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ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications:
           Software for Humanity (SPLASH'19)

       Athens, Greece
       Sun 20 - Fri 25 October 2019


       Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

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COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 
OOPSLA
Onward!
Workshops
Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS)     
    Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE)
Software Language Engineering (SLE)
Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR)          
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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and unpublished work.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)
 * Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR)
 * SPLASH-I
 * 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”.

The rolling call will close on Fri 15 Mar, 2019.

## 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: Fri 5 Apr, 2019

## 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 22 April, 2019

## 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 22 April, 2019

## 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.

Abstracts due: Wed 29 May, 2019
Submissions due: Wed 5 Jun, 2019

## 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 14 Jun, 2019
Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019

## 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 14 Jun, 2019
Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019

## Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR)

The International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR, formerly ManLang) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most important computing systems around, ranging from small-scale (embedded and real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data platforms) and anything in between (mobile, IoT, and wearable applications).

Submissions due: Mon July 8, 2019

## SPLASH-I

SPLASH-I is a series of high-quality talks that highlight the challenges that are on the forefront of both research and practice across the SPLASH community's broad spectrum of domains and techniques. We invite the community to propose speakers (including themselves) through our call for contributions.

Submissions due: Fri May 17, 2019

## 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.
The poster session is held early in the conference to promote
continued discussion among interested parties.

Submissions due: Sat 7 Sep, 2019

## 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. 

This year, the John Vlissides Award will be presented to a symposium participant  showing significant promise in applied software research. All participants to the Doctoral Symposium are eligible. The award includes a prize of $2,000.

Submissions due: Fri 12 Jul, 2019

## 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.

Student Research Competition abstract due: Fri July 12, 2019

## 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 2019. Estimated
deadline for the SV applications will be towards the end of September 2019.


## Information

Contact: publicity at splashcon.org
Location: Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, Greece

## Organization

SPLASH General Chair:
 * Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens)
OOPSLA Review Committee Chair:
 * Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology)
Onward! Papers Chair:
 * Hidehiko Masuhara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Onward! Essays Chair:
 * Tomas Petricek (Alan Turing Institute)
DLS Program Chair:
 * Stefan Marr (University of Kent)
GPCE General Chair:
 * Ina Schaefer (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
GPCE Program Chair:
 * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen)
SLE General Chair:
 * Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern)
SLE Program Co-Chairs:
 * Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong)
 * Jeff Gray (University of Alabama)
SLE Publicity Chair:
 * Andrei Chiş (Feenk GmbH, Switzerland)
SLE AEC Co-Chairs:
 * Emma Söderberg (Lund University)
 * Abel Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
MPLR General Chair:
 * Tony Hosking (Australian National University / Data61)
MPLR Program Chair:
 * Irene Finocchi (Sapienza University of Rome)
SPLASH-I Co-Chairs:
 * Shan Shan Huang (Facebook)
 * Michael Carbin (MIT)
Workshops Co-Chairs:
 * Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
 * Neville Grech (University of Athens, University of Malta)
OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs:
 * Colin S. Gordon (Drexel University)
 * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University)
Posters Chair:
 * Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University)
Doctoral Symposium Chair:
 * Éric Tanter (University of Chile & Inria Paris)
Student Research Competition Co-Chairs:
 * Jay McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
 * David Darais (University of Vermont)
Student Volunteers Co-Chairs:
 * Juliana Franco (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
 * Tony Antoniadis (University of Athens)
Publications Chair:
 * Magnus Madsen (Aarhus University)
Publicity Co-Chairs:
 * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
 * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen)
Local Arrangements Chair:
 * George Fourtounis (University of Athens)
Accessibility Chair:
 * Kostas Saidis (University of Athens)
Sponsorships Co-Chairs:
 * Caitlin Sadowski (Google)
 * Jaeheon Yi (Google)
Video Chair:
 * Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University)
Web Co-Chairs:
 * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
 * Aviral Goel (Northeastern University)
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