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a postdoc position in Imperial College London
by Dominic Orchard 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Recently there are several works which link session types and functional programming. Imperial College London has an open postdoc position on session types and programming languages, including Haskell and related theoretical studies. ------------------------- Department of Computing, Imperial College London Research Associate (Post-doc, Full Time) £36,070 to £43,350 per annum Fixed-term: the starting date: as soon as possible the ending date: 19 May 2020 Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London A post is funded by EPSRC, the UK science funding agency and the titles of the projects are "From Data Types to Session Types: A Basis for Concurrency and Distribution" and "Application Customisation: Enhancing Design Quality and Developer Productivity". The goal is to further develop the theory and practice of session types for structuring concurrent and distributed software. The project has particular emphasis on putting theory into practice, by embedding session types in a range of programming languages and applying them to case studies; or developing the links between session types and other areas of theoretical computer science. The research programme includes collaboration with several companies and organisations: Amazon, Cognizant, Red Hat, ThoughtWorks, as well as November Group LLC and Weaveworks. The focus of Imperial College London Group is theories and applications of (Multiparty) Session Types (JACM,POPL'08), which include: -- Erlang (CC'17), Go (CC'16,POPL'17), Haskell (POPL'16), Scala (ECOOP'16), Java (FASE'16,FASE'17), MPI (OOPSLA'15,CC'15), C (FPL'16) and Python (FOAC,LMCS,FMSD); or -- automata/model checking (POPL'15,CONCUR'15,TACAS'16,FoSSaCs'17), linear logic (CONCUR'15) and bisimulations (CONCUR'15,ESOP'16,LMCS) For more details, see http://mrg.doc.ic.ac.uk Candidates for the post-doc position will need to have expertise in either: 1. programming language design and implementation; or 2. formal semantics, type theory and concurrency theory Different positions will be suitable for different points on the theory/practice spectrum. We will be especially interested in candidates with a combination of theoretical and practical skills. The contact person is Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London (N.Yoshida(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:N.Yoshida@imperial.ac.uk>) Details: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWU532/research-associate <http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWU532/research-associate>

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Call for Papers (TASE 2017)
by Huibiao Zhu 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

**************************************************************************** * 11th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Call for Papers TASE 2017 13 - 15 September 2017, Nice, France, http://tase2017.unice.fr * Important dates ********************************************************** Abstract research paper 12 March 2017 Submission research paper 19 March 2017 Author notification 21 May 2017 Camera ready copy 05 June 2017 ********************************************************** * Objectives and scope Now on its 11th edition, TASE is an international symposium that aims to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry with interests in the theoretical aspects of software engineering. We invite submissions of research papers on topics covering all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including, but not limited to, the following. We invite submissions of research papers on topics covering all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including, but not limited to, the following: + Abstract interpretation + Algebraic and co-algebraic specifications + Aspect oriented software + Component-based systems + Cyber-physical systems + Deductive verification + Distributed and concurrent systems + Embedded and real-time systems + Feature-oriented software + Formal verification and program semantics + Integration of formal methods + Language design + Model checking and theorem proving + Object-oriented systems + Program logics and calculi + Quantum computation + Run-time verification and monitoring + Service-oriented and cloud computing + Software architecture + Software testing and quality assurance + Software security and reliability + Static analysis of programs + Type systems and behavioural typing + Tools exploiting theoretical results * Venue and event TASE 2017 will be held on the the SophiaTech Campus in Sophia Antipolis, France, on 13 -15 September 2017. * Keynote speakers TBA * PC chairs Frederic Mallet (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR) Min Zhang (East China Normal University, CN) * Organization chair Eric Madelaine (INRIA, FR) * Publication chair Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL) * Keynote speakers TBA * Programme committee (to be confirmed) Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Bernhard Aichernig (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Toshiaki Aoki (JAIST, Japan) Farhad Arbab (CWI, Netherlands) Cyrille Artho (AIST, Japan) Luis Soares Barbosa (University of Minho, Portugal) Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) Rocco de Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Yuxi Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Marieke Huisman (University of Tweente, Netherlands) Dang Van Hung (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Einar Broch Johnsen (Oslo University, Norway) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Zhiming Liu (Birmingham City University, UK) Antonia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Eric Madelaine (INRIA, France) Kazuhiro Ogata (JAIST, Japan) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, France) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Jean Pierre Talpin (INRIA, France) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw University, Poland) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda University, Japan) Yi Wang (Uppsala University, Sweden) Eric Wong (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ¡ * Steering Committee: Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, JP) Jifeng He (East China Normal University, CN) Michael Hinchey (Lero, IE) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, CN) * Submission guidelines We solicit contributions that describe original and unpublished research, and should not be submitted for publication elsewhere. They are limited to 8 pages, must be written in English, and the format should adhere to the A4 double column IEEE style. Please prepare your manuscripts with respect to the IEEE guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2017. The proceedings of the TASE 2017 symposium will include all accepted papers and will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. As usual, we are now contacting the journal of Science of Computer Programming, and hopefully selected papers will be invited after the symposium to submit an extended version to a journal special issue Science of Computer Programming. **************************************************************************** **

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ETAPS 2017 call for participation
by Tarmo Uustalu 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2017 20th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2017 Uppsala, Sweden, 22-29 April 2017 http://www.etaps.org/2017 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2017 is the twentieth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (24-28 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands, and Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Javier Esparza, Technische Universität München, Germany, Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick, UK) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Matteo Maffei, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, Mark D. Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France, and Tiziana Margaria, LERO, Ireland) TACAS '17 hosts the 6th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Michael Ernst (University of Washington, USA) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Joel Ouaknine (University of Oxford, UK) * TACAS invited speaker: Dino Distefano (Facebook and Queen Mary University of London, UK) -- UNIFYING PUBLIC LECTURE Serge Abiteboul (DI, INRIA Paris & ENS Cachan, France) -- INVITED TUTORIALS Véronique Cortier (LORIA, CRNS, France) Kenneth McMillan (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- See the accepted paper lists at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (22-23 April, 29 April) -- 17 satellite workshops and other events will take place before or after ETAPS 2017. Check their calls for papers and consider contributing! DICE-FOPARA, GaLoP, GaM, SynCop-PV, VerifyThis (22-23 April) FESCA, SNR (22 April) HotSpot, MBT, QAPL, SannellaFest (23 April) BX, CREST, LiVe, MARS, PLACES, VPT (29 April) -- REGISTRATION -- Early registration is until Sunday, 12 March 2017 (23:59 GMT+1). http://www.etaps.org/2017/registration -- ACCOMMODATION -- The organizers have negotiated special rates from several hotels in Uppsala. To benefit from those, follow the instructions on the conference website. The offers expire on different dates. -- HOST CITY -- Uppsala city holds a rich history, having for long periods been the political, religious and academic centre of Sweden. Uppsala University is over 500 years old and ranked among the top 100 in the World and has hosted many great scientists over the years, for instance Carl von Linné, Anders Celsius and Anders Jonas Ångström. The proximity to the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, provides additional benefits as a potential site for arranging both pre- and post congress tours, as well as for excursions or tourism. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2017 is hosted by the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. -- ORGANIZERS Parosh Abdulla (General chair), Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Andreina Francisco, Kaj Lampka, Philipp Rümmer, Konstantinos Sagonas, Björn Victor, Wang Yi, Tjark Weber, Yunyun Zhu

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Announce: Haskell Platform 8.0.2
by Gershom B 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of Haskell Platform 8.0.2 Now available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ This includes GHC 8.0.2, cabal-install 1.24.0.2, and stack 1.3.2, all with many bugfixes and improvements since the last platform release. This platform release we've cleaned up the webpage a bit, and renamed the "minimal" distribution to the "core" distribution to highlight that it is the recommended approach (and simplified the accompanying text). A number of improvements have been made to the windows installer -- notably the /S option for silent install is now in fully working order, and we have the flags /STACK and /D (for stack and platform-ghc install paths). The installer expects no quoting of paths, even with spaces within the paths, like so: HaskellPlatform-8.0.2-full-x86_64-setup.exe /S /STACK=c:\My install path for stack\local\bin /D=c:\program files\Haskell\Platform\8.0.2 There is also an updated version of msys2 included, which includes pacman, et al. to ease the installation of libraries with more complex foreign dependencies. Changes to Contents: * As a result of transitive dependencies of platform packages, the integer-logarithms and call-stack packages have been added to the full platform. A full list of contents is available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html Thanks to all the contributors to this release, thanks to all the package and tool maintainers and authors, and a big thanks to the GHC team for all their hard work. A list of new GHC changes is available at: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/ghc-8.0.2-released A list of cabal changes is available at: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-1.24.0.2/changelog The new cabal documentation page is at: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ A list of stack changes is at: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/ChangeLog/ Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom (Note -- one feature we have not implemented yet for the platform but would like to is a generic linux installer that allows one to set a custom location and does not require root. Anyone who would like to volunteer to help with this, please get in touch!)

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Extended Deadline CFP- DCOSS 2017 (Ottawa, Canada)
by Robson De Grande 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

================================================== IMPORTANT: Extended Deadline: Paper Submission (Extended): January 23rd, 2017 =================================================== =================================================== Call-For-Papers: 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2017) Ottawa, Canada, June 5 - 7, 2017 http://www.dcoss.org/ ==================================================== DCOSS 2017 is the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Ottawa, Canada in June 5-7, 2017. Due to their potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The focus of DCOSS series of conferences is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked sensor systems, including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing. DCOSS puts together a highly selective program where it primes for quality and innovation on works. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Social networks and applications Sensors for smart grid systems, green networks and sustainability Computation and programming models Energy models, minimization, awareness Distributed collaborative information processing Detection and tracking Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability Abstractions for modular design Fault tolerance and security Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration Dynamic resource management Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation Design automation and application synthesis techniques Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation Case studies: lessons from real world deployments Network coding and compression Paper Submission and Publication: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Please submit your paper through EDAS link (https://edas.info/N23046) More detailed instructions about paper submissions can be fount at the link below. - http://www.dcoss.org/ IMPORTANT: Extended Deadline: Paper Submission (Extended): January 23rd, 2017 Organizing Committee: GENERAL CHAIR Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia Soumaya Charkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

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[ANN] Help wanted: Vty contributors on Windows
by Jonathan Daugherty 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Hi, With some recent requests for Windows support in Vty[1], I'm looking for folks who are interested in working on the Vty library and getting it working on Windows (Cygwin) systems. Anyone interested in contributing should contact me! Thanks, [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vty -- Jonathan Daugherty

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Call for Participation: BOB 2017 (February 24, Berlin)
by Stefan Wehr 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Reminder: early registration ends this Monday! ================================================================ BOB 2017 Conference "What happens if we simply use what's best?" February 24, 2017 Berlin http://bobkonf.de/2017/ Program: http://bobkonf.de/2017/program.html Registration: http://bobkonf.de/2017/registration.html ================================================================ BOB is the conference for developers, architects and decision-makers to explore technologies beyond the mainstream in software development, and to find the best tools available to software developers today. Our goal is for all participants of BOB to return home with new insights that enable them to improve their own software development experiences. The program features 14 talks and 8 tutorials on current topics: http://bobkonf.de/2017/program.html The subject range of talks includes functional programming, advanced front-end development, and sophisticated uses of types. The tutorials feature introductions to Haskell, Swift, PureScript, React, QuickCheck, Agda, CRDTs and Servant. John Hughes will give the keynote talk. Registration is open online: http://bobkonf.de/2017/registration.html NOTE: The early-bird rates expire on January 23, 2017! BOB cooperates with the :clojured conference on the following day. There is a registration discount available for participants of both events. http://www.clojured.de/

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TYPES 2017 call for contributions
by Ambrus Kaposi 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 23rd International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs, TYPES 2017 and EUTYPES Cost Action CA15123 meeting Budapest, Hungary, 29 May - 1 June 2017 http://types2017.elte.hu BACKGROUND The TYPES meetings are a forum to present new and on-going work in all aspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalised and computer assisted reasoning and computer programming. The TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * applications of type theory; * dependently typed programming; * industrial uses of type theory technology; * meta-theoretic studies of type systems; * proof assistants and proof technology; * automation in computer-assisted reasoning; * links between type theory and functional programming; * formalizing mathematics using type theory. We encourage talks proposing new ways of applying type theory. In the spirit of workshops, talks may be based on newly published papers, work submitted for publication, but also work in progress. The EUTypes Cost Action CA15123 (eutypes.cs.ru.nl) focuses on the same research topics as TYPES and partially sponsors the TYPES Conference: May 31 - June 1 are supported by and organised under the auspices of EUTypes. INVITED SPEAKERS * Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) * Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) * Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund) CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks. Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2017. Important dates: * submission of 2 pp abstract: 13 March 2017 * notified of acceptance/rejection: 10 April 2017 * camera-ready version of abstract: 2 May 2017 Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution at the workshop. POST-PROCEEDINGS Similarly to TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2016, we intend to publish a post-proceedings volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series (subject to successful negotiation with Dagstuhl Publishing). Submission to that volume would be open for everyone. Tentative submission deadline: September 2017. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Andreas Abel (Chalmers University Gothenburg) * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) * Jose Espirito Santo (University of Minho) * Fredrik Forsberg (University of Strathclyde) * Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) * Hugo Herbelin (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) * Ambrus Kaposi (Eötvös Loránd University) (co-chair) * Tamás Kozsik (Eötvös Loránd University) (co-chair) * Assia Mahboubi (INRIA Paris) * Alexandre Miquel (University of the Republic, Urugay) * Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) * Keiko Nakata (FireEye, Dresden) * Andrew Polonsky (University Paris Diderot) * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Università di Torino) * Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) * Wouter Swierstra (Utrecht University) * Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology) TYPES STEERING COMMITTEE Marc Bezem, Herman Geuvers (chair), Hugo Herbelin, Zhaohui Luo, Ralph Matthes, Bengt Nordström, Andrew Polonsky, Aleksy Schubert, Tarmo Uustalu. ABOUT TYPES The TYPES meetings from 1990 to 2008 were annual workshops of a sequence of five EU funded networking projects. From 2009 to 2015, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. From 2016, TYPES is partially supported by COST Action EUTypes CA15123. Previous TYPES meetings were held in Antibes (1990), Edinburgh (1991), Båstad (1992), Nijmegen (1993), Båstad (1994), Torino (1995), Aussois (1996), Kloster Irsee (1998), Lökeberg (1999), Durham (2000), Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (2002), Torino (2003), Jouy-en-Josas near Paris (2004), Nottingham (2006), Cividale del Friuli (2007), Torino (2008), Aussois (2009), Warsaw (2010), Bergen (2011), Toulouse (2013), Paris (2014), Tallinn (2015), Novi Sad (2016). CONTACT Email: info(a)types2017.elte.hu Organisers: Ambrus Kaposi, Tamás Kozsik, András Kovács and the Department of Programming Languages and Compilers at the Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

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<Programming> 2017: Final call for workshop, symposium, demo & poster submissions
by Tim Molderez 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- <Programming> 2017 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 3-6, 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://2017.programming-conference.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Final call for submissions to all co-located events at the <Programming> 2017 conference: - ELS 2017 - 10th European Lisp Symposium - Modularity 2017 Invited talks - International Symposium on Modularity - **Updated** ACM Student Research Competition / <Programming> 2017 Posters - **NEW** <Programming> 2017 Demos - **NEW** CoCoDo 2017 - Raincode Labs Compiler Coding Dojo - LASSY 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems - **NEW** MiniPLoP 2017 - Mini Pattern Languages of Programs writers' workshop - **Updated** MOMO 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling - MoreVMs 2017 - 1st Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs - PASS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack - PX 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Programming Experience - ProWeb 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web - Salon des Refusés 2017 - 1st edition of the Salon des Refusés workshop All co-located events will take place during April 3-4 2017. CFPs for each of these events are listed below. (apart from Modularity 2017, which is invitation-based) **************************************************************** ELS 2017 - 10th European Lisp Symposium Submissions: Mon 30 Jan 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 Symposium date: Mon Apr 3 - Tue Apr 4 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/els-2017 **************************************************************** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The 10th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: * Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming * Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches * Language design and implementation * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment * Development methodologies, support and environments * Educational approaches and perspectives * Experience reports and case studies ******************************************************************** ACM Student Research Competition / <Programming> 2017 Posters Submissions **extended** : Mon 30 Jan 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/programming-posters ******************************************************************** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to up-and-coming young researchers, and offers them an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help sharpen communication and networking skills. ACM’s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to an SRC. See our website for requirements and further details. Please note that, while the SRC involves a poster session, there also is a regular poster session that isn't part of a competition. Submissions for this regular session are due March 3rd. *********************************************************************** ‹Programming› 2017 Demos Submissions: Fri 3 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/programming-2017-Demos *********************************************************************** Demonstrations will be selected on the basis of technical merit, relevance, and novelty of presentation at <Programming>. They can include work in progress, commercial or in-house applications, proofs of concept, results of academic or industrial research, or any other innovative programming tools or systems. We encourage authors of accepted papers to co-located workshops and main conferences also submit a demo proposal. We hope that this will give them the opportunity to show their work in action, and increase the visibility of their results. We suggest to cite the paper in the demo abstract. **************************************************************** CoCoDo 2017 - Raincode Labs Compiler Coding Dojo Coding dojo date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 https://cocodo.github.io **************************************************************** CoCoDo is a coding dojo where you can enjoy an entire day of compiler programming under gentle guidance of field experts. Compiler construction comprises, but is not limited to, lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, preprocessing, context handling, code generation, code optimisation, virtual machines, interpreters, smell detection, clone management, portability, migration, refactoring, domain-specific language design, linking and loading, assembling and disassembling, generics and reflection, numerous paradigms and so much more. If you are interested in participating, please contact Vadim Zaytsev: vadim(a)raincodelabs.com ****************************************************************** LASSY 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems Submissions: Fri 3 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 3 Mar 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/LASSY-2017-papers ****************************************************************** When developing current-day software systems, their deployment and usage environments should be considered carefully, in order to understand the adaptations those systems might need to undergo to interact with other systems and with their environment. Moreover, due to the portability, mobility and increasingly evolutionary nature of software systems, such adaptations should be enacted even while the system is running. Developing such software systems can prove challenging, and many seemingly different techniques to address this concern have been proposed over the last couple of years. The intention of the LASSY workshop is to congregate all topics relevant to dynamic adaptation and run-time evolution of software systems, ranging from a computer science perspective covering the domains of programming languages, model-driven software development, software and service composition, context-aware databases, software variability, requirements engineering, UI adaptation and other domains, to a human perspective covering sociological or ethical implications of dynamic software systems. The workshop provides a space for discussion and collaboration between researchers working on the problem of enabling live adaptations to software systems, across the development stack. Topics of Interest: * Design and Implementation of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Context-, aspect-, feature-, role- and agent-oriented programming * Context representation and discovery * Context-aware model-driven software development * Context-aware data management * Software variability and dynamic product lines * Self-adaptive, self-explanatory systems * Inconsistency management, verification, and validation * Middleware and Runtime of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Dynamic software evolution, upgrades and configuration * Dynamic software and service composition mechanisms * Dynamic software architecture and middleware approaches * Dynamic user interface adaptation and multimodal user interfaces * Impact and Assessment of Live Adaptive Software Systems * User acceptance and usability issues * Human, sociological, ethical and legal aspects * Privacy and security aspects of dynamic adaptability * Live adaptation in smart environments (e.g. smart rooms, smart robot cells, smart factories, smart cities) * Self-adaptation and emergence in SoS and CPSoS ********************************************************************** MiniPLoP 2017 - Mini Pattern Languages of Programs writers' workshop Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/MiniPLoP-2017-papers ********************************************************************** Software developers and those involved with programming have long observed that certain patterns recur and endure across different applications and systems. The growing interest in Design Patterns, Architectural Patterns, Analysis Patterns, Pedagogical Patterns, Agile Patterns, and so on, represents an effort to catalog and better communicate knowledge, providing handbooks of proven solutions to common problems. The MiniPLoP writers' workshop brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners whose interests span a remarkably broad range of topics and who share an interest in exploring the power of the pattern form. MiniPLoP invites you to add your expertise to the growing corpus of patterns. MiniPLoP focuses on improving the expression of patterns. You will have the opportunity to refine and extend your patterns or pattern ideas with the help from knowledgeable and sympathetic fellow pattern enthusiasts. You will also be able to discuss applications of patterns in industry and academia. Techniques for Pattern Mining will also be presented. Highlights include group discussions on patterns, an introduction to pattern writing, an international keynote, and the writers’ workshop. This MiniPLoP at <Programming> 2017 has the goal to help beginners learn more about the pattern community. If you have some patterns or pattern ideas you would like to have brainstormed or workshopped, please contact the organizers at: miniplop2017(a)hillside.net **************************************************************** MOMO 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling Abstract submissions (optional) **extended** : Sun Feb 5 2017 Paper submissions **extended** : Sun Feb 12 2017 Notifications: Wed Feb 22 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://www.momo2017.ece.mcgill.ca/cfp.htm **************************************************************** Extending the time-honored practice of separation of concerns, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) promotes the use of separate models to address the various concerns in the development of complex software-intensive systems. The main objective is to choose the right level of abstraction to modularize a concern, specify its properties and reason about the system under development depending on stakeholder and development needs. While some of these models can be defined with a single modelling language, a variety of heterogeneous models and languages are typically used in the various phases of software development. Furthermore, Domain-Specific Modelling Languages designed to address particular concerns are also increasingly used. Despite the power of abstraction of modelling, models of real-world problems and systems quickly grow to such an extent that managing the complexity by using proper modularization techniques becomes necessary. As a result, many (standard) modelling notations have been extended with aspect-oriented mechanisms and advanced composition operators to support advanced separation of concerns, to combine (possibly heterogeneous) models modularizing different concerns, to execute an application based on modularized models, and to reason over global properties of modularized models. The Second International Modularity in Modelling Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the theoretical and practical challenges resulting from applying modularity, advanced separation of concerns, and advanced composition at the modelling level. It is intended to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the impact of the use of modularization in the context of MDE at different levels of abstraction. We are interested in submissions on all topics related to modularity and modelling including but not limited to: * Modularization Support in Modelling Languages and Tools * Model Interfaces * Homogeneous Model Composition Operators * Heterogeneous Model Composition Operators * Visualization of Modularized and Composed Models * Effects of Using Modularization and Composition in Modelling * On Verification and Validation * On Reuse * On the Model-Driven Software Development Process (Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Design, Implementation) * On Maintenance * Experience Reports / Empirical Evaluations of Applying Modularization and Composition in Modelling * Feature-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented and Concern-Oriented Modelling * Modularization support and composition operators for specific modelling notations * Modelling essential characteristics of specific (crosscutting) concerns * Multi-View Modelling: avoiding inconsistencies, avoiding Redundancies * Support for Detecting and/or Resolution of Feature Interactions * Domain-Specific Modelling * Modularization for Domain-Specific Languages * Composition for Domain-Specific Languages * Domain-specific Aspect Models ****************************************************************************** MoreVMs 2017 - 1st Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2017-papers ****************************************************************************** The main goal of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners and facilitate effective sharing of their respective experiences and ideas on how languages and runtimes are utilized and where they need to improve further. 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. Relevant topics include, but are definitely not limited to, the following: * Extensible VM design (compiler- or interpreter-based VMs) * Reusable runtime components (e.g. interpreters, garbage collectors, intermediate representations) * Static and dynamic compiler techniques * Techniques for compilation to high-level languages such as JavaScript * Runtimes and mechanisms for interoperability between languages * Tooling support (e.g. debugging, profiling, etc.) * Programming language development environments and virtual machines * Case studies of existing language implementations, virtual machines, and runtime components (e.g. design choices, tradeoffs, etc.) * Language implementation challenges and trade-offs (e.g. performance, completeness, etc.) * Surveys and applications usage reports to understand runtime usage in the wild * Surveys on frameworks and their impact on runtime usage * New research ideas on how we want to build languages in the future ************************************************************************** PASS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack Submissions: Mon 13 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 Workshop date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/PASS-2017#Call-for-Papers ************************************************************************** The landscape of computation platforms has changed dramatically in recent years. Emerging systems - such as wearable devices, smartphones, unmanned aerial vehicles, Internet of things, cloud computing servers, heterogeneous clusters, and data centers - pose a distinct set of system-oriented challenges ranging from data throughput, energy efficiency, security, real-time guarantees, to high performance. In the meantime, code quality, such as modularity or extensibility, remains a cornerstone in modern software engineering, bringing in crucial benefits such as modular reasoning, program understanding, and collaborative software development. Current methodologies and software development technologies should be revised in order to produce software to meet system-oriented goals, while preserving high internal code quality. The role of the Software Engineer is essential, having to be aware of the implications that each design, architecture and implementation decision has on the application system ecosystem. This workshop is driven by one fundamental question: How does internal code quality interact with system-oriented goals? We welcome both positive and negative responses to this question. An example of the former would be modular reasoning systems specifically designed to promote system-oriented goals, whereas an example of the latter would be anti-patterns against system-oriented goals during software development. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Energy-aware software engineering (e.g. energy efficiency models, energy efficiency as a quality attribute) * Modularity support (e.g., programming language design, development tools or verification) for applications in resource-constrained or real-time systems * Emerging platforms (e.g., Internet of Things and wearable devices) * Security support (e.g., compositional information flow, compositional program analysis) * Software architecture for reusability and adaptability in systems and their interactions with applications * Empirical studies (patterns and anti-patterns) on the relationship between internal code quality and system-oriented goals * Software engineering techniques to balance the trade-off between internal code quality and efficiency * Memory bloats and long-tail performance problems across modular boundaries * Program optimization across modular boundaries * Internal code quality in systems software * Reasoning across applications, compilers, and virtual machines **************************************************************** PX 2017 - 2nd Programming Experience Workshop Submissions: Sat 4 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 Workshop date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 http://programming-experience.org/px17 **************************************************************** Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions—they need exploratory programming. The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it’s exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (“liveness”); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming. The technical topics include: * Exploratory programming * Live programming * Authoring * Representation of active content * Visualization * Navigation * Modularity mechanisms * Immediacy * Literacy * Fluency * Learning * Tool building * Language engineering ************************************************************************* ProWeb 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 Workshop date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers ************************************************************************* Full-fledged web applications have become ubiquitous on desktop and mobile devices alike. Whereas “responsive” web applications already offered a more desktop-like experience, there is an increasing demand for “rich” web applications (RIAs) that offer collaborative and even off-line functionality —Google docs being the prototypical example. Long gone are the days that web servers merely had to answer incoming HTTP request with a block of static HTML. Today’s servers react to a continuous stream of events coming from JavaScript applications that have been pushed to clients. As a result, application logic and data is increasingly distributed. Traditional dichotomies such as “client vs. server” and “offline vs. online” are fading. The 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, or ProWeb17, is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss new technology for programming these and future evolutions of the web. We welcome submissions introducing programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art programming technology. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses; code, design test and process metrics; development and migration tools; automated testing and test generation; contract systems, type systems, and web service API conformance checking; … * Hosting languages on the web: new runtimes; transpilation or compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, asm.js, … * Designing languages for the web: multi-tier (or tierless) programming; reactive programming; frameworks for multi-tier or reactive programming on the web; … * Distributed data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, … * Security on the web: client-side and server-side security policies; policy enforcement; proxies and membranes; vulnerability detection; dynamic patching, … * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology (e.g., WebAssembly, WebSocket, LocalStorage, AppCache, ServiceWorkers, Meteor, deepstream.io, Angular.js, React and React Native, Swarm.js, Caja, TypeScript, Proxies, ClojureScript, Amber Smalltalk, Scala.js, …) * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web; how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, … * Position statements on what the future of the web will look like **************************************************************** Salon des Refusés 2017 Submissions: Wed 1 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 17 Feb 2017 Workshop date: Tue 4 Apr 2017 https://refuses.github.io **************************************************************** Salon des Refusés (“exhibition of rejects”) was an 1863 exhibition of artworks rejected from the official Paris Salon. The jury of Paris Salon required near-photographic realism and classified works according to a strict genre hierarchy. Paintings by many, later famous, modernists such as Édouard Manet were rejected and appeared in what became known as the Salon des Refusés. This workshop aims to be the programming language research equivalent of Salon des Refusés. We provide a venue for exploring new ideas and new ways of doing computer science. Many interesting ideas about programming might struggle to find space in the modern programming language research community, often because they are difficult to evaluate using established evaluation methods (be it proofs, measurements or controlled user studies). As a result, new ideas are often seen as “unscientific”. This workshop provides a venue where such interesting and thought-provoking ideas can be exposed to critical evaluation. Submissions that provoke interesting discussion among the program committee members will be published together with an attributed review that presents an alternative position, develops additional context or summarizes discussion from the workshop. This means of engaging with papers not just enables explorations of novel programming ideas, but also encourages new ways of doing computer science. Topics of interest The scope of the workshop is determined more by the format of submissions than by the specific area of programming language or computer science research that we are interested in. We welcome submissions in a format that makes it possible to think about programming in a new way, including, but not limited to: * Thought experiments – we believe that thought experiments, analogies and illustrative metaphors can provide novel insights and inspire fruitful programming language ideas. * Experimentation – we find prejudices in favour of theory, as far back as there is institutionalized science, but programming can often be seen more as experimentation than as theorizing. We welcome interesting experiments even if there is yet no overarching theory that explains why they happened. * Paradigms – all scientific work is rooted in a scientific paradigm that frame what questions can be asked. We encourage submissions that reflect on existing paradigms or explore alternative scientific paradigms. * Metaphors, myths and analogies – any description of formal, mathematical, quantitative or even poetical nature still represents just an analogy. We believe that fruitful ideas can be learned from less common forms of analogies as well as from the predominant, formal and mathematical ones. * From jokes to science fiction – a story or an artistic performance may explore ideas and spark conversations that provide crucial inspiration for development of new computer science thinking.

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ProWeb 2017: 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web
by Tim Molderez 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

ProWeb 2017: 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers Co-located with the <Programming> conference April 4, Brussels, Belgium ==================== Full-fledged web applications have become ubiquitous on desktop and mobile devices alike. Whereas “responsive” web applications already offered a more desktop-like experience, there is an increasing demand for “rich” web applications (RIAs) that offer collaborative and even off-line functionality —Google docs being the prototypical example. Long gone are the days that web servers merely had to answer incoming HTTP request with a block of static HTML. Today’s servers react to a continuous stream of events coming from JavaScript applications that have been pushed to clients. As a result, application logic and data is increasingly distributed. Traditional dichotomies such as “client vs. server” and “offline vs. online” are fading. ** Call for Papers ** The 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, or ProWeb17, is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss new technology for programming these and future evolutions of the web. We welcome submissions introducing programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art programming technology. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses; code, design test and process metrics; development and migration tools; automated testing and test generation; contract systems, type systems, and web service API conformance checking; ... * Hosting languages on the web: new runtimes; transpilation or compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, asm.js, ... * Designing languages for the web: multi-tier (or tierless) programming; reactive programming; frameworks for multi-tier or reactive programming on the web; ... * Distributed data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, ... * Security on the web: client-side and server-side security policies; policy enforcement; proxies and membranes; vulnerability detection; dynamic patching, ... * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web; how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, .. * Position statements on what the future of the web should look like We solicit three kinds of submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proweb2017 - 6-page **technical papers** and **experience reports** that, when accepted, will be published in the workshop post-proceedings as part of of the ACM’s Digital Library. - 3-page **position statements** that, when accepted, will be published in the workshop post-proceedings as part of of the ACM’s Digital Library. - 1-page **presentation abstracts** that, when accepted, will be made available on the website. Submissions must follow the ACM Master Article Template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, sigconf option, 9 point font, Times New Roman font family, numeric citation style). Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We welcome submissions that identify new problems, or report on promising ideas in early stages of research. Submissions of the third kind are ideal to further disseminate existing ideas within the community, to demonstrate existing tools, or simply to instigate a discussion. More information: http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers ** Important dates (AoE) ** - Submission deadline: Wed 15 Feb 2017 - Author notification: Wed 1 Mar 2017 - Camera-ready version: Wed 15 Mar 2017 ** Organizers ** - Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Anders Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark - Christophe Scholliers, Universiteit Gent, Belgium ** Program Committee ** - Vincent Balat, Université Paris Diderot, France - Nataliia Bielova, Inria, France - Avid Chaudhuri, Facebook, United States of America - Tobias Distiler, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - Jan Martin Jansen, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands - Frank Piessens, iMinds, Belgium - Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Michael Pradel, TU Darmstadt, Germany - Andreas Rossberg, Google, Germany - Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, South Korea - Manuel Serrano, Inria, France - Mario Südholt, Inria, France - Tom Van Cutsem, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium - Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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