Dynamic Languages Symposium 2017

Co-located with SPLASH 2017

In association with ACM SIGPLAN

Vancouver, Canada, 24 October, 2017

2017.splashcon.org/track/dls-2017
http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-17/

Call for papers

The 13^th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2017 invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Innovative language features
Innovative implementation techniques
Innovative applications
Development environments and tools
Experience reports and case studies
Domain-oriented programming
Very late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation
Reflection and meta-programming
Software evolution
Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
Dynamic optimization
JIT compilation
Soft/optional/gradual typing
Hardware support
Educational approaches and perspectives
Semantics of dynamic languages
Frameworks and languages for the Cloud and the IoT

Submissions and proceedings

Submissions must not have been published previously nor being under review at other events. 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 https://dls17.hotcrp.com/ in PDF format. Submissions must be in the ACM SIGPLAN Conference acmart Format, 10 point font, and should not exceed 12 pages. Please see full details in the instructions for authors.

DLS 2017 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make their final papers the best that they can be. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be freely available for one month, starting two weeks before the event.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Important dates

Abstract submissions: May 26, 2017
Submissions: June 2, 2017
First phase notification: July 14, 2017
Final notification: August 11, 2017
Camera ready: August 28, 2017
DLS: October 24, 2017

Program chair

Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy

Program committee

Guillaume Baudart, IBM Research, USA
Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile
Lorenzo Bettini, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni ‘Giuseppe Parenti’ (DISIA), Italy
Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick, Germany
Erik Ernst, Google Inc., Denmark
Marc Feeley, Université de Montréal, Canada
Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA
Paola Giannini, Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Germany
Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine
Scott Moore, Harvard University, USA
Nick Papoulias, IRD, UPMC, France
Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, Japan
Chris Seaton, Oracle Labs, UK
Manuel Serrano, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France
Zehra Sura, IBM Research, USA
Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA