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From: Ulrik Pagh Schultz <ups@mmmi.sdu.dk> To: "seworld@sigsoft.org" <seworld@sigsoft.org> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:33:39 +0200 Subject: [SEWORLD] SPLASH'12 Workshops: Call for Papers and Participation ************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION (deadlines throughout August, see individual calls) SPLASH'12 WORKSHOPS are part of ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'12) Tucson, Arizona October 19-26, 2012 http://www.splashcon.org http://twitter.com/splashcon http://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN ************************************************************** SPLASH'12 Workshops will address a rich variety of well-known and new emerging research areas, and will provide you a creative and collaborative environment, to discuss and solve challenging problems, with attendees from industry and research organizations around the world. To take advantage of this opportunity please consider to contribute to the workshops that best fit your interests by submitting your research work, experiences, or position papers. In addition to the regular workshops, this year we are running a number of "Wavefront workshops" designed to bring together researchers and practitioners for hands-on workshops relevant to industrial practitioners and academics interested in learning new and interesting yet well-proven techniques. All deadlines are in August, but vary from workshop to workshop, as can be seen below. Many workshops will have their proceedings published in ACM Digital Library. In general, please visit the splashcon.org website and each workshop's website to find up-to-date information. ************************************************************** WORKSHOP PROGRAM - REGULAR The SPLASH'12 workshops program is listed below and the abstracts at the end, however, the full program and additional information will evolve and will be posted online at SPLASH'12 website. http://splashcon.org AGERE! - 2nd Int. Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control organized by Gul Agha, Rafael Bordini, Assaf Marron and Alessandro Ricci Submissions deadline: August 5 (abstract), August 12 (paper), 2012 http://agere2012.apice.unibo.it DCP - Developing Competency in Parallelism: Techniques for Education and Training organized by Richard A. Brown and Edward F. Gehringer Submissions deadline: August 24, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/SPLASH-2012-DCP DSM - 12th Domain-Specific Modeling Workshop organized by Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Jonathan Sprinkle, Matti Rossi and Jeff Gray Submissions deadline: August 10, 2012 URL: http://www.dsmforum.org/events/DSM12/ FOOL - 19th International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages organized by John Boyland, Jeremy Siek, and Jonathan Aldrich Submissions deadline: August 5 (abstract), August 12 (paper), 2012 http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~boyland/fool2012 FREECO - 3rd Workshop on Free Composition organized by Christoph Bockisch, Lodewijk Bergmans, Ian Piumarta, and Steven te Brinke Submissions deadline: August 17, 2012 URL: http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/FREECO/FREECO-SPLASH2012/ PLATEAU - Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools organized by Shane Markstrum, Emerson Murphy-Hill, and Caitlin Sadowski Submissions deadline: August 10, 2012 https://sites.google.com/site/workshopplateau/ RACES - SPLASH 2012 Workshop on Relaxing Synchronization for Multicore and Manycore Scalability organized by Andrew P. Black, Theo D'Hondt, Doug Kimelman, Martin Rinard and David Ungar Submissions deadline: August 6, 2012 http://soft.vub.ac.be/races/ VMIL'12 - 6th Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages organized by Hridesh Rajan, Christoph Bockisch, Michael Haupt, and Steve Blackburn Submissions deadline: August 17, 2012 http://design.cs.iastate.edu/vmil/ xDD - What Drives Design? organized by Dennis Mancl, Steven D. Fraser, Gail E. Harris, and Bill Opdyke Submissions deadline: August 27, 2012 http://mysite.verizon.net/dennis.mancl/splash12 WORKSHOP PROGRAM - WAVEFRONT DCI - Data-Context-Interaction Paradigm Workshop organized by James O. Coplien http://splash.cleanarchitecture.com Neo4j: A Programmatic Introduction to Neo4j organized by James Webber http://jimwebber.org/ FOR MORE INFORMATION For additional information, clarification, early feedback, or answers to questions, please contact the Workshop Organizers of your favorite workshops, or the Workshops Chairs, Ademar Aguiar and Ulrik Pagh Schultz, at workshops@splashcon.org ************************************************************** ANNEX: WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS AND DATES ************************************************************** AGERE! - 2nd Int. Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control organized by Gul Agha, Rafael Bordini, Assaf Marron and Alessandro Ricci (Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd of October) The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction. It calls for programming paradigms that, compared to current mainstream paradigms, would allow us to more naturally think about, design, develop, execute, debug, and profile systems exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, autonomy, decentralization of control, and physical distribution. The AGERE! workshop is dedicated on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents and any related programming paradigm promoting a decentralized-control mindset in solving problems and in developing systems to implement such solutions. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers and practitioners working on programming models, languages, technologies, as well as real-world systems and applications. Submissions deadline: August 5 (abstract), August 12 (paper), 2012 URL: http://agere2012.apice.unibo.it ************************************************************** DCI - Data-Context-Interaction Paradigm Workshop organized by James O. Coplien (Monday, 22nd October) This is a Wavefront workshop that provides a foundation for exploring and applying the DCI (Data, Context and Interaction) paradigm. DCI is a means to supporting full object orientation that restores much of the original object vision that has been lost as the industry has adopted classes rather than objects as its primary design and programming artefacts, and extends the original vision from a more data-centric structure to focus more on the business value of system-level operations. The tutorial will teach roles and contexts as fundamental new building blocks of object-oriented programs. DCI is a paradigm that more faithfully lives up to the original goals of the object paradigm in its basis in stakeholder mental models, its proximity to end user concerns, and its dynamic computational model, than one finds in class-oriented programming. URL: http://splash.cleanarchitecture.com ************************************************************** DCP - Developing Competency in Parallelism: Techniques for Education and Training organized by Richard A. Brown and Edward F. Gehringer (Monday, 22nd of October) With the increasing penetration of parallelism into computing, programmers of all stripes need to acquire competencies in parallel programming. This workshop will concentrate on discussing and disseminating resources for gently introducing parallelism into programmers' skill sets. The expected audience is academic faculty and industrial trainers. The program will include multiple refereed paper sessions, as well as a separate hands-on session (contributed by organizers) presenting an example body of materials for teaching and training in parallel programming, and an "unconference" session, for which you may submit topics for discussion by filling out a form (for details, see the workshop web page). We are seeking paper submissions along the following lines: - Training materials from developers and vendors of programming languages. - Short "killer" parallel application examples that can be used in academic or training environments. - Short modules that can be used in short courses for practicing programmers, or dropped into academic courses dealing with some aspect of programming. - Tools for visualizing or teaching parallelism in programming. (A tools submission should include expository illustrations, screenshots, and/or accompanying video(s) that portray the functionality and value of that tool for pedagogy and training; test access to a tool is optional.) We especially seek papers related to - GPU, or hybrid (GPU+CPU) programming, or - productive parallel-programming frameworks scuh as Hadoop/MapReduce. Submissions deadline: August 24, 2012 URL: http://tinyurl.com/SPLASH-2012-DCP ************************************************************** DSM - 12th Domain-Specific Modeling Workshop organized by Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Jonathan Sprinkle, Matti Rossi and Jeff Gray (Monday, 22nd October) Domain-specific modeling (DSM) provides a modern solution to demands for higher productivity by constricting the gap between problem and solution modeling. In the past, productivity gains have been sought through new programming languages. Today, domain-specific modeling languages provide a viable solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction beyond coding, making development faster and easier. In 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 themselves as working directly with domain concepts. Together with frameworks and platforms, DSM can automate a large portion of software production. Some possible topics for submission to the workshop include: * Industry/academic experience reports * Creation of metamodel-based languages * Empirical studies or assessments that suggest best practices for language design * Novel approaches for code generation from domain-specific models * Evolution of languages * Metamodeling frameworks and languages * Tools for supporting DSMs Submissions deadline: August 10, 2012 URL: http://www.dsmforum.org/events/DSM12/ ************************************************************** FOOL - 19th International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages organized by John Boyland, Jeremy Siek, and Jonathan Aldrich (Monday October 22nd, 2012) The search for sound principles for object-oriented languages has given rise to much work during the past two decades, leading to a better understanding of the key concepts of object-oriented languages and to important developments in type theory, semantics, program verification, and program development. Submissions for this event are invited in the general area of foundations of object-oriented languages. Topics of interest include language semantics, type systems, memory models, program verification, formal calculi, concurrent and distributed languages, database languages, and language-based security issues. Submissions deadline: August 5 (abstract), August 12 (paper), 2012 URL: http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~boyland/fool2012 ************************************************************** FREECO - 3rd Workshop on Free Composition organized by Christoph Bockisch, Lodewijk Bergmans, Ian Piumarta, and Steven te Brinke (Monday, 22nd October) The history of programming languages shows a continuous search for new composition mechanisms, which are better suited for structuring increasingly complex software systems into modules that can be developed and reused independently. Well-known examples are procedure calls, object aggregation, function composition, inheritance, delegation, mix-ins, aspects, and so forth. Composition mechanisms can address various forms of composition of objects or components at the level of their behavior or interactions, e.g., by design patterns, contracts or explicit protocols. They can be general-purpose, but there is also a wide variety of domain-specific compositions, which are applicable for certain categories of applications. However, most languages adopt a very small and fixed set of composition mechanisms, usually with explicit notation and predefined semantics. If a language does not provide any mechanisms with the required compositional behavior, programmers need to write workarounds in the application program, which typically have a negative impact on the quality of the software. Alternatively, they may introduce the new composition mechanisms through macros, libraries, frameworks or language extensions, which also negatively affects the application if it is not well-integrated with the application program. This workshop intends to stimulate research in program-ming languages and software development by exploring the notion that languages should not offer a limited set of fixed composition mechanisms, but allow for flexibility, a wide variety of compositions, domain-specific and tailored compositions, or programmable compositions of various program artifacts. Submissions deadline: August 17, 2012 URL: http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/FREECO/FREECO-SPLASH2012/ ************************************************************** Neo4j: A Programmatic Introduction to Neo4j organized by James Webber (Sunday, October 21st) This is a Wavefront workshop on using Neo4j, a popular graph database. Graph databases like Neo4j are an esoteric but powerful member of the NOSQL family. For highly connected data, graph databases can be thousands of times faster than relational databases, making them popular for managing complex data across many commercial and research domains from finance to biology, and network management to geospatial. Using graphs, researchers benefit from the expressive model and centuries of discrete mathematics underlying graph databases and so they can be a powerful ally for scientific problem solving. To that end, this Wavefront workshop will introduce Neo4j, a popular transactional graph database that is widely in use in research and commerce. The workshop's aims are twofold: to remind attendees of the beneficial affordances provided by thinking and graphs, and to get attendees familiar enough with Neo4j such that they can use it to solve problems in their everyday research efforts. There will therefore be a mixture of theory and accompanying practical sessions to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and the Neo4j database. Specifically attendees will learn about: - NoSQL and Graph Database overview to set the scene for contemporary data models and to place graphs in context. - Neo4j Fundamentals and Architecture to show how the notion of mechanical sympathy enables extremely fast queries that can be several orders of magnitude greater than some relational systems. - The Neo4j Core API and Indexing to build graphs and name interesting starting point for graph queries. - Neo4j Traverser APIs to traverse graphs to discover interesting information goals. - Declarative querying with Cypher to show how allow non-programming specialists can still harness Neo4j for productive use with a humane and expressive query language. Each session is a mixture of a small amount of theory combined with a set of practical exercises. The practical parts of the workshop consist of Koan-style lessons where a specific aspect of the Neo4j stack is presented as a set of failing unit tests which participants will work to fix, gradually becoming more challenging until the attendees are capable of implementing sophisticated graph operations against Neo4j. Attendees won't need any previous experience with Neo4j or NOSQL databases, but will require some fluency in Java, a little familiarity with a modern IDE, and a basic understanding of JUnit to help complete the lab tasks. URL: http://jimwebber.org/ ************************************************************** PLATEAU - Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools organized by Shane Markstrum, Emerson Murphy-Hill, and Caitlin Sadowski (Sunday, October 21st) 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. We are also interested in the input of other members of the programming research community working on related areas, such as aspects, refactoring, design patterns, program analysis, program comprehension, software visualization, end-user programming, and other programming language paradigms. Some particular areas of interest are: - empirical studies of programming languages - methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation - software design metrics and their relations to the underlying language - user studies of language features and software engineering tools - visual techniques for understanding programming languages - critical comparisons of programming paradigms - tools to support evaluating programming languages - psychology of programming Submissions deadline: August 10, 2012 URL: https://sites.google.com/site/workshopplateau/ ************************************************************** RACES - SPLASH 2012 Workshop on Relaxing Synchronization for Multicore and Manycore Scalability organized by Andrew P. Black, Theo D'Hondt, Doug Kimelman, Martin Rinard and David Ungar (Sunday, 21st October) Massively-parallel systems are coming: core counts keep rising -- whether conventional cores as in multicore and manycore systems, or specialized cores as in GPUs. Conventional wisdom has been to utilize this parallelism by reducing synchronization to the minimum required to preserve determinism -- in particular, by eliminating data races. However, Amdahl's law implies that on highly-parallel systems even a small amount of synchronization introduces serialization that limits scaling. Thus, the conventional wisdom is doomed to fail as it hits "the CAS ceiling". We are forced to confront the trade-off between synchronization and the ability of an implementation to scale performance with the number of processors: synchronization inherently limits parallelism. A new school of thought is arising: one that accepts and even embraces nondeterminism (including data races), and is in return able to dramatically reduce synchronization, or even eliminate it completely. However, this approach requires that we leave the realm of the certain and enter the realm of the merely probable. How can we cast aside the certainty of truth, the security of correctness, the logic of a proof, and adopt a new way of thinking, where answers are good enough but not certain, and where many processors work together in parallel without quite knowing the states that the others are in? We may need some amount of synchronization, but how much? Or better yet, how little? What mental tools and linguistic devices can we give programmers to help them adapt to this challenge? This workshop focuses on these questions and related ones--harnessing parallelism by limiting synchronization, even to the point where programs will compute inconsistent or approximate rather than exact answers. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who, in the quest for scalability, have been exploring the limits of how much synchronization can be avoided. We will consider the workshop successful if the attendees come away with new insights into fundamental principles, and new ideas for algorithms, data structures, programming languages, and mental models. The goal of this workshop is both to influence current programming practice and to initiate the coalescence of a new research community giving rise to a new subfield within the general area of concurrent and parallel programming. Results generated by the workshop will be made persistent via a workshop website and possibly via the ACM Digital Library. Submission date: Monday, August 6, 2012 URL: http://soft.vub.ac.be/races/ ************************************************************** VMIL'12 - 6th Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages organized by Hridesh Rajan, Christoph Bockisch, Michael Haupt, and Steve Blackburn (Sunday, 21st October) 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 the VM level. Candidates for such mechanisms and constructs include modularity mechanisms (aspects, context-dependent layers), concurrency (threads and locking, actors, software transactional memory), transactions, 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. Submissions deadline: August 17, 2012 URL: http://design.cs.iastate.edu/vmil/ ************************************************************** xDD - What Drives Design? organized by Dennis Mancl, Steven D. Fraser, Gail E. Harris, and Bill Opdyke (Sunday, 21st October) Designers are busy people, and they are getting busier. In today's world designers must deal with three competing pressures: rapid changes in end-user technologies and applications domains, marketplace demands for innovation in products and services, and a steady stream of improvements in implementation technologies. There have been a number of attempts to drive design from responsibilities, features, tests, models, behavior, domains, and contracts. If we follow one or more of design approaches, will we make things better? Do any of these approaches (RDD, FDD, TDD, and so on) offer any help to the busy designer? This workshop is a forum to discuss the design principles that are most effective. The workshop will help methodologists and academics to get some feedback on how their new design ideas are received by everyday practitioners, and it will be a place for industry practitioners to share experiences about what design practices work. Submissions deadline: August 27, 2012 URL: http://mysite.verizon.net/dennis.mancl/splash12 ************************************************************** -- Ulrik Pagh Schultz, associate professor, University of Southern Denmark ups@mmmi.sdu.dk, http://www.mmmi.sdu.dk/~ups, +4565503570
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:10:33 +0000
From: "Ademar Aguiar [FEUP]" <ademar.aguiar@fe.up.pt>
To: "SPLASH'12 Call for Workshops" <workshops@splashcon.org>
Subject: [ecoop-info] SPLASH'12: Call for Workshops - due April 13
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Call for Workshops - Due April 13, 2012
SPLASH’12 WORKSHOPS
as part of ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and
Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH’12)
Tucson, Arizona
October 19-26, 2012
http://www.splashcon.org
http://twitter.com/splashcon
http://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon
Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN
**************************************************************
Workshops are all about sharing, exchanging, discussing, and
networking to mature new and exciting ideas, and help you on starting
new collaborations and communities - whether you are seeking research
partners, projects, or practitioners.
SPLASH workshops are a great way to improve your knowledge and expand
your professional network. The high interactivity of SPLASH workshops
provides a creative and collaborative environment to discuss and solve
challenging problems related to emerging technologies and research
areas with attendees from all over the world. SPLASH workshops
complement the OOPSLA, DLS, Onward! and Wavefront tracks of the
conference, and provide an opportunity to lead informal, hands-on, or
more technical sessions that may possibly result in formal
proceedings.
## Submissions summary
* Due on: April 13, 2012
* Notifications: May 08, 2012
* Camera-ready copy due: June 08, 2012
* Format: ACM Proceedings format
* Contacts: Ademar Aguiar and Ulrik Pagh Schultz (chairs)
* Email: workshops@splashcon.org
## Topics
The topics and the format of the workshops is open-ended. For example,
workshops may provide an opportunity for people working in a particular
area to coordinate efforts and to establish a collective
plan of action, to collaborate on a book, to seek research
contributions, to learn cutting-edge software development techniques,
or to discuss and share ideas on a hot new language, environment, or
topic. In the last 25 years of OOPSLA/SPLASH, workshops have played an
important role in addressing seminal topics that led to significant
advances, especially during their formative stages, namely UML, Eclipse,
distributed objects, agile software development, new programming
languages, and patterns, to mention a few.
Today, the software world is moving forward at an accelerating pace
and the changes in the next 5 years are expected to be more dramatic
than in the last 25. Explosive new technologies have created many
challenging problems - technical, cultural and organizational - that
must be solved to support the next generation of software design and
development.
We encourage proposals for innovative, well-focused workshops from a
broad spectrum of topics. If there is a topic relevant to SPLASH that
you feel passionate about - and you want to connect with others who
have similar interests - you should consider submitting a proposal to
organize a workshop!
## SPLASH Workshops
SPLASH is the successor to the OOPSLA conference that has taken
place annually since 1986. The new name is SPLASH, an acronym for
Systems, Programming, Languages, Applications: Software for
Humanity. It has three tracks, called OOPSLA, Wavefront, and
Onward!. There are many co-located conferences, generally including
the Dynamic Languages Symposium, Generative Programming and
Component Engineering, Pattern Languages of Programming, as well as
symposia for doctoral students and educators.
SPLASH 2012 workshops are organized into three different tracks
according to their topic:
* OOPSLA workshops are at the frontier software construction and
delivery. They are open to all factions of programming
technologies, and is the place where groups work together to
develop new ideas in programming languages and software
engineering.
* Onward! workshops are located a day's ride past the frontier. They
are where groups can explore uncharted ideas. They are an ideal
base for intellectual insurrections. Workshops proposals are
welcome on all topics related to software and programming,
especially topics unacceptable at mainstream Computer Science,
Software Engineering, and Programming Languages conferences.
* Wavefront workshops are about contemporary approaches to
develop the systems that software developers are creating and
deploying today. They are active, hands-on events managed by
experts, designed to help software professionals to rapidly
come up to speed on a specific technology or methodology.
Workshop organizers may decide their preferred format.
## Submissions
SPLASH workshop proposals should be limited to 5 pages (in the ACM
Proceedings format) and submitted through the SPLASH submission
system.
You may find detailed guidelines on how to prepare a successful SPLASH
workshop proposal at SPLASH'12 web pages.
## Proceedings
Workshops that result in academic papers and that implement an
appropriate selection process may be archived as formal proceedings in
the ACM Digital Library.
