====================================================================== Call For Participation ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'23) October 22-27, 2023, Cascais, Portugal https://2023.splashcon.org/ Follow us on Twitter @splashcon ====================================================================== The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. ====================================================================== # Participation ====================================================================== The registration information, including the link to registration form is available at https://2023.splashcon.org/attending/Registration ====================================================================== # List of Keynotes/Invited Talks ====================================================================== SPLASH will feature three keynotes: Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University, USA Dimitrios Vytiniotis, DeepMind, UK Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley, USA SPLASH co-located events include a number of speakers: Andreas Rossberg, Independent, Germany (MPLR) Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA, Spain (LOPSTR) Maribel Fernández, King's College London, UK (PPDP+LOPSTR) Delia Kesner, Université Paris Cité, France (PPDP) Daniel Kaestner, AbsInt, Germany (SAS) Gagandeep Singh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (SAS) Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, University of Colorado Boulder & Amazon, USA (SAS) Loris D’Antoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (SAS) ====================================================================== # List of Events ====================================================================== ** OOPSLA Research Papers ** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modelling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). ** Onward! Research Papers ** Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays conference is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community construed broadly. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps that by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavours, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. ** PLMW@SPLASH ** The SPLASH 2023 Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop encourages graduate students (PhD and MSc) and senior undergraduate students to pursue research in programming languages. This workshop will provide mentoring sessions on how to prepare for and thrive in graduate school and in a research career, focusing both on cutting-edge research topics and practical advice. The workshop brings together leading researchers and junior students in an inclusive environment in order to help welcome newcomers to our field of programming languages research. The workshop will show students the many paths that they might take to enter and contribute to our research community. ====================================================================== ** Workshops ** ====================================================================== **** CONFLANG **** CONFLANG is a workshop on the design, the theory, the practice and the future evolution of configuration languages. It aims to gather the emerging community in this area in order to engage in fruitful interactions, to share ideas, results, opinions, and experiences on languages for configuration. Correct configuration is an actual industrial problem, and would greatly benefit from existing and ongoing academic research. Dually, this is a space with new challenges to overcome and new directions to explore, which is a great opportunity to confront new ideas with large-scale production. **** FTSCS **** The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers who are interested in the application of formal and semi-formal methods to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems. FTSCS strives to promote research and development of formal methods and tools for industrial applications, and is particularly interested in industrial applications of formal methods. **** HATRA **** Programming language designers seek to provide strong tools to help developers reason about their programs. For example, the formal methods community seeks to enable developers to prove correctness properties of their code, and type system designers seek to exclude classes of undesirable behavior from programs. The security community creates tools to help developers achieve their security goals. In order to make these approaches as effective as possible for developers, recent work has integrated approaches from human-computer interaction research into programming language design. This workshop brings together programming languages, software engineering, security, and human-computer interaction researchers to investigate methods for making languages that provide stronger safety properties more effective for programmers and software engineers. **** IWACO **** Many techniques have been introduced to describe and reason about stateful programs, and to restrict, analyze, and prevent aliases. These include various forms of ownership types, capabilities, separation logic, linear logic, uniqueness, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, linear references, effect systems, and access control mechanisms. These tools have found their way into type systems, compilers and interpreters, runtime systems and bug-finding tools. Their immediate practical relevance is self-evident from the popularity of Rust, a programming language built around reasoning about aliasing and ownership to enable static memory management and data race freedom, voted the "most beloved" language in the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey seven times in a row. **** LIVE **** Programming is cognitively demanding, and too difficult. LIVE is a workshop exploring new user interfaces that improve the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming. Whereas PL research traditionally focuses on programs, LIVE focuses more on the activity of programming. Our goal is to provide a supportive venue where early-stage work receives constructive criticism. Whether graduate students or tenured faculty, researchers need a forum to discuss new ideas and get helpful feedback from their peers. Towards that end, we will allot about ten minutes for discussion after every presentation. **** PAINT **** Programming environments that integrate tools, notations, and abstractions into a holistic user experience can provide programmers with better support for what they want to achieve. These programming environments can create an engaging place to do new forms of informational work - resulting in enjoyable, creative, and productive experiences with programming. In the workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments (PAINT), we want to discuss programming environments that support users in working with and creating notations and abstractions that matter to them. We are interested in the relationship between people centric notations and general-purpose programming languages and environments. How do we reflect the various experiences, needs, and priorities of the many people involved in programming — whether they call it that or not? **** PLF **** Applications supporting multi-device are ubiquitous. While most of the distributed applications that we see nowadays are cloud-based, avoiding the cloud can lead to privacy and performance benefits for users and operational and cost benefits for companies and developers. Following this idea, Local-First Software runs and stores its data locally while still allowing collaboration, thus retaining the benefits of existing collaborative applications without depending on the cloud. Many specific solutions already exist: operational transformation, client-side databases with eventually consistent replication based on CRDTs, and even synchronization as a service provided by commercial offerings, and a vast selection of UI design libraries. However, these solutions are not integrated with the programming languages that applications are developed in. Language based solutions related to distribution such as type systems describing protocols, reliable actor runtimes, data processing, machine learning, etc., are designed and optimized for the cloud not for a loosely connected set of cooperating devices. This workshop aims at bringing the issue to the attention of the PL community, and accelerating the development of suitable solutions for this area. **** REBELS **** 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 — so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) — 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. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. **** ST30 **** Session types are a type-theoretic approach to specifying communication protocols so that they can be verified by type-checking. This year marks 30 years since the first paper on session types, by Kohei Honda at CONCUR 1993. Since then the topic has attracted increasing interest, and a substantial community and literature have developed. Google Scholar lists almost 400 articles with "session types" in the title, and most programming language conferences now include several papers on session types each year. In terms of the technical focus, there have been continuing theoretical developments (notably the generalisation from two-party to multi-party session types by Honda, Yoshida and Carbone in 2008, and the development of a Curry-Howard correspondence with linear logic by Caires and Pfenning in 2010) and a variety of implementations of session types as programming language extensions or libraries, covering (among others) Haskell, OCaml, Java, Scala, Rust, Python, C#, Go. ST30 is a workshop to celebrate the 30th anniversary of session types by bringing together the community for a day of talks and technical discussion. **** VMIL **** The concept of Virtual Machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual Machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues. The workshop is intended to be welcoming to a wide range of topics and perspectives, covering all areas relevant to the workshop’s theme. ====================================================================== ** SPLASH Posters ** ====================================================================== The SPLASH Posters track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. SPLASH posters cover 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. ====================================================================== ** 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 fordoctoral 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. ====================================================================== ** Student Research Competition ** ====================================================================== The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present their research to a panel of judges and conference attendees at SPLASH. The SRC provides visibility and exposes up-and-coming researchers to computer science research and the research community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and sharpen their communication and networking skills. ====================================================================== ** SPLASH-E ** ====================================================================== SPLASH-E is a forum for educators to make connections between programming languages research and the ways we educate computer science students. We invite work that could improve or inform computer science educators, especially work that connects with introductory computer science courses, programming languages, compilers, software engineering, and other SPLASH-related topics. Educational tools, experience reports, and new curricula are all welcome. ====================================================================== *** Co-Located Events *** ====================================================================== **** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) **** The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects of dynamic languages. After two decades of dynamic language research and DLS, it is time to reflect and look forward to what the next two decades will bring. This year's DLS will therefore be a special DLS focusing on the Future of Dynamic Languages. To do the notion of "symposium" justice, we will actively invite speakers to present their opinions on where Dynamic Languages might be, will be, or should be going in the next twenty years. **** Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE)**** ACM SIGPLAN 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. **** Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR)**** The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. **** Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR)**** The 20th International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR'23, formerly ManLang, originally PPPJ) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most important computing systems around, ranging from small-scale (embedded and real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data platforms) and anything in between (mobile, IoT, and wearable applications). **** Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP) **** PPDP aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing a variety of other paradigms such as visual programming, executable specification languages, database languages, AI languages and knowledge representation languages used, for example, in the semantic web. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analysing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. **** Static Analysis Symposium (SAS) **** Static Analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served as the primary venue for the presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area. ====================================================================== # Organizing Committee SPLASH 2023: ====================================================================== General Chair: Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon) OOPSLA Review Committee Chair: Mira Mezini (TU Darmstadt) OOPSLA Publications Co-Chair: Ragnar Mogk (TU Darmstadt) OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Benjamin Greenman (Brown University) OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Guillaume Baudart (INRIA) DLS General Chair: Stefan Marr (University of Kent) GPCE General Chair: Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University) GPCE PC Chair: Amir Shaikhha (University of Edinburgh) LOPSTR PC Chair: Robert Glück (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) LOPSTR PC Chair: Bishoksan Kafle (IMDEA) MPLR General Chair: Rodrigo Bruno (University of Lisbon) MPLR PC Chair: Elliot Moss (University of Massachusetts Amherst) PPDP PC Chair: Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politècnica de València ) SAS Co-Chair: Manuel Hermenegildo (Technical University of Madrid & IMDEA) SAS Co-Chair: José Morales (IMDEA) SAS Artifact Evaluation Chair: Marc Chevalier (Snyk) SLE Chair: João Saraiva (University of Minho) SLE PC Co-Chair: Thomas Degueule (CNRS, LaBRI) SLE PC Co-Chair: Elizabeth Scott (Royal Holloway University of London) Onward! Papers Chair: Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen) Onward! Essays Chair: Robert Hirschfeld (University of Potsdam; Hasso Plattner Institute) SPLASH-E Co-Chair: Molly Feldman (Oberlin College) Posters Co-Chair: Xujie Si (University of Toronto) Workshops Co-Chair: Mehdi Bagherzadeh (Oakland University) Workshops Co-Chair: Amin Alipour (University of Houston) Hybridisation Co-Chair: Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Hybridisation Co-Chair: Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser (University of Tübingen) Video Co-Chair: Guilherme Espada (University of Lisbon) Video Co-Chair: Apoorv Ingle (University of Iowa) Video Co-Chair: John Hui (Columbia University) Publicity Chair, Web Co-Chair: Andreea Costea (National University Of Singapore) Publicity Chair, Web Co-Chair: Alcides Fonseca (University of Lisbon) PLMW Co-Chair: Molly Feldman (Oberlin College) PLMW Co-Chair: Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology) PLMW Co-Chair: João Ferreira (University of Lisbon) Sponsoring Co-Chair: Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder & Amazon) Sponsoring Co-Chair: Nicolas Wu (Imperial College London) Student Research Competition Co-Chair: Xujie Si (McGill University, Canada) Local Organizer Chair: Diana Costa (University of Lisbon) SIGPLAN Conference Manager: Neringa Young ======================================================================