Dynamic Languages Symposium 2012

Co-located with SPLASH 2012

In association with ACM SIGPLAN

Tucson, Arizona, USA, October 22, 2012

http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-12/

Call for papers

The 8^th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2012 is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and application. While mature dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Self, Prolog, and APL continue to grow and inspire new converts, a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, Tcl, Lua, and Clojure are successful in a wide range of applications. DLS provides a place for researchers and practitioners to come together and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development.

DLS 2012 invites high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation and application. Accepted Papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Innovative language features and implementation techniques
Development and platform support, tools
Interesting applications
Domain-oriented programming
Very late binding, dynamic composition, and runtime adaptation
Reflection and meta-programming
Software evolution
Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
Dynamic optimization
Hardware support
Experience reports and case studies
Educational approaches and perspectives
Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, and context-oriented programming

Submissions and proceedings

We invite original contributions that neither have been published previously nor are under review by other refereed events or publications. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from substantive practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, length, and originality.

Papers should be of a length appropriate to their content: a shorter paper may be sufficient to describe a smaller but still significant result, and no paper will be rated poorly solely based on its length.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Papers are to be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=dls12 in PDF format. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages and need to use the ACM format, templates for which can be found at http://drupal.sigplan.org/Resources/Author.

Important dates

Submission of papers: July 11, 2012 (hard deadline)
Author notification: August 1, 2012
Final versions due: August 15, 2012
DLS 2012: October 22, 2012
SPLASH 2012: October 19-26, 2012

Program chair

Alessandro Warth, Google, USA

Program committee

Henry Baker, USA
Carl Friedrich Bolz, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Gilad Bracha, Google, USA
William R. Cook, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Pascal Costanza, Intel, Belgium
Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Marcus Denker, Inria, France
Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA
Charlotte Herzeel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Germany
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Northeastern University, USA
Mark Miller, Google, USA
Todd Millstein, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Laurence Tratt, King's College London, UK
Alessandro Warth, Google, USA (chair)