============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS SLE 2011 4th International Conference on Software Language Engineering Braga, Portugal, 3-6 July 2011 http://planet-sl.org/sle2011/ Co-located with the 4th Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE 2011) ============================================================= IMPORTANT DATES * 2010: Workshop Proposals: December 21 * 2011: Paper submission: April 08 (midnight Apia Samoa time) Author notification: May 13 Paper submission for online proceedings: June 17 SLE: July 03-06 Camera-ready copy submission for post-proceedings: August 29 --------------------------------------------------------- Software language engineering is devoted to topics related to artificial languages in software engineering. The foremost mission of the International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is to encourage and organize communication between communities that traditionally have looked at soft- ware languages from different, more specialized, and yet complementary perspectives. Thus, technologies, methods, experiments and case studies from modelware, grammarware, and ontologyware serving the objectives of software languages are of particular relevance to SLE. We invite high-quality submissions to all conference tracks. Submissions must be PDF files following the Springer LNCS style and will be managed using the EasyChair submission system. Please check the conference web site for further information. SLE 2011 will include a Doctoral Symposium that will provide a supportive yet questioning setting in which PhD students can present their work, including goals, methods, and preliminary results. The Symposium aims to provide students with useful guidance and feedback on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. Please forward this call to anyone who might be interested. http://planet-sl.org/sle2011/ --------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must be original work and must not be previously published in, currently submitted to, or currently in consideration for any journal, book, conference, or workshop. Each submitted paper will be reviewed closely by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be distributed at the conference via the online proceedings as well as published in the post-proceedings, which will appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors will have the opportunity to revise their accepted paper(s) for the pre- and post- proceedings. For an accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must attend the event and present the work. --------------------------------------------------------- RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers should report a substantial research contribution to SLE and/or a successful application of SLE techniques. We solicit high-quality contributions in the area of SLE ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks that support the aforementioned lifecycle activities. We list examples of tools, techniques, applications, and problems of interest to clarify the types of contributes that we seek: * Formalisms used in designing and specifying languages and tools that analyze such language descriptions * Language implementation techniques * Program and model transformation tools * Composition, integration, and mapping tools for managing different aspects of software languages or different manifestations of a given language * Transformations and transformation languages between languages and models * Language evolution * Approaches to elicitation, specification, or verification of requirements for software languages * Language development frameworks, methodologies, techniques, best practices, and tools for the broader language lifecycle covering phases such as analysis, testing , and documentation. * Design challenges in SLE * Applications of languages including innovative domain-specific languages or "little" languages The preceding list is neither exclusive nor exhaustive. Visit the conference web site for more information about the scope and topics of interest of SLE, or contact the program co-chairs with questions. Page limit: 20 --------------------------------------------------------- SHORT PAPERS Short paper may describe interesting or thought-provoking concepts that are not yet fully developed or evaluated, make an initial contribution to challenging research issues in SLE, or discuss and analyze controversial issues in the field. Page limit: 10 --------------------------------------------------------- TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS Because of SLE's ample interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. These papers will accompany a tool demonstration to be given at the conference. The selection criteria include the originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, the relevance of the tool to SLE, and the maturity of the tool. Submissions may also include an appendix (that will not be published) containing additional screen-shots and discussion of the proposed demonstration. Page limit: 10 --------------------------------------------------------- MINI-TUTORIAL PAPERS SLE is composed of various research areas, such as grammarware, modelware, language schemas, and semantic technologies. The cross product of attendees at SLE creates a situation where the contribution from one session may be difficult to understand by those not initiated to the area. To help unite the various communities of SLE 2011, we solicit mini-tutorials that provide discussion points for mapping common ideas between related and complementary research topics of SLE. A mini-tutorial submission should be between 15 and 20 pages. --------------------------------------------------------- CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS A call for one-day workshop proposals to be held in conjunction with the SLE2011 conference is already open. We encourage proposals on SLE-related topics that are novel or of emerging importance. Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the value and relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop's potential for attracting participants and generating useful results. See the conference webpage for full details. --------------------------------------------------------- DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for both early and late-stage PhD students to present their research and get detailed feedback and advice from researchers both in and out of their particular research area. Submissions are invited from PhD students working on any topic that falls within the SLE conference remit. Submissions consist of two parts, a research abstract and a letter of recommendation from the student's supervisor. See the upcoming Doctoral Symposium call for submissions for full details. Participants will also be invited to present a poster on their research as part of the conference poster session. ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIR João Saraiva Universidade do Minho, Portugal jas@di.uminho.pt PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Uwe Aßmann Dresden University of Technology, Germany uwe.assmann@tu-dresden.de Anthony Sloane Macquarie University, Australia anthony.sloane@mq.edu.au DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Perdita Stevens University of Edinburgh, UK perdita.stevens@ed.ac.uk Eric Van Wyk University of Minnesota, USA evw@cs.umn.edu ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE José Creissac Campos (Finance Chair) Universidade do Minho, Portugal João Paulo Fernandes (Web and Publicity co-Chair) Universidade do Porto& Universidade do Minho, Portugal Jurgen Vinju (Workshop Selection Chair) CWI, The Netherlands Vadim Zaytsev (Publicity co-Chair) CWI, The Netherlands