[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ======================================================= 20th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages http://cbsoft.org/sblp2016/call-for-papers The Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages is a well-established symposium which 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 2016 will be held in Maringá, in the Southern region of Brazil, and will be the 20th edition of the symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 8th 2016 Paper submission: April 15th 2016 Author notification: May 27th 2016 Camera ready deadline: June 10th 2016 Authors are invited to submit original research on any relevant topic which can be either in the form of regular or short papers. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Program generation and transformation, including domain-specific languages, and model-driven development in the context of programming languages. - Programming paradigms and styles, including functional, object-oriented, aspect-oriented, scripting languages, real-time, service-oriented, multithreaded, parallel, and distributed programming. - Formal semantics and theoretical foundations, including denotational, operational, algebraic, and categorical. - Program analysis and verification, including type systems, static analysis, and abstract interpretation. - Programming language design and implementation, including new programming models, programming language environments, compilation, and interpretation techniques. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of its originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the symposium. Contributions should be written in Portuguese or English. Papers should fall into one of two different categories: regular papers, which can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS format, or short papers, with up to 6 pages in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. We encourage the submission of short papers reporting partial results of on-going master dissertations or doctoral theses. Accepted papers written in English will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), by Springer. Both regular and short papers must be prepared using the LNCS format, available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2016. As in previous editions, after the conference, authors of selected regular papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in a journal special issue. Since 2009, selected papers of each SBPL edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. PROGRAM CHAIRS Fernando Castor, Federal University of Pernambuco Yu David Liu, State University of New York, Binghamton PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la República Alex Garcia, IME Alvaro Moreira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Andre Rauber Du Bois, Federal University of Pelotas Bruno Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong Carlos Camarão, Federal University of Minas Gerais Christiano Braga, Fluminense Federal University Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University Fabio Mascarenhas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Fernando Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais Fernando Castor, Federal University of Pernambuco Francisco Carvalho-Junior Federal University of Ceara Gustavo Pinto, Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Para Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University Ismael Figueroa Pontificia, Universidad Católica de Valparaiso João Saraiva, University of Minho João Ferreira, Teesside University João Paulo Fernandes, University of Beira Interior Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Louis-Noel Pouchet, University of California Lucilia Figueiredo, Federal University of Ouro Preto Luis Barbosa, University of Minho Manuel-A. Martins, University of Aveiro Marcelo Maia, Federal University of Uberlândia Marcelo D'Amorim, Federal University of Pernambuco Mariza Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Martin Musicante, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Rafael Lins, Federal University of Pernambuco Roberto Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rodrigo Geraldo, Federal University of Ouro Preto Sandro Rigo, State University of Campinas Sérgio Medeiros, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Simon Thompson, University of Kent Varmo Vene, University of Tartu Yu David Liu, State University of New York at Binghamton Zachary Palmer, Swarthmore College Zongyan Qiu, Peking University