelco Visser’s work. Papers may range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may optionally include up to 2 further pages of bibliography. Papers will be reviewed by selected members of the relevant research communities. Subsequent submission of full papers including the same results to other venues is encouraged. - **On the relationship between Eelco Visser's work and other frameworks**: These are papers that present some framework and explain its relationship to his work, but without novel research contributions. Papers may range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may optionally include up to 2 further pages of bibliography. Papers will be reviewed by experts on the relevant topics. - **Personal reflections on Eelco Visser's activities**: These are short papers that recall and reflect upon personal experiences of his contributions in academia or industry. Papers may range from 1 to 4 pages in length, including bibliography. Papers will be lightly reviewed for relevance. --------------------------- Submissions --------------------------- The submission website is on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=evcs2023) **Declaration of intent to submit is optional**, but helpful for allocation of appropriate reviewers. It is to include a provisional title, the type of submission, and an indication of the topics covered. **Submitted papers** should be formatted using LaTeX according to the author instructions for the Dagstuhl OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/4#author) respecting the page limits indicated above. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the EVCS, to be published as a volume in the Dagstuhl OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) (https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics) Authors retain copyright. --------------------------- Presentations --------------------------- All accepted papers are to be presented at the symposium. Presenters may choose between 5, 10, and 15-minute slots (including questions) subject to availability. Remote presentations are possible. --------------------------- Organising Committee --------------------------- - Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University - Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, Inria, and IRISA - Paul Klint, CWI and University of Amsterdam - Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz - Peter Mosses (chair), TU Delft and Swansea University - Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversität in Hagen - Tijs van der Storm, CWI and University of Groningen - Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota --------------------------- Local Organisation Committee --------------------------- - Arie van Deursen - Peter Mosses - Roniet Sharabi - Shémara van der Zwet --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For all enquiries about the symposium, please use the contact form (https://symposium.eelcovisser.org/contact) or email symposium(a)eelcovisser.org

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Call for Papers: Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium
by Andrei Chis 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

Due to the untimely passing of Eelco Visser, members of his former research communities TU Delft, CWI, OOPSLA, SLE, and IFIP Working Groups 2.11 & 2.16 have joined in organizing the Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium. The event will be held on the occasion of the first anniversary of his passing in April of next year. You are cordially invited to contribute to this symposium, by writing a paper and giving a presentation related to Eelco and his influential work, or by just attending. Please see the CfP below. Best regards, The EVCS Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS) 5 April 2023 Delft, The Netherlands https://symposium.eelcovisser.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eelco Visser (1966–2022) was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Programming Languages Group in the Department of Software Technology at TU Delft. His research career started with studies at the University of Amsterdam and CWI, followed by appointments at Oregon Graduate Institute and Utrecht University. He was highly influential in the software language engineering and programming language design communities. His many scientific contributions about meta-languages and domain-specific languages have been of high importance in both the scientific and industrial communities. He was a founding member of IFIP Working Groups 2.11 (Program Generation) and 2.16 (Programming Language Design). Eelco Visser’s work on the cutting-edge language workbench Spoofax started with a ground-breaking publication in 2010, for which he received a Most Influential Paper award at OOPSLA 2020. As a strong advocate of tool-supported programming education, he led the development of WebLab, a learning management system that is in use for a range of programming languages and courses at TU Delft. He also led the design, implementation and use of conf.researchr.org, a content management system for scientific events used by hundreds of international events since 2011. --------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------- A commemorative symposium for Eelco Visser is to be held on the first anniversary of his untimely passing away in April 2022. It will bring together colleagues from various communities, with presentations of papers on topics related to his research and other academic activities. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Language engineering - Program transformation - Language workbenches - Declarative language specification - Name binding and scope graphs - Type soundness and intrinsically-typed interpreters - Language specification testing - Language implementation generation - Domain-specific programming languages - DSLs for software deployment - DSLs for web application development - Tool-supported programming education --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- - Friday 30 September 2022: Declaration of intent to submit - Friday 28 October 2022: Paper submission deadline - Monday 28 November 2022: Notifications - Wednesday 5 April 2023: Symposium --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- - **Unpublished research**: These are extended abstracts of novel research contributions related to Eelco Visser’s work. Papers may range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may optionally include up to 2 further pages of bibliography. Papers will be reviewed by selected members of the relevant research communities. Subsequent submission of full papers including the same results to other venues is encouraged. - **On the relationship between Eelco Visser's work and other frameworks**: These are papers that present some framework and explain its relationship to his work, but without novel research contributions. Papers may range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may optionally include up to 2 further pages of bibliography. Papers will be reviewed by an expert on the relevant topic. - **Personal reflections on Eelco Visser's activities**: These are short papers that recall and reflect upon personal experiences of his contributions in academia or industry. Papers may range from 1 to 4 pages in length, including bibliography. Papers will be lightly reviewed for relevance. --------------------------- Submissions --------------------------- Declaration of intent to submit is optional, but helpful for allocation of appropriate reviewers. It is to include a provisional title, the type of submission, and an indication of the topics covered. The other details regarding submissions will be announced later. The page ranges for submissions (see above) are assuming a format such as Springer LNCS or Dagstuhl OASIcs. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers are to be published in an open access volume by the start of the symposium (publisher to be decided). Authors retain copyright. --------------------------- Presentations --------------------------- All accepted papers are to be presented at the symposium. Presenters may choose between 5, 10, and 15-minute slots (including questions) subject to availability. Remote presentations are allowed. --------------------------- Organising Committee --------------------------- - Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University - Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, Inria, and IRISA - Paul Klint, CWI and University of Amsterdam - Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz - Peter Mosses (chair), TU Delft and Swansea University - Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversität in Hagen - Tijs van der Storm, CWI and University of Groningen - Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota --------------------------- Local Organisation Committee --------------------------- - Arie van Deursen - Jasper van Dijck - Peter Mosses - Roniet Sharabi - Shémara van der Zwet --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For all enquiries about the symposium, please use the contact form at symposium.eelcovisser.org/contact or email symposium(a)eelcovisser.org

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Second Call for Papers: 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022)
by Andrei Chis 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022) December 5-10, 2022 Auckland, New Zealand https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2022 http://www.sleconf.org/2022 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022), held in conjunction with SPLASH, GPCE and SAS 2022. Based on the future developments the conference will be hosted in Auckland, New Zealand on December 5-10, 2022. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE covers software language engineering rather than engineering a specific software language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Software Language Design and Implementation - Approaches to and methods for language design - Static semantics (e.g. design rules, well-formedness constraints) - Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics - Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) - Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches - Software Language Validation - Verification and formal methods for languages - Testing techniques for languages - Simulation techniques for languages - Software Language Integration and Composition - Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools - Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) - Traceability between languages - Deployment of languages to different platforms - Software Language Maintenance - Software language reuse - Language evolution - Language families and variability, language and software product lines - Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) - Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools - User studies evaluating usability - Performance benchmarks - Industrial applications - "Synergies between Language Engineering and emerging/promising research areas" - AI and ML language engineering (e.g., ML compiler testing, code classification) Quantum language engineering (e.g., language design for quantum machines) - Language engineering for physical systems (e.g., CPS, IoT, digital twins) - Socio-technical systems and language engineering (e.g., language evolution to adapt to social requirements) - Etc. --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE accepts the following types of papers: - **Research papers**: These are "traditional" papers detailing research contributions to SLE. Papers may range from 6 to 12 pages in length, and may optionally include 2 further pages of bibliography/appendices. Papers will be reviewed with an understanding that some results do not need 12 full pages and may be fully described in fewer pages. - **New ideas / vision papers**: These are papers that may describe new, unconventional software language engineering research positions or approaches that depart from standard practice. They can describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. They could also provide new evidence to challenge common wisdom, present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that provides novel insight or that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches, or apply SLE technology to radically new application areas. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 5 pages, and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. - **SLE Body of Knowledge**: The SLE Body of Knowledge (SLEBoK) is a community-wide effort to provide a unique and comprehensive description of the concepts, best practices, tools and methods developed by the SLE community. To this respect, the SLE conference will accept surveys, essays, open challenges, empirical observations and case study papers on the SLE topics. These can focus on but they are not limited to methods, techniques, best practices and teaching approaches. Papers in this category can have up to 20 pages, including bibliography/appendices. - **Tool papers**: These are papers which focus on the tooling aspects which are often forgotten or neglected in research papers. A good tool paper focuses on practical insights that are likely to be useful to other implementers or users in the future. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. They may optionally come with an appendix with a demo outline / screenshots and/or a short video/screencast illustrating the tool. **Workshops**: Workshops will be organized by SPLASH. Please inform us and contact the SPLASH organizers if you would like to organize a workshop of interest to the SLE audience. Information on how to submit workshops can be found at the SPLASH 2022 Website. --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- All dates are Anywhere on Earth. * Abstract submissions: August 8, 2022 * Paper submissions: August 12, 2022 * Review notification: September 18, 2022 (starting of the rebuttal) * Author response period: September 28, 2022 (end of the rebuttal) * Notification: September 30, 2022 * Artifact submissions: October 11, 2022 * Camera-ready (for both rounds): October 15, 2022 * Artifact kick-the-tires Author response: October 24, 2022 * Artifact notification: November 11, 2022 * Conference: December 5-10, 2022 --------------------------- Format --------------------------- Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart"(http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format) please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template(https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolida…, and that the document class definition is `\documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}`. Do not make any changes to this format! Ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes in figures and tables are legible. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. In this line, SLE will follow the double-blind process. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. All submissions must be in PDF format. The submission website is: https://sle22.hotcrp.com --------------------------- Concurrent Submissions --------------------------- Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN’s Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication) Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy) Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. --------------------------- Policy on Human Participant and Subject Research --------------------------- Authors conducting research involving human participants and subjects must ensure that their research comply with their local governing laws and regulations and the ACM’s general principles as stated in the ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip…) Submissions that violate this policy will be rejected. --------------------------- Reviewing Process --------------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas/vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. SLEBoK papers will be reviewed on their significance, readability, topicality and capacity of presenting/evaluating/demonstrating a piece of BoK about SLE. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. After each review round, authors will get a chance to respond before a final decision is made. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the seventh year, SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit artifacts. For more information, please have a look at the Artifact Evaluation (http://www.sleconf.org/2022/ArtifactEvaluation.html) page. --------------------------- Special Issue --------------------------- There will be a special issue on Software Language Engineering in the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). The best papers accepted at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their work. --------------------------- Awards --------------------------- - **Distinguished paper**: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - **Distinguished artifact**: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. **AUTHORS TAKE NOTE**: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. --------------------------- SLE and Doctoral Students --------------------------- SLE encourages students to submit to the SPLASH doctoral symposium. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work to the SLE audience, too. --------------------------- Organisation --------------------------- Chairs: * General chair: Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa * PC co-chair: Lola Burgueño, Open University of Catalonia, Spain * PC co-chair: Walter Cazzola, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Thomas Kühn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Juliana A. Pereira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Program committee: Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Arvid Butting, Aachen University, Germany Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Benoît Combemale, University of Rennes, France Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Thomas Kühn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Juan de Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Stefan Marr, University of Kent, UK Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Juliana A. Pereira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Elizabeth Scott, University of London, UK Marco Servetto, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Emma Söderberg, Lund University, Sweden Walid Taha, Halmstad University , Sweden Marco Tullio Valente, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Erik Van Wyk, University of Minnesota , USA Alfonso de la Vega, University of Cantabria, Spain Ran Wei, Dalian University of Technology, China Andreas Wortmann, Stuttgart University, Germany Vadim Zaytsev, University of Twente, Netherlands Steffen Zschaler, King’s College London, UK --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the Programme Chairs (Lola Burgueño and Walter Cazzola) at sle22-chairs _at_ di.unimi.it.

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First Call for Papers: 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022)
by Andrei Chis 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022) December 5-10, 2022 Auckland, New Zealand https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2022 http://www.sleconf.org/2022 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022), held in conjunction with SPLASH, GPCE and SAS 2022. Based on the future developments the conference will be hosted in Auckland, New Zealand on December 5-10, 2022. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE covers software language engineering rather than engineering a specific software language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Software Language Design and Implementation - Approaches to and methods for language design - Static semantics (e.g. design rules, well-formedness constraints) - Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics - Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) - Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches - Software Language Validation - Verification and formal methods for languages - Testing techniques for languages - Simulation techniques for languages - Software Language Integration and Composition - Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools - Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) - Traceability between languages - Deployment of languages to different platforms - Software Language Maintenance - Software language reuse - Language evolution - Language families and variability, language and software product lines - Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) - Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools - User studies evaluating usability - Performance benchmarks - Industrial applications - "Synergies between Language Engineering and emerging/promising research areas" - AI and ML language engineering (e.g., ML compiler testing, code classification) Quantum language engineering (e.g., language design for quantum machines) - Language engineering for physical systems (e.g., CPS, IoT, digital twins) - Socio-technical systems and language engineering (e.g., language evolution to adapt to social requirements) - Etc. --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE accepts the following types of papers: - **Research papers**: These are "traditional" papers detailing research contributions to SLE. Papers may range from 6 to 12 pages in length, and may optionally include 2 further pages of bibliography/appendices. Papers will be reviewed with an understanding that some results do not need 12 full pages and may be fully described in fewer pages. - **New ideas / vision papers**: These are papers that may describe new, unconventional software language engineering research positions or approaches that depart from standard practice. They can describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. They could also provide new evidence to challenge common wisdom, present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that provides novel insight or that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches, or apply SLE technology to radically new application areas. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 5 pages, and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. - **SLE Body of Knowledge**: The SLE Body of Knowledge (SLEBoK) is a community-wide effort to provide a unique and comprehensive description of the concepts, best practices, tools and methods developed by the SLE community. To this respect, the SLE conference will accept surveys, essays, open challenges, empirical observations and case study papers on the SLE topics. These can focus on but they are not limited to methods, techniques, best practices and teaching approaches. Papers in this category can have up to 20 pages, including bibliography/appendices. - **Tool papers**: These are papers which focus on the tooling aspects which are often forgotten or neglected in research papers. A good tool paper focuses on practical insights that are likely to be useful to other implementers or users in the future. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. They may optionally come with an appendix with a demo outline / screenshots and/or a short video/screencast illustrating the tool. **Workshops**: Workshops will be organized by SPLASH. Please inform us and contact the SPLASH organizers if you would like to organize a workshop of interest to the SLE audience. Information on how to submit workshops can be found at the SPLASH 2022 Website. --------------------------- Two submission rounds --------------------------- For the first time, SLE is introducing a two-phase submission and review process. This will give authors submitting to the first round an extra opportunity to improve their work (if needed) based on the comments and feedback by the reviewers. Furthermore, this will increase the quality of SLE accepted papers. Manuscripts can be submitted to any of the two submission rounds. Decisions on the papers submitted to the **first round** will be: accept, reject or re-submit revised version. While rejected papers must not, revised versions may be submitted to the second round, with an accompanying response letter to the reviewers stating the changes made and how the authors addressed the reviewers’ criticisms. Re-submissions will be reviewed by the same reviewers. Decisions on fresh papers submitted to the **second round** will be: accept or reject. The authors of those papers that are likely to be rejected but have at least one reviewer who is championing it will have the chance to respond to the reviewers before the final decision is made. --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- All dates are Anywhere on Earth. * 1st round submissions * Abstract submissions: April 6, 2022 * Paper submissions: April 13, 2022 * Notification: May 13, 2022 * 2nd round submissions * Abstract submissions: July 8, 2022 (tentative) * Paper submissions: July 15, 2022 (tentative) * Review notification: September 7, 2022 (tentative) * Author response period: September 12, 2022 (tentative) * Notification: September 19, 2022 (tentative) * Artifact submissions: September 26, 2022 (tentative) * Artifact kick-the-tires Author response: October 10, 2022 (tentative) * Artifact notification: October 24, 2022 (tentative) * Camera-ready (for both rounds): November 4, 2022 (tentative) * Conference: December 5-10, 2022 (TENTATIVE) **COVID-19 Disclaimer** Due to the uncertainties related to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the second round submission deadlines, the artifact evaluation deadlines, the camera-ready deadline and the conference dates are still *preliminary* and will be closed in the next few weeks. --------------------------- Format --------------------------- Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart"(http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format) please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template(https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolida…, and that the document class definition is `\documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}`. Do not make any changes to this format! Ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes in figures and tables are legible. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. In this line, SLE will follow the double-blind process. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. All submissions must be in PDF format. The submission website is: https://sle22.hotcrp.com --------------------------- Concurrent Submissions --------------------------- Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN’s Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication) Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy) Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. --------------------------- Policy on Human Participant and Subject Research --------------------------- Authors conducting research involving human participants and subjects must ensure that their research comply with their local governing laws and regulations and the ACM’s general principles as stated in the ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip…) Submissions that violate this policy will be rejected. --------------------------- Reviewing Process --------------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas/vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. SLEBoK papers will be reviewed on their significance, readability, topicality and capacity of presenting/evaluating/demonstrating a piece of BoK about SLE. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. After each review round, authors will get a chance to respond before a final decision is made. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the seventh year, SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit artifacts. For more information, please have a look at the Artifact Evaluation (http://www.sleconf.org/2022/ArtifactEvaluation.html) page. --------------------------- Special Issue --------------------------- A special issue on the conference topic in a high-impact journal is under negotiation. --------------------------- Awards --------------------------- - **Distinguished paper**: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - **Distinguished artifact**: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. **AUTHORS TAKE NOTE**: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. --------------------------- SLE and Doctoral Students --------------------------- SLE encourages students to submit to the SPLASH doctoral symposium. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work to the SLE audience, too. --------------------------- Organisation --------------------------- Chairs: * General chair: Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa * PC co-chair: Lola Burgueño, Open University of Catalonia, Spain * PC co-chair: Walter Cazzola, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Thomas Kühn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Juliana A. Pereira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Program committee: Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Arvid Butting, Aachen University, Germany Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Benoît Combemale, University of Rennes, France Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Thomas Kühn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Juan de Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Stefan Marr, University of Kent, UK Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Juliana A. Pereira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Elizabeth Scott, University of London, UK Marco Servetto, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Emma Söderberg, Lund University, Sweden Walid Taha, Halmstad University , Sweden Marco Tullio Valente, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Erik Van Wyk, University of Minnesota , USA Alfonso de la Vega, University of Cantabria, Spain Ran Wei, Dalian University of Technology, China Andreas Wortmann, Stuttgart University, Germany Vadim Zaytsev, University of Twente, Netherlands Steffen Zschaler, King’s College London, UK --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the Programme Chairs (Lola Burgueño and Walter Cazzola) at sle22-chairs _at_ di.unimi.it.

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CFP: SLE 2021 - 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering
by Andrei Chis 13 May '21

13 May '21

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2021) October 17-19, 2021 Chicago, Illinois https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2021 http://www.sleconf.org/2021 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2021), held in conjunction with SPLASH, GPCE and SAS 2021. Based on the future developments the conference will be hosted in Chicago, Illinois, United States on October 17-19, 2021 or will be held as a virtual event. --------------------------- Scope --------------------------- The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is devoted to the principles of software languages: their design, their implementation, and their evolution. With the ubiquity of computers, software has become the dominating intellectual asset of our time. In turn, this software depends on software languages, namely the languages it is written in, the languages used to describe its environment, and the languages driving its development process. Given that everything depends on software and that software depends on software languages, it seems fair to say that for many years to come, everything will depend on software languages. Software language engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. While SLE is certainly driven by its metacircular character (software languages are engineered using software languages), SLE is not self-satisfying: its scope extends to the engineering of languages for all and everything. Like its predecessors, the 14th edition of the SLE conference, SLE 2021, will bring together researchers from different areas united by their common interest in the creation, capture, and tooling of software languages. It overlaps with traditional conferences on the design and implementation of programming languages, model-driven engineering, and compiler construction, and emphasizes the fusion of their communities. To foster the latter, SLE traditionally fills a two-day program with a single track, with the only temporal overlap occurring between co-located events. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE 2021 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Broadly speaking, SLE covers software language engineering rather than engineering a specific software language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Software Language Design and Implementation - Approaches to and methods for language design - Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) - Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics - Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) - Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Software Language Validation - Verification and formal methods for languages - Testing techniques for languages - Simulation techniques for languages * Software Language Integration and Composition - Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools - Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) - Traceability between languages - Deployment of languages to different platforms * Software Language Maintenance - Software language reuse - Language evolution - Language families and variability * Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) * Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools - User studies evaluating usability - Performance benchmarks - Industrial applications --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- All dates are Anywhere on Earth. * Mon 5 Jul 2021 - Abstract Submissions * Fri 9 Jul 2021 - Paper Submissions * Wed 1 Sep 2021 - Review Notification * Wed-Fri 1-3 Sep 2021 - Author Response Period * Mon 13 Sep 2021 - Notification * Wed 15 Sept 2021 - Artifact Submissions * Tue 28 Sep 2021 - Artifact Kick-the-tires Author Response * Tue 12 Oct 2021 - Artifact Notification * Sun-Tue 17-19 Oct 2021 - SLE Conference --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE 2021 solicits three types of papers: * Research papers These are "traditional" papers detailing research contributions to SLE. These papers have a limit of 12 pages, and may optionally include 8 further pages of bibliography/appendices * Tool papers These are papers which focus on the tooling aspects which are often forgotten or neglected in research papers. A good tool paper focuses on practical insights that are likely to be useful to other implementers or users in the future. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. They may optionally come with an appendix with a demo outline / screenshots and/or a short video/screencast illustrating the tool. The title of a Tool paper must start with "Tool Demo:". *New ideas / vision papers These are papers on forward-looking, innovative research in software language engineering. Our aim here is to accelerate the exposure of the software language engineering community to early yet potentially ground-breaking research results, or to techniques and perspectives that challenge the status quo in the discipline. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 5 pages, and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. The title of a new ideas / vision papers must start with "New Ideas:" or "Vision:". --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the sixth year, SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit artifacts. For more information, please have a look at the Artifact Evaluation page (http://www.sleconf.org/2021/ArtifactEvaluation.html) --------------------------- Submission --------------------------- Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format “acmart” ( http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format) please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template( https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t…) and that the document class definition is \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes in figures and tables are legible. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. In this line, SLE will follow the double-blind process. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. All submissions must be in PDF format. Concurrent Submissions: Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN’s Republication Policy ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication) Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism ( http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy) Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. Submission Site: Submissions will be accepted at https://sle21.hotcrp.com/ --------------------------- Reviewing Process --------------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas / vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. --------------------------- Awards --------------------------- * Distinguished paper: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. * Distinguished reviewer: Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs. * Distinguished artifact: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. --------------------------- Organisation --------------------------- Chairs: * General chair: Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Program co-chair: Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, United Kingdom * Program co-chair: Emma Söderberg, Lund University, Sweden * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Elias Castegren, KTH, Sweden * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Program Committee: Vincent Aranega, University of Lille, France Mikhail Barash, University of Bergen, Norway Melanie Bats, Obeo, France David Broman, KTH, Sweden Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Alfonso de la Vega, University of York, United Kingdom Juan De Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Davide Di Ruscio, University of L'Aquila, Italy Marcos Didonet del Fabro, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada Michalis Famelis, University of Montreal, Canada Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Niklas Fors, Lund University, Sweden Antonio Garcia Dominguez, Aston University, United Kingdom Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Görel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Stuart Hutchesson, Independent, United Kingdom Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, United Kingdom Paddy Krishnan, Oracle Labs, Australia James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Carlos Olarte, ECT UFRN, Brazil João Saraiva, HASLab / INESC TEC and Universidade do Minho, Portugal Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Daniel Strüber, Radboud University , Netherlands Ulyana Tikhonova, CWI, Netherlands Mark van der Brand, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Juan Manuel Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Ran Wei, Dalian University of Technology, China Bahman Zamani, University of Isfahan, Iran --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the Program Chairs (Emma Söderberg and Dimitris Kolovos).

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CFP: GPCE 2020 − 19th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences
by Erwan BOUSSE 13 May '20

13 May '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- GPCE 2020: 19th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences November 16-17, 2020 Chicago, IL (USA) (a part of the SPLASH series of conferences) https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences is a programming languages conference focusing on techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope. --------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- - Abstract submission: July 20, 2020 (Monday), AoE - Paper submission: July 27, 2020 (Monday), AoE - Author notification: September 9, 2020 (Wednesday) - Conference: November 16-17, 2020 --------------------------- PAPER SELECTION --------------------------- The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria: - Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. - Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. - Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. - Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. --------------------------- PAPER CATEGORIES --------------------------- GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions: - Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. - Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. Short papers must have the text “(Short Paper)” appended to their title, though any papers of 6 or fewer pages that are not tool demonstration papers will be considered as short papers. - Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” appended in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. --------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------- All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format “acmart” (http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format) Please be sure to use the latest LaTeX templates and class files. the SIGPLAN sub-format, and 10 point font. Consult the sample-sigplan.tex template and use the document-class \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}. Please do not make any changes to this format! To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce2020.hotcrp.com/ The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must describe work not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by the SIGPLAN Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/) --------------------------- ORGANIZATION --------------------------- - Steering Committee Chair: Ulrik Pagh Schultz (Denmark) - General Chair: Martin Erwig (USA) - Program Chair: Jeff Gray (USA) - Publicity Chair: Erwan Bousse (France) For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair at gray(a)cs.ua.edu --------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- - Juliana Alves Pereira (Brazil) - Ira Baxter (USA) - Don Batory (USA) - Sandrine Blazy (France) - Sheng Chen (USA) - Shigeru Chiba (Japan) - Thomas Degueule (France) - Robert Glück (Denmark) - Aniruddha Gokhale (USA) - Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Belgium) - Julia Lawall (France) - Geoffrey Mainland (USA) - Marjan Mernik (Slovenia) - Bruno Oliveira (Hong Kong) - Alex Potanin (New Zealand) - Suman Roychoudhury (India) - Christoph Seidl (Denmark) - Michel Steuwer (UK) - Eli Tilevich (USA) - Naoyasu Ubayashi (Japan) - Tijs van der Storm (Netherlands) - Vadim Zaytsev (Netherlands)

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