[squeak-dev] Call for Papers: Constrained and Reactive Objects Workshop at Modularity 2016

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CROW 2016 - Constrained and Reactive Objects Workshop

The Constrained and Reactive Objects Workshop (CROW) invites papers that
present research results related to using constraints and reactive
programming in combination or integrated with imperative and object-oriented
systems. This research area has recently received increasing interest again.
Object-constraint, constraint-reactive, constraint-imperative systems and
others were proposed in response to challenges posed by, for example, the
requirements for applications to work across different devices and
form-factors, to provide best-effort computing in the face of unreliable
devices and networks, and to more fully utilise HPC technology. However,
many questions remain. For example, the interactions among constraints,
reactive or event-based programming, and mainstream imperative and
object-oriented languages are still not well-understood, and different
implementation techniques to combine these paradigms are still being
explored. The lack of large applications written with combinations of these
paradigms means that there is little experience with patterns and tools for
such applications, and modularity mechanisms required for such large
applications are in their infancy or completely absent.

This workshop is intended to gather researchers working on using constraints
or reactive programming in combination with mainstream imperative and
object-oriented languages. The goal of this workshop is to present technical
research results related to such systems, discuss applications, tools, and
patterns used in these systems, and to define better the directions into
which this field may evolve by providing overviews of existing work.


Call for Papers

Even though constraint-based and reactive programming are not new concepts,
their combination and interaction with more mainstream imperative and
object-oriented languages are receiving more and more attention. This
workshop is an attempt to gather researchers working on models, languages,
and implementations relating these paradigms. We welcome all submissions on
language design, implementation, runtime systems, program analysis, software
metrics, patterns, modularity principles, case-studies and benchmarks of
systems that combine constraint