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Slides ESUG 2016
by marcus.denker＠inria.fr Sept. 20, 2016

Sept. 20, 2016

Hi, We are starting to upload Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/presentations <http://www.slideshare.net/esug/presentations> Videos will follow... Everything (Videos, Slides, Descriptions) will end up being archived, too: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/ <http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/> (This will happen slowly over the next days) Marcus

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How to play ESUG 2016 videos on Windows
by Georg Heeg Aug. 29, 2016

Aug. 29, 2016

All, I know that 90%+ of all ESUG attendees are using Macs, but I don't. I saw that the videos are .key files. Technically they are zip files with a directory structure in it. Does anybody know how to play these videos on Windows? Georg Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712

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Power adapter
by Guillermo Amaral Aug. 26, 2016

Aug. 26, 2016

Hi! The conference was really exciting, full of interesting talks and topics, and as with previous editions, I've got several motivating ideas from it. Perhaps that's part of the reason why I forgot my MacAirbook power adaptor (MagSafe 2 connector). I just returned to the university but the room was closed. If anybody knows where it might be, I'll apreciate if you let me know. I'll be here until next sunday evening. Thanks!

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Smalltalk book in English
by Georg Heeg Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

I just learned that the Smalltalk book by Johannes Brauer is not yet widely known http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658068226 Georg Heeg, Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen

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[ann] seaside gtdebugger
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, As presented at ESUG on Monday, we now have a custom GTDebugger for Seaside. This was built by Andrei as an initial experiment. As we do not know much about Seaside-specific debugging problems, we asked a couple of Seaside users to describe issues that would be useful to be addressed in the debugger, and Andrei allocated some 4h to construct some of these in an custom debugger for Seaside. Two of the issues that popped up are: - get a quick view of the current request context - get an overview of the current component nesting They are now addressed like depicted in the screenshot below. You should look at this debugger as a beginning. Beside the current basic extensions one added value is that we now have the scaffolding to build more. Please take a look at it and let’s try to identify more concrete issues that might be addressed. It would be great if this would be taken over by the Seaside community. The debugger can be loaded on top of a Pharo 6.0 with Seaside inside like this: Gofer new smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'GToolkit'; package: 'GT-SeasideDebugger'; load. #GTSeasideDebugger asClass register Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "The coherence of a trip is given by the clearness of the goal."

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[ann] Lam Research evaluates Pharo
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, We are very happy to make the following announcement: Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry, is an experienced user of the Smalltalk programming language. Smalltalk is a key component in Lam's software control system for a broad range of the equipment it manufactures. Tudor Girba is a leading member of the tools and environment development effort in Pharo, having architected the Glamorous Toolkit for live programming. Eliot Miranda is author of the Cog virtual machine that underlies Pharo and other Smalltalk dialects. Lam has engaged Tudor and Eliot to explore potential enhancements in Lam's use of Smalltalk. These enhancements range from running highly optimized Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers, to enhancing Lam's Smalltalk development practices with state-of-the-art live programming. During the engagement, Tudor and Eliot successfully moved a key communication component of the control system to Pharo. It was a challenging task aimed at extending the reach of Lam’s system to the Pharo world including the option of executing on ARM processors. Cheers, Tudor Girba, Eliot Miranda and Chris Thorgrimsson

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[ann] Lam Research evaluates Pharo
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, We are very happy to make the following announcement: Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry, is an experienced user of the Smalltalk programming language. Smalltalk is a key component in Lam's software control system for a broad range of the equipment it manufactures. Tudor Girba is a leading member of the tools and environment development effort in Pharo, having architected the Glamorous Toolkit for live programming. Eliot Miranda is author of the Cog virtual machine that underlies Pharo and other Smalltalk dialects. Lam has engaged Tudor and Eliot to explore potential enhancements in Lam's use of Smalltalk. These enhancements range from running highly optimized Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers, to enhancing Lam's Smalltalk development practices with state-of-the-art live programming. During the engagement, Tudor and Eliot successfully moved a key communication component of the control system to Pharo. It was a challenging task aimed at extending the reach of Lam’s system to the Pharo world including the option of executing on ARM processors. Cheers, Tudor Girba, Eliot Miranda and Chris Thorgrimsson

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[ann] GTExamples alpha
by Tudor Girba Aug. 25, 2016

Aug. 25, 2016

Hi, Over the last coupe of years Stefan Reichhart and the rest of the GT team worked on an implementation of examples. The work is inspired from previous work done by Markus Gaelli and Adrian Kuhn. As one of the goals of GT is to offer a live programming environment, one important issue is how to move from the static code to live objects as fast as possible. That is why we worked on this library as a solution to provide a link between the static code and live objects. Furthermore, this examples library also enables the definition of assertions on the examples, and this provides the possibility of rethinking the way we construct tests throughout our system. Tests are great as they help us create live objects and then to assert live properties. However, they do not allow us to leverage the objects we create, and this can be a tremendous resource for understanding systems. In our vision, examples should be everywhere and they should be explicitly linked to the static code they exemplify. That is why the library comes with an initial integration in existing tools (such as Nautilus, Spotter, Inspector). The current solution works well and it is the result of several rewrites. We think that the solution is complete in terms of features, but there are still several things to improve and iterate on. To this end, I kindly ask you to take a look at it while distinguishing between the concrete implementation choice (e.g., the current extensive use of pragmas) and the conceptual benefits of the approach. To ease the discussion, we put together a short documentation: http://gtoolkit.org/doc/Examples/examples.html That being said, you can get it with the full GToolkit in Pharo 6.0: http://gtoolkit.org/#install (easiest is to download the ready made image for now) For those that are at ESUG, I will try to provide a short overview during the Show Us Your Project session from today. Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Innovation comes in the least expected form. That is, if it is expected, it already happened."

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Call for Papers: Object Oriented Programming Languages and Systems @ SAC 2017, April 3-7, 2017
by Nick Papoylias Aug. 24, 2016

Aug. 24, 2016

************************************************** OOPS 2017 Call for Papers Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS17 ************************************************** Technical Track at the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2017 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2017 April 3 - 7, 2017 Marrakesh, Morocco - Important Dates Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts September 15, 2016 Paper and SRC notifications November 10, 2016 Paper and SRC camera-ready copies November 25, 2016 Author registration December 10, 2016 SAC 2017 April 3 - 7, 2017 - Track Chair Davide Ancona (davide.ancona(a)unige.it) DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy - SAC 2017 For the past thirty one years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2017 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is hosted by the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada; University Cadi Ayyad (UCA) of Marrakech, Morocco; National School of Engineering in Rabat (EMI), Rabat, Morocco; and National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) of Kenitra, Morocco. - Call For Student Research Abstracts Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2017 Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) Program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. - OOPS Track: Aims and Topics Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become the mainstream programming paradigm for developing complex software systems in most application domains. However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and usability. To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, debugging, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation. The specific topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: * Aspects and components * Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation * Context-oriented programming * Databases and persistence * Distribution and concurrency * Dynamic and scripting languages * Evaluation * Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming * Formal verification * Internet of Things technology and programming * Integration with other paradigms * Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation * Language design and implementation * Modular and generic programming * Reflection, meta-programming * Runtime verification * Secure and dependable software * Static analysis * Testing and debugging * Type systems and type inference * Virtual machines OOPS offers a great opportunity to the OOP community to gain visibility, and to exploit the inter-disciplinary nature of SAC. - Submission Instructions Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2017 home page. Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. SAC 2017 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person. The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style. Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages (max of 8 pages) at extra charge (80 USD per page). Posters are limited to 3 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page (max of 4 pages) at extra charge (80 USD). The length of the SRC abstracts is 2 pages with no additional pages at extra charge. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 15, 2016. For more information please visit the SAC 2017 home page. - Proceedings Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. Student registration is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of papers/posters in the conference proceedings. Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions, depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue, after the conference.

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Praha social event
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 23, 2016

Aug. 23, 2016

Hi happy smalltalker attending ESUG I updated the social event web page http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Social-Event Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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What to taste in Prague
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 20, 2016

Aug. 20, 2016

Begin forwarded message: From: Pavel Krivanek <pavel.krivanek(a)gmail.com> If you like trying of the local traditional culinary specialties, I have some tips what taste in Prague during ESUG: Svickova (s karlovarskym knedlikem) http://www.mlsanicko.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/svickova.jpg <http://www.mlsanicko.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/svickova.jpg> Pecena kachna (s karlovarským knedlikem a cervenou repou) http://www.topvareni.cz/images/recepty/58019-pecena-kachna.jpg <http://www.topvareni.cz/images/recepty/58019-pecena-kachna.jpg> Ovocne tvarohove knedliky http://www.veganotic.cz/uploads/images/ovocne_knedliky.jpg <http://www.veganotic.cz/uploads/images/ovocne_knedliky.jpg> - attention: sweet and of cours the Czech BEER :-) If you are looking for beer from smaller local producers (Marcus, Denis?), you should start on this place: http://www.zlycasy.eu/ <http://www.zlycasy.eu/> (https://goo.gl/d1iOWT <https://goo.gl/d1iOWT>) -- Pavel > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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[Ann] Cuis now runs on Spur!
by juanlists＠jvuletich.org Aug. 19, 2016

Aug. 19, 2016

Hi Folks, I've successfully finished the Spur conversion of Cuis. I was able to merge all required changes to Cuis compiler and make it work in both ObjectMemories. Cuis is now offered in Spur and pre-Spur formats. And the best part is that they share 100% of the source code. There is no forking! This means that there is no extra work in maintaining both flavors. So, we are not leaving anyone behind. It also means that, at deployment, you might chose between better performance and larger memory (with Spur) or smaller footprint and SqueakJS compatibility (with pre-Spur). I've just updated our GitHub repo https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev . Included are Cuis4.2-2906-spur.image and Cuis4.2-2906.image, and, as usual, the whole update stream. I wrote a brief description of the Spur conversion at Documentation/SpurConversion.md, in case you want to reproduce it, or apply it to your own Cuis images. The images seem very stable. Please test them, load your code, and report any issues. This work was enabled by Eliot Miranda and the OpenSmalltalk team who develop Spur, VMMaker and the Spur bootstrap. Thank you folks! I also used Squeak 5 as a reference implementation of Compiler and related stuff. I also want to thank the greater Squeak community for it. Some cleanup is in order. The scaffolding I did for the conversion, including dual Compilers is still in the image. I'll be cleaning it soon. I'll also be able to pay a bit more attention to unrelated suggestions and ongoing discussion at cuis-dev(a)cuis-smalltalk.org Enjoy! Cheers, Juan Vuletich www.cuis-smalltalk.org https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev @JuanVuletich

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Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: William Resume
by ravinder phogat Aug. 19, 2016

Aug. 19, 2016

In continuation with my last email, please find attached most recent updated resume.

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Fwd: William Resume
by ravinder phogat Aug. 19, 2016

Aug. 19, 2016

Hi All, My friend William is a Smalltalker of around 25+ years of experience and is looking for smalltalk opportunities within US or Canada. I am attaching his profile for reference, any help would be appreciated. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravinder Phogat <ravinder.smalltalk(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:45 PM Subject: Fwd: William Resume To: ravinder phogat <raviphogat.50(a)gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wiliam Mytnowych <bmytnowych(a)yahoo.com> Date: Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:28 PM Subject: William Resume To: "ravinder.smalltalk(a)gmail.com" <ravinder.smalltalk(a)gmail.com> Hi Ravi, My personal email is bmytnowych(a)yahoo.com. Here is my resume. Thanks for everything. - William - William Mytnowych bmytnowych(a)yahoo.com (404) 565-3553

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Partner & kids at Esug Conference
by Stephan Eggermont Aug. 17, 2016

Aug. 17, 2016

Dear Esug participants, My wife is considering coming to Prague (with the kids 7&9) and wonders if there are more partners (&kids?) there who would be interested in exploring the town together Cheers, Stephan Eggermont

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Remainder: ESUG 2016, 13th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 17, 2016

Aug. 17, 2016

Reminder: *Only a few days left to submit!!* 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

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[ann] moose 6.0
by Tudor Girba Aug. 15, 2016

Aug. 15, 2016

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce version 6.0 of the Moose Suite, the platform for software and data analysis built in Pharo: http://moosetechnology.org/#install Description --- The key highlights are: - It is based on Pharo 5.0 including the latest version of the Glamorous Toolkit. - It includes the SmaCC parsing framework together with parsers and abstract syntax trees for Java, JavaScript and Swift. - Roassal2 comes with several enhancements. - Famix features a new and generic query API engine. - Moose Finder and GTInspector come with more custom presentations and visualizations. - SmaCC comes with a dedicated debugger. - The debuggers for Glamour, PetitParser and Announcements received a new update. - DeepTraverser is an order of magnitude faster. Extra highlights: - Roassal2 is documented in a brand new book: http://agilevisualization.com - jdt2famix is a new open-source importer for Java: https://github.com/girba/jdt2famix Installation --- The Moose Suite 6.0 comes for each platform as a separate bundle: - For Mac: http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/moose_suite_6_0-mac.zip - For Windows: http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/moose_suite_6_0-win.zip - For Linux: http://moosetechnology.org/res/download/moose_suite_6_0-linux.zip The Moose Suite 6.0 can also be loaded in a Pharo 5.0 image either from the Configuration Browser, or by executing the following script: Metacello new smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'Moose'; configuration: 'Moose'; version: #stable; load. Enjoy, The Moose team

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[ANN] Release of Agile Visualization
by Alexandre Bergel Aug. 15, 2016

Aug. 15, 2016

Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is a great pleasure to announce the release of Agile Visualization. Agile Visualization is a book about the Roassal Visualization engine. Paperback, eBook (PDF), and a free HTML format chapters are available from http://AgileVisualization.com The book has 235 pages and covers the essential aspects of Roassal. Copies of the book will be sold at ESUG’16. Screenshots and codes contained in the book were produced on Pharo. However, most of the covered code and topics _equally_run on VisualWorks (from version 7.4 (!)). We would like to thank all the contributors and users of Roassal who have deeply impacted and shaped Agile Visualization. The book is dedicated to the Smalltalk community at large. Big big thanks to our sponsors, Lam Research, Object Profile, and ESUG. And thanks to you for being as you are and making Smalltalk such a great platform. Thanks Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Marquette Camp Smalltalk September 15-18th
by Andres Valloud Aug. 10, 2016

Aug. 10, 2016

Hi! Your Camp Smalltalk crew has been at it for a while, and we are very happy to announce a Camp Smalltalk at Marquette, Michigan, on September 15-18th. The event's website is at http://mqt.st. We are generously hosted by Northern Michigan University (http://www.nmu.edu) where John Sarkela teaches Smalltalk courses. Of course, NMU is also home to the Modtalk project, https://www.modtalk.org. You can help us provide a better experience for everyone by registering here: https://www.picatic.com/event14606861846650. Don't miss the date!

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by cdrick Aug. 9, 2016

Aug. 9, 2016

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Final CFP: DSLDI'16 at SPLASH
by Tijs van der Storm Aug. 9, 2016

Aug. 9, 2016

********************************************************************* FINAL CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS DSLDI 2016 Fourth Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation October 31, 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands Co-located with SPLASH http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsldi2016 https://twitter.com/wsdsldi ********************************************************************* Deadline for talk proposals: August 15, 2016 (extended!) *** Workshop Goal *** Well-designed and implemented domain-specific languages (DSLs) can achieve both usability and performance benefits over general-purpose programming languages. By raising the level of abstraction and exploiting domain knowledge, DSLs can make programming more accessible, increase programmer productivity, and support domain-specific optimizations. The goal of the DSLDI workshop is 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. An additional goal of this year's workshop is to encourage discussion about the usability of DSLs, and to establish connections with researchers in related areas, such as end-user software engineering, who have studied human factors of programming languages and tools. *** Workshop Format *** DSLDI is a single-day workshop and will consist of moderated audience discussions structured around a series of talks. The role of the talks is to facilitate interesting and substantive discussion. Therefore, we welcome and encourage talks that express strong opinions, describe open problems, propose new research directions, and report on early research in progress. Proposed talks should be on topics within DSLDI's area of interest, which include but are not limited to: * solicitation and representation of domain knowledge * DSL design principles and processes * DSL implementation techniques and language workbenches * domain-specific optimizations * human factors of DSLs * tool support for DSL users * community and educational support for DSL users * applications of DSLs to existing and emerging domains * studies of usability, performance, or other benefits of DSLs * experience reports of DSLs deployed in practice *** Call for Submissions *** We solicit talk proposals in the form of short abstracts (max. 2 pages). A good talk proposal describes an interesting position, open problem, demonstration, or early achievement. The submissions will be reviewed on relevance and clarity, and used to plan the mostly interactive sessions of the workshop day. Publication of accepted abstracts and slides on the website is voluntary. * Deadline for talk proposals: August 15, 2016 * Notification: September 5, 2016 * Workshop: October 31, 2016 * Submission website: https://dsldi16.hotcrp.com/ *** Workshop Organization *** Organizers: * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Program committee: * Iman Avazpour (Deakin University) * Christopher Bogart (Carnegie Mellon University) * Andy Gill (University of Kansas) * Sylvia Grewe (TU Darmstadt) * Kate Howland (University of Sussex) * Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs) * Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University) * Ralf Lämmel (University of Koblenz-Landau) * Tanja Mayerhofer (Vienna University of Technology) * Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) * Sarah Mount (King's College London) * Justin Pombrio (Brown University) * Tillmann Rendel (University of Tübingen) * Tiark Rompf (Purdue & Oracle Labs) * Sonja Schimmler (Bundeswehr University Munich) * Markus Völter (itemis) * Peng Wu (Huawei America Lab)

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SPLASH'16 Final CFP: Workshops, SPLASH-E, SRC, PLMW
by Tijs van der Storm Aug. 1, 2016

Aug. 1, 2016

################################################# 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/ Keynotes: Benjamin Pierce and Andy Ko Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Combined Call for Contributions to Collocated Events: - SPLASH-E, Student Research Competition, Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop - Workshops: AGERE, DSLDI, DSM, FOSD, ITSLE, LWC@SLE, META, MOBILE!, NOOL, PLATEAU, Parsing@SLE, REBLS, 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 Tracks =========================== ## 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 ## 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 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 8 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) Paper submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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 15 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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 15 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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 8 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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 15 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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: Mon 8 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) Paper submission: Mon 15 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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 15 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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: Thu 11 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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: Thu 11 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rebls2016 ## 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 15 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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 8 Aug 2016 (EXTENDED) 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 - Itemis (Bronze): https://www.itemis.com/en/ Want to support SPLASH'16? See our options here: http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/support-program.

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