ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2018 November 4-9, 2018 Boston, MA, USA http://2018.splashcon.org The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Contributions: * SPLASH Workshops * PACMPL Issue OOPSLA * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * SPLASH-E * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition * Student Volunteers ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2018 will host a variety of high quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. Submissions are currently being accepted on “a rolling basis” with 6 out of 15 available slots already filled by the middle of January. The rolling call will close on Sat March 3, 2018. http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Workshops ## PACMPL Issue OOPSLA Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Mon, April 16, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-OOPSLA ## Onward! Papers Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions due: Mon, April 23, 2018 https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-papers ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions due: Mon, April 23, 2018 https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-Onward-Essays ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS)
From Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects of Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages.
Submissions due: Sun, July 1, 2018 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-18/index.html ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (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 (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Fri, June 29, 2018 Submissions due: Fri, July 6, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. SLE 2018 solicits high quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri, June 29, 2018 Submissions due: Fri, July 6, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/sle-2018/papers ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact at any desired level of detail. To further facilitate, we will also host 15-minute demo sessions for interested presenters. The poster session and demo presentations are held early in the conference to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: Sat, September 22, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Posters ## Doctoral Symposium The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. Submissions due: Fri, July 20, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition 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 at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Submissions due: Fri, July 27, 2018 https://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Student-Research-Competition ## Student Volunteers The SPLASH Student Volunteers program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Detailed information on how to apply will be available on the main conference page in March 2018. Estimated deadline for the SV applications will be towards the end of September 2018. https://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Student-Volunteers ## Information Contact: publicity@splashcon.org Website: http://2018.splashcon.org Location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel Boston, MA USA ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) OOPSLA Program Chair: * Manu Sridharan (Uber) Onward! Papers Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Onward! Essays Chair: * Richard P. Gabriel (Dream Songs, Inc & HPI) DLS Program Chair: * Tim Felgentreff (Oracle Labs, Potsdam) GPCE General Chair: * Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota) GPCE Program Chair: * Tiark Rompf (Purdue University) SLE General Chair: * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Tanja Mayerhofer (TU Wien) * Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversität) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Karim Ali (University of Alberta) * Michael Carbin (MIT) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) OOPLSA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Posters Co-Chairs: * Paley Li (Czech Technical University in Prague) * Konrad Siek (Czech Technical University in Prague) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox) * Jay McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Juliana Franco (Imperial College London) * Petr Maj (ReactorLabs) Publications Chair: * Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen) * Fabio Niephaus (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Celeste Hollenbeck (Northeastern University) Housing Chair: * Ben Greenman (Northeastern University) Diversity Chair: * Etiene Dalcol (Red Badger) Accessibility Chair: * Justin Slepak (Northeastern University) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Tocker Taft (AdaCore) * Heather Miller (Northeastern University) Video Co-Chairs: * Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University) * Leif Andersen (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs: * Aviral Goel (Northeastern University) * Filip Krikava (Czech Technical University)