## Workshops Committee
* Bill Opdyke, JPMorgan Chase, USA
* Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs, USA
* Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA
* Erik Ernst, Aarhus University, Denmark
* Jamie Douglass, Boeing, USA
* Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
* Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona, USA
* Pascal Costanza, Intel, Belgium
* Paulo Borba, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
* Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
* Ademar Aguiar, Universidade do Porto, Portugal (chair)
* Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Univ. Southern Denmark, Denmark (chair)
## For more Information
For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions
please contact the Workshops Chairs, Ademar Aguiar and Ulrik Pagh
Schultz, at workshops@splashcon.org, or the web site at
http://splashcon.org/2012/cfp/due-april-13-2012/389-workshops
From: Matthew Dwyer <dwyer@cse.unl.edu> Subject: [SEWORLD] SPLASH 2012 Call for Contributions : OOPSLA, Onwards!, Wavefront, and more Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:09:01 -0600 cc: dwyer@cse.unl.edu, leavens@eecs.ucf.edu To: seworld@sigsoft.org CALL FOR PAPERS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS: SPLASH 2012 The Systems, Programming, Languages, Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) conference is a key venue at the intersection of programming, programming languages, and software engineering. SPLASH (and its predecessor OOPSLA) have a long history of fostering innovation in areas such as programming methods, design and analysis, testing, concurrency, program analysis, empirical studies, and new programming languages. SPLASH embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery, and joins all factions of programming technologies. Since 2010 SPLASH has been the umbrella for OOPSLA, Onward!, and the Dynamic Languages Symposium. This year it also continues a fourth technical track, Wavefront, designed to publish innovative work closely related to advanced development and production software. See http://splashcon.org for details regarding all of the following calls. DUE APRIL 13, 2012 ... OOPSLA Research Papers: OOPSLA includes all aspects of programming languages and software engineering, broadly construed. Papers may address any aspect of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers on tools (such as new languages, program analyses, or run-time systems) or on techniques (such as new methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques) designed to reduce the time, effort, and/or cost of creating software systems or improving their performance, quality and/or usability are of particular interest. Onward! Papers: Do you have an idea that could change the world of software development? Onward! is the place to present it and get constructive criticism from other researchers and practitioners. We are looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could make a big difference in how we build software in 5 or 10 years. We also encourage practicing programmers to share their hard-won wisdom about how to reform software development. Onward! Essays: The Onward! Essay track is your chance to explore a line of argument, reflection, or reasoning in writing, and to share that thought process and its conclusions with your peers. Wavefront: Wavefront papers describe original and innovative architecture, design, and/or implementation techniques used in leading-edge software systems. Papers from practicing software developers are strongly encouraged. Research or advanced development papers must address a problem of immediate concern for such systems and present immediately applicable results. Wavefront Experience: Wavefront Experience Reports are about how we create practical software systems that solve real-world problems. Wavefront experience reports are meant to be strongly aligned with the focus of the Wavefront program, but in the experience papers, we are looking for discussions about the use of those technologies as opposed to their creation. How have they made you more (or less) successful? What do you do differently now? This is your chance to convince your peers that you have found a better way (or a way to avoid). Workshops: Workshops are all about networking, sharing, exchanging, discussing, and maturing new exciting ideas, to enable you to start new collaborations and incubate new communities - whether you are seeking research partners, projects, potential funders, or practitioners to new and emergent ideas! SPLASH workshops are a great way to grow your knowledge and expand your professional network. As highly interactive events, SPLASH workshops provide a creative and collaborative environment where attendees coming from various organizations around the world meet to discuss and solve challenging problems related to emerging technologies and research areas. Panels: Panel sessions can be presented within OOPSLA, Wavefront, or Onward! Many topics are possible, including aspects of software development, language design issues, language implementation issues, and tools. DUE JULY 9, 2012 ... Posters Posters provide an excellent forum for authors to present their work in an informal and interactive setting. Posters are ideal to showcase speculative, late-breaking results or to introduce interesting, innovative work. Posters sessions are highly interactive. They allow authors and interested participants to connect to each other and to engage in discussions about the presented work. ACM Student Research Competition: This competition, sponsored by Microsoft Research, is an internationally recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with others, and compete for prizes. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session's goal to facilitate students' interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Additionally, the Student Research Competition affords students with experience with both formal presentations and evaluations. Doctoral Symposium: The Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. DUE JULY 11, 2012 ... Dynamic Languages Symposium: The Dynamic Languages Symposium is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation, and their application. We invite high-quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions or experience related to dynamic language. DUE JULY 15, 2012 ... Demonstrations ... Live demonstrations show the impact of software innovation. The demonstrations track is an excellent vehicle for sharing your latest work with an experienced and technically savvy audience. Demonstrations are not product sales pitches, but rather an opportunity to highlight, explain, and present interesting technical aspects of running applications in a dynamic and highly interactive setting. Presenters are encouraged to actively solicit feedback from the audience, which should lead to very interesting and entertaining demonstration sessions.
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