Apologies for multiple postings of this announcement. PEPM'12 - DEADLINE EXTENSION Due to a number of requests for extensions, the deadline for submission to PEPM'12 has been extended until 23:59 GMT on Sunday 16 October. We would like to remind you about three aspects of PEPM. Journal Special Issue There will be a journal special issue for PEPM'12. PEPM'09 has already appeared in Higher-order and Symbolic Computation (HOSC, online-first edition this year), and the special issue based on PEPM'10 papers has just been delivered to the HOSC editorial team. Short papers We're looking for short papers (up to 4pp) and tool papers as well as full research papers. All categories of papers will appear in the formal ACM proceedings. Tool papers The main purpose of a tool paper is to display other researchers in the PEPM community a completed, robust and well-documented tool; more guidance on the format and expected contact is given on the PEPM 2012 web site. In contrast with regular PEPM submissions, PEPM tool demo papers may include work that has been published elsewhere. In the ideal case, the technical foundations of the tool will have been published previously, and the submitted PEPM tool paper will report on follow-on work that has produced a robust tool that has been applied to interesting examples. The PEPM program committee will consider accepting tool demo papers that describe tools that have been presented at other conferences/ workshops if these conferences/ workshops belong to a different community (the authors should acknowledge the previous demos and justify the benefits of presenting the tool again for the PEPM audience). Call For Papers ACM SIGPLAN 2012 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation January 23-24, 2012. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (co-located with POPL'12) http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM12 Paper submission deadline: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 23:59, GMT The PEPM Symposium/Workshop series aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the broad area of program transformation, which spans from refactoring, partial evaluation, supercompilation, fusion and other metaprogramming to model-driven development, program analyses including termination, inductive programming, program generation and applications of machine learning and probabilistic search. PEPM focuses on techniques, supporting theory, tools, and applications of the analysis and manipulation of programs. Each technique or tool of program manipulation should have a clear, although perhaps informal, statement of desired properties, along with an argument how these properties could be achieved. Topics of interest for PEPM'12 include, but are not limited to: - Program and model manipulation techniques such as: supercompilation, partial evaluation, fusion, on-the-fly program adaptation, active libraries, program inversion, slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, decompilation, and obfuscation. - Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model manipulation such as: abstract interpretation, termination checking, binding-time analysis, constraint solving, type systems, automated testing and test case generation. - Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including metaprogramming, generative programming, embedded domain-specific languages, program synthesis by sketching and inductive programming, staged computation, and model-driven program generation and transformation. - Application of the above techniques including case studies of program manipulation in real-world (industrial, open-source) projects and software development processes, descriptions of robust tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications, benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy program understanding and transformation, DSL implementations, visual languages and end-user programming, scientific computing, middleware frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based applications, resource-limited computation, and security. To maintain the dynamic and interactive nature of PEPM, we will continue the category of `short papers' for tool demonstrations and for presentations of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic, industrial and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar. Student attendants with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses and other support. All accepted papers, short papers included, will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM Press and will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers may later on be invited for a journal special issue dedicated to PEPM'12. Submission Categories and Guidelines Authors are strongly encouraged to consult the advice for authoring research papers and tool papers before submitting. The PC Chairs welcome any inquiries about the authoring advice. Regular research papers must not exceed 10 pages in ACM Proceedings style. Short papers are up to 4 pages in ACM Proceedings style. Authors of tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the described tool at the workshop (tool papers should include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo at the workshop). Important Dates - Paper submission: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 23:59, GMT - Author notification: Tue, November 8, 2011 - Workshop: Mon-Tue, January 23-24, 2012 Invited Speakers - Markus Pueschel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Martin Berger (University of Sussex, UK) Program Chairs - Oleg Kiselyov (Monterey, CA, USA) - Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK) Program Committee Members - Emilie Balland (INRIA, France) - Ewen Denney (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) - Martin Erwig (Oregon State University, USA) - Sebastian Fischer (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) - Lidia Fuentes (Universidad de Malaga, Spain) - John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software, Spain) - Dave Herman (Mozilla Research, USA) - Stefan Holdermans (Vector Fabrics, the Netherlands) - Christian Kaestner (University of Marburg, Germany) - Emanuel Kitzelmann (International Computer Science Institute, USA) - Andrei Klimov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences) - Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la Repu'blica, Uruguay) - Kostis Sagonas (Uppsala University, Sweden and National Technical University of Athens, Greece) - Anthony M. Sloane (Macquarie University, Australia) - Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT, USA) - Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa, USA) - Kohei Suenaga (University of Kyoto, Japan) - Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota, USA) - Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University, Korea) Simon Thompson | Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing | University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK s.j.thompson@kent.ac.uk | M +44 7986 085754 | W www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt