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Language Workbench Challenge 2016: Call for Solutions
by Tijs van der Storm June 1, 2016

June 1, 2016

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

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Hello ESUG!
by Antony Blakey May 22, 2016

May 22, 2016

Hi All, I hope it's OK to post 'available for work' notices here. Apologies in advance if I have crossed the line. I have recently left Cincom, where I designed and developed the UISkinning system that has greatly improved the UI of VisualWorks. I also worked on UILayout, which is not yet used in the product. Most recently I have been contracted to look at porting VisualWorks to iOS and Android/Blackberry (in short - it's entirely doable). I have in the past worked in both Pharo and Dolphin. I am currently looking for employment, and would love to travel. In particular, my family has been wanting to move to Europe for several years now, primarily for cultural reasons, but we are open to virtually anywhere. I am also prepared to move alone for shorter term engagements. I have a lot of experience outside of Smalltalk, which I have found is of interest to many employers when coupled with my Smalltalk background. For example: I owned a venture-capital-funded web development company with 30 employees, so I have extensive front- and back-end web experience, in addition to considerable functional programming experience in a variety of languages. As far as local language is concerned, I have rudimentary spoken and written German. I believe I could become functionally fluent after three months of immersion in just about any language - I have a background in linguistics, specifically computational morpho-tactics and second-language acquisition, and I am keen to put my so-far-academic knowledge to the test! In particular I have studied Germanic (German and Dutch), Scandinavian (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic), French, Spanish, Finnish, Indonesian/Malay, Arabic, and Korean, as well as the somewhat less practical Esperanto, Latin and Sanskrit :) Obviously the work permit is an issue, which limits my opportunities to those companies wanting someone with my particular expertise. I have spoken to a number of non-Smalltalk companies in Berlin who assured me that the visa wasn't an issue for someone with my expertise and seniority. So I am hopeful, although I understand it varies from country to country, regardless of any Schengen considerations. I want to be useful to an employer, where I can contribute something of value. I have attached my current CV. Regards, Antony Blakey -------------------------- Ph: +61 438 840 787 To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all. -- Elie Wiesel

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DSLDI'16: Call for Talk Proposals
by Tijs van der Storm May 20, 2016

May 20, 2016

********************************************************************* 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 1, 2016 *** 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 1, 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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URGENT: Smalltalker in The Netherlands
by Rob Vens May 20, 2016

May 20, 2016

Hi all, If you are a Smalltalker, preferably also skilled in Java or other languages this might be interesting for you. UML, web services are nice if they are in your skill set as well. Basic mastery of Dutch is nice, English is mandatory, this is for a project at least till the end of this year in Amsterdam. Get in touch with me if you are interested, but since they are in a hurry: please ASAP. Thanks, Rob Vens ROB VENS: Enterprise Architect at reflektis <https://www.reflektis.com/> t: +31 595 74 19 90 <tel:+31595741990> m: +31 6 11 64 65 67 <tel:+31611646567> e: rob.vens(a)reflektis.com <mailto:rob.vens@reflektis.com> <https://www.twitter.com/reflektis> <https://nl.linkedin.com/in/robvens> Torenstraat 12-14 9988 SP Usquert The Netherlands

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SPLASH'16: 1st Call for Contributions to Collocated Events
by Tijs van der Storm May 18, 2016

May 18, 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/ Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Combined Call for Contributions to SPLASH tracks, collocated conferences, symposia and workshops: - SPLASH-I, Doctoral Symposium, Student Research Competition, Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, Posters - Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) - Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) - Software Language Engineering (SLE) - Scala Symposium - Workshops: AGERE, DSLDI, DSM, FOSD, ITSLE, LWC@SLE, META, MOBILE!, NOOL, PLATEAU, Parsing@SLE, REBLS, RUMPLE, SA-MDE, SEPS, VMIL, WODA The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, systems, and software engineering. SPLASH'16 hosts a record number collocated tracks and events, from associated conferences (GPCE, SLE) and symposia (DLS, Scala), to 16 workshops! Please see below about important dates. We look forward to your submissions! SPLASH'16 Additional Tracks =========================== ## SPLASH-I: Innovation, Interaction, Insight, Industry, Invited SPLASH-I is the track of SPLASH dedicated to great talks on exciting topics! SPLASH-I will run in parallel with all of SPLASH (during the week days), and is open to all attendees. SPLASH-I will host both invited talks and selected talks submitted via this call for proposals. SPLASH-I solicits inspiring talks, tutorials and demonstrations on exciting topics related to programming and programming systems, delivered by excellent speakers from academia or industry. Deadlines: 1st of June, 1st of August (if there are still available slots). Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-i ## Doctoral Symposium The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The Symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. Submission deadline: Thu 30 Jun 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-ds ## Student Research Competition Continuing the successes of previous years, SPLASH is again hosting an ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC). The competition is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world and to share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session’s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners, providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Additionally, the Student Research Competition gives students experience with both formal presentations and evaluations. Submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-src ## PLMW: Programming Language Mentoring Workshop The purpose of Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) is to give promising students who consider pursuing a graduate degree in this field an overview of what research in this field looks like and how to get into and succeed in graduate school. In other words, a combination whirlwind tour of this research area, networking opportunity, and how-to-succeed guide. The program of PLMW will include talks by prominent researchers of the field of programming languages and software engineering providing an insight in their research. To learn more about PLMW, please see the SIGPLAN PLMW web page (http://www.sigplan.org/Conferences/PLMW/) Application deadline: Sun 14 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-plmw ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submission deadline: Fri 8 Jul 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-posters Collocated Conferences and Symposia =================================== ## DLS: Dynamic Languages Symposium The 12th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2016 invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Paper submission deadline: Fri 10 Jun 2016 Website: http://conf.researchr.org/track/dls-2016/dls-2016-papers ## GPCE: Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences Generative and component approaches and domain-specific abstractions are revolutionizing software development just as automation and componentization revolutionized manufacturing. Raising the level of abstraction in software specification has been a fundamental goal of the computing community for several decades. Key technologies for automating program development and lifting the abstraction level closer to the problem domain are Generative Programming for program synthesis, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) for compact problem-oriented programming notations, and corresponding Implementation Technologies aiming at modularity, correctness, reuse, and evolution. As the field matures Applications and Empirical Results are of increasing importance. The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. Abstract submission deadline: Fri 17 Jun 2016 Paper submission deadline: Fri 24 Jun 2016 Website: http://www.gpce.org Call for papers (pdf): http://conf.researchr.org/getImage/gpce-2016/orig/GPCE16+-+Call+for+Papers.… Twitter: https://twitter.com/gpceconf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference/ ## Scala Symposium The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala programming language community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics in many formats, going from student talks all the way to full 10-page research papers, indexed by the ACM Digital Library. Abstract submission deadline: Sun 17 Jul 2016 Paper submission deadline: Mon 25 Jul 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/scala-2016 ## SLE: Software Language Engineering Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term “software language” is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). SLE aims to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. Abstract submission deadline: Fri 17 Jun 2016 Paper submission deadline: Fri 24 Jun 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/sle-2016-papers Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SLEconference/ Workshops ========= SPLASH'16 will host a record number of 16 workshops: ## AGERE! Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control The AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and – more generally – high-level programming paradigms promoting a mindset of decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. Abstract submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Paper submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/agere2016 ## DSLDI: Domain-specific Language Design and Implementation Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. Submission deadline talk proposals: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsldi2016 ## DSM: Domain-Specific Modeling Domain-specific languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems development faster and easier. When accompanied with suitable automated modeling tools and generators it delivers to the promises of continuous delivery and devops. In domain-specific modeling (DSM) the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive them- selves as working directly with domain concepts. Together with frameworks and platforms, DSM can automate a large portion of software production. Submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsm2016 ## FOSD: Feature-oriented Software Development Feature orientation is an emerging paradigm of software development. It supports the automatic generation of large-scale software systems from a set of units of functionality, called features. The key idea of feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is to explicitly represent similarities and differences of a family of software systems for a given application domain (e.g., database systems, banking software, text processing systems) with the goal of reusing software artifacts among the family members. Submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://www.fosd.net/workshop2016 Call for papers: http://conf.researchr.org/getImage/FOSD-2016/orig/FOSD+2016+-+CFP.pdf ## ITSLE: Industry Track Software Language Engineering Industry Track for Software Language Engineering (ITSLE) is a workshop to bring together practitioners and researchers from industry and academia working on the area of software language engineering. Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) techniques are being developed and used broadly in industry. However, as the size and complexity of software systems steadily increase, so does the cost of maintaining and improving the DSL and MDSE techniques and tools. It introduces new challenges such as language co-evolution, maintainability of legacy software using older version of DSLs and MDSE techniques, and extendability and scalability of these techniques. Some of these challenges have been addressed by the SLE research community and some remain unsolved. Submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/itsle2016 ## LWC@SLE: Language Workbench Challenge Language workbenches are tools for software language engineering. They distinguish themselves from traditional compiler tools by providing integrated development environment (IDE) support for defining, implementing, testing and maintaining languages. Not only that, languages built with a language workbench are supported by IDE features as well (e.g., syntax highlighting, outlining, reference resolving, completion etc.). As a result, language workbenches achieve a next level in terms of productivity and interactive editor support for building languages, in comparison to traditional batch-oriented, compiler construction tools. The goal of this workshop is twofold. First: exercise and assess the state-of-the-art in language workbenches using challenge problems from the user perspective (i.e. the language designer). Second: foster knowledge exchange and opportunities for collaboration between language workbench implementors and researchers. Submission deadline of solutions: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/lwc2016 ## META The Meta’16 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions such as contracts, or software tools. With the changing hardware and software landscape, and increased heterogeneity of systems, metaprogramming becomes an important research topic to handle the associate complexity once more. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as empirical studies on and typing for such systems and languages. Abstract submission: Wed 27 Jul 2016 Paper submission: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/meta2016 ## Mobile! Mobile application use and development is experiencing enormous growth, and by 2016 more than 200 billion apps have been downloaded. The mobile domain presents new challenges to software engineering. Mobile platforms are rapidly changing, with diverse capabilities including various input modes, wireless communication types, on-device memory and disk capacities, and sensors. Applications function on wide ranges of platforms, requiring scaling according to hardware. Many applications interact with third-party services, requiring application development with effective security and authorization processes for those dataflows. “Bring your own device” policies pose security challenges including employer and employee data privacy. Developing secure mobile applications requires new tools and practices such as improved refactoring tools for hybrid applications; polyglot applications; and testing techniques for multiple devices. This workshop aims to establish a community of researchers and practitioners, leading to further research in mobile development. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/mobile2016 ## NOOL: New Object-Oriented Languages NOOL-16 is a new unsponsored workshop to bring together users and implementors of new(ish) object oriented systems. Through presentations, and panel discussions, as well as demonstrations, and video and audiotapes, NOOL-16 will provide a forum for sharing experience and knowledge among experts and novices alike. We invite technical papers, case studies, and surveys in the following areas, related to theory of object oriented programming, new languages, implementation of languages, tools and environment, applications and related work. Abstract submission deadline: Thu 1 Sep 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/nool2016 ## PLATEAU: Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/plateau2016 ## Parsing@SLE Parsing@SLE 2016 is the fourth annual workshop on parsing programming languages. The intended participants are the authors of parser generation tools and parsers for programming languages and other software languages. For the purpose of this workshop “parsing” is a computation that takes a sequence of characters as input and produces a syntax tree or graph as output. This possibly includes tokenization using regular expressions, deriving trees using context-free grammars, and mapping to abstract syntax trees. The goal is to bring together today’s experts in the field of parsing, in order to explore open questions and possibly forge new collaborations. The topics may include algorithms, implementation and generation techniques, syntax and semantics of meta formalisms (BNF), etc. We expect to attract participants that have been or are developing theory, techniques and tools in the broad area of parsing. Abstract submission deadline: Fri 9 Sep 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/parsing2016 ## REBLS: Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design — so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) — have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rebls2016 ## RUMPLE: ReUsable and Modular Programming Language Ecosystems The RUMPLE’16 workshop is a venue for discussing a wide range of topics related to modular approaches to programming language implementation, extensible virtual machine architectures, as well as reusable runtime components such as dynamic compilers, interpreters, or garbage collectors. One of the main goals of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners and facilitate effective sharing of their respective experiences and ideas. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Extended abstract submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rumple2016 ## SA-MDE: Tutorial on MDD with Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster With the model-driven development (MDD) approach to software, rather than building each system from scratch, one specifies a metamodel covering a whole class of similar systems, provides a universal generator to transform metamodel instances into executable programs, and specifies each system by a higher-level model conforming to the metamodel. When the application domain concerns semantically rich datasets—with structured entities, interlinked data, and sophisticated integrity constraints—then the MDD tools should support this richness: in the metamodel, in individual system models, and in the generation process. In this tutorial, we present the Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster, tools respectively for curating and exploiting semantically rich data in a MDD workflow, which are under development as part of ALIGNED. Participants will learn what the tools can do, gain hands-on experience with using them, and be able to contribute challenges and suggestions for future development. Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/samde2016 ## SEPS: Software Engineering for Parallel Systems This workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners dealing with compelling challenges of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms. The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires more insight into development processes, and necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and re-engineering sequential legacy applications. We aim to advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/seps2016 ## VMIL: Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages The VMIL workshop is a forum for research in virtual machines and intermediate languages. It is dedicated to identifying programming mechanisms and constructs that are currently realized as code transformations or implemented in libraries but should rather be supported at VM level. Candidates for such mechanisms and constructs include modularity mechanisms (aspects, context-dependent layers), concurrency (threads and locking, actors, capsules, processes, software transactional memory), transactions, development tools (profilers, runtime verification), etc. Topics of interest include the investigation of which such mechanisms are worthwhile candidates for integration with the run-time environment, how said mechanisms can be elegantly (and reusably) expressed at the intermediate language level (e.g., in bytecode), how their implementations can be optimized, and how virtual machine architectures might be shaped to facilitate such implementation efforts. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/vmil2016 ## WODA: Workshop on Dynamic Analysis The International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA) is the place where researchers interested in dynamic analysis and related topics can meet and discuss current research, issues, and trends in the field. WODA exists since 2003 and has been co-located with several different SE/PL conferences in the past, including ICSE, ISSTA, ASPLOS, and SPLASH. See https://sites.google.com/site/scwoda/ for the history of WODA. The 2016 edition of WODA will be a mix of invited talks by high-visibility researchers in the community and presentations of submitted workshop papers. Submission deadline: Fri 19 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/woda2016

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CFP VISSOFT NIER Tool track
by Anne Etien May 17, 2016

May 17, 2016

Call for Papers Software visualization is a broad research area encompassing concepts, methods, tools, and techniques that assist in a range of software engineering and software development activities. Covered aspects include the development and evaluation of approaches for visually analyzing software and software systems, including their structure, execution behavior, and evolution. The VISSOFT IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization continues the history of the ACM SOFTVIS Symposium on Software Visualization and the IEEE VISSOFT International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis. The conference focuses on visualization techniques that target aspects of software maintenance and evolution, program comprehension, reverse engineering, and reengineering, i.e., how visualization helps professionals to understand, analyze, test and evolve software. We aim to gather tool developers, experts, users, and researchers from software engineering, information visualization, computer education, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction to discuss theoretical foundations, algorithms, techniques, tools, and applications related to software visualization. We seek technical papers, empirical studies, applications, or case studies and provide a platform for presenting novel research ideas and tools. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Innovative visualization and visual analytics techniques for software engineering data, such as, • source code • static and dynamic dependencies • software evolution and repositories • software documentation • web services • protocol, log, and performance data • configuration management, DevOps, production systems • parallel techniques • database schemes • software security and privacy issues • workflow and business processes • Visualization to support program comprehension, software testing, and debugging • Interaction techniques and algorithms for software visualization • Visualization-based techniques in computer science and software engineering education • Integration of software visualization tools and development environments • Empirical evaluation of software visualization • Industrial experience on using software visualization • Task-specific visualization support for software engineering tasks Papers are solicited that present original, unpublished research results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program committee. In addition to technical papers, VISSOFT features a New Ideas or Emerging Results (NIER) track and a Tool track related to the same list of topics suggested above. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library. NIER papers and Tool Demo papers (up to 5 pages): We accept two types of paper submissions: NIER contributions (New Ideas and Emerging Results) and Tool contributions. The NIER contributions describe work-in-progress and preliminary exciting results. Authors should include open questions and even provocative hypotheses to get early feedback on their research ideas or even support through new research collaborations. NIER papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography and annexes). Tool contributions describe the design or actual utilization of software visualization tools, with a focus on relevant tool construction aspects or the use of the tool for gaining new insights. Authors should be prepared to demonstrate their tool at the conference. The submission may also contain a link to a screencast (video). Tools papers have to be maximum 5 pages long (including bibliography and annexes). Important Dates: Paper submission date: June 20, 2016 Notification: July 29, 2016 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vissoft2016niertool Submission Format: Submissions must be formatted according to the ICSME 2016 Formatting Instructions.

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[ANN] Pharo 5.0 released!
by Esteban Lorenzano May 13, 2016

May 13, 2016

Hi, Please spread widely, and sorry for multiple posts. (this post can be see here: http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released <http://pharo.org/news/pharo-5.0-released>) Dear World, The time has come for Pharo 5.0! This is our most significant release yet. Here are some highlights: - The PharoVM is now based on Spur, the new memory management, and it brings with it a 35% speedup! - A new unified foreign function interface (UFFI) replaced NativeBoost to provide a strong Spur-compatible framework for interfacing with the outside world. - The Glamorous Toolkit now includes the GTDebugger to offer a moldable infrastructure that allows the developer to customize the debugger deeply. - The underlying Reflectivity mechanism has reached maturity with multiple pieces coming together to empower developers to instrument their own systems. For example, we now have breakpoints implemented as just a simple extension of this mechanism. - QualityAssistant is now part of the image to provide live feedback during development. These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as important. We have closed 2446 issues in Pharo 5. Take a moment to go through a more detailed recount of the progress: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo50Change… <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo50Change…>. While the technical improvements are significant, just think of getting 30% faster out-of-the-box, still the most impressive fact is that the new code that got in the main Pharo 5.0 image was contributed by 100 people. Together we have touched 43% of the classes, and 20% of the methods. The following visualization rendered with Roassal in Pharo 5.0 is dedicated to this effort. The picture shows the touched classes and packages in gray, the authors and the links to the changed classes in red, and, using an automatically generated visual id, you can spot authors that have worked on similar projects. Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving energetic people. We thank all the contributors of this release: Abdelghani Alidra, Clara Allende, David Allouche, Nicolas Anquetil, Thibault Arloing, Jean Baptiste Arnaud, Mangesh Bendre, Clement Bera, Alexandre Bergel, Torsten Bergmann, Usman Bhatti, Vincent Blondeau, Johan Brichau, Camillo Bruni, Miguel Campusano, Damien Cassou, Nicolas Cellier, Danny Chan, Andrei Chis, Christopher Coat, Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Paul De Bruicker, Sean De Nigris, Christophe Demarey, Simon Denier, Marcus Denker, Martin Dias, John Dougan, Stephane Ducasse, Stephan Eggermont, Johan Fabry, Sergio Fedi, Cyril Ferlicot, Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Joshua Gargus, Tudor Girba, Thierry Goubier, Kris Gybels, Norbert Hartl, Thomas Heniart, Dale Henrichs, Nicolai Hess, Alejandro Infante, Henrik Johansen, Goran Krampe, Pavel Krivanek, Juraj Kubelka, Denis Kudriashov, Matthieu Lacaton, Laurent Laffont, Kevin Lanvin, Jannik Laval, Alexander Lazarević, Skip Lentz, Max Leske, Dave Lewis, Esteban Lorenzano, Sheridan Mahoney, Mariano Martinez Peck, Max Mattone, John McIntosh, Rene Meusel, Eliot Miranda, Henrik Nergaard, Marion Noirbent, Merwan Ouddane, Nick Papoulias, Nicolas Passerini, Alain Plantec, Guillermo Polito, Damien Pollet, Baptiste Quide, Andreas Raab (RIP), Alain Rastoul, Stefan Reichhart, Lukas Renggli, Mark Rizun, Michael Rueger, Valentin Ryckewaert, Ronie Salgado, Udo Schneider, Boris Spasojevic, Igor Stasenko, Roger Stebler, Serge Stinckwich, Aliaksei Syrel, Camille Teruel, Pablo Tesone, Yuriy Tymchuk, Peter Uhnak, Masashi Umezawa, Dion Stewart, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Jan Van De Sandt, Benjamin Van Ryseghem, Toon Verwaest, Franck Warlouzet. (If you contributed with Pharo 5.0 development in any way and we missed your name, please send us a mail and we will add you). Enjoy! The Pharo Team

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A note of appreciation
by Graham McLeod May 12, 2016

May 12, 2016

On seeing the release of Pharo 5 announcement. Just to say that it has been highly anticipated, the innovations look great and we really appreciate the work of all the contributors. ;) Graham

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SPLASH-I 2016: Call for Talk Proposals!
by Tijs van der Storm May 11, 2016

May 11, 2016

# SPLASH-I: Innovation, Interaction, Insight, Industry, Invited The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2016 will take place from Sunday, October 30 to Friday, November 4, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. SPLASH-I is the track of SPLASH dedicated to great talks on exciting topics! SPLASH-I will run in parallel with all of SPLASH (during the week days), and is open to all attendees. SPLASH-I will host both invited talks and selected talks submitted via this call for proposals. SPLASH-I solicits inspiring talks, tutorials and demonstrations on exciting topics related to programming and programming systems, delivered by excellent speakers from academia or industry. SPLASH-I caters for three categories of presentations: - Regular talks on programming languages, systems or concepts; - Tutorials aimed at introducing particular tools, systems, or languages - Demonstrations showing off cool programming technology. All slots in SPLASH-I are 45 minutes. Please submit proposals here: http://goo.gl/forms/FZqQwpd73G Have a suggestion for a great speaker and topic? Suggest it here: http://goo.gl/forms/MWzgStWkww SPLASH-I maintains two deadlines: 1st of June, and, if there are still slots available, 1st of August. Websites: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-i Organization: Eelco Visser (TU Delft), Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Committee: - Matthias Hauswirth (University of Lugano) - Igor Peshansky (Google) - Tiark Rompf (Purdue & Oracle Labs) - Jurgen Vinju (CWI)

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SPLASH 2016: Call for Sponsorships
by Tijs van der Storm May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2016 will take place from Sunday, October 30 to Friday, November 4, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Web version of this call for sponsorships: http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/support-program SPLASH is where the best of the best in software innovation, programming and programming languages convene, learn from and inspire each other, and share their passion for software. Supporting SPLASH is an opportunity to put your corporate name in front of this community — a superb investment for your organization. # Sponsorship Packages ## Diamond: $US 15 000 Benefits: - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Diamond supporter on registration brochures and conference program - Two company-provided items placed in the conference tote bag - Official exclusive support for your choice of (subject to availability): Doctoral Symposium, Poster Session, Keynotes, or support for 8 Student Volunteers named for your organization - Attendance (for two) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Choice of: two Full conference registrations; or two complimentary main conference registrations plus two complimentary one-day pass registrations ## Gold: $US 10 000 Benefits: - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Gold supporter on registration brochures and conference program - Two company-provided items placed in the conference tote bag - Official support for your choice of (subject to availability): Doctoral Symposium, Poster Session, Keynotes, or support for 6 Student Volunteers named for your organization - Attendance (for two) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Choice of: one Full conference registration plus one complimentary main conference registration; or two complimentary main conference registrations plus one complimentary one-day pass registration ## Silver: $US 5000 Benefits: - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Silver supporter on registration brochures and conference program - One company-provided item placed in the conference tote bag - Official support for your choice of: four Student Volunteers named for your organization; or the Keynotes (non-exclusive support) - Attendance (for two) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Your choice of: one Full conference registration; or one complimentary main conference registration plus one complimentary one-day pass registration; or three complimentary one-day pass registrations ## Bronze $US 3000 - Recognition as a supporter in print and on the web. Recognized as a Bronze supporter on registration brochures and conference program - One company-provided one-page insert placed in conference tote bag - Official support for two Student Volunteers named for your organization - Attendance (for one) at an invitation-only reception by the SPLASH General Chair - Your choice of: one complimentary main conference registration; or two complimentary one-day pass registrations # Why sponsor SPLASH? SPLASH values innovation, collaboration, and diversity. For many software researchers, academics, students, educators, and practitioners, SPLASH is the most important conference of the year. It is a place to: - improve skills and productivity, independent of any particular product or vendor; - gain a global perspective connecting with world experts; and - discover and explore new trends and innovations in leading edge research and practice. Becoming a SPLASH corporate supporter demonstrates your leadership and commitment to the community. It is an opportunity to: - carry your message to community leaders; - associate your brand with world-class research and development; - position your company as a leader in the field; and - prepare for the future. Your corporate name and logo will be in front of the entire community throughout the conference. For the same contribution you also receive either complimentary or discounted SPLASH registrations for use by your organization. You will also have the opportunity to participate in invitation-only events that will provide you with direct, one-on-one interactions with some key members of the SPLASH community. Thank you for your time! Please do not hesitate to contact us at support(a)splashcon.org. We look forward to helping you make the most of your investment in SPLASH. Jurgen Vinju SPLASH 2016 Sponsorship Chair Eelco Visser SPLASH 2016 General Chair

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