PEPM 2006: Call for Papers -- ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
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@cis.ksu.edu) Frank Tip, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (ftip@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
Call for Papers for Seventh Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications
LDTA 2007
A satellite event of ETAPS 2007 March 25, 2007 in Braga, Portugal
(Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN to be confirmed)
http://www.di.uminho.pt/ldta07
Scope:
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, and documentation generators. 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, NetBeans and Visual Studio - Modern runtime platforms including .Net, Rotor, Java Virtual Machine
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. Experience papers describing novel or compelling uses of language definition-based methods in real world projects are particularly sought.
Invited Speaker:
The invited speaker for LDTA 2007 is Uwe Assmann from TU Dresden.
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: December 4, 2006 - Notification: January 16, 2007 - Final version due: February 16, 2007 - Workshop: March 25, 2007
Submission Procedure and Publication:
Submission will be open from autumn 2006. Three classes of papers are solicited: research papers, experience reports and short tool-demo papers. Experience reports must describe the use of a language-based tool to solve a non-trivial applied problem with an emphasis on the advantages and disadvantages of the tool. Tool-demo papers should contain a brief description of the tool and include a section that clearly explains what will be demonstrated.
Research papers and experience reports should be at most 15 pages in length and tool-demo papers should be at most 4 pages in length. All classes of paper should be submitted electronically as PostScript or PDF files to both of the program committee chairs, Tony Sloane at asloane@ics.mq.edu.au and Adrian Johnstone at adrian@cs.rhul.ac.uk. 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 2007 web page: http://www.di.uminho.pt/ldta07. 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 2007 of the journal Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier Science).
Program Committee:
- Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa - Claus Brabrand, BRICS, University of Aarhus, Denmark - Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria, Canada - Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University, The Netherlands - Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (co-chair), adrian@cs.rhul.ac.uk - Steven Klusener, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands - Kent Lee, Luther College, USA - Brian Malloy, Clemson University, USA - Terence Parr, University of San Francisco, USA - Michael Schwartzbach, BRICS, University of Aarhus, Denmark - Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia (co-chair), asloane@ics.mq.edu.au - Jurgen Vinju, CWI, The Netherlands
Organizing Committee:
- Thomas Noll, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, noll@cs.rwth-aachen.de - Alcino Cunha, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, alcino@di.uminho.pt
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Eric Van Wyk -
John Hatcliff