Dynamic Languages Symposium 2006 - Technical Papers

Call for papers

Portland, Oregon, United States, October 22, 2006


http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls2006/


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/node2006/ in PDF format. Submissions 
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 Technical Papers Day: 			October 22, 2006 (Sunday)
DLS Invited Talks Day: 			October 23, 2006 (Monday)


Chair

Robert Hirschfeld
Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany
hirschfeld at acm.org


Program committee

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