12th BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES <http://www.lia.ufc.br/sblp2008> http://www.lia.ufc.br/sblp2008 Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil August 27-29, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS The 12th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, SBLP 2008, will be held in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, on August 27-29, 2008. SBLP provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in the fundamental principles and innovations in the design and implementation of programming languages and systems. SBLP 2008 invites authors to contribute with Technical Papers and Tutorial Proposals related (but not limited) to: * Programming language design and implementation * Formal semantics of programming languages * Theoretical foundations of programming languages * Design and implementation of programming language environments * Object-oriented programming languages * Functional programming * Aspect-oriented programming languages * Scripting languages * Domain-specific languages * Programming languages for mobile, web and network computing * New programming models * Program transformations * Program analysis and verification * Compilation and interpretation techniques Contributions can be written in Portuguese or English. Papers should have at most 14 pages. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers will appear in a Special Issue of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). Only papers written in English are eligible to be published in JUCS. Papers should be presented in the language of submission. Tutorial submissions must be in the form of an extended abstract with at most 10 pages. The final version of accepted tutorials should contain at most 30 pages. This final version will be distributed to attendees. An abstract of the tutorial (1-2 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings. Detailed submission guidelines are available at <http://www.lia.ufc.br/sblp2008> http://www.lia.ufc.br/sblp2008. IMPORTANT DATES Paper abstract submission (15 lines): March 28, 2008 Full paper submission: April 4, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 6, 2008 Final papers due: June 30, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR Francisco Heron de Carvalho Junior, UFC PROGRAMME CHAIRS Marco Tulio Valente, PUC Minas Peter Mosses, Swansea University PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Univ. de La Republica Alex Garcia, IME Alfio Martini, PUC-RS Alvaro Freitas Moreira, UFRGS Andre Rauber Du Bois, UCPel Andre Santos, UFPE Carlos Camarao, UFMG Christiano Braga, Univ. Comp. de Madrid David Naumann, Stevens Tech Eric Tanter, Univ. of Chile Francisco Heron de Carvalho Junior, UFC Isabel Cafezeiro, UFF Johan Jeuring, Utrecht Univ. Joao Saraiva, Univ. do Minho Jose Guimaraes, UFSCAR Jose E. Labra Gayo, Univ. of Oviedo Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Univ. of Leicester Lucilia Figueiredo, UFOP Luis Soares Barbosa, Univ. do Minho Luis Carlos Meneses, UPE Marcelo A. Maia, UFU Mariza A. S. Bigonha, UFMG Martin A. Musicante, UFRN Nabor Mendonca,UNIFOR Nick Benton, Microsoft Research Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Paulo Borba, UFPE Rafael Dueire Lins, UFPE Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio Ricardo Massa Lima, UPE Roberto S. Bigonha, UFMG Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo, UNICAMP Sandro Rigo, UNICAMP Sergio de Mello Schneider, UFU Sergio Soares, UPE Sergiu Dascalu, Univ. of Nevada Simon Thompson, Univ. of Kent Varmo Vene, Univ. de Tartu Vitor Santos Costa, UFRJ Vladimir Di Iorio, UFV ORGANIZATION Brazilian Computer Society and Federal University of Ceara