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1st Call for Contributions for SPLASH'16: OOPSLA, Onward!, Workshops, DLS, SLE, GPCE

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 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ FIRST COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: OOPSLA Onward! Workshops Doctoral Symposium Posters Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Software Language Engineering (SLE) Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) /************************************************************************************/ # SPLASH 2016 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. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ## OOPSLA Research Papers Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Wed 23 March, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-oopsla ## Onward! Research Papers Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions due: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward-2016-papers ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions due: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward2016-essays ## Workshops The SPLASH Workshops track will host a variety of high-quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. Late Phase Submissions of Workshop Proposals due: Fri 4 Mar, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash2016-workshops ## 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. Submissions due: Thu 30 Jun, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-ds ## 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. Poster submissions due: Fri 8 Jul, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-posters ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages — from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript — on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow. We invite high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Submissions due: Fri 10 June, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dls-2016/dls-2016-papers ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) 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 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Submissions due: Fri 17 June, 2016 (abstracts); Fri 24 June, 2016 (papers) http://2016.splashcon.org/track/sle-2016/sle-2016-papers ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) 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. Submissions due: Fri 17 June, 2016 (abstracts); Fri 24 June, 2016 (papers) http://2016.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2016/gpce-2016-papers ## Information Contact: publicity(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2016.splashcon.org Location: Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands ## Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) Onward! Papers Chair: Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University) Onward! Essays Chair: Crista Lopes (University of California, Irvine) DLS PC Chair: Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio) SLE PC Co-Chairs: Emilie Balland (Sensational AG) and Daniel Varro (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) GPCE PC Chair: Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) SPLASH-E Co-Chair: Matthias Hauswirth (University of Lugano) and Steve Blackburn (Australian National University) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) and Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Michael Hind (IBM Research) and Michael Bond (Ohio State University) Workshops Co-Chairs: Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) and Craig Anslow (Middlesex University, London) Posters Co-Chairs: Sebastian Erdweg (TU Darmstadt) and Jeff Huang (Texas A&M University) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) and Sam Guyer (Tufts University) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Daco Harkes (TU Delft) and Giovanni Viviani (University of British Columbia) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Sponsorship Chair: Jurgen Vinju (Purdue University) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) /************************************************************************************/ -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jan. 19, 2016

Looking for Smalltalkers

by Georg Heeg

A customer of ours is looking for two Smalltalkers starting not later as July 1st, 2016, unlimited work contracts. Please contact me for details Georg Heeg Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812 Baroper Str. 337, 44227 Dortmund, Germany Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-231-97599-20

Jan. 12, 2016

AGIS sucht Smalltalk-Entwickler

by Nowak, Helge

Hallo liebe Smalltalker, ich wünsche Euch beruflich viel Erfolg und persönlich alles Liebe&Gute für das Jahr 2016! Vielleicht gibt das Folgende ja beides: AGIS (http://www.agis.ch/<http://www.agis.ch/www/?L=0>) sucht einen Smalltalk-Entwickler. Wenn Ihr Ihr in der schönen Schweiz in einem netten Team an spannenden Aufgaben arbeiten wollt, wendet Euch einfach an Leo Zgraggen bei der AGIS. Liebe Grüße Helge ************************************************************** Helge Nowak Technical Account Manager Cincom Smalltalk Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Am Kronberger Hang 4 D-65824 Schwalbach/Ts. Tel.: +49-(0)89-89664494 Mobil: +49-(0)172-7400402 Fax: +49-(0)89-89664495 Email: mailto:hnowak@cincom.com Twitter: @nowagil Web: http://www.cincom.com<http://www.cincom.com/> All about Cincom Smalltalk: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com<http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/> A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. -- Albert Einstein Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Gerald L. Shawhan oHG mit Sitz/based in Schwalbach/Ts. (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRA 2653) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) --- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT --- This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be privileged and confidential. It is intended only for the addressee named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited, please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. **************************************************************

Jan. 4, 2016

SPLASH'16: 1st Call for Workshop Proposals

by Tijs van der Storm

/************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) Amsterdam, The Netherlands 30th of October - 4th of November 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Early Deadline: January 15th, 2016 Late Deadline: March 4th, 2016 /************************************************************************************/ # SPLASH'16 Call for Workshop Proposals Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2016 will host a variety of high-quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. # SUBMISSION SUMMARY Early Submissions Due: January 15, 2016 Notification: February 12, 2016 Late Submissions Due: March 4, 2016 Notification: April 1, 2016 Format: ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format Submit to: https://splash16workshops.hotcrp.com/ Chairs: Jan Rellermeyer and Craig Anslow Contact: workshops(a)splashcon.org ** Please note the earlier submission deadline than in previous years. ** ### TOPICS We encourage proposals for workshops on any topic relevant to SPLASH. If there is a topic relevant to SPLASH that you feel passionate about, and you want to connect with others who have similar interests, you should consider submitting a proposal to organize a workshop! The exact format of the workshop can be defined by the proposal submitters, and we more than welcome new, and unconventional ideas for workshop formats. The following suggestions may serve as a starting point: Mini-conferences provide their participants the possibility to present their work to other domain experts. The smaller and more specialized setting of the workshop allows for more extensive Q&A sessions and facilitates ample discussions, which may continue after the workshop. Typically, presentations of work-in-progress as well as of completed projects are welcome. The workshop may or may not produce formal proceedings. Retreats act as a platform for domain experts to gather with the purpose of tackling the issues of a predetermined research agenda. Retreats are highly interactive and goal-oriented, allowing their participants to address open challenges in their domain, to explore new, uncharted ideas, and to (maybe even) uncover new, promising research domains. Agenda-setting workshops provide a forum for domain experts to determine a research agenda for a sub-field, and may include collaborations on an agenda document that is published after the workshop is over. Other common activities at workshops include poster sessions, hands-on practical work, and focus groups. Proposal submitters should feel free to direct questions about workshop formats to the workshop chairs. Workshops that include presentation of research papers, and that implement a SIGPLAN-approved selection process, may be archived as formal proceedings in the ACM Digital Library; note that this option is available only to submitters to the early phase. # WORKSHOP SELECTION ### Reviewing Phases This year, SPLASH provides two submission phases to accommodate different schedules, a early round in January and a late round of proposals in March. Since space is limited at the venue, the PC will consider prospective attendance as one of the selection criteria. ### Proposal Content SPLASH workshop proposals should not exceed 6 pages, and must include the following information: Title and desired abbreviation: if the workshop is accepted, this will be used for advertising purposes. Theme, goals and format: the main topic and goals of the workshop, the workshop's relevance to the SPLASH community, as well as the workshop's format (e.g., mini-conference, retreat, agenda-setting workshop). Abstract: a 150-word abstract that summarizes the theme and goals of the workshop. If the workshop is accepted, this abstract will be used for advertising purposes. Organizers: workshop organizers are responsible for advertising the workshop (e.g., creating the anchoring website for the workshop and sending CFPs to relevant mailing lists), organizing the reviewing process (e.g., by forming a small program committee), running the workshop, and collating any results of the workshop for dissemination. The proposal should indicate the names, affiliations, and contact details of the workshop organizers as well as a primary organizer and contact person (primary organizer and contact person do not need to be the same). For each organizer, the proposal should describe his/her background (expertise in the area and previous experience in running workshops) and also identify his/her responsibilities for the workshop. Anticipated attendance: the ideal, minimum, and maximum expected number of participants. Please note that there will be an additional charge for workshop registration at SPLASH 2015. The SPLASH organizing committee reserves the right to cancel any workshops that do not meet attendance goals. Advertisement: the planned advertisement for the workshop to ensure sufficient participation. Participant preparation: what preparation is expected from workshop participants, including how attendees gain access to the workshop (e.g., submission of a full paper, an extended abstract, a position paper). Activities and format: the format of the workshop and a timetable. All SPLASH 2015 workshops must be planned for one or two full days of activities. For example, the proposal should describe whether there will be introductory material, paper presentations, panel discussions, debates, hands-on sessions, or focus groups, and how such groups will report back to the other participants. Post-workshop activities: what results are expected, and how these will be disseminated to the wider public after the workshop. Workshops that result in peer-reviewed papers and implement an ACM SIGPLAN-approved selection process can submit formal proceedings to the ACM Digital Library. To get the approval, the workshop has to meet the usual requirements defined for ACM SIGPLAN events (i.e., approval of workshop proposal and workshop program committee by ACM SIGPLAN). The approval process is coordinated by the SPLASH organizers. Special requirements: any special requirements you might have, in terms of room configuration, audio and video equipment, etc. ### Format Submissions should use the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format, 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. ### Publication If your workshop chooses to have published proceedings, be aware that accepted papers will be available in the ACM Digital Library as early as September 23, 2016. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. It is therefore vital that this information will be communicated to participants in your workshop. ### Evaluation criteria Workshop proposals will be selected based on the quality of the proposal and according to the space available at SPLASH. The following questions may be helpful in devising a high-quality proposal: Are there at least two organizers and do they represent a reasonably varied cross-section of the community close to the topic? Does the abstract present a compelling case for the importance of the topic area? Are the goals of the workshop expressed clearly? Is the topic likely to be attractive to SPLASH attendees? Does the chosen format encourage a high level of interaction between the participants? Is a workshop the right forum to address the theme and goals or does the proposal fit better into another type of SPLASH event? Workshop chairs For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact workshops(a)splashcon.org -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jan. 2, 2016

ESUG 2015 report from Niall Ross online

by marcus.denker＠inria.fr

Hello, Niall Ross wrote again an extensive report of this years ESUG: It is now archived and online: http://www.esug.org/data/ReportsFromNiallRoss/ESUG2015Report-NiallRoss.pdf Thanks a lot! Marcus

Dec. 23, 2015

Merry Christmas!

by Jean Marshall and Andy Berry

Hope we you all have a very Merry Chrisrnas and a very Happy New Year! Have lots of fun! Kind Regards, Andy --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Dec. 23, 2015

Re: [Esug-list] Does anyone remember details of a "pro-Smalltalk" merger circa 2013?

by Sean P. DeNigris

Richard Sargent wrote > It was Chris Thorgrimsson of Lam Research Ah, yes! We were at Camp Smalltalk in Portland this year. Cool guy, interesting company. ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Does-anyone-remember-details-of-a-pro-Smalltalk-merge… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Dec. 22, 2015

[JOB] Pharo Engineer, IoT

by Marcus Denker

Engineer Position 1 year ========================= INRIA RMoD and the Pharo Consortium are looking for a full-time engineer for helping with developing Pharo. The focus of this job is "Pharo on embedded and mobile devices for the internet of things". - Embedded Pharo on ARM The currently available class of ARM devices (BeagleBone, Raspberry PI) are a very interesting platform for Pharo. The engineer should strengthen the existing efforts to get Pharo working on these platforms. - Pharo on Android Improve the support of Android devices. With Pharo6, we will migrate to a complete new design and implementation of UI, Windowing and graphics. The engineer will work on making these features available on Android devices. - Pharo itself The engineer is expected to be actively involved in helping to improve the infrastructure that the Pharo community used (CI server for continues integration, interplay with issue tracking) and to actively help with day-to-day bug fixing. We are looking for a candidate with some prior experience with Pharo - Knowledge in Dynamic Languages - Experience with mobile development is a plus - English Work in a research lab, but no paper writing, no teaching, no administration. In addition: - centrally located (one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels) - try a lot of good beer (our office is just 10km from the border to Belgium) - Program with Pharo all day! Lille is an active city but not expensive (lot of students...), centrally located with good connections by train to everywhere (including CDG and Brussels airports). Duration: 12 month Starting date: as soon as possible (Spring 2016) Salary: 2600-3200 euros brut / month, depending on experience Location: Lille (no remote job possible) More about Pharo: http://www.pharo.org INRIA RMOD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr Lille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

Dec. 12, 2015

[JOB] Pharo Engineer, Infrastructure

by marcus.denker＠inria.fr

Engineer Position 1 year + 1 year ========================== INRIA RMoD and the Pharo Consortium are looking for a full-time engineer for helping with developing Pharo and the infrastructure around it. The focus of this job is the infrastructure that Pharo provides to external projects as well as the infrastructure we use to develop Pharo itself. - Infrastructure for external projects Pharo is used in many contexts: an ever growing number of frameworks are contributed by the community. Pharo already provides CI infrastructure, but what is missing is the automatic check of collections of frameworks and libraries. We want to provides validated "distributions" focussing on certain tasks, for example Pharo for Web development. - Pharo and Git Pharo has some support for using Git. The goal is to improve the support of git and other versioning systems. - Pharo itself The engineer is expected to be actively involved in helping to improve the infrastructure that the Pharo community uses (CI server for continues integration, interplay with issue tracking) and to actively help with day-to-day bug fixing. We are looking for a candidate with prior experience with Pharo and possibly some background in continuous integration: - Knowledge in Dynamic Languages - Continuous integration and deployment - English Work in a research lab, but no paper writing, no teaching, no administration. In addition: - Centrally located (one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels) - Try a lot of good beer (our office is just 10km from the border to Belgium) - Program with Pharo all day! Lille is an active city but not expensive (lot of students...), centrally located with good connections by train to everywhere (including CDG and Brussels airports). Duration: 12 + 12 months Starting date: Feb or March 2016 Salary: 2600-3200 euros brut / month, depending on experience Location: Lille (no remote job possible) More about Pharo: http://www.pharo.org INRIA RMOD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr Lille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

Dec. 12, 2015

PhD Opening in Refactoring

by Goubier Thierry

Hi all, I have an opening on a PhD subject on refactoring for embedded software (start 10/2016), with a 6 month internship before, at CEA List, in collaboration with INRIA RMOD (Stéphane Ducasse has been very nice to agree to be the thesis co-supervisor). The PhD title is : 'Reuse of embedded sofware code artefacts by Refactoring' and concern itself with the evolution of embedded software when targeting new parallel embedded platforms or evaluation platforms, and how this can be expressed and supported by domain-specific Refactorings. It will take in account how software gets rewritten to target high performance embedded platforms, exposing highly advanced architectures (parallel and very high efficiency) and advanced software optimizations, and how this work should be expressed and supported by adequate refactorings. The internship is about starting the PhD with a sample study of the changes undertaken by embedded software code when it is evaluated and re-architectured/optimized in industrial projects undertaken by the laboratory. Both take place at CEA List, LCE lab, in Saclay (SW of Paris), in a laboratory known for its research in simulation of Systems on Chip (SoC), SoC design, compilation for manycores, and neural networks architectures. CEA is a fair employer for internships and PhD students, with a higher than average salary and significant benefits. Interested candidates should contact me or Stéphane Ducasse, Regards, Thierry -- Thierry Goubier CEA List DACLE/LIST/LCE 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex France Phone/Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 32 92 / 83 95 http://www-list.cea.fr/index.php/en/technological-research/research-program…

Dec. 3, 2015