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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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SLE 2019: Call for Endorsements - Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award
by Andrei Chis 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Endorsements: ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) - Most Influential Paper Award SLE MIP Awards: http://www.sleconf.org/mip Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf SLE 2019: https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Starting in 2019, the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) delivers annually an award to the Most Influential Paper (MIP) presented at the SLE conference held 10 years prior to the award year. The SLE MIP Award distinguishes the authors of the paper having the greatest impact (either scientific, societal or industrial). The papers are judged by their influence over the past decade. The SLE MIP Award is delivered by the current members of the Steering Committee (SC) of the conference, considering: i) endorsements from the community, and ii) the synthesis of some facts and metrics collected in advance by selected SC members. The vote is by majority of the SC members, after a discussion during the online meetings. Authors are informed at once, and awarded at the coming conference. In 2019 we offer two awards: one for the authors of the MIP from the 2009 program (http://www.sleconf.org/2009/Program.html) and another one for the authors of the MIP from the 2008 program (http://www.sleconf.org/2008/program.html) back to the first edition of the conference. SLE MIP Award 2019: - Program SLE 2009: http://www.sleconf.org/2009/Program.html; - Endorsement: http://tiny.cc/slemip2019 (deadline: Sep. 20th, 2019) SLE MIP Award 2018: - Program SLE 2008: http://www.sleconf.org/2008/program.html; - Endorsement: http://tiny.cc/slemip2018 (deadline: Sep. 20th, 2019)

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SLE 2019: Final Call for Papers - Deadline Extension; Athens, Greece; October 21-22
by Andrei Chis 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019) co-located with SPLASH 2019 Athens, Greece October 21-22, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2019 http://www.sleconf.org/2019 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf --------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- Deadlines have been extended by one week from the earlier announcements: * Abstract Submission: June 21, 2019 * Paper Submission: June 28, 2019 * Author Notification: August 9, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2019 at Athens, Greece on October 21-22, 2019. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE 2019 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in contributions from the following areas: * 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 --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE 2019 solicits three types of contributions: Research Papers, Tools Papers, and New Ideas/Vision papers. * Research papers These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages, excluding bibliography. * Tool papers Because of SLE’s interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages excluding bibliography, and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. *New ideas / vision papers New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages, excluding bibliography. *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 2019 Website. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- SLE will continue to 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. --------------------------- Submission Details --------------------------- Paper Format: Submissions must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format “acmart”; please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template, and that the document class definition is \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Using the Word template is strongly discouraged. 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. For the first time, 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. Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism. Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. Submission Site: Submissions will be accepted at https://sle19.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: Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern, Switzerland) * Program co-chair: Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong, China) * Program co-chair: Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, USA) * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Emma Söderberg (Lund University, Sweden) * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Abel Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Program Committee: Xuan Bi (Standard Chartered Bank) Erwan Bousse (TU Wien) Loli Burgeuno (Open University of Catalonia) Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) Thomas Degueule (CWI) Juan de Lara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Juergen Dingel (Queen's University) Romina Eramo (University of L'Aquila) Sebastian Gerard (CEA) Paolo Giarusso (TU Delft) Esther Guerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Pablo Inostroza (CWI) Dimitris Kolovos (University of York) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) Alfonso Pierantonio (University of L'Aquila) Jaroslav Porubän (University of Košice) Casper Poulsen (TU Delft) Yann Regis-Gianas (Paris 7/INRIA) Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University) Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Neil Sculthorpe (Nottingham Trent University) Marco Servetto (Victoria University of Wellington) Elizabeth Scott (Royal Holloway) Eugene Syriani (University of Montreal) Ulyana Tikhonova (CWI) Juha-Pekka Tolvanen (MetaCase) Antonio Valecillo (University of Malaga) Mark van den Brand (TU Eindhoven) Vadim Zaytsev (Raincode Labs) Tian Zhang (Nanjing University) --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the organizers by email (bruno(a)cs.hku.hk and gray(a)cs.ua.edu)

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GPCE 2019: 2nd Call for Papers - Athens, Greece; October 21-22
by Rodin Aarssen 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2019) October 21-22, 2019 Athens, Greece (co-located with SPLASH 2019) https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 14, 2019 * Submission of papers: June 21, 2019 * Paper notification: August 9, 2019 Submission site: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. 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 program co-chairs whether their planned papers are in scope. 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. * 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" 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", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019. 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://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program co-chairs. ORGANIZATION Chairs * General chair: Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig) * Program co-chair: Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) * Program co-chair: Tijs van der Storm (CWI / University of Groningen) Program Committee * Jonathan Aldrich (CMU) * Juliana Alves Pereira (University of Rennes, INRIA) * Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) * Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo) * Thomas Degueule (CWI) * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) * Robert Glück (University of Copenhagen) * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (VUB) * Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University) * Chris Martens (NCSU) * Maryam Mehri Dehnavi (University of Toronto) * Peter Mosses (Swansea University / TU Delft) * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Larissa Rocha Soares (Federal University of Bahia) * Ulrik Schultz (University of Southern Denmark) * Sandro Schulze (University of Magdeburg) * Christoph Seidl (TU Braunschweig) * Michel Steuwer (University of Glasgow) * Sam Tobin Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Kanae Tsushima (National Institute of Informatics) * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) * Adam Welc (Uber) * Peng Wu (Huawei)

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Second Call for Papers: 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019)
by Andrei Chis 04 Jun '19

04 Jun '19

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019) co-located with SPLASH 2019 Athens, Greece October 21-22, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2019 http://www.sleconf.org/2019 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2019 at Athens, Greece on October 21-22, 2019. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE 2019 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in contributions from the following areas: * 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. * Fri 14 Jun 2019 - Abstract Submission * Fri 21 Jun 2019 - Paper Submission * Fri 9 Aug 2019 - Author Notification * Fri 16 Aug 2019 - Artifact Submission * Fri 30 Aug 2019 - Artifact Kick-the-tires Author Response (7 days) * Fri 20 Sep 2019 - Camera ready deadline * Wed 25 Sep 2019 - Artifact notification * Fri 27 Sep 2019 - Artifact-related paper updates * Mon-Tue 21-22 Oct 2018 - SLE Conference --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE 2019 solicits three types of contributions: Research Papers, Tools Papers, and New Ideas/Vision papers. * Research papers These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages, excluding bibliography. * Tool papers Because of SLE’s interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages excluding bibliography, and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. *New ideas / vision papers New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages, excluding bibliography. *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 2019 Website. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- SLE will continue to 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. --------------------------- Submission Details --------------------------- Paper Format: Submissions must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format “acmart”; please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template, and that the document class definition is \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Using the Word template is strongly discouraged. 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. For the first time, 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. Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism. Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. Submission Site: Submissions will be accepted at https://sle19.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: Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern, Switzerland) * Program co-chair: Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong, China) * Program co-chair: Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, USA) * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Emma Söderberg (Lund University, Sweden) * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Abel Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Program Committee: Xuan Bi (Standard Chartered Bank) Erwan Bousse (TU Wien) Loli Burgeuno (Open University of Catalonia) Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) Thomas Degueule (CWI) Juan de Lara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Juergen Dingel (Queen's University) Romina Eramo (University of L'Aquila) Sebastian Gerard (CEA) Paolo Giarusso (TU Delft) Esther Guerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Pablo Inostroza (CWI) Dimitris Kolovos (University of York) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) Alfonso Pierantonio (University of L'Aquila) Jaroslav Porubän (University of Košice) Casper Poulsen (TU Delft) Yann Regis-Gianas (Paris 7/INRIA) Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University) Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Neil Sculthorpe (Nottingham Trent University) Marco Servetto (Victoria University of Wellington) Elizabeth Scott (Royal Holloway) Eugene Syriani (University of Montreal) Ulyana Tikhonova (CWI) Juha-Pekka Tolvanen (MetaCase) Antonio Valecillo (University of Malaga) Mark van den Brand (TU Eindhoven) Vadim Zaytsev (Raincode Labs) Tian Zhang (Nanjing University) --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the organizers by email (bruno(a)cs.hku.hk and gray(a)cs.ua.edu)

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First Call for Papers: 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019)
by Andrei Chis 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019) co-located with SPLASH 2019 Athens, Greece October 21-22, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2019 http://www.sleconf.org/2019 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2019), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2019 at Athens, Greece on October 21-22, 2019. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE 2019 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in contributions from the following areas: * 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. * Fri 14 Jun 2019 - Abstract Submission * Fri 21 Jun 2019 - Paper Submission * Fri 9 Aug 2019 - Author Notification * Fri 16 Aug 2019 - Artifact Submission * Fri 30 Aug 2019 - Artifact Kick-the-tires Author Response (7 days) * Fri 20 Sep 2019 - Camera ready deadline * Wed 25 Sep 2019 - Artifact notification * Fri 27 Sep 2019 - Artifact-related paper updates * Mon-Tue 21-22 Oct 2018 - SLE Conference --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- SLE 2019 solicits three types of contributions: Research Papers, Tools Papers, and New Ideas/Vision papers. * Research papers These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages, excluding bibliography. * Tool papers Because of SLE’s interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages excluding bibliography, and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. *New ideas / vision papers New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages, excluding bibliography. *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 2019 Website. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- SLE will continue to 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. --------------------------- Submission Details --------------------------- Paper Format: Submissions must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format “acmart”; please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template, and that the document class definition is \documentclass[sigplan,screen]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Using the Word template is strongly discouraged. 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. For the first time, 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. Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism. Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. Submission Site: Submissions will be accepted at https://sle19.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: Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern, Switzerland) * Program co-chair: Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong, China) * Program co-chair: Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, USA) * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Emma Söderberg (Lund University, Sweden) * Artefact Evaluation co-chair: Abel Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Program Committee: Xuan Bi (Standard Chartered Bank) Erwan Bousse (TU Wien) Loli Burgeuno (Open University of Catalonia) Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) Thomas Degueule (CWI) Juan de Lara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Juergen Dingel (Queen's University) Romina Eramo (University of L'Aquila) Sebastian Gerard (CEA) Paolo Giarusso (TU Delft) Esther Guerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Pablo Inostroza (CWI) Dimitris Kolovos (University of York) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) Alfonso Pierantonio (University of L'Aquila) Jaroslav Porubän (University of Košice) Casper Poulsen (TU Delft) Yann Regis-Gianas (Paris 7/INRIA) Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University) Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Neil Sculthorpe (Nottingham Trent University) Marco Servetto (Victoria University of Wellington) Elizabeth Scott (Royal Holloway) Eugene Syriani (University of Montreal) Ulyana Tikhonova (CWI) Juha-Pekka Tolvanen (MetaCase) Antonio Valecillo (University of Malaga) Mark van den Brand (TU Eindhoven) Vadim Zaytsev (Raincode Labs) Tian Zhang (Nanjing University) --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the organizers by email (bruno(a)cs.hku.hk and gray(a)cs.ua.edu)

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GPCE 2019: 1st Call for Papers - Athens, Greece; October 21-22
by Rodin Aarssen 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2019) October 21-22, 2019 Athens, Greece (co-located with SPLASH 2019) https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 14, 2019 * Submission of papers: June 21, 2019 * Paper notification: August 9, 2019 Submission site: https://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. 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 program co-chairs whether their planned papers are in scope. 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. * 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" 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", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019. 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://gpce19.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program co-chairs. ORGANIZATION Chairs * General chair: Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig) * Program co-chair: Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) * Program co-chair: Tijs van der Storm (CWI / University of Groningen) Program Committee * Jonathan Aldrich (CMU) * Juliana Alves Pereira (University Rennes) * Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto) * Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo) * Thomas Degueule (CWI) * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) * Robert Glück (University of Copenhagen) * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (VUB) * Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University) * Chris Martens (NCSU) * Maryam Mehri Dehnavi (University of Toronto) * Peter Mosses (Swansea University / TU Delft) * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Larissa Rocha Soares (Federal University of Bahia) * Ulrik Schultz (University of Southern Denmark) * Sandro Schulze (University of Magdeburg) * Christoph Seidl (TU Braunschweig) * Michel Steuwer (University of Glasgow) * Sam Tobin Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Kanae Tsushima (National Institute of Informatics) * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) * Adam Welc (Uber) * Peng Wu (Huawei)

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Second Call for Papers: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018)
by Andrei Chis 29 May '18

29 May '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018) co-located with SPLASH 2018 November 5-6, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States https://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2018/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2018 at Boston, Massachusetts on November 5-6, 2018. --------------------------- Scope --------------------------- 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 11th edition of the SLE conference, SLE 2018, 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 2018 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in contributions from the following areas: * 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. * Fri 29 June 2018 - Abstract Submission * Fri 6 July 2018 - Paper Submission * Fri 24 August 2018 - Author Notification * Fri 31 August 2018 - Artifact Submission * Fri 14 September 2018 - Artifact Kick-the-Tires Evaluation Author Response * Fri 5 October 2018 - Camera Ready Deadline * Wed 10 October 2018 - Artifact Notification * Fri 12 October 2018 - Deadline for Artifact-Related Paper Updates * Sun 4 Nov 2018 - SLE Workshops * Mon 5 Nov - Tue 6 Nov 2018 - SLE Conference --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- * Research papers These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool papers Because of SLE’s interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages excluding bibliography, and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. * New ideas / vision papers New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages excluding bibliography. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the third 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. More information is provided on the conference Website. --------------------------- 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,screen]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Using the Word template is strongly discouraged. 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. SLE follows a single-blind review process. Thus, you do not have to blind your submission. 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://sle18.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. --------------------------- Keynote --------------------------- We are very proud to announce that this year’s SLE keynote will be given by Martin Rinard from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Martin Rinard is professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on software systems and related topics. The broad goal of his research is to obtain better software - making software more robust, resilient, and secure, improving the performance, verifying that the software satisfies important correctness, acceptability, reliability, or accuracy properties, or making systems (both software and hardware) easier to specify, build, maintain, or improve. More information on his research can be found at http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/. Details about his keynote at SLE will be announced soon on the conference Website. --------------------------- Program Committee --------------------------- Andrew Black, Portland State University, USA Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway Erwan Bousse, TU Wien, Austria Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Aston University, UK Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Thomas Degueule, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada Tom Dinkelaker, Ericsson, Germany Sebastian Erdweg, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Esther Guerra, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Daco Harkes, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Homer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong, China Christoph Reichenbach, Lund University, Sweden Jan Oliver Ringert, University of Leicester, UK Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Markus Schordan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Emma Söderberg, Google, Denmark Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Tijs van der Storm, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Vadim Zaytsev, Rain Code, Belgium --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation Committee (tentative) --------------------------- Arvid Butting, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Anna Maria Eilertsen, University of Bergen, Norway Abel Gómez, Open University Catalonia, Spain Marcel Heinz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ludovico Iovino, GSSI, Italy Jesper Öqvist, Lund University, Sweden --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the organizers by email: sle2018(a)googlegroups.com.

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Call for Participation: <Programming> 2018 in Nice
by Sylvia Grewe 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- <Programming> 2018 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 9-12, 2018, Nice, France https://2018.programming-conference.org/ <https://2018.programming-conference.org> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We are excited to welcome you to <Programming> 2018, the second edition of a young conference on everything to do with programming. It takes place at the Boscolo B4 Plaza in Nice, France on April 9-12. The <Programming> conference is closely associated with the open-access journal "The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming". The journal's first two issues are freely accessible at http://programming-journal.org/ and form part of the conference's research track. Along with the research track, <Programming> 2018 features a program with two main keynotes, several workshops, a coding dojo, and a student research competition. *********************************************************************** Program highlights *********************************************************************** Main conference: - Keynote: "The Recurring Rainfall Problem" by Shriram Krishnamurthi - Keynote: "Static Analysis of Android Applications for Finding Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities" by Sukyoung Ryu Co-located events: - Bx 2018: Seventh International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations, with 12 talks - MoreVMs 2018: Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs, with 9 talks - PASS 2018: Programming Across the System Stack, with 3 paper talks and two invited talks by Christa Lopes and Ludovic Henrio - PX/18: 4th Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop - ProWeb 2018: Programming Technology for the Future Web, with 4 paper talks and one invited talk by Manuel Serrano - Salon des Refusés 2018 workshop - CoCoDo 2018, Compiler Coding Dojo Social events: - Banquet at Restaurant of the Plage Beau Rivage (April 11) *********************************************************************** Registration, attendance and accommodation *********************************************************************** - You can register for <Programming> 2018 at: https://2018.programming-conference.org/attending/registration - Early registration ends soon! Please register before March 16th to obtain the early-bird discount. - More information on attending the conference is available at: https://2018.programming-conference.org/attending/reaching-the-conference - More information on accommodation is available at: https://2018.programming-conference.org/attending/accommodation <https://2018.programming-conference.org/attending/accomodation> *********************************************************************** About Nice *********************************************************************** Nice, Capital of the French Riviera, is a charming city between sea and mountains, which has a strong cultural heritage. You will discover the French gastronomy and specialities from Nice, the numerous museums (Musée Matisse, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Musée des Beaux Arts, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Musée Chagall…) and of course various places like “la promenade des Anglais” or “le Vieux Nice”. In “La Promenade des Anglais”, you may practice sports like running, roller skating or cycling, enjoy the beauty of the Meditterean Sea and spend some time on the beach. You can also walk downtown to do some shopping or just discover the city by using the Tramway which allows you to go about everywhere in Nice. There are many places to go out to enjoy your evenings in the Vieux Nice, around the harbor or downtown. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information, please visit https://2018.programming-conference.org/ <https://2018.programming-conference.org> You can also find us on Twitter (twitter.com/programmingconf <http://twitter.com/programmingconf>) and Facebook (facebook.com/programmingconf <http://facebook.com/programmingconf>) Looking forward to seeing you in Nice, Manuel Serrano (General chair), Tamara Rezk (Organizing chair), Guido Salvaneschi (Program chair), Sylvia Grewe, Philipp Haller, Etienne Lozes, Stefan Marr, Minh Ngo, Tobias Pape, Yves Roudier, and Jennifer B. Sartor

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First Call for Papers: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018)
by Andrei Chis 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018) co-located with SPLASH 2018 November 5-6, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States https://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2018/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2018 at Boston, Massachusetts on November 5-6, 2018. --------------------------- Scope --------------------------- 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 11th edition of the SLE conference, SLE 2018, 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 2018 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in contributions from the following areas: * 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. * Fri 29 June 2018 - Abstract Submission * Fri 6 July 2018 - Paper Submission * Fri 24 August 2018 - Author Notification * Fri 31 August 2018 - Artifact Submission * Fri 5 October 2018 - Camera Ready Deadline * Wed 10 October 2018 - Artifact Notification * Fri 12 October 2018 - Deadline for Artifact-Related Paper Updates * Sun 4 Nov 2018 - SLE Workshops * Mon 5 Nov - Tue 6 Nov 2018 - SLE Conference --------------------------- Types of Submissions --------------------------- * Research papers These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool papers Because of SLE’s interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages excluding bibliography, and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. * New ideas / vision papers New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages excluding bibliography. 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 2018 Website: https://conf.researchr.org/track/splash-2018/splash-2018-Workshops. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the third 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. More information will be announced on the Website. --------------------------- 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,screen]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Using the Word template is strongly discouraged. 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. SLE follows a single-blind review process. Thus, you do not have to blind your submission. 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://sle18.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. --------------------------- Program Committee --------------------------- Andrew Black, Portland State University, USA Erwan Bousse, TU Wien, Austria Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Thomas Degueule, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada Tom Dinkelaker, Ericsson, Germany Sebastian Erdweg, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Esther Guerra, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Daco Harkes, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Homer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong, China Christoph Reichenbach, Lund University, Sweden Jan Oliver Ringert, University of Leicester, UK Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Emma Söderberg, Google, Denmark Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Tijs van der Storm, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Vadim Zaytsev, Rain Code, Belgium --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the organizers by email: sle2018(a)googlegroups.com.

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