*************************************************************************************** LDTA 2012 Call for Participation 12th International Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications http://ldta.info Tallinn, Estonia March 31 & April 1, 2012 an ETAPS workshop *************************************************************************************** You are cordially invited to LDTA'12. LDTA is an application and tool-oriented workshop focused on grammarware - software based on grammars in some form. Grammarware applications are typically language processing applications and traditional examples include parsers, program analyzers, optimizers and translators. -- REGISTRATION-- To register for LDTA'12, please follow the instructions at: http://www.etaps.org/2012/registration The early registration deadline is January 29, 2012. --HOTEL INFORMATION-- LDTA will be co-located with ETAPS. Please visit ETAPS's web site to get more information for the accomodation (http://www.etaps.org/2012/accommodation). Special rates and/or block bookings for ETAPS 2012 participants at a number of central hotels also expire Sunday, 29 January 2012. --PROGRAM-- The workshop will include an invited talk by Janis Voigtländer (University of Bonn, Germany) and the presentation of the following technical papers: - Sebastian Erdweg, Paolo G. Giarrusso and Tillmann Rendel. Language Composition Untangled - Johnni Winther. Improving Precision of Generated ASTs - Tobi Vollebregt, Lennart C. L. Kats and Eelco Visser. Declarative Specification of Template-Based Textual Editors - Marcos Viera, Doaitse Swierstra and Atze Dijkstra. Grammar Fragments Fly First-Class - Marcos Viera, Doaitse Swierstra and Arie Middelkoop. UUAG Meets AspectAG: How to make Attribute Grammars First-Class - Daniel Lincke and Sibylle Schupp. From HOT to COOL - Transforming Higher-Order Typed Languages to Concept-Constrained Object-Oriented Languages - Maartje De Jonge and Eelco Visser. A Language Generic Solution for Name Binding Preservation in Refactorings - Vadim Zaytsev. Notation-Parametric Grammar Recovery - Jean-Christophe Bach, Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Marc Pantel and Xavier Crégut. Models Transformations with Tom The workshop will also feature presentations devoted to a de-brief of the 2011 tool challenge, based on the paper currently being prepared by the challenge participants.