I'm please to announce that I will be giving a talk at the next ACCU conference. The abstract is given below:
Meta-circularity... and vice-versa
As complexity increases, one often feels limited by the use of a single language, and incorporates new technology in order to express the original problem more abstractly, more precisely, and design solutions more efficiently. Using better-suited languages also has the advantage of letting you think about your problem in new and different ways, perhaps ways that you had not thought of before. It is thus no surprise to see the profusion of new languages that we face today, notably scripting and domain-specific ones.
But then, why the need for all this new and different technology? Wouldn't it be better if your primary language could evolve the way you want it to? And why is it not generally possible? Perhaps, because your primary language is not really extensible...
Meta-linguistic abstraction, that is, the art of language design plays a capital role in computer science because we have the ability to actually implement the languages we design, for instance by creating interperters for them. A fundamental idea in this context is that an interpreter is just another program (by extension, one could argue that any program is an interpreter for a particular language).
In this session, we will revive a historical moment in computer science: the birth of meta-circularity. When, in 1958, John McCarthy invented Lisp, he hadn't foreseen that given the core 7 operators of the language, it was possible to write Lisp in itself, by way of an interpreter. The practical implication of meta-circularity is that a meta-circular language gives you direct control over the semantics of the language itself, and as a consequence, means to modify or extend it. No wonder, then, why lispers never felt the need for external DSLs, scripting languages, XML or whatever. The reason is that Lisp, being extensible, can do all that by itself. Lisp is, by essence, the "programmable programming language".
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Monday, September 13 2010
4th European Lisp Symposium, Hamburg, March 31st - April 1st 2011
By Didier Verna on Monday, September 13 2010, 13:37 - Lisp
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4th European Lisp Symposium
Special Focus on Parallelism & Efficiency
March 31 - April 1st, 2011
TUHH, Hamburg University of Technology
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Important Dates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Submission Deadline: January 09, 2011
+ Author Notification: February 06, 2011
+ Final Paper Due: February 28, 2011
+ Symposium: March 31 - April 1st, 2011
Authors of accepted research contributions will be invited to submit
an extended version of their papers for journal publication.
Scope
~~~~~~
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects, including
Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure,
ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket and so on. We encourage everyone interested
in Lisp to participate.
The European Lisp Symposium 2011 invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.
This year's focus will be directed towards "Parallelism & Efficiency".
We especially invite submissions in the following areas:
+ Parallel and distributed computing
+ Code generation for multi-core architectures
+ Code generation for HTM
+ Large and ultra-large systems
+ Optimization techniques
+ Embedded applications
Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but not
limited to:
+ Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
+ Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
+ Language design and implementation
+ Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
+ Development methodologies, support and environments
+ Educational approaches and perspectives
+ Experience reports and case studies
Technical Program:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We invite submissions in the following forms:
* Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original
results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.
* Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of
tools, libraries, and applications.
* Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
180 minutes.
* Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for
no more than 5 minutes.
All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pr ... -templates
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998
Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2011
Programme Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Didier Verna - EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
Local Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ralf Moeller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Programme Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Antonio Leitao - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID, Portugal
Christophe Rhodes - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
David Edgar Liebke - Relevance Inc., USA
Didier Verna - EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
Henry Lieberman - MIT Media Laboratory, USA
Jay McCarthy - Brigham Young University, USA
Jose Luis Ruiz Reina - Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Marco Antoniotti - Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
Manuel Serrano - INRIA, France
Michael Sperber - DeinProgramm, Germany
Pascal Costanza - Vrije Universiteit of Brussel, Belgium
Scott McKay - ITA Software, USA
4th European Lisp Symposium
Special Focus on Parallelism & Efficiency
March 31 - April 1st, 2011
TUHH, Hamburg University of Technology
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Important Dates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Submission Deadline: January 09, 2011
+ Author Notification: February 06, 2011
+ Final Paper Due: February 28, 2011
+ Symposium: March 31 - April 1st, 2011
Authors of accepted research contributions will be invited to submit
an extended version of their papers for journal publication.
Scope
~~~~~~
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects, including
Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure,
ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket and so on. We encourage everyone interested
in Lisp to participate.
The European Lisp Symposium 2011 invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.
This year's focus will be directed towards "Parallelism & Efficiency".
We especially invite submissions in the following areas:
+ Parallel and distributed computing
+ Code generation for multi-core architectures
+ Code generation for HTM
+ Large and ultra-large systems
+ Optimization techniques
+ Embedded applications
Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but not
limited to:
+ Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
+ Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
+ Language design and implementation
+ Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
+ Development methodologies, support and environments
+ Educational approaches and perspectives
+ Experience reports and case studies
Technical Program:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We invite submissions in the following forms:
* Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original
results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.
* Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of
tools, libraries, and applications.
* Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
180 minutes.
* Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for
no more than 5 minutes.
All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pr ... -templates
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998
Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2011
Programme Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Didier Verna - EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
Local Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ralf Moeller - Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Programme Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Antonio Leitao - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID, Portugal
Christophe Rhodes - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
David Edgar Liebke - Relevance Inc., USA
Didier Verna - EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
Henry Lieberman - MIT Media Laboratory, USA
Jay McCarthy - Brigham Young University, USA
Jose Luis Ruiz Reina - Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Marco Antoniotti - Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
Manuel Serrano - INRIA, France
Michael Sperber - DeinProgramm, Germany
Pascal Costanza - Vrije Universiteit of Brussel, Belgium
Scott McKay - ITA Software, USA
Monday, June 7 2010
ILC 2010 announced
By Didier Verna on Monday, June 7 2010, 11:34 - Lisp
***********************************************************************
* *
* International Lisp Conference 2010 *
* October 19-21, 2010 *
* John Ascuaga's Nugget (Casino) *
* Reno/Sparks, Nevada, USA (near Lake Tahoe) *
* *
* Collocated with SPLASH 2010 (OOPSLA & DLS & more) *
* see also http://splashcon.org as well as *
* http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-10/ *
* *
* In association with ACM SIGPLAN (PENDING) *
* *
***********************************************************************
The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce that the 2010
International Lisp Conference will be held in Reno, Nevada, in
collocation with SPLASH 2010. The scope includes all areas related to
the Lisp family of programming languages.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (PENDING).
Extended Abstracts and Papers must be written in English and submitted
electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=ilc2010 in
PDF or WORD format. If an Extended Abstract is submitted, it must be
between 2 and 4 pages, with full paper to follow before final deadline.
Final submissions must not exceed 15 pages and need to use the ACM
format, for which templates which can be found at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Important Dates:
****************
* Deadline for Abstract Submission August 1, 2010
* Deadline for Paper Submission September 6, 2010
* Author notification September 20, 2010
* Final paper due (in electronic form) October 5, 2010
* Conference October 19-21, 2010
Scope:
******
Lisp is one of the greatest ideas from computer science and a major
influence for almost all programming languages and for all
sufficiently complex software applications.
The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of
Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of
any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to
participate.
We invite high quality submissions in all areas involving Lisp
dialects and any other languages in the Lisp family, including, but
not limited to, ACL2, AutoLisp, Clojure, Common Lisp, ECMAScript,
Dylan, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, Racket, Scheme, etc.
Topics may include any and all combinations of Lisp and:
* Language design and implementation
* Language critique
* Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
* Applications (especially commercial)
* 'Pearls' (of wisdom)
* Experience reports and case studies
* Reflection, meta-object protocols, meta-programming
* Domain-specific languages
* Programming paradigms and environments
* Parallel and distributed computing
* Software evolution
* Theorem proving
* Scientific computing
* Data mining
* Semantic web
We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are
presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way.
Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate
by electronic mail with the program chair prior to submission.
Each paper should explain its contributions in both general and
technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining
why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors
should strive to make their papers understandable to a broad audience.
Each paper will be judged according to its significance, novelty,
correctness, clarity, and elegance.
The official language of the conference is English. Some further
information is available at the conference web site, with more details
added later. See: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org
Technical Program:
******************
Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are
invited for the following categories.
* Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original
results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways, or extended
abstracts of 4 pages soon followed by the corresponding full paper.
* Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of
tools, libraries, and applications.
* Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
180 minutes.
* Workshops: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for groups of people who
intend to work on a focused topic for half a day.
* Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for discussions about
current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel
members who are willing to partake in a discussion.
* Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for
no more than 5 minutes.
Depending on the technical content, each submitted paper will be
classified by the program committee as either a technical paper or as
an experience paper; and authors will be informed about this
classification. Note that all interesting submissions are considered
valuable contributions to the success of the ILC series of
conferences. As in past ILC's since 2007, accepted papers in both
categories will be presented at the conference, included in the
proceedings, and submitted to the ACM digital library.
Organizing Committee:
*********************
* General Chair:
JonL White The Ginger IceCream Factory of Palo Alto, ALU
* Program Chair:
Antonio Leitao Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID
* Conference Treasurer:
Duane Rettig Franz, Inc., ALU Director
* Publicity Chair:
Daniel Herring ALU Director
* ALU Treasurer:
Rusty Johnson TASC, Inc., ALU Director
Program Committee:
******************
* Antonio Leitao Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID, Portugal
* Alex Fukunaga University of Tokyo, Japan
* Charlotte Herzeel Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Christophe Rhodes Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
* Didier Verna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
* Duane Rettig Franz, Inc., USA
* Giuseppe Attardi University of Pisa, Italy
* Jeff Shrager Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, USA
* Joe Marshall Google, Inc., USA
* Julian Padget University of Bath, UK
* Keith Corbet Clozure Associates, USA
* Kent Pitman PTC, USA
* Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
* Marc Feeley University of Montreal, Canada
* Marie Beurton-Aimar University of Bordeaux 1, France
* Mark Stickel SRI International, USA
* Matthias Felleisen Northeastern University, USA
* Scott McKay ITA Software, USA
Contacts:
*********
* Questions: ilc10-organizing-committee at alu.org
* Program Chair: ilc2010 at easychair.org
For more information, see http://www.international-lisp-conference.org
Tuesday, March 9 2010
Paper accepted at ELS 2010
By Didier Verna on Tuesday, March 9 2010, 16:09 - Lisp
I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting a paper at ELS 2010, the next European Lisp Symposium, in Lisbon. The abstract is given below:
CloX: Common Lisp Objects for XEmacs
CloX is an ongoing attempt to provide a full Emacs Lisp implementation of the Common Lisp Object System, including its underlying meta-object protocol, for XEmacs. This paper describes the early development stages of this project. CloX currently consists in a port of Closette to Emacs Lisp, with some additional features, most notably, a deeper integration between types and classes and a comprehensive test suite. All these aspects are described in the paper, and we also provide a feature comparison with an alternative project called EIEIO.
CloX: Common Lisp Objects for XEmacs
CloX is an ongoing attempt to provide a full Emacs Lisp implementation of the Common Lisp Object System, including its underlying meta-object protocol, for XEmacs. This paper describes the early development stages of this project. CloX currently consists in a port of Closette to Emacs Lisp, with some additional features, most notably, a deeper integration between types and classes and a comprehensive test suite. All these aspects are described in the paper, and we also provide a feature comparison with an alternative project called EIEIO.
Paper accepted at TUG 2010
By Didier Verna on Tuesday, March 9 2010, 08:36 - LaTeX
Hello,
I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting a paper at TUG 2010, in San Francisco, for the 2^5th birthday of TeX. The abstract is given below:
Classes, Styles, Conflicts: the Biological Realm of LaTeX
Every LaTeX user faces the "compatibility nightmare" one day or another. With so much intercession capabilities at hand (LaTeX code being able to redefine itself at will), a time comes inevitably when the compilation of a document fails, due to a class/style conflict. In an ideal world, class/style conflicts should only be a concern for package maintainers, not end-users of LaTeX. Unfortunately, the world is real, not ideal, and end-user document compilation does break.
As both a class/style maintainer and a document author, I tried several times to come up with some general principles or a systematic approach to handling class/style cross-compatibility in a smooth and gentle manner, but I ultimately failed. Instead, one Monday morning, I woke up with this vision of the LaTeX biotope, an emergent phenomenon whose global behavior cannot be comprehended, because it is in fact the result of a myriad of "macro"-interactions between small entities, themselves in perpetual evolution.
In this presentation, I would like to draw bridges between LaTeX and biology, by viewing documents, classes and styles as living beings constantly mutating their geneTeX code in order to survive \renewcommand attacks...
I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting a paper at TUG 2010, in San Francisco, for the 2^5th birthday of TeX. The abstract is given below:
Classes, Styles, Conflicts: the Biological Realm of LaTeX
Every LaTeX user faces the "compatibility nightmare" one day or another. With so much intercession capabilities at hand (LaTeX code being able to redefine itself at will), a time comes inevitably when the compilation of a document fails, due to a class/style conflict. In an ideal world, class/style conflicts should only be a concern for package maintainers, not end-users of LaTeX. Unfortunately, the world is real, not ideal, and end-user document compilation does break.
As both a class/style maintainer and a document author, I tried several times to come up with some general principles or a systematic approach to handling class/style cross-compatibility in a smooth and gentle manner, but I ultimately failed. Instead, one Monday morning, I woke up with this vision of the LaTeX biotope, an emergent phenomenon whose global behavior cannot be comprehended, because it is in fact the result of a myriad of "macro"-interactions between small entities, themselves in perpetual evolution.
In this presentation, I would like to draw bridges between LaTeX and biology, by viewing documents, classes and styles as living beings constantly mutating their geneTeX code in order to survive \renewcommand attacks...
Monday, February 15 2010
ELW 2010: 7th European Lisp Workshop
By Didier Verna on Monday, February 15 2010, 09:04 - Lisp
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| CALL FOR PAPERS |
| 7th European Lisp Workshop |
| June 21/22, Maribor, Slovenia - co-located with ECOOP 2010 |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Important Dates
===============
Submission deadline: April 19, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 05, 2010
ECOOP early registration deadline: May 10, 2010
7th European Lisp Workshop: June 21 or 22, 2010 (tbdl)
Please note that registration must be done with ECOOP itself.
For more information visit http://www.european-lisp-workshop.org
Contact: Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr
Invited Speaker
===============
Manuel Serrano (INRIA, France)
http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Manuel.Serrano/
Overview
========
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and
Graphics, AI, Bio-informatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining,
EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent
Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation,
Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling,
Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they
happened to list."
-- Kent Pitman
Lisp, one of the eldest computer languages still in use today, is
gaining momentum again. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend
the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without
starting from scratch, making it the ideal candidate for writing
Domain Specific Languages. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object
System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to
receive an ANSI standard and remains the most complete and advanced
object system of any programming language, while influencing many
other object-oriented programming languages that followed.
This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based
languages in research, industry and education. We solicit
contributions that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture
and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to
promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches
and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and
limitations of current Lisp technologies.
The workshop will have two components: there will be formal talks, and
interactive turorial/demo/coding sessions.
Papers
======
Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes
and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and
answers. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Protocol meta-programming and libraries
- New language features and abstractions
- Software evolution
- Development aids
- Persistent systems
- Dynamic optimization
- Implementation techniques
- Hardware Support
- Efficiency, distribution and parallel programming
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies
Interactive Tutorial/Demo/Coding Sessions
=========================================
Additionally, we invite less formal talks in the form of interactive
tutorial/demo/coding sessions. The purpose of these sessions is both
to demonstrate and receive feedback on any interesting Lisp system,
either stable or under development. Being less formal than technical
paper presentations, these sessions are expected to be highly
interactive.
Submission Guidelines
=====================
Potential contributors are encouraged to submit:
- a long paper (around 10 pages) presenting scientific and/or
empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for
software engineering purposes,
- a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where
research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in
the near future,
- a proposal for an interactive tutorial/demo/coding session (1-2
pages) describing the involved library or application, and the
subject of the session.
Papers (both long and short) should be formatted following the ACM SIGS
guidelines and include ACM classification categories and terms (see below).
Authors will later be required to sign an ACM copyright form, as the workshop
proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
For more information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pr ... -templates
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998
Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elw2010
Organizers
==========
Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris
Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel
Robert Strandh, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Tuesday, February 24 2009
Call for Papers: 6th European Lisp Workshop
By Didier Verna on Tuesday, February 24 2009, 13:43 - Lisp
CALL FOR PAPERS
6th European Lisp Workshop
July 6, Genova, Italy - co-located with ECOOP 2009
Important Dates
===============
Submission deadline: April 08, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 08, 2009
ECOOP early registration deadline: May 20, 2009
6th European Lisp Workshop: July 06, 2009
Please note that registration must be done with ECOOP itself.
For more information visit http://elw.bknr.net/2009
Contact: Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr
2009 Special News
=================
This year, and for the first time, the workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Also, the workshop will feature interactive tutorial/demo/coding sessions (see below).
Overview
========
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bio-informatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."
-- Kent Pitman
Lisp, one of the eldest computer languages still in use today, is gaining momentum again. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch, making it the ideal candidate for writing Domain Specific Languages. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and retains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming languages that followed.
This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We solicit contributions that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies.
The workshop will have two components: there will be formal talks, and interactive turorial/demo/coding sessions.
Papers
======
Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and answers. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
- Experience reports / Case studies
- Educational approaches
- Software Evolution
- Development Aids
- Persistent Systems
- Dynamic Optimization
- Implementation techniques
- Hardware Support
- Efficiency / Distribution / Parallel programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Protocol Meta-programming and Libraries
- Context-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming
Interactive Tutorial/Demo/Coding Sessions
=========================================
Additionally, we invite less formal talks in the form of interactive tutorial/demo/coding sessions. The purpose of these sessions is to both demonstrate and receive feedback on any interesting Lisp system, either stable or under development. Being less formal than technical paper presentations, it is expected that these sessions be highly interactive.
Submission Guidelines
=====================
Potential contributors are encouraged to submit:
- a long paper (around 10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for software engineering purposes,
- a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in the near future,
- a proposal for an interactive tutorial/demo/coding session (1-2 pages) describing the involved library or application, and the subject of the session.
Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Didier Verna
(didier@lrde.epita.fr) before the submission deadline.
Organizers
==========
Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris
Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel
Robert Strandh, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux I, France
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Hans Hübner, Software Developer, Berlin
6th European Lisp Workshop
July 6, Genova, Italy - co-located with ECOOP 2009
Important Dates
===============
Submission deadline: April 08, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 08, 2009
ECOOP early registration deadline: May 20, 2009
6th European Lisp Workshop: July 06, 2009
Please note that registration must be done with ECOOP itself.
For more information visit http://elw.bknr.net/2009
Contact: Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr
2009 Special News
=================
This year, and for the first time, the workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Also, the workshop will feature interactive tutorial/demo/coding sessions (see below).
Overview
========
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bio-informatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."
-- Kent Pitman
Lisp, one of the eldest computer languages still in use today, is gaining momentum again. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch, making it the ideal candidate for writing Domain Specific Languages. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and retains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming languages that followed.
This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We solicit contributions that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies.
The workshop will have two components: there will be formal talks, and interactive turorial/demo/coding sessions.
Papers
======
Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and answers. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
- Experience reports / Case studies
- Educational approaches
- Software Evolution
- Development Aids
- Persistent Systems
- Dynamic Optimization
- Implementation techniques
- Hardware Support
- Efficiency / Distribution / Parallel programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Protocol Meta-programming and Libraries
- Context-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming
Interactive Tutorial/Demo/Coding Sessions
=========================================
Additionally, we invite less formal talks in the form of interactive tutorial/demo/coding sessions. The purpose of these sessions is to both demonstrate and receive feedback on any interesting Lisp system, either stable or under development. Being less formal than technical paper presentations, it is expected that these sessions be highly interactive.
Submission Guidelines
=====================
Potential contributors are encouraged to submit:
- a long paper (around 10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for software engineering purposes,
- a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in the near future,
- a proposal for an interactive tutorial/demo/coding session (1-2 pages) describing the involved library or application, and the subject of the session.
Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Didier Verna
(didier@lrde.epita.fr) before the submission deadline.
Organizers
==========
Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris
Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel
Robert Strandh, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux I, France
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Hans Hübner, Software Developer, Berlin
Tuesday, January 13 2009
90' session at the next ACCU Conference
By Didier Verna on Tuesday, January 13 2009, 16:11 - Lisp
I will hold a 90 minutes session at the next ACCU conference, in the special track on patterns. Here is a description of my talk:
Revisiting the Visitor: the "Just Do It" pattern.
A software design pattern is a three-part rule which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution. The well-known "GoF Book" describes 23 software design patterns. Its influence in the software engineering community has been dramatic. However, Peter Norvig notes that "16 of [these] 23 patterns are either invisible or simpler [...]" in Dylan or Lisp (Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming, Object World, 1996).
We claim that this is not a consequence of the notion of "pattern" itself, but rather of the way patterns are generally described; the GoF book being typical in this matter. Whereas patterns are supposed to be general and abstract, the GoF book is actually very much oriented towards mainstream object languages such as C++. As a result, most of its 23 "design patterns" are actually closer to "programming patterns", or "idioms", if you choose to adopt the terminology of the POSA Book.
In this talk, we would like to envision software design patterns from the point of view of dynamic languages and specifically from the angle of CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System. Taking the Visitor pattern as an illustration, we will show how a generally useful pattern can be blurred into the language, sometimes to the point of complete disappearance.
The lesson to be learned is that software design patterns should be used with care, and in particular, will never replace an in-depth knowledge of your preferred language (in our case, the mastering of first-class and generic functions, lexical closures and meta-object protocol). By using patterns blindly, your risk missing the obvious and most of the time simpler solution: the "Just Do It" pattern.
A software design pattern is a three-part rule which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution. The well-known "GoF Book" describes 23 software design patterns. Its influence in the software engineering community has been dramatic. However, Peter Norvig notes that "16 of [these] 23 patterns are either invisible or simpler [...]" in Dylan or Lisp (Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming, Object World, 1996).
We claim that this is not a consequence of the notion of "pattern" itself, but rather of the way patterns are generally described; the GoF book being typical in this matter. Whereas patterns are supposed to be general and abstract, the GoF book is actually very much oriented towards mainstream object languages such as C++. As a result, most of its 23 "design patterns" are actually closer to "programming patterns", or "idioms", if you choose to adopt the terminology of the POSA Book.
In this talk, we would like to envision software design patterns from the point of view of dynamic languages and specifically from the angle of CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System. Taking the Visitor pattern as an illustration, we will show how a generally useful pattern can be blurred into the language, sometimes to the point of complete disappearance.
The lesson to be learned is that software design patterns should be used with care, and in particular, will never replace an in-depth knowledge of your preferred language (in our case, the mastering of first-class and generic functions, lexical closures and meta-object protocol). By using patterns blindly, your risk missing the obvious and most of the time simpler solution: the "Just Do It" pattern.
Paper accepted to ILC 2009
By Didier Verna on Tuesday, January 13 2009, 16:00 - Lisp
It is my pleasure to announce the acceptance of the following paper to the next International Lisp Conference, to be held at MIT, Cambridge, March 2009.
CLOS Efficiency: Instantiation
-- on the behavior and performance of Lisp, part 2.1 --
This article reports the results of an ongoing experimental research on the behavior and performance of CLOS, the Common-Lisp Object System. Our purpose is to evaluate the behavior and performance of the 3 most important characteristics of any dynamic Object Oriented system: class instantiation, slot access and dynamic dispatch. This paper describes the results of our experiments on instantiation. We evaluate the efficiency of the instantiation process in both C++ and Lisp under a combination of parameters such as slot types or classes hierarchy. We show that in a non-optimized configuration where safety is given priority on speed, the behavior of C++ and Lisp instantiation can be quite different, which is also the case amongst different Lisp compilers. On the other hand, we demonstrate that when compilation is tuned for speed, instantiation in Lisp becomes faster than in C++.
-- on the behavior and performance of Lisp, part 2.1 --
This article reports the results of an ongoing experimental research on the behavior and performance of CLOS, the Common-Lisp Object System. Our purpose is to evaluate the behavior and performance of the 3 most important characteristics of any dynamic Object Oriented system: class instantiation, slot access and dynamic dispatch. This paper describes the results of our experiments on instantiation. We evaluate the efficiency of the instantiation process in both C++ and Lisp under a combination of parameters such as slot types or classes hierarchy. We show that in a non-optimized configuration where safety is given priority on speed, the behavior of C++ and Lisp instantiation can be quite different, which is also the case amongst different Lisp compilers. On the other hand, we demonstrate that when compilation is tuned for speed, instantiation in Lisp becomes faster than in C++.
Monday, June 2 2008
Invited talks at ELW'08
By Didier Verna on Monday, June 2 2008, 14:27 - Lisp
I'm very happy that the next European Lisp Workshop, co-located with ECOOP 2008, July 7th, Paphos, Cyprus will feature two keynote speakers:
"Lisp for the 21st Century by Mark Tarver (see the Qi language)
"A detailed look at the Lisp nature of Clojure" by Rich Hickey (see Clojure)
That plus the selected scientific papers should make a pretty decent workshop, especially knowing that two other Lisp events occurred only a few weeks ago (ECLM and the First European Lisp Symposium).
"Lisp for the 21st Century by Mark Tarver (see the Qi language)
"A detailed look at the Lisp nature of Clojure" by Rich Hickey (see Clojure)
That plus the selected scientific papers should make a pretty decent workshop, especially knowing that two other Lisp events occurred only a few weeks ago (ECLM and the First European Lisp Symposium).
Tuesday, February 19 2008
5th European Lisp Workshop -- Call for Papers
By Didier Verna on Tuesday, February 19 2008, 10:10 - Lisp
CALL FOR PAPERS
5th European Lisp Workshop
July 7, Paphos, Cyprus - co-located with ECOOP 2008
Important Dates:
****************
Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): May 04, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2008
ECOOP early registration deadline: June 01, 2008
5th European Lisp Workshop: July 07, 2008
For more information visit http://elw.bknr.net/2008/
Contact: Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr
Organizers
**********
Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel
Hans Hübner, Software Developer, Berlin
Overview
********
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and
Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining,
EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent
Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation,
Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling,
Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they
happened to list."
-- Kent Pitman
Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In
the decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for
language design experiments as well as the preferred implementation
language for applications in diverse fields.
The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to
implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Common
Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first
object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and
retains the most complete and advanced object system of any
programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented
programming languages that followed.
It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a steadily growing
interest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups in existence
worldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions which are being
transferred to other languages, as for example in Aspect-Oriented
Programming, support for Domain-Specific Languages, and so on.
This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based
languages in research, industry and education. We solicit papers and
suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp
provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software
engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers
proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their
experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp
technologies.
The workshop will have two components: there will be
formally-presented talks, and breakout groups discussing or working on
particular topics. Additionally, there will be opportunities for
short, informal talks and demonstrations on experience reports,
underappreciated results, software under development, or other topics
of interest.
Papers
******
Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes
and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and
answers. We encourage that papers be published on the website, to
provide all participants with background information in advance.
Suggested Topics:
- New language features or abstractions
- Experience reports or case studies
- Protocol Metaprogramming and Libraries
- Educational approaches
- Software Evolution
- Development Aids
- Persistent Systems
- Dynamic Optimization
- Implementation techniques
- Innovative Applications
- Hardware Support for Lisp systems
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Aspect-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming
Breakout Groups
***************
The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and
work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and
provide for rooms and infrastructure.
Suggested Topics for Breakout Groups:
- Lisp Infrastructure Development and Distribution
- Language Features (e.g. Predicate Dispatching)
- Environments for creating web applications
- Brainstorming sessions for new or existing open source projects
- Persistence Systems
- Compiler technology
- Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems
- Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education
Submission Guidelines
*********************
Potential attendees are encouraged to submit:
- a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or
empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for
software engineering purposes,
- a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where
research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in
the near future,
- a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an
agenda and/or expected results.
Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Didier Verna
(didier@lrde.epita.fr) before the submission deadline.
5th European Lisp Workshop
July 7, Paphos, Cyprus - co-located with ECOOP 2008
Important Dates:
****************
Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): May 04, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2008
ECOOP early registration deadline: June 01, 2008
5th European Lisp Workshop: July 07, 2008
For more information visit http://elw.bknr.net/2008/
Contact: Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr
Organizers
**********
Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel
Hans Hübner, Software Developer, Berlin
Overview
********
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and
Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining,
EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent
Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation,
Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling,
Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they
happened to list."
-- Kent Pitman
Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In
the decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for
language design experiments as well as the preferred implementation
language for applications in diverse fields.
The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to
implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Common
Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first
object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and
retains the most complete and advanced object system of any
programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented
programming languages that followed.
It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a steadily growing
interest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups in existence
worldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions which are being
transferred to other languages, as for example in Aspect-Oriented
Programming, support for Domain-Specific Languages, and so on.
This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based
languages in research, industry and education. We solicit papers and
suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp
provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software
engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers
proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their
experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp
technologies.
The workshop will have two components: there will be
formally-presented talks, and breakout groups discussing or working on
particular topics. Additionally, there will be opportunities for
short, informal talks and demonstrations on experience reports,
underappreciated results, software under development, or other topics
of interest.
Papers
******
Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes
and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and
answers. We encourage that papers be published on the website, to
provide all participants with background information in advance.
Suggested Topics:
- New language features or abstractions
- Experience reports or case studies
- Protocol Metaprogramming and Libraries
- Educational approaches
- Software Evolution
- Development Aids
- Persistent Systems
- Dynamic Optimization
- Implementation techniques
- Innovative Applications
- Hardware Support for Lisp systems
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Aspect-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming
Breakout Groups
***************
The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and
work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and
provide for rooms and infrastructure.
Suggested Topics for Breakout Groups:
- Lisp Infrastructure Development and Distribution
- Language Features (e.g. Predicate Dispatching)
- Environments for creating web applications
- Brainstorming sessions for new or existing open source projects
- Persistence Systems
- Compiler technology
- Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems
- Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education
Submission Guidelines
*********************
Potential attendees are encouraged to submit:
- a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or
empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for
software engineering purposes,
- a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where
research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in
the near future,
- a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an
agenda and/or expected results.
Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Didier Verna
(didier@lrde.epita.fr) before the submission deadline.
Monday, December 10 2007
ELS'08 -- First European Lisp Symposium
By Didier Verna on Monday, December 10 2007, 16:52 - Lisp
**************************************************************
* 1st European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2008)
* http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08
*
* Bordeaux, France, May 22-23, 2008
* LaBRI, Universite Bordeaux 1
*
**************************************************************
Important Dates:
****************
* Submission of research papers: February 11, 2008
* Work-in-progress papers: March 24, 2008
* Author notification: April 7, 2008
* First final versions due: April 28, 2008
Accepted research papers will be invited for a special issue of the
Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). See the symposium
website for more details.
Scope:
******
The European Lisp Symposium 2008 invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications, and educational perspectives, all involving Lisp
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, ISLISP, Dylan, and so on.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Language design and implementation techniques
* Language integration, interoperation and deployment
* Experience reports and case studies
* Reflection and meta-level architectures
* Educational approaches
* Software adaptation and evolution
* Configuration management
* Artificial intelligence
* Large and ultra-large-scale systems
* Development methodologies
* Development support and environments
* Persistent systems
* Scientific computing
* Parallel and distributed computing
* Data mining
* Semantic web
* Dynamic optimization
* Innovative applications
* Hardware and virtual machine support
* Domain-oriented programming
We also encourage submissions about past approaches that have been
largely forgotten about, as long as they are presented in a new
setting.
We invite submissions in two categories:
original contributions and work-in-progress papers.
*** Original contributions have neither 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, or presents old results from a new perspective. 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.
Accepted papers will be published in the Journal of Universal Computer
Science (J.UCS). Authors of accepted papers are expected to present
their work at the symposium main track in Bordeaux on May 23, 2008.
*** Work in progress describes ongoing work that is not ready for
publication yet, but would benefit strongly from feedback by other
researchers, practitioners and educators. Such contributions will not
be published in the symposium proceedings, but will be made available
at the symposium website. The work-in-progress track will be organized
as a series of writers' workshops where authors work together to
improve their papers. Some authors who submit papers for the main
track will be suggested to contribute their work in this track
instead, if the program committee decides that their submission is not
yet ready for a publication.
The writers' workshops will take place at the symposium in Bordeaux on
May 22, 2008.
Submissions:
************
Papers for the main track must be submitted electronically, preferably
as PDF or PostScript file (level 1 or 2). However, submissions in RTF
or Word format are also accepted. Initial submissions may not exceed
15 pages in the J.UCS style, including all appendices. (Invited papers
for the journal publication will have a page limitation of 25 pages in
the same format.) See the symposium website for more details,
including about the submission procedure.
Papers for the work-in-progress track may be in PDF, PostScript level
1 or 2, RTF or Word, and may not exceed 25 pages. There are no further
requirements on their format. Papers for the work-in-progress track
must be sent via email to pascal.costanza@vub.ac.be.
Program Chair:
**************
* Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Program Committee:
******************
* Marco Antoniotti, Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
* Marie Beurton-Aimar, Universite Bordeaux 1, France
* Jerry Boetje, College of Charlston, USA
* Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Irene Durand, Universite Bordeaux 1, France
* Marc Feeley, Universite de Montreal, Canada
* Erick Gallesio, Universite de Nice / Sophia Antipolis, France
* Rainer Joswig, Independent Consultant, Germany
* Antonio Leitao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
* Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA
* Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
* Nicolas Neuss, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
* Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
* Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
* Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Purdue University, USA
* Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
* 1st European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2008)
* http://prog.vub.ac.be/~pcostanza/els08
*
* Bordeaux, France, May 22-23, 2008
* LaBRI, Universite Bordeaux 1
*
**************************************************************
Important Dates:
****************
* Submission of research papers: February 11, 2008
* Work-in-progress papers: March 24, 2008
* Author notification: April 7, 2008
* First final versions due: April 28, 2008
Accepted research papers will be invited for a special issue of the
Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). See the symposium
website for more details.
Scope:
******
The European Lisp Symposium 2008 invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications, and educational perspectives, all involving Lisp
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, ISLISP, Dylan, and so on.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Language design and implementation techniques
* Language integration, interoperation and deployment
* Experience reports and case studies
* Reflection and meta-level architectures
* Educational approaches
* Software adaptation and evolution
* Configuration management
* Artificial intelligence
* Large and ultra-large-scale systems
* Development methodologies
* Development support and environments
* Persistent systems
* Scientific computing
* Parallel and distributed computing
* Data mining
* Semantic web
* Dynamic optimization
* Innovative applications
* Hardware and virtual machine support
* Domain-oriented programming
We also encourage submissions about past approaches that have been
largely forgotten about, as long as they are presented in a new
setting.
We invite submissions in two categories:
original contributions and work-in-progress papers.
*** Original contributions have neither 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, or presents old results from a new perspective. 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.
Accepted papers will be published in the Journal of Universal Computer
Science (J.UCS). Authors of accepted papers are expected to present
their work at the symposium main track in Bordeaux on May 23, 2008.
*** Work in progress describes ongoing work that is not ready for
publication yet, but would benefit strongly from feedback by other
researchers, practitioners and educators. Such contributions will not
be published in the symposium proceedings, but will be made available
at the symposium website. The work-in-progress track will be organized
as a series of writers' workshops where authors work together to
improve their papers. Some authors who submit papers for the main
track will be suggested to contribute their work in this track
instead, if the program committee decides that their submission is not
yet ready for a publication.
The writers' workshops will take place at the symposium in Bordeaux on
May 22, 2008.
Submissions:
************
Papers for the main track must be submitted electronically, preferably
as PDF or PostScript file (level 1 or 2). However, submissions in RTF
or Word format are also accepted. Initial submissions may not exceed
15 pages in the J.UCS style, including all appendices. (Invited papers
for the journal publication will have a page limitation of 25 pages in
the same format.) See the symposium website for more details,
including about the submission procedure.
Papers for the work-in-progress track may be in PDF, PostScript level
1 or 2, RTF or Word, and may not exceed 25 pages. There are no further
requirements on their format. Papers for the work-in-progress track
must be sent via email to pascal.costanza@vub.ac.be.
Program Chair:
**************
* Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Program Committee:
******************
* Marco Antoniotti, Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
* Marie Beurton-Aimar, Universite Bordeaux 1, France
* Jerry Boetje, College of Charlston, USA
* Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Irene Durand, Universite Bordeaux 1, France
* Marc Feeley, Universite de Montreal, Canada
* Erick Gallesio, Universite de Nice / Sophia Antipolis, France
* Rainer Joswig, Independent Consultant, Germany
* Antonio Leitao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
* Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA
* Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
* Nicolas Neuss, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
* Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
* Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
* Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Purdue University, USA
* Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
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