C A L L F O R P A P E R S
=== P E P M 2006 ===
ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
(Affiliated with POPL 2006)
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/santos/pepm06
January 9-10, 2006
Charleston, South Carolina
The PEPM Symposium/Workshop series aims to bring together researchers
and practitioners working in the areas of program manipulation,
partial evaluation, and program generation. PEPM focuses on
techniques, supporting theory, tools, and applications of the analysis
and manipulation of programs.
The 2006 PEPM workshop will be based on a broad interpretation of
semantics-based program manipulation. This year, a concerted effort
will be made to expand the scope of PEPM significantly beyond the
traditionally covered areas of partial evaluation and specialization
and include practical applications of program transformations such as
refactoring tools, and practical implementation techniques such as
rule-based transformation systems. In addition, the scope of PEPM
will be broadened to cover manipulation and transformations of program
and system representations such as structural and semantic models that
occur in the context of model-driven development. In order to reach
out to practitioners, a separate category of tool demonstration papers
will be solicited.
Topics of interest for PEPM'06 include, but are not limited to:
* Program and model manipulation techniques such as transformations
driven by rules, patterns, or analyses, partial evaluation,
specialization, slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, aspect
weaving, decompilation, and obfuscation.
* Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model
manipulation such as abstract interpretation, static analysis,
binding-time analysis, dynamic analysis, constraint solving, and type
systems.
* Analysis and transformation for programs/models with advanced features
such as objects, generics, ownership types, aspects, reflection, XML
type systems, component frameworks, and middleware.
* Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including
meta-programming, generative programming, model-driven program
generation and transformation.
* Application of the above techniques including experimental studies,
engineering needed for scalability, and benchmarking in a wide variety
of domains including source code manipulation, domain-specific
language implementations, scientific computing, middleware frameworks
and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based applications.
We especially encourage papers that break new ground including
descriptions of how program/model manipulation tools can be integrated
into realistic software development processes, descriptions of robust
tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications, and new
areas of application such as rapidly evolving systems, distributed and
web-based programming including middleware manipulation, model-driven
development, and on-the-fly program adaptation driven by run-time or
statistical analysis.
Submission Categories, Guidelines, and Proceedings:
Regular Research Papers must not exceed 10 pages in ACM Proceedings
style. Tool demonstration papers must not exceed 4 pages in ACM
Proceedings style, and authors will be expected to present a live
demonstration of the described tool at the workshop. Suggested
topics, evaluation criteria, and writing guidelines for both research
tool demonstration papers will be made available on the PEPM'06
Web-site. Papers should be submitted electronically via the workshop
web site. We plan to publish the workshop proceedings in ACM SIGPLAN
Notices (with full papers appearing in the ACM Digital Library) and
selected papers will be invited for a journal special issue dedicated
to PEPM'06.
Important Dates:
Submission........: October 7, 2005 Apia, 11:59pm, Samoan time
(firm deadline, no extensions)
Notification......: November 18, 2005
Camera-Ready Paper: December 16, 2005.
Workshop co-Chairs:
John Hatcliff, Kansas State University, USA (hatcliff(a)cis.ksu.edu)
Frank Tip, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (ftip(a)us.ibm.com)
PEPM 2006 Program Committee:
Krzysztof Czarnecki
University of Waterloo
Gary Daugherty
Rockwell Collins Advanced Technology Center
Tom Dean
Queen's University
Mangala Gowri Nanda
IBM India
John Hatcliff (co-chair)
Kansas State University
Nevin Heintze
Agere Systems
Jaakko Järvi
Texas A & M University
Jens Krinke
University of Hagen
Shriram Krishnamurthi
Brown University
Julia Lawall
University of Copenhagen (DIKU)
Oege de Moor
Oxford University
Germán Puebla
Technical University of Madrid
Peter Sestoft
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (Denmark)
Gregor Snelting
University of Passau
Frank Tip (co-chair)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Eelco Visser
Universiteit Utrecht
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Hi gang,
I am looking for opinions on which program transformation systems may be
considered somewhat mature.
Note that my definition of "mature" is rather loose in this context. I
consider a system to be mature if a proficient developer (late
undergrad, early grad student with a background in the field) can get up
and running and start doing interesting work with it within a day (or
tops two).
Also, I am not dictating which particular tasks the system must be able
to perform. As long as the system can be used for constructing programs
which can perform one or several tasks which reasonably fall under
"program transformation" [1], I'm interested in knowing about it.
Working my way though the list on program-transformation.org, and
checking references (publications, manuals, available downloads) for the
systems, seems to suggest that "reasonably mature" systems might
include ASF+SDF, DMS, Elegant, FermaT, Stratego/XT and TXL, but I'm sure
there are more.
Pointers and opinions are welcome, both on and off list.
-- Karl T
[1] It is beyond the scope of this e-mail to provide a crisp, clear-cut
definition of the term program transformation. I have left out
"pure" compiler construction kits and "pure" editors from my list of
stable systems, and do not want to consider those, even though this
decision is may appear rather arbitrary.
Call for Papers
for
Sixth Workshop on
Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications
LDTA 2006
A satellite event of ETAPS 2006
in Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN
Saturday, April 1, 2006 in Vienna, Austria
http://ldta06.cs.umn.edu
Scope:
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The aim of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers from
academia and industry interested in the field of formal language
definitions and language technologies, with a special emphasis on
tools developed for or with these language definitions. This active
area of research involves the following basic technologies:
- Program analysis, transformation, and generation
- Formal analysis of language properties
- Automatic generation of language processing tools
For example, language definitions can be augmented in a manner so that
not only compilers or interpreters can be automatically generated but
also other tools such as syntax-directed editors, debuggers, partial
evaluators, test generators, documentation generators, etc. Although
various specification formalisms like attribute grammars, action
semantics, operational semantics, and algebraic approaches have been
developed, they are not widely exploited in current practice.
It is the aim of the LDTA workshops to bridge this gap between theory
and practice. Among others, the following application domains can
benefit from advanced language technologies:
- Software component models and modeling languages
- Re-engineering and re-factoring
- Aspect-oriented programming
- Domain-specific languages
- XML processing
- Visualization and graph transformation
- Programming environments such as Eclipse, .net, Rotor, SUN Java, etc.
The workshop welcomes contributions on all aspects of formal language
definitions, with special emphasis on applications and tools developed
for or with these language definitions.
Invited Speaker:
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The invited speaker for LDTA 2006 is Jean Bezivin, Universite de
Nantes.
Important Dates:
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- Submission deadline: December 1, 2005.
- Notification: January 16, 2006
- Final version due: February 15, 2006
- Workshop: April 1, 2006
Submission Procedure and Publication:
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Submission will be open from autumn 2005. Two classes of papers are
solicited: full-length research papers and short tool-demo papers.
Tool-demo papers should contain a brief description of the tool and
include a section that clearly explains what will be demonstrated.
Full-length papers should be at most 15 pages in length and tool-demo
papers should be at most 4 pages in length. Both classes of papers
should be submitted electronically as PostScript or PDF files to both
of the program committee chairs, John Tang Boyland at
Boyland(a)cs.uwm.edu and Tony Sloane at asloane(a)ics.mq.edu.au. The
message should also contain a text-only abstract and contact author
information.
Additional submission details, along with LaTeX style files, are
available on the LDTA 2006 web page: \texttt{ldta06.cs.umn.edu}. The
final versions of accepted papers will be published in Electronic
Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), Elsevier Science, and
will be made available during the workshop.
The authors of the best full-length papers will be invited to write a
journal version of their paper which will be separately reviewed and,
assuming acceptance, be published in journal form. As in past years,
this will be done in a a special issue devoted to LDTA 2006 of the
journal Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier Science).
Program Committee:
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- Uwe Assmann, Dresden Technical University, Germany
- John Tang Boyland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
(co-chair), Boylan(a)cs.uwm.edu
- Jim Cordy, Queen's University, Canada
- Jan Heering, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The
Netherlands
- Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria, Canada
- Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- Steven Klusener, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
- David Lacey, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- Brian Malloy, Clemson University, USA
- Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Michael Schwartzbach, BRICS, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia (co-chair),
asloane(a)ics.mq.edu.au
- Yannis Smaragdakis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- David Watt, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- David Wile, Teknowledge Corp, USA
Organizing Committee:
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- Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA,
evw(a)cs.umn.edu
- Joost Visser, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal,
Joost.Visser(a)di.uminho.pt