[Sorry for multiple copies] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS =============== SAC'04 - ACM 2004 SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING March 14-17, 2004 Nicosia, Cyprus Technical Track on "Programming Languages" <Track Chairs> Chang-Hyun Jo <jo@ecs.fullerton.edu> California State University, Fullerton, USA Marjan Mernik <marjan.mernik@uni-mb.si> University of Maribor, Slovenia Barrett Bryant < bryant@cis.uab.edu> The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA SAC '04 Over the past eighteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2004 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). For additional information, please check the SAC web page: "http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2004". This document is also available at "http://www.ecs.fullerton.edu/~jo/sac/" and "http://www.ecs.fullerton.edu/~jo/sac/sac2004-PL-CFP.pdf". PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (PL) Track A technical track on Programming Languages will be held at SAC'04. It will be a forum for engineers, researchers and practitioners throughout the world to share technical ideas and experiences relating to implementation and application of programming languages. Original papers and experience reports are invited in all areas of programming languages. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Compiling Techniques Domain-Specific Languages Formal Semantics and Syntax Garbage Collection Language Design and Implementation New Programming Language Ideas and Concepts New Programming Paradigms Practical Experiences with Programming Languages Program Analysis and Verification Program Generation and Transformation Programming Languages from All Paradigms (Agent-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented, Functional, Logic, Object-Oriented, etc.) Visual Programming Languages GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development relevant to the theme of the track. This includes the following categories of submissions: 1) Original and unpublished research work, 2) Reports of innovative applications to the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas, 3) Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains, 4) Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. Expanded versions of the accepted papers will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review. A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings. The following submission guidelines must be strictly followed: * Submit the original manuscripts in an electronic format to: <sacpl@ecs.fullerton.edu>. The file format should be PDF. The title of the submission should be the last name of the first author (e.g., If the first author is John Smith then the submission should be titled as "smith.pdf"). * The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. * A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent. This sheet should also be submitted in an electronic format to <sacpl@ecs.fullerton.edu> and it should be titled as "smith-cover.pdf". * The body of paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced, 12-point size). You may refer to the final copy format at "http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html". The total number of final pages without any extra page charge will be 5. * An abstract including the title of the paper at the beginning (without having any author's information) as a separate text file should be submitted. It should be titled as "smith-abstract.txt" * Submit a cover page (PDF format), a manuscript (PDF format) and an abstract (TEXT format) as attachments to your email. Your submission email text should include the author(s) name(s), the title, and a contact point (name and email address) you prefer. * All submissions must be received by September 6, 2003. IMPORTANT DATES September 6, 2003: Paper Submissions October 18, 2003: Author Notification November 8, 2003: Camera-Ready Copy March 14-17, 2004: Conference at Nicosia, Cyprus The SAC 2004 Programming Language Track Program Committee Members Mikhail Auguston, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Kyung-Goo Doh, Hanyang University, Korea Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy Tim Harris, Cambridge University, UK Pedro Henriques, University of Braga, Portugal Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Rafael Lins, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Pablo Martinez, National University of La Plata, Argentina Crist'obal Pareja-Flores, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA Guenter Riedewald, University of Rostock, Germany Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Peter Thiemann, University of Frieburg, Germany Dave Wile, Teknowledge Corp., USA Juergen Winkler, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany Information for Other Related Tracks For prospective authors of papers that specifically focus on the improvements to the object-oriented domain (e.g., OO languages, OO systems, OO architectures) please also look at the Object Oriented Programming and Systems Track at "http://oops.disi.unige.it/" and "http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2004/tech_tracks.htm".