Universidade de São Paulo - ICMC/USP São Carlos, Brazil, September 20-21, 2018 Conference website http://www.sbc.org.br/cbsoft2018 Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018 SBLP 2018 is the 22nd edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages. It is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and constitutes a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use of programming languages. SBLP's first edition was in 1996. Since 2010, it is part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (http://cbsoft.org/cbsoft2018/). Submission Guidelines ________________________________________________________________________________ Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in English is strongly encouraged since the symposium proceedings are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018 The following paper categories are welcome (page limits include figures, references and appendices): Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column conference format, available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format, can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses. List of Topics (related but not limited to the following) ________________________________________________________________________________ • Programming paradigms and styles, scripting and domain-specific languages and support for real-time, service-oriented, multi-threaded, parallel, and distributed programming • Program generation and transformation • Formal semantics and theoretical foundations: denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical • Program analysis and verification, type systems, static analysis and abstract interpretation • Programming language design and implementation, programming language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques Publication ________________________________________________________________________________ SBLP proceedings will be published in ACM's digital library. As in previous editions, after the conference authors of selected regular papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in a journal's special issue. Since 2009, selected papers of each SBLP edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. Important dates ________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract submission: April 29th 2018 Paper submission: May 6th 2018 Author notification: June 22nd 2018 Camera ready deadline: July 8th 2018 Program Committee ________________________________________________________________________________ Mariza Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Roberto Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Andre R. Du Bois Universidade Federal de Pelotas Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Carlos Camarão Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (chair) Fernando Castor Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Renato Cerqueira IBM Research, Brazil João Fernandes Universidade de Coimbra João Ferreira Teesside University Lucília Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ismael Figueroa Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso Alex Garcia Instituto Militar de Engenharia Francisco Heron Universidade Federal do Ceará Roberto Ierusalimschy Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Yu David Liu State University of New York at Binghamton Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Heriot-Watt University Marcelo Maia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia André M. Maidl Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná Manuel A. Martins Universidade de Aveiro Fábio Mascarenhas Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Sérgio Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Victor Miraldo University of Utrecht Álvaro Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Anamaria M. Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Peter Mosses Swansea University Martin Musicante Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Alberto Pardo Universidad de la República Fernando Pereira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Gustavo Pinto Universidade Federal do Pará Louis-Noel Pouchet Ohio State University Zongyan Qiu Peking University Henrique Rêbelo Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Leonardo Reis Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Rodrigo Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Noemi Rodriguez Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Francisco Sant'Anna Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro João Saraiva Universidade do Minho Martin Sulzmann Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft (chair) Leopoldo Teixeira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Simon Thompson University of Kent Cristiano Vasconcellos Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina Varmo Vene University of Tartu Invited Speaker ________________________________________________________________________________ Martin Sulzmann, Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft, Germany Contact ________________________________________________________________________________ All questions about submissions should be emailed to Carlos Camarão (camarao@dcc.ufmg.br)