SPLASH'16: 1st Call for Contributions to Collocated Events (Amsterdam, Oct/Nov 2016)

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ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications:
Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16)
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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
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## 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 sessionbs 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
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## 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.pd
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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 bsoftware languageb 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
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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 b more
generally b 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 Metab16 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. bBring your own deviceb 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 bparsingb 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 todaybs 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 b so-called reactive and
event-based languages and systems (REBLS) b 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 RUMPLEb16 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 datasetsbwith structured entities, interlinked
data, and sophisticated integrity constraintsbthen 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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