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7th Workshop on the Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) - Call for Papers

by Craig Anslow

7th Workshop on the Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) Co-located with SPLASH 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands PLATEAU 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/plateau2016 CALL FOR PAPERS Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. TOPICS Some particular areas of interest are: * empirical studies of programming languages * methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation * software design metrics and their relations to the underlying language * user studies of language features and software engineering tools * visual techniques for understanding programming languages * critical comparisons of programming paradigms * tools to support evaluating programming languages * psychology of programming * domain specific language (e.g. database languages, security/privacy languages, architecture description languages) usability and evaluation PLATEAU encourages submissions of three types of papers: Research and position papers: We encourage papers that describe work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes and goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches. We will accept two types of papers: research papers up to 8 pages in length; and position papers up to 2 pages in length. Hypotheses papers: Hypotheses papers explicitly identify beliefs of the research community or software industry about how a programming language, programming language feature, or programming language tool affects programming practice. Hypotheses can be collected from mailing lists, blog posts, paper introductions, developer forums, or interviews. Papers should clearly document the source(s) of each hypothesis and discuss the importance, use, and relevance of the hypotheses on research or practice. In addition, we invite language designers to share some of the usability reasoning that influenced their work. These will serve as an important first step in advancing our understanding of how language design supports programmers.Papers may also, but are not required to, review evidence for or against the hypotheses identified. Hypotheses papers can be up to 4 pages in length. Submission site: PLATEAU papers should be submitted via HotCRP<https://plateau2016.hotcrp.com/>. https://plateau2016.hotcrp.com/ Format: Submissions should use the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format<http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/> (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) 10 point font. Note that by default the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format produces papers in 9 point font. If you are formatting your paper using LaTeX, you will need to set the 10pt option in the \documentclass command. If you are formatting your paper using Word, you may wish to use the provided Word template that supports this font size. Please include page numbers in your submission. Setting the preprint option in the LaTeX \documentclass command generates page numbers. Please also 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 are legible. All types of papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library at the authors' discretion. KEYNOTE Alan Blackwell<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/> Professor Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/ DATES Submission deadline: August 1, 2016 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kelly Blincoe, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Jeff Carver, University of Alabama, USA Kathi Fisler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Tudor Gîrba, Independent, Switzerland Stefan Hanenberg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Andrew Ko, University of Washington, USA Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Peter-Michael Osera, Grinnell College, USA Janet Siegmund, University of Passau, Germany Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Emma Söderberg, Google, USA Andreas Stefik, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Ian Utting, University of Kent, United Kingdom Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom ORGANIZERS Craig Anslow, Middlesex University, UK Thomas LaToza, George Mason University, USA Joshua Sunshine, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

June 28, 2016

ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards

by Jordi Delgado

*ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards* Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday August 22, 2016, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server (registration.esug.org) Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. Info to provide: - Name of the software - Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) - Name of the Smalltalk dialect used - Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: - URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software - URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo - Deadline: *August 21, 2016* Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests, Jordi

June 25, 2016

GemStone/S 3.3.1 released

by Richard Sargent

Dear GemTalk Customers, We are pleased to announce the release of GemStone/S 64 Bit 3.3.1, a maintenance release providing a number of important features and bug fixes, including support for handling ICU library version changes over upgrade. We encourage all GemStone/S customers to upgrade to this release. Downloads and documentation for this release can be found at the following URL: http://gemtalksystems.com/products/gs64/ This server release includes the latest Visual Statistics Display (VSD) release, version 5.2, with new features and fixes in particular for working with multiple files. Documentation and VSD-only downloads, e.g. for platforms other than your server, can be found at the following URL: http://gemtalksystems.com/products/vsd/ Please contact GemTalk technical support if you have any trouble downloading or upgrading. Thank you! Note that GemStone/S ships with a free-even-for-commercial-use license. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/GemStone-S-3-3-1-released-tp4902750.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

June 23, 2016

SPLASH'16: 2nd Combined Call for Contributions to Collocated Events

by Tijs van der Storm

################################################# ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) ################################################# Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org https://twitter.com/splashcon https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon/ Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Combined Call for Contributions to SPLASH tracks, collocated conferences, symposia and workshops: - SPLASH-I, SPLASH-E, Doctoral Symposium, Student Research Competition, Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, Posters - Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) - Software Language Engineering (SLE) - Scala Symposium - Workshops: AGERE, DSLDI, DSM, FOSD, ITSLE, LWC@SLE, META, MOBILE!, NOOL, PLATEAU, Parsing@SLE, REBLS, RUMPLE, SA-MDE, SEPS, VMIL, WODA The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, systems, and software engineering. SPLASH'16 hosts a record number collocated tracks and events, from associated conferences (GPCE, SLE) and symposia (DLS, Scala), to 16 workshops! Please see below about important dates. We look forward to your submissions! SPLASH'16 Additional Tracks =========================== ## SPLASH-I: Innovation, Interaction, Insight, Industry, Invited SPLASH-I is the track of SPLASH dedicated to great talks on exciting topics! SPLASH-I will run in parallel with all of SPLASH (during the week days), and is open to all attendees. SPLASH-I will host both invited talks and selected talks submitted via this call for proposals. SPLASH-I solicits inspiring talks, tutorials and demonstrations on exciting topics related to programming and programming systems, delivered by excellent speakers from academia or industry. Deadline: 1st of August Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-i ## SPLASH-E: Foundational Concepts of Computation SPLASH-E will be a one-day working meeting, with the following goals: - Building on prior work, identify and enumerate the foundational concepts of computation. - More ambitiously, for each concept, create a detailed plan for a lesson (or short sequence of lessons) for 8 year olds, to teach the concept. We do not solicit publications, but we ask prospective participants to submit a one-paragraph position statement. Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-e ## Doctoral Symposium The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The Symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. Submission deadline: Thu 30 Jun 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-ds ## Student Research Competition Continuing the successes of previous years, SPLASH is again hosting an ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC). The competition is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world and to share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session’s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners, providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Additionally, the Student Research Competition gives students experience with both formal presentations and evaluations. Submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-src ## PLMW: Programming Language Mentoring Workshop The purpose of Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) is to give promising students who consider pursuing a graduate degree in this field an overview of what research in this field looks like and how to get into and succeed in graduate school. In other words, a combination whirlwind tour of this research area, networking opportunity, and how-to-succeed guide. The program of PLMW will include talks by prominent researchers of the field of programming languages and software engineering providing an insight in their research. To learn more about PLMW, please see the SIGPLAN PLMW web page (http://www.sigplan.org/Conferences/PLMW/) Application deadline: Sun 14 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-plmw ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submission deadline: Fri 8 Jul 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-posters Collocated Conferences and Symposia =================================== ## GPCE: Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences Generative and component approaches and domain-specific abstractions are revolutionizing software development just as automation and componentization revolutionized manufacturing. Raising the level of abstraction in software specification has been a fundamental goal of the computing community for several decades. Key technologies for automating program development and lifting the abstraction level closer to the problem domain are Generative Programming for program synthesis, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) for compact problem-oriented programming notations, and corresponding Implementation Technologies aiming at modularity, correctness, reuse, and evolution. As the field matures Applications and Empirical Results are of increasing importance. The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. Abstract submission deadline: Fri 17 Jun 2016 Paper submission deadline: Fri 24 Jun 2016 Website: http://www.gpce.org Call for papers (pdf): http://conf.researchr.org/getImage/gpce-2016/orig/GPCE16+-+Call+for+Papers.… Twitter: https://twitter.com/gpceconf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference/ ## Scala Symposium The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala programming language community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics in many formats, going from student talks all the way to full 10-page research papers, indexed by the ACM Digital Library. Abstract submission deadline: Sun 17 Jul 2016 Paper submission deadline: Mon 25 Jul 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/scala-2016 ## SLE: Software Language Engineering Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term “software language” is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). SLE aims to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. Abstract submission deadline: Fri 17 Jun 2016 Paper submission deadline: Fri 24 Jun 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/sle-2016-papers Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SLEconference/ Workshops ========= SPLASH'16 will host a record number of 16 workshops: ## AGERE! Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control The AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and – more generally – high-level programming paradigms promoting a mindset of decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. Abstract submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Paper submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/agere2016 ## DSLDI: Domain-specific Language Design and Implementation Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. Submission deadline talk proposals: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsldi2016 ## DSM: Domain-Specific Modeling Domain-specific languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems development faster and easier. When accompanied with suitable automated modeling tools and generators it delivers to the promises of continuous delivery and devops. In domain-specific modeling (DSM) the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive them- selves as working directly with domain concepts. Together with frameworks and platforms, DSM can automate a large portion of software production. Submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsm2016 ## FOSD: Feature-oriented Software Development Feature orientation is an emerging paradigm of software development. It supports the automatic generation of large-scale software systems from a set of units of functionality, called features. The key idea of feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is to explicitly represent similarities and differences of a family of software systems for a given application domain (e.g., database systems, banking software, text processing systems) with the goal of reusing software artifacts among the family members. Submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://www.fosd.net/workshop2016 Call for papers: http://conf.researchr.org/getImage/FOSD-2016/orig/FOSD+2016+-+CFP.pdf ## ITSLE: Industry Track Software Language Engineering Industry Track for Software Language Engineering (ITSLE) is a workshop to bring together practitioners and researchers from industry and academia working on the area of software language engineering. Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) techniques are being developed and used broadly in industry. However, as the size and complexity of software systems steadily increase, so does the cost of maintaining and improving the DSL and MDSE techniques and tools. It introduces new challenges such as language co-evolution, maintainability of legacy software using older version of DSLs and MDSE techniques, and extendability and scalability of these techniques. Some of these challenges have been addressed by the SLE research community and some remain unsolved. Submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/itsle2016 ## LWC@SLE: Language Workbench Challenge Language workbenches are tools for software language engineering. They distinguish themselves from traditional compiler tools by providing integrated development environment (IDE) support for defining, implementing, testing and maintaining languages. Not only that, languages built with a language workbench are supported by IDE features as well (e.g., syntax highlighting, outlining, reference resolving, completion etc.). As a result, language workbenches achieve a next level in terms of productivity and interactive editor support for building languages, in comparison to traditional batch-oriented, compiler construction tools. The goal of this workshop is twofold. First: exercise and assess the state-of-the-art in language workbenches using challenge problems from the user perspective (i.e. the language designer). Second: foster knowledge exchange and opportunities for collaboration between language workbench implementors and researchers. Submission deadline of solutions: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/lwc2016 ## META The Meta’16 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions such as contracts, or software tools. With the changing hardware and software landscape, and increased heterogeneity of systems, metaprogramming becomes an important research topic to handle the associate complexity once more. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as empirical studies on and typing for such systems and languages. Abstract submission: Wed 27 Jul 2016 Paper submission: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/meta2016 ## Mobile! Mobile application use and development is experiencing enormous growth, and by 2016 more than 200 billion apps have been downloaded. The mobile domain presents new challenges to software engineering. Mobile platforms are rapidly changing, with diverse capabilities including various input modes, wireless communication types, on-device memory and disk capacities, and sensors. Applications function on wide ranges of platforms, requiring scaling according to hardware. Many applications interact with third-party services, requiring application development with effective security and authorization processes for those dataflows. “Bring your own device” policies pose security challenges including employer and employee data privacy. Developing secure mobile applications requires new tools and practices such as improved refactoring tools for hybrid applications; polyglot applications; and testing techniques for multiple devices. This workshop aims to establish a community of researchers and practitioners, leading to further research in mobile development. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/mobile2016 ## NOOL: New Object-Oriented Languages NOOL-16 is a new unsponsored workshop to bring together users and implementors of new(ish) object oriented systems. Through presentations, and panel discussions, as well as demonstrations, and video and audiotapes, NOOL-16 will provide a forum for sharing experience and knowledge among experts and novices alike. We invite technical papers, case studies, and surveys in the following areas, related to theory of object oriented programming, new languages, implementation of languages, tools and environment, applications and related work. Abstract submission deadline: Thu 1 Sep 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/nool2016 ## PLATEAU: Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/plateau2016 ## Parsing@SLE Parsing@SLE 2016 is the fourth annual workshop on parsing programming languages. The intended participants are the authors of parser generation tools and parsers for programming languages and other software languages. For the purpose of this workshop “parsing” is a computation that takes a sequence of characters as input and produces a syntax tree or graph as output. This possibly includes tokenization using regular expressions, deriving trees using context-free grammars, and mapping to abstract syntax trees. The goal is to bring together today’s experts in the field of parsing, in order to explore open questions and possibly forge new collaborations. The topics may include algorithms, implementation and generation techniques, syntax and semantics of meta formalisms (BNF), etc. We expect to attract participants that have been or are developing theory, techniques and tools in the broad area of parsing. Abstract submission deadline: Fri 9 Sep 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/parsing2016 ## REBLS: Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design — so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) — have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rebls2016 ## RUMPLE: ReUsable and Modular Programming Language Ecosystems The RUMPLE’16 workshop is a venue for discussing a wide range of topics related to modular approaches to programming language implementation, extensible virtual machine architectures, as well as reusable runtime components such as dynamic compilers, interpreters, or garbage collectors. One of the main goals of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners and facilitate effective sharing of their respective experiences and ideas. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Extended abstract submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rumple2016 ## SA-MDE: Tutorial on MDD with Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster With the model-driven development (MDD) approach to software, rather than building each system from scratch, one specifies a metamodel covering a whole class of similar systems, provides a universal generator to transform metamodel instances into executable programs, and specifies each system by a higher-level model conforming to the metamodel. When the application domain concerns semantically rich datasets—with structured entities, interlinked data, and sophisticated integrity constraints—then the MDD tools should support this richness: in the metamodel, in individual system models, and in the generation process. In this tutorial, we present the Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster, tools respectively for curating and exploiting semantically rich data in a MDD workflow, which are under development as part of ALIGNED. Participants will learn what the tools can do, gain hands-on experience with using them, and be able to contribute challenges and suggestions for future development. Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/samde2016 ## SEPS: Software Engineering for Parallel Systems This workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners dealing with compelling challenges of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms. The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires more insight into development processes, and necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and re-engineering sequential legacy applications. We aim to advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/seps2016 ## VMIL: Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages The VMIL workshop is a forum for research in virtual machines and intermediate languages. It is dedicated to identifying programming mechanisms and constructs that are currently realized as code transformations or implemented in libraries but should rather be supported at VM level. Candidates for such mechanisms and constructs include modularity mechanisms (aspects, context-dependent layers), concurrency (threads and locking, actors, capsules, processes, software transactional memory), transactions, development tools (profilers, runtime verification), etc. Topics of interest include the investigation of which such mechanisms are worthwhile candidates for integration with the run-time environment, how said mechanisms can be elegantly (and reusably) expressed at the intermediate language level (e.g., in bytecode), how their implementations can be optimized, and how virtual machine architectures might be shaped to facilitate such implementation efforts. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/vmil2016 ## WODA: Workshop on Dynamic Analysis The International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA) is the place where researchers interested in dynamic analysis and related topics can meet and discuss current research, issues, and trends in the field. WODA exists since 2003 and has been co-located with several different SE/PL conferences in the past, including ICSE, ISSTA, ASPLOS, and SPLASH. See https://sites.google.com/site/scwoda/ for the history of WODA. The 2016 edition of WODA will be a mix of invited talks by high-visibility researchers in the community and presentations of submitted workshop papers. Submission deadline: Fri 19 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/woda2016 # SPLASH Supporters SPLASH'16 is kindly supported by the following organizations: - ACM: http://www.acm.org/ - SIGPLAN: http://www.sigplan.org/ - LogicBlox (Gold): http://www.logicblox.com/ - Oracle (Silver): http://www.oracle.com/index.html - TU Delft (Silver): http://tudelft.nl/ - Huawei (Bronze): http://www.huawei.com/en/ - Facebook (Bronze): https://research.facebook.com/ - IBM Research (Bronze): http://www.research.ibm.com/ - Google (Bronze): https://www.google.com Want to support SPLASH'16? See our options here: http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/support-program.

June 15, 2016

Smalltalk/X jv-branch mailing list

by Jan Vrany

Hello there, There's a low-traffic, unofficial mailing list for Smalltalk/X. If anyone's interested, feel free to join: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/stx-jv Best, Jan

June 14, 2016

Pharo Job in Lille

by Usman Bhatti

Hi all, Synectique provides comprehensive and sophisticated analysis tools to improve the quality of software, reduce maintenance costs, and thus enable easier software evolution. The company was created in 2013 and already got some renowned customers. To sustain our growth we are looking for a full-time Smalltalk (Pharo) developer with some additional non Smalltalk skills. 2+ years experience or equivalent talent, with strong emphasis on front-end JavaScript and back-end Seaside/Pharo. The ideal candidate should be comfortable with client-side web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, be familiar with code parsing and master different languages (Java, C++, C#, ADA, Smalltalk). The job is based in Lille, which is centrally located with good connections by train to everywhere (one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels). Duration: Permanent Starting date: September 2016 Salary: depending on skill set/experience Ready to travel if needed. Additional Skills: Object-oriented design/programming Agile Methodologies Fluent in French and/or English Please send your applications to philippe.valenza(a)synectique.eu. best regards. Usman Bhatti

June 2, 2016

2nd CfP: SLE 2016 (9th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering)

by Andrei Chis

**Call for Papers** ======================================================================== 9th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2016) Oct 31-Nov 1, 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Co-located with SPLASH 2016) General chair: Tijs van der Storm, CWI, Netherlands Program co-chairs: Dániel Varro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Emilie Balland, Sensational AG, Switzerland http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2016/sle-2016-papers http://www.sleconf.org/2016/ Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ======================================================================== Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term "software language" is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). ### Important Dates Fri 17 Jun 2016 - Abstract Submission Fri 24 Jun 2016 - Paper Submission Fri 26 Aug 2016 - Notification Fri 2 Sep 2016 - Artifact submission Fri 16 Sep 2016 - Artifact notification Fri 16 Sep 2016 - Camera ready deadline Mon 31 Oct 09:00 - Tue 1 Nov 18:00 2016 Conference ### Topics of Interest SLE aims to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of 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 principled engineering approaches and techniques in the following areas: * Language Design and Implementation * Approaches and methodologies for language design * Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) * Techniques for behavioral / executable semantics * Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) * Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Language Validation * Verification and formal methods for languages * Testing techniques for languages * Simulation techniques for languages * Language Integration * Coordination between of heterogeneous languages and tools * Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) * Traceability between languages * Deployment of languages to different platforms * 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 * **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 (in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/)) * **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 in SIGPLAN proceedings style (see above), with 1 optional additional page for bibliographic references, and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 4 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 4-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. ### Artifact evaluation Authors of accepted papers at SLE 2016 are encouraged to submit their experiment results used for underpinning research statements to an artifact evaluation process carried out in early September 2016. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully receive a seal of approval printed on the first page of the paper in the proceedings. Authors of papers with accepted artifacts are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. ### Publications All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers, including tool papers will be published in ACM Digital Library. Authors of distinguished papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for a Journal special issue. ### Awards * Distinguished paper. Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the program committee. * Distinguished reviewer. Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. ### Program Committee Emilie Balland (co-chair), Sensational AG (SUI) Daniel Varro (co-chair), BME (HUN) Anya Helene Bagge, Univ. Bergen (NOR) Ruth Breu, Univ. Innsbruck (AUT) Jordi Cabot, Univ. Oberta de Catalunya (ESP) Marsha Chechik, Univ. Toronto (CAN) Marcus Denker, INRIA (FRA) Davide Di Ruscio, Univ. L’Aquila (ITA) Martin Erwig, Oregon State Univ. (USA) Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University (RSA) Sebastian Gerard, CEA (FRA) Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford Univ. (UK) Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Inst. (GER) Martin Gogolla, Univ. Bremen (GER) Jeff Gray, Univ. Alabama (USA) Esther Guerra, Autonomous Univ. of Madrid (ESP) Gorel Hedin, Lund Univ. (SWE) Michael Homer, Victoria Univ. Wellington (NZL) Dimitris Kolovos, Univ. York (UK) Ralf Lämmel, Univ. Koblenz (GER) Julia Lawall, LIP6 (FRA) Tihamer Levendovszky, Microsoft (USA) Heather Miller, EPFL (SUI) Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Loria (FRA) Günter Mussbacher, McGill Univ. (CAN) Bruno Oliveira, Univ. of Hong Kong (HKG) Terence Parr, Univ. San Francisco (USA) István Ráth, IncQuery Labs (HUN) Julia Rubin, MIT (USA) Bernhard Schatz, Fortiss (GER) Sibylle Schupp, Univ. Hamburg (GER) Anthony Sloane, Macquarie Univ. (AUS) Emma Söderberg, Google (USA) Eugene Syriani, Univ. Montréal (CAN) Gabi Taentzer, Univ. Marburg (GER) Eric Van Wyk, Univ. Minnesota (USA) Hans Vangheluwe, Univ. Antwerp (BEL) Jurgen Vinju, CWI (NED) Guido Wachsmuth, TU Delft (NED) Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State Univ. (USA) Andrzej Wąsowski, ITU (DEN) Manuel Wimmer, TU Wien (AUT) Tian Zhang, Nanjing Univ. (CHN)

June 1, 2016

Language Workbench Challenge 2016: Call for Solutions

by Tijs van der Storm

############################################################# Language Workbench Challenge 2016 @ SLE: Call for Solutions Collocated with SPLASH'16 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Notification: Mon 5 Sep 2016 Workshop: Tue 1 Nov 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/lwc2016 ############################################################# Language workbenches are tools that lower the development costs of implementing new languages and their associated tools (IDEs, debuggers etc.). As well as easing the development of traditional stand-alone languages, language workbenches also make multi-paradigm and language-oriented programming environments practical. The Language Workbench Challenge (LWC) aims to bring together language workbench users and implementers, to discuss the state-of-the-art in language workbenches and explore future directions. LWC’16 solicits solutions to 3 benchmark problems proposed in Section 6.5 of the following paper: Sebastian Erdweg, Tijs van der Storm, Markus Völter, Laurence Tratt, et al. **Evaluating and comparing language workbenches: Existing results and benchmarks for the future**, Computer Languages, Systems & Structures, Volume 44, Part A, December 2015, Pages 24–47. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cl.2015.08.007 Preprint: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/publications/lwc13-comlan.pdf The benchmark problems are categorized in the following categories: - Notation: challenges dealing with the appearance of source code, including support for tabular notation, mathematical symbols, code in prose etc. - Evolution and reuse: challenges related to modularity, composition, language versions and migration. - Editing: challenges exercising how the language user interacts with code. The goal of the workshop is to demonstrate, discuss and foster improvements in tools, as well as encourage the collaboration between and learning among different teams developing different (kinds of) editors. To this end, we emphasize the implementation of the challenges, not writing about them. Submissions should be short documents (in PDF format) describing each solution using the following structure: - Assumptions: Are there any assumptions or prerequisites relevant to the implementation of the solution? - Implementation: What are the important building blocks for defining the solution? What does it take to implement the solution to the problem? - Variants: Are there any interesting and insightful variants of the implementation? What small change(s) to the challenge would make a big difference in the implementation strategy or effort? - Usability: What is the resulting user experience? Is it convenient to use? Is it similar to other kinds of notations? Does it feel ’foreign’ to experienced users of the particular editor? - Impact: Which artifacts have to be changed to make the solution work? Are changes required to (conceptually) unrelated artifacts? How modular is the solution? - Composability: To what degree does the solution support composition with solutions to other benchmark problems other instances of the same problem (e.g., same challenge problem, different language feature)? - Limitations: What are the limitations of this implementation? - Uses and Examples: Are there examples of this problem in real-world systems? Where can the reader learn more? - Effort (best-effort): How much effort has been spent to build the solution, assuming an experienced user of the technology? - Other Comments: Anything that does not fit within the other categories. - Artifact: a publicly accessible URL to the source code of the submission. The paper cited above includes two example descriptions for inspiration, Submissions should furthermore use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format, 10 point font, using the font family Times New Roman and numeric citation style. The PC will review the submissions for inclusion in the workshop program, based on criteria of providing interest for discussion, conformance to the challenges, and whether the submission is on-topic (e.g., is using a language workbench). The PDFs of accepted submissions will be published on this website before the workshop. Organization - Meinte Boersma (Mendix) - Eugen Schindler (Oce) - Tijs van der Storm (CWI) - Markus Voelter (itemis AG) Program Committee - Lorenzo Bettini (DISIA) - Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) - Pablo Inostroza (CWI) - Tamás Szabó (itemis AG / TU Darmstadt)

June 1, 2016