Call for Papers: Computer Languages, Systems and Structures COMLAN Special Issue on the 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE'15) Papers will be selected among top ranked papers from GPCE'15: ACM SIGPLAN GPCE 2015 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences Oct 26-27, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA http://www.gpce.org GPCE keynote speaker: Prof. Priya Narasimhan (CMU, USA) GPCE is co-located with: ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH 2015) and ACM SIGPLAN 8th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES GPCE abstract submission : June 8, 2015 GPCE full paper submission: June 15, 2015 GPCE authors notification : July 24, 2015 GPCE camera-ready : Aug 7, 2015 GPCE conference : Oct 26-27, 2015 Special issue submission : January 1, 2016 Special issue notification: May 1, 2016 Special issue publication : July 1, 2016 Note that GPCE workshops are handled by SPLASH All dates are Anywhere on Earth ----------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST GPCE seeks contributions on all topics related to generative software and its properties. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Generative software * Domain-specific languages (language extension, language embedding, language design, language theory, language workbenches, interpreters, compilers) * Product lines (domain engineering, feature-oriented and aspect-oriented programming, pre-processors, feature interactions) * Metaprogramming (reflection, staging, partial evaluation), Type systems, Program synthesis * Implementation techniques and tool support (components, plug-ins, libraries, metaprogramming, macros, templates, generic programming, run-time code generation, model-driven development, composition tools, code-completion and code-recommendation systems) Practical Applications and Empirical evaluations * Empirical evaluations of all topics above (user studies, substantial case studies, controlled experiments, surveys, rigorous measurements) * Application areas and engineering practice (Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, Software Defined Networking, High Performance Computing, Patterns and Middleware, Development methods) Properties of generative software * Correctness of generators and generated code (analysis, testing, formal methods, domain-specific error messages, safety, security) * Reuse and evolution * Modularity, separation of concerns, understandability, and maintainability * Performance engineering, nonfunctional properties (program optimization and parallelization, GPGPUs, multicore, footprint, metrics) We particularly welcome papers that address some of the key challenges in the field, such as, * synthesizing code from declarative specifications * supporting extensible languages and language embedding * ensuring correctness and other nonfunctional properties of generated code * proving generators correct * improving error reporting with domain-specific error messages * reasoning about generators * handling variability-induced complexity in product lines * providing efficient interpreters and execution languages * human factors in developing and maintaining generators GPCE encourages submissions about empirical evaluations and applications of generative software, and such papers will be given special consideration during reviewing.