Call For Papers Text
ACM SIGPLAN 2014 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
=== P E P M 2014 ===
ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on
Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM14
January 20-21, 2014
San Diego, CA, USA
(Affiliated with POPL 2014)
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SCOPE
The PEPM Symposium/Workshop series aims to bring together researchers
and practitioners working in the areas of program manipulation,
partial evaluation, and program generation. PEPM focuses on
techniques, theory, tools, and applications of analysis and
manipulation of programs.
The 2014 PEPM workshop will be based on a broad interpretation of
semantics-based program manipulation and continue previous years'
successful effort to expand the scope of PEPM significantly beyond the
traditionally covered areas of partial evaluation and specialization.
The aim is to include practical applications of program transformations
such as refactoring tools, and practical implementation techniques such
as rule-based transformation systems. In addition, the scope of PEPM
covers manipulation and transformations of program and system
representations such as structural and semantic models that occur in
the context of model-driven development. In order to reach out to
practitioners, a separate category of tool demonstration papers will
be solicited.
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Topics of interest for PEPM'14 include, but are not limited to:
* Program and model manipulation techniques such as: supercompilation,
partial evaluation, fusion, on-the-fly program adaptation, active
libraries, program inversion, slicing, symbolic execution,
refactoring, decompilation, and obfuscation.
* Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model
manipulation such as: abstract interpretation, termination checking,
binding-time analysis, constraint solving, type systems, automated
testing and test case generation.
* Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including
metaprogramming, generative programming, embedded domain-specific
languages, program synthesis by sketching and inductive programming,
staged computation, and model-driven program generation and
transformation.
* Application of the above techniques including case studies of
program manipulation in real-world (industrial, open-source)
projects and software development processes, descriptions of robust
tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications,
benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy program
understanding and transformation, DSL implementations, visual
languages and end-user programming, scientific computing, middleware
frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based
applications, resource-limited computation, and security.
To maintain the dynamic and interactive nature of PEPM, we will continue
the category of `short papers' for tool demonstrations and for presentations
of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic,
industrial and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar.
Student attendants with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC
grant to help cover travel expenses and other support. PAC also offers
other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for
travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities,
as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe.
For details on the PAC programme, see its web page.
All accepted papers, short papers included, will appear in formal
proceedings published by ACM Press. In addition to printed proceedings,
accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. A special issue
for Science of Computer Programming is planned with recommended papers
from PEPM'14.
PEPM has also established a Best Paper award. The winner will be announced
at the workshop.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, CATEGORIES, AND PROCEEDINGS
Authors are strongly encouraged to consult the advice for authoring
research papers (http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM14/ResearchPaperAdvice)
and tool papers (http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM14/ToolPaperAdvice)
before submitting. The PC Chairs welcome any inquiries about the
authoring advice.
Regular Research Papers must not exceed 12 pages in ACM Proceedings
style (including appendix). Tool demonstration papers and short papers must
not exceed 6 pages in ACM Proceedings style (including appendix). At least one
author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop and present
the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of
the described tool is expected. Suggested topics, evaluation criteria, and
writing guidelines for both research tool demonstration papers will be made
available on the PEPM'14 Web-site. Papers should be submitted electronically
via the workshop web site.
Authors using LaTeX to prepare their submissions should use the new improved
SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls, 9pt template).
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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: 28th Sept 2013
Paper submission: 5th Oct 2013
Notification: 11th Nov 2013
Camera ready: to be announced
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INVITED SPEAKERS
Manuel Fahndrich (Microsoft Research, USA)
Sven-Bodo Scholz (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)
PROGRAM Co-CHAIRS
Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, Netherlands
PEPM 2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Evelyne Contejean, CNRS, U. Paris-Sud, France
Cristina David, University of Oxford, UK
Alain Frisch, LexiFi, France
Ronald Garcia, U. of British Columbia, Canada
Zhenjiang Hu, NII, Japan
Paul H J Kelly, Imperial College, UK
Oleg Kiselyov, Monterey, USA
Naoki Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jens Krinke, University College London, UK
Ryan Newton, University of Indiana, USA
Alberto Pardo, U. de la Republica, Uruguay
Sungwoo Park, POSTECH, South Korea
Tiark Rompf, Oracle Labs & EPFL, Switzerland
Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, South Korea
Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden
Max Schaefer, NTU, Singapore
Harald Sondergaard, Melbourne Univ, Australia
Eijiro Sumii, Tohoku University, Japan
Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA
Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK
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