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Call for Papers
4th Workshop on Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection (Meta’19)
Co-located with SPLASH 2019
October 20, 2019, Athens, Greece
https://2019.splashcon.org/track/meta-2019
Follow us on twitter @MetaAtSPLASH
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The Meta’19 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building
applications, language extensions and/or software tools using them.
The challenges which metaprogramming faces are manifold. They start with formal reasoning about reflective programs,
continue with performance and tooling, and reach into the empirical field to understand how metaprogramming is used and how
it affects software maintainability.
While industry accepted metaprogramming on a wide scale with Ruby, Scala, JavaScript, R and others, there is still a long
road ahead to bring the same level of convenience, tooling, and understanding as for direct programming styles.
Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to the design, implementation, and application of
metaprogramming techniques, as well as empirical studies and formal methods for such systems and languages.
### Topics of Interest
The workshop is a venue for all approaches that embrace
metaprogramming, from static to dynamic techniques:
- reflection, meta-level architectures, staging,
open language runtimes applications to middleware,
frameworks, and DSLs
- optimization techniques
- contract systems, or typing of reflective programs
- reflection and metaobject protocols to enable tooling
- case studies and evaluation of such techniques, e.g.,
to build applications, language extensions, or tools
- empirical evaluation of metaprogramming solutions
- security in reflective systems and capability-based designs
- meta-level architectures and reflective middleware for
modern runtime platforms (e.g. IoT, cyber-physical systems,
mobile/cloud/grid computing, etc)
- surveys, conceptualization, taxonomization, and formalization of existing approaches
### Workshop Format and Submissions
This workshop welcomes the presentation of new ideas and emerging
problems as well as mature work as part of a mini-conference format.
Furthermore, we plan interactive brainstorming and demonstration
sessions between the formal presentations to enable an active
exchange of ideas.
Papers submitted by the first deadline will be considered for
publication in the ACM DL, if not requested otherwise by the authors.
Thus, they will be part of SPLASH workshop proceedings.
For all papers, use of the SIGPLAN acmart style is mandatory:
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/.
Please use the provided double-column templates for Latex or Word.
technical paper: max. 8 pages, excluding references
position and work-in-progress paper: 1-4 pages, excluding references
technology demos or a posters: 1-page abstract
Demos, posters, position and work-in-progress papers can be submitted
on a second, later deadline to discuss the latest results and current
work, but will not be considered for publication in the ACM DL.
For the submission, please use the submission system at:
### Important Dates (TODO)
26 Jul 2019 - Abstract Submission
2 Aug 2019 - Paper Submission (considered for ACM DL)
23 Aug 2019 - Notification
28 Aug 2019 - Demo, position or work-in-progress paper submission
20 Sep 2019 - Demo, position or work-in-progress paper notification
### Steering Committee
Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stefan Marr, University of Kent
### Organizing Committee
Guido Chari, Czech Technical University
Christophe Scholliers, Ghent University
### Program Committee
Nada Amin, University of Cambridge, UK
Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews, UK
Andrei Chis, Feenk, Switzerland
David Thrane Christiansen, Galois, Portland, Oregon, USA
Tom Van Cutsem, Bell Labs, Belgium
Ryan Culpepper, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia
Jennifer Hacket, University of Nottingham, UK
Robert Hirschfield, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
James Noble, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong
Cyrus Omar, University of Chicago, USA
Guillermo Polito, Inria Lille, France
Eric Tanter, Universidad de Chile, Chile
### Contact Information
For further inquiries, do not hesitate to contact the organizers via meta-at-splash19 AT googlegroups.com