-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2018) November 5-6, 2018 Boston, MA, USA (co-located with SPLASH 2018) http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 29, 2018 * Submission of papers: July 6, 2018 * Paper notification: August 24, 2018 Submission site: https://gpce18.hotcrp.com/ KEYNOTE SPEAKER * Saman Amarasinghe, MIT, https://people.csail.mit.edu/saman/ Saman Amaraasinghe and his group at MIT have developed several domain-specific languages, including Halide, TACO, Simit, StreamIt, StreamJIT, PetaBricks, MILK, Cimple, and GraphIt, that target diverse areas such as image processing, stream computations, and graph analytics. In each, the innovative language abstractions are leveraged by sophisticated compilation techniques to generate exceptionally high performance. Dr. Amarasinghe has also pioneered the application of techniques from machine learning to compiler optimizations in systems such as Meta and the OpenTuner extensible autotuner. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER CATEGORIES GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords "Tool Demo" or "Tool Demonstration" in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors' own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. To understand the motivation for using a double-blind review process please see "Effectiveness of anonymization in double-blind review" by C. Le Goues, Y. Brun, S. Apel, E. Berger, S. Khurshid, Y. Smaragdakis at https://doi.org/10.1145/3208157. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce18.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota, USA, evw@umn.edu) Program Chair: Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, USA, tiark@purdue.edu) Program Committee Vander Alves, University of Brasilia Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University Martin Berger, University of Sussex Aggelos Biboudis, EPFL Eugene Burmako, Twitter Charisee Chiw, University of Chicago Dana Drachsler Cohen, ETH Zürich Sebastian Erdweg, TU Delft Robert Glück, DIKU Vinod Grover, NVIDIA Shoaib Kamil, Adobe Andrei Klimov, Keldysh Institute Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University Stefan Marr, University of Kent Sarah Nadi, University of Alberta Klaus Ostermann, University of Tübingen Oleksandr Polozov, Microsoft Research Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig Ulrik Pagh Schultz, University of Southern Denmark Chung-chieh Shan, Indiana University Jeremy Siek, Indiana University Alexander Slesarenko, Huawei Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University Tijs van der Storm, CWI Walid Taha, Halmstad University Kanae Tsushima, NII Jeremy Yallopp, University of Cambridge