[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.] CALL FOR PAPERS WAO 2017 2nd Workshop on Actors and Active Objects A Satellite workshop of iFM 2017 Torino, Italy 18 September 2017 http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/wao17 Description of the workshop =========================== Distribution and concurrency are currently mainstream. The Internet and the broad availability of multi-processors radically influence software. This brings renewed interest in developing both new concurrency models and associated programming languages techniques that help in understanding, analyzing, and verifying the behavior of concurrent and distributed programs. The actors or active objects concurrency model has emerged as an alternative to the usual thread-based concurrency model, providing programmers with high-level concurrency constructs that help in producing concurrent applications more modularly and in a less error-prone way. It is gaining a lot of popularity mainly because of the success of languages like Scala and Erlang. Also, most mainstream languages are nowadays providing actors or active-objects libraries. The objective of the workshop is to discuss about current evolution of actors and active objects and related languages, technology and tools. The goal is to make the workshop an active discussion forum for all work related to actor languages and active-objects in order to have a better view on the current and future trends in this field and perhaps build longer term collaborations. The workshop will be a mixture of invited presentations and short tutorials on state-of-the-art languages/techniques/tools by experts in the field, presentations of recently published high-quality papers, prototype demonstrations, and presentations of proofs-of-concept and promising ideas. Invited speaker =============== Lars Ake Fredlund, Technical University of Madrid Important dates =============== Abstract submission: June 7, 2017 (extended) Paper submission: June 9, 2017 (extended) Notification: July 10, 2017 Submission information ====================== We solicit papers in the following categories: (1) Regular research papers of at most 12 pages (excluding references) describing original scientific research results or its relevance to real applications. Case studies and tool demonstrations are also welcome, in these cases with a maximum length of 8 pages. The paper should explain why the technique/case-study/tool is relevant for the community, and, in particular, for practitioners. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. (2) Position papers of at most 4 pages describing exciting but not fully polished research (proofs-of-concept, promising ideas, etc.). (3) High-quality already published papers. Authors will send an extended abstract of at most 2 pages describing the work and a link to the publication. Revised versions of accepted papers of category (1), taking into account the feedback received at the workshop, will be published in a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series after the workshop. For submissions in categories (2) and (3) there will be a light-weight reviewing process where submissions will be judged on their interest to the workshop audience. Papers will be submitted (in PDF format) through Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wao2017 Organisers ========== Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Guillermo Roman-Diez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain All questions about the workshop can be addressed to them via mail: mzamalloa@fdi.ucm.es groman@fi.upm.es Program Committee ================== Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nikolaos Bezirgiannis Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Richard Bubel Technische Universitat Darmstadt Stijn De Gouw Open University (OU), The Netherlands Enrique Martin-Martin Complutense University of Madrid Ludovic Henrio CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Ka I Pun University of Oslo Rudolf Schlatte University of Oslo Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University Salvador Tamarit Technical University of Madrid