C A L L F O R P A P E R S === P E P M 2013 === ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM13 January 20-21, 2013 Rome, Italy (Affiliated with POPL 2013) ==================================================================== NEWS - Submission deadline: September 28 (abstract) and October 2 (paper) - Invited speakers: Zhenjiang Hu and Peter Thiemann - Special issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) (5-Year Impact Factor of SCP: 1.304) ==================================================================== SCOPE The PEPM Symposium/Workshop series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of program manipulation, partial evaluation, and program generation. PEPM focuses on techniques, theory, tools, and applications of analysis and manipulation of programs. The 2013 PEPM workshop will be based on a broad interpretation of semantics-based program manipulation and continue recent years' successful effort to expand the scope of PEPM significantly beyond the traditionally covered areas of partial evaluation and specialization and include practical applications of program transformations such as refactoring tools, and practical implementation techniques such as rule-based transformation systems. In addition, the scope of PEPM covers manipulation and transformations of program and system representations such as structural and semantic models that occur in the context of model-driven development. In order to reach out to practitioners, a separate category of tool demonstration papers will be solicited. Topics of interest for PEPM'13 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. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC programme, see its web page. All accepted papers, short papers included, will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM Press. In addition to printed proceedings, accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited for a journal special issue of Science of Computer Programming dedicated to PEPM'13. PEPM has established a Best Paper award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. Authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the extent transferable), but retain various rights. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. The SIGPLAN Republication Policy and ACM's Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism apply. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: September 25, 2012 Paper submission: October 2, 2012 Notification: November 6, 2012 Camera ready: November 14, 2012 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, CATEGORIES, AND PROCEEDINGS Regular Research Papers must not exceed 10 pages in ACM Proceedings style. Tool demonstration papers must not exceed 4 pages in ACM Proceedings style. At least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Suggested topics, evaluation criteria, and writing guidelines for both research and tool demonstration papers will be made available on the PEPM'13 Web-site. Papers should be submitted electronically via the workshop web site. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) PEPM 2013 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Maria Alpuente (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) * Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, Japan) * Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash University, Australia) * James R. Cordy (Queen's University, Canada) * R. Kent Dybvig (Cisco and Indiana University, USA) * Joao Fernandes (University of Minho, Portugal) * Samir Genaim (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) * Roberto Giacobazzi (Verona University, Italy) * Andy Gill (University of Kansas, USA) * Jurriaan Hage (Utrecht University, Netherlands) * Martin Hofmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) * Julia Lawall (INRIA, France) * Yanhong Annie Liu (Stony Brook University, USA) * Kazutaka Matsuda (University of Tokyo, Japan) * Keisuke Nakano (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) * Klaus Ostermann (University of Marburg, Germany) * Sergei A. Romanenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) * Jeremy Siek (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) * Walid Mohamed Taha (Halmstad University, Sweden) * Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) * Janis Voigtlaender (University of Bonn, Germany) * Dana N. Xu (INRIA, France)