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[NGPS at SAC 2019] extended submission deadline Sept 24
by Nick Papoylias Sept. 4, 2018

Sept. 4, 2018

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Generation Programming Paradigms and Systems (NGPS 2019) Track of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing Limassol, Cyprus https://ngps2019.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES *Sept 24, 2018 (extended)* Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts *Nov 24, 2018 (extended)* Notification of paper acceptance/rejection *Nov 24, 2018 (extended)* Notification of SRC acceptance/rejection *Dec 10, 2018 (extended)* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC Dec 10, 2018 Author registration due date April 8-12, 2019 ACM SAC Conference AIMS AND TOPICS The complexity of modern software systems is continuously growing together with the communication capabilities and computational power of pervasive technology, embodied by a wide range of interacting heterogeneous smart devices. This new scenario is posing serious challenges to software development, which hardly keeps pace with this technological evolution. Sophisticated frameworks exposed through application programming interfaces, or directly integrated with mainstream programming languages provide partial solutions to support big data streaming and complex analytic; dynamic, autonomous, and collective coordination and adaptation capabilities; emergent behavior in cooperating systems; Internet of Things (IoT) systems development and maintenance; and employment of cloud platforms and parallel architectures, in particular heterogeneous ones. This calls for new abstractions, features, middlewares and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of designing and developing the next generation software systems, improving performance, and ensuring reliability and security. To this aim, NGPS is seeking to advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice of computational models and paradigms, formal techniques and software methods for easing software development and verification, and improving efficiency of complex modern systems. The specific topics of interest for the NGPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: - Integration of computational paradigms - Runtime verification and monitoring - Platforms for the Cloud - IoT systems - Secure and dependable software - Formal models and verification - Testing and debugging - System evaluation - Design, implementation and optimization of high-level programming languages - Middleware platforms - Scenarios, case studies and experience reports on innovative applications - High-level parallel programming - Distributed systems and concurrency - Development tools - Coordination models, specification, and technologies - Multi-agent systems, mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Models, frameworks and tools for Collective Adaptive Systems - Internet, Web, and pervasive computing systems - Self-organizing, self-adaptive, context-aware and nature-inspired systems - Security, trust and privacy management SUBMISSIONS 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 2019 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 2019 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 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages at additional fee of US$80 per page. Papers accepted as posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. SRC abstracts are limited to 4 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 10, 2018. For more information please visit the SAC 2019 home page. 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. TRACK CO-CHAIRS Davide Ancona, DIBRIS, University of Genova, IT Frederic Loulergue, SICCS, Northern Arizona University, USA Danilo Pianini, DISI, University of Bologna, IT Mirko Viroli, DISI, University of Bologna, IT PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mohamad Al Hajj Hassan, Huawei, DE Victor Allombert, Orléans University, FR Lorenzo Bettini, DISIA, University of Florence, IT Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick, DE João Costa Seco, New University of Lisbon, PT Hélène Coullon, IMT Atlantique, Inria, FR Ferruccio Damiani, DI, University of Torino, IT Simon Dobson, CS, University of St Andrews, UK Kento Emoto, IPL-Lab, Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP Erik Ernst, Google Inc., USA Lukas Esterle, ALICE, Aston University, UK Frédéric Gava, LACL, Université Paris-Est Créteil, FR Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE Khaled Hamidouche AMD Research, USA Geoff Hamilton, School of Computing, Dublin City University, IE Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, University of Potsdam, DE Hideya Iwasaki, The University of Electro-Communications, JP Einar Broch Johnsen, UiO, University of Oslo, NO Jaakko Järvi, II, University of Bergen, NO Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Alberto Lluch Lafuente, DTU COMPUTE, Technical University of Denmark, DK Michele Loreti, DI, University of Camerino, IT Hidehiko Masuhara, PRG, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP Virginia Niculescu, CS, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, RO Tobias Pape, HPI, University of Potsdam, DE Nick Papoulias, University of La Rochelle, UMR LIENSs, CNRS, FR Susanna Pelegatti, University of Pisa, IT António Ravara, DI FCT, New University of Lisbon, PT Barbara Re, SST, University of Camerino, IT Sophie Robert, LIFO, Orléans University, FR Stefan Rudolph, OC, Augsburg University, DE Maurice ter Beek, FMT-ISTI, CNR, IT Martin Wirsing, SoSy-Lab, LMU Munich, DE

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Only 7 days lefts before the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards
by N. Bouraqadi Sept. 3, 2018

Sept. 3, 2018

Hi Everyone, The 15th Edition of the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards will take place in only one week. You have only few days left to submit your projects. Remember: Any project is eligible as long as it involves Smalltalk. All dialects are of course welcome. See you in Sardinia, Noury https://esug.github.io/2018-Conference/awardsCall2018.html

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Smalltalk Security Landscape - survey for ESUG 2018
by Jerry Kott Aug. 30, 2018

Aug. 30, 2018

Dear Smalltalkers and friends, I am planning to have a presentation titled ‘Smalltalk Security Landscape’ at this year’s ESUG conference. In my presentation I hope to increase cybersecurity awareness within the Smalltalk community and help shape the evolution of the language and its ecosystem. I have put together a survey to help me research the topic. I ask for your kind help to get a picture of where Smalltalk stands in the area of cybersecurity. The survey is completely anonymous, and should take less than 15 minutes to complete. I appreciate your time and participation. If you are in a management role, I would like your help by forwarding this to your team members to help reach the broad Smalltalk community. Here is a link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/esug2018 <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/esug2018> Thank you for your help, and hope to see you in Cagliari! Jerry Kott This message has been digitally signed. PGP Fingerprint: A9181736DD2F1B6CC7CF9E51AC8514F48C0979A5

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Submit your Project to the ESUG Awards
by N. Bouraqadi Aug. 21, 2018

Aug. 21, 2018

Hi everyone! This is a reminder to submit your projects to the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards. It will be held on september the 10th as part of the ESUG conference in Sardinia (https://esug.github.io/2018-Conference/conf2018.html) Any Smalltalk-related project is eligible. All you need to do is provide me with few info and give a short demo during the awards session. I hope to hear from you soon, Noury

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Re: [Esug-list] [squeak-dev] Smalltalk Security Landscape - survey for ESUG 2018
by Jerry Kott Aug. 14, 2018

Aug. 14, 2018

Thank you Eliot and Tobias, and everyone else who sent me feedback - either directly or in one of the optional questions. All good suggestions. Regarding the dialect ranking: Originally I had a number of others on the list but surveymonkey suggested that long ranking lists are confusing and furstrating for respondents because it could take a long time to spend on a single question trying to sort the list. I thought that was a sensible ‘smart tip’ and shortened the list to include only the mainstream. My apologies if Squeakers or others feel excluded. I don’t want to change anything on the survey at this time to make the questions consistent. The survey is open until the end of August. I am sure I could have done better, but this was my first survey, and on a fairly broad subject. I hope it was not the last, and that in the future I may have some collaborators to hash out the details. Either way … in its first day the survey got a very good number of responses, and I think it will give me material for several presentations ;) Thank you all who participated. It means a lot. Please spread the word. Jerry Kott This message has been digitally signed. PGP Fingerprint: A9181736DD2F1B6CC7CF9E51AC8514F48C0979A5 > On 14-08-2018, at 9:02 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Jerry, Hi Tobias, > >> On Aug 14, 2018, at 1:53 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux(a)gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Dear Jerry, >> >> I'm cc-ing squeak-dev, as we might as well have a lot of insight for you there. >> >> >>> On 13.08.2018, at 19:49, Jerry Kott <jkott(a)image-ware.com> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Smalltalkers and friends, >>> >>> I am planning to have a presentation titled ‘Smalltalk Security Landscape’ at this year’s ESUG conference. In my presentation I hope to increase cybersecurity awareness within the Smalltalk community and help shape the evolution of the language and its ecosystem. >>> >>> I have put together a survey to help me research the topic. I ask for your kind help to get a picture of where Smalltalk stands in the area of cybersecurity. The survey is completely anonymous, and should take less than 15 minutes to complete. I appreciate your time and participation. >>> >> >> I'd like to make you aware that you missed Squeak altogether in Question 8: >> >> Cincom Smalltalk (VisualWorks or Object Studio) >> Pharo >> GemStone/S >> VA Smalltalk >> Other Smalltalk dialect (e.g., Amber, Dolphin, VST, ...) >> >> Also, it is not possible to specify _what_ other dialect is used, so you miss Cuis, SOM, GNU Smalltalk and all the like. >> >> Please, if possible correct this. > > +1. Also, either the last or next to last question asks the responder to rankle the strengths of various elements of the security of an app from people though web site to application code. It would be nice to have an opt out such as, in my own case, “don’t know enough about the entire system to answer this”. > >> >> Best regards >> -Tobias >> >>> If you are in a management role, I would like your help by forwarding this to your team members to help reach the broad Smalltalk community. >>> >>> Here is a link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/esug2018 >>> >>> Thank you for your help, and hope to see you in Cagliari! >>> >>> Jerry Kott >>> This message has been digitally signed. >>> PGP Fingerprint: >>> A9181736DD2F1B6CC7CF9E51AC8514F48C0979A5 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list >>> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >>> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >> >> >

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CfP: Next Generation Programming Paradigms and Systems (NGPS at SAC 2019)
by Nick Papoylias Aug. 13, 2018

Aug. 13, 2018

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Generation Programming Paradigms and Systems (NGPS 2019) Track of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing Limassol, Cyprus https://ngps2019.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND TOPICS The complexity of modern software systems is continuously growing together with the communication capabilities and computational power of pervasive technology, embodied by a wide range of interacting heterogeneous smart devices. This new scenario is posing serious challenges to software development, which hardly keeps pace with this technological evolution. Sophisticated frameworks exposed through application programming interfaces, or directly integrated with mainstream programming languages provide partial solutions to support big data streaming and complex analytic; dynamic, autonomous, and collective coordination and adaptation capabilities; emergent behavior in cooperating systems; Internet of Things (IoT) systems development and maintenance; and employment of cloud platforms and parallel architectures, in particular heterogeneous ones. This calls for new abstractions, features, middlewares and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of designing and developing the next generation software systems, improving performance, and ensuring reliability and security. To this aim, NGPS is seeking to advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice of computational models and paradigms, formal techniques and software methods for easing software development and verification, and improving efficiency of complex modern systems. The specific topics of interest for the NGPS track include, but are not limited to, the following: - Integration of computational paradigms - Runtime verification and monitoring - Platforms for the Cloud - IoT systems - Secure and dependable software - Formal models and verification - Testing and debugging - System evaluation - Design, implementation and optimization of high-level programming languages - Middleware platforms - Scenarios, case studies and experience reports on innovative applications - High-level parallel programming - Distributed systems and concurrency - Development tools - Coordination models, specification, and technologies - Multi-agent systems, mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - Models, frameworks and tools for Collective Adaptive Systems - Internet, Web, and pervasive computing systems - Self-organizing, self-adaptive, context-aware and nature-inspired systems - Security, trust and privacy management SUBMISSIONS 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 2019 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 2019 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 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages at additional fee of US$80 per page. Papers accepted as posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee of US$80. SRC abstracts are limited to 4 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings. Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 10, 2018. For more information please visit the SAC 2019 home page. 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. DEADLINES Sept 10, 2018 Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts Nov 10, 2018 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection Nov 10, 2018 Notification of SRC acceptance/rejection Nov 25, 2018 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC Dec 10, 2018 Author registration due date April 8-12, 2019 ACM SAC Conference TRACK CO-CHAIRS Davide Ancona, DIBRIS, University of Genova, IT Frederic Loulergue, SICCS, Northern Arizona University, USA Danilo Pianini, DISI, University of Bologna, IT Mirko Viroli, DISI, University of Bologna, IT PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Mohamad Al Hajj Hassan, Huawei, DE Lorenzo Bettini, DISIA, University of Florence, IT Hélène Coullon, IMT Atlantique, Inria, FR Ferruccio Damiani, DI, University of Torino, IT Simon Dobson, CS, University of St Andrews, UK Kento Emoto, IPL-Lab, Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP Erik Ernst, Google Inc., USA Lukas Esterle, ALICE, Aston University, UK Frédéric Gava, LACL, Université Paris-Est Créteil, FR Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, University of Potsdam, DE Jaakko Järvi, II, University of Bergen, NO Einar Broch Johnsen, UiO, University of Oslo, NO Khaled Hamidouche AMD Research, USA Geoff Hamilton, School of Computing, Dublin City University, IE Hideya Iwasaki, The University of Electro-Communications, JP Doug Lea, CS, University of New York at Oswego Michele Loreti, DI, University of Camerino, IT Alberto Lluch Lafuente, DTU COMPUTE, Technical University of Denmark, DK Hidehiko Masuhara, PRG, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP Virginia Niculescu, CS, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, RO Nick Papoulias, University of La Rochelle, UMR LIENSs, CNRS, FR António Ravara, DI FCT, New University of Lisbon, PT Barbara Re, SST, University of Camerino, IT Sophie Robert, LIFO, University of Orléans Stefan Rudolph, OC, Augsburg University, DE Maurice ter Beek, FMT-ISTI, CNR, IT Martin Wirsing, SoSy-Lab, LMU Munich, D

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Sponsoring a student (woman) to attend ESUG
by Stéphane Ducasse July 22, 2018

July 22, 2018

Hi Community I would like to know if some of you are interested to sponsor Agouf Nour Djihan She is a smart student from algeria that followed my advanced lecture last spring. In fact she was one of the best student (she did the exercises alone and came from another university to follow my lectures). She got really excited by Smalltalk. She did my reflective kernel booklet and the Scheme interpreter booklet. ESUG accepted her as student volunteer and we have as a policy not to sponsor trips because we could not support students coming from the rest of the world. Agouf told me that the trip alger-rome rome cagliari is 624 Euros. My team will sponsor her for around 300 Euros and we are looking for another sponsor. Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 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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Full-Time Academic Positions at the University of Chile
by Alexandre Bergel July 18, 2018

July 18, 2018

Dear all, We are hiring. Interested people can contact me directly. We also have postdoc positions. ========================================================================== Full-Time Academic Positions Department of Computer Science University of Chile Closing: Sept. 12, 2018 -= The Positions =- The Department of Computer Science (DCC) is offering two full-time permanent positions to carry out research and teaching, both undergraduate and graduate, starting on March 1, 2019 at the latest. As assistant professors in tenure-track positions, the candidates are expected to develop a strong and competitive research program. -= The Candidates=- Candidates should be pursuing internationally recognized research in one of these research areas: - Artificial intelligence - Software engineering - Security and privacy - Computer Systems Organization and Networks - Applied Computing (Physical Sciences and Engineering, or Life and Medical Sciences) - Human-centered Computing The successful candidates are expected to complement existing strengths of the Department activities. The candidates should hold a Ph.D. degree or be Ph.D. students who will obtain their degrees before starting the appointment. The candidates must have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship within the field of interest. Successful candidates will be expected to: - move to Santiago, Chile (if currently living elsewhere) - establish and lead their own research team - deliver innovative research at the highest international standard - deliver high quality teaching - supervise undergraduate, master and PhD students - obtain competitive research funding from external funding bodies - write and speak English fluently - obtain a good command of Spanish within 1 year of appointment -= The Department of Computer Science (DCC) =- The DCC is the leading Computer Science Department in Chile, and one of the most active in Latin America. It pioneered the use of Unix and the adoption of the Internet in Chile. Today, it has 21 full-time professors, 8 of which came from Argentina, Uruguay, France, and Ireland. They carry out research at the highest level, publishing over 100 articles per year in international conferences and journals. The Department is responsible for teaching Computer Science, with about 200 undergraduates majoring Computer Science, 50 MSc and 40 PhD students. -= Salary =- Salary, paid in Chilean pesos, is about US$48,000 per year, after taxes, health insurance, and pension fund contribution. Further information can be requested to Prof. Jose A. Pino, jpino(a)dcc.uchile.cl <mailto:jpino@dcc.uchile.cl> -=Location =- The DCC is located in Santiago de Chile. Santiago is the capital and largest city in Chile, with a lively cultural scene and delectable cuisine. It is located at the foothills of the Andes, with over 300 days of sun per year, and both ski slopes and the Pacific coast at a 1-hour drive. Santiago is well-connected through direct flights to major hubs in both Europe and the USA. Chile is a country with a lot to offer especially to nature lovers, with over 4,300 km of seashore and mountains, filled with stunning landscapes and national parks stretching from Patagonia to the Atacama desert. ========================================================================== -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Hotels for ESUG 2018
by Giovanni Corriga July 14, 2018

July 14, 2018

Hi, here is a list of hotels within easy reach of the conference venue (either on foot, or by bus/taxi). The same list will appear on the conference website shortly. 4 stars **** Hotel Regina Margherita https://www.hotelreginamargherita.com/en/ Hotel Flora https://www.hotelfloracagliari.it/en/ T Hotel https://www.thotel.it/en/home.html 3 stars *** Hotel Italia https://www.hotelitaliacagliari.com/en Hotel 4 mori https://www.hotel4mori.it/en-gb Hotel Due Colonne http://www.hotel2colonne.it/ 2 stars ** Hotel La Terrazza http://www.laterrazzahotel.com/en/ There are also many bed & breakfasts and short let flats available on sites such as Booking.com or Airbnb Feel free to drop me a line if you need any help. Cheers, Giovanni

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How a short trip to Python-land taught me why Smalltalk is hard
by jtuchel＠objektfabrik.de July 12, 2018

July 12, 2018

I am not actually a Smalltalk newbie, but still find it sometomes hard to get into areas I've never touched before. For some stuff that was related mostly to problems with encoding and decoding between utf-8 and utf-85 on both Windows and Linux and strange differences between these platforms, I thought I'd use something that peopl "out there" use daily. I chose python. I had never written anything in Python before, but it was easy to stipple together a few working programs. It took me just a few hours to find out about Skyper and some important language constructs and stuff. It was a pleasant journey for two reasons: * No need to learn any tools. Just an editor and a command line and you're on yur journey * You find lots of documentation and examples on the web. It feels like VB in the days: type a few keywords into your web browser and copy the sources for a 70% solution of your problem Back when I was young and cared for whether my preferred language was popular or not, I would be depressed by the experience. Remember, I tried Python because things were hard in Smalltalk. So spot the message here... ;-) Joachim

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