Dynamic Languages Symposium 2006

Co-located with OOPSLA 2006

In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

Portland, Oregon, USA, October 23, 2006

http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-06/

Call for papers

The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at OOPSLA 2006 is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and application. While mature dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, and Prolog continue to grow and inspire new converts, a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript 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.

The Technical Papers track of DLS 2006 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 OOPSLA conference companion and the ACM Digital Library.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Reflection and meta-programming
Very late binding, dynamic composition, and runtime adaptation
Actors and active objects
Innovative language features and implementation techniques
Development and platform support, tools
Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
Experience reports and case studies
Interesting applications
Educational approaches and perspectives
Domain-oriented programming
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, and originality.

Papers are to be submitted electronically at http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls2006/ in PDF format. Submissions must not exceed 12 pages and need to use the ACM format, templates for which can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Important dates

Submission of papers (hard deadline): June 1, 2006 (Thursday)
Author notification: July 1, 2006 (Saturday)
Final version due: July 11, 2006 (Tuesday)
DLS 2006: October 23 (Monday)
OOPSLA 2006: October 22-26

Program chair

Robert Hirschfeld
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany

Program committee

David Ascher, ActiveState, Canada
Gilad Bracha, Sun Microsystems, USA
Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Richard P. Gabriel, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA
Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany (chair)
David Leibs, Advanced Micro Devices, USA
Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Stephane Ducasse, Université de Savoie, France
Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne, Switzerland
Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
David Simmons, Microsoft, USA
Michael Sperber, University of Tübingen, Germany
Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs, Canada
Martin von Löwis, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany
Jon L White, USA
Allen Wirfs-Brock, Microsoft, USA
Roel Wuyts, Unversité Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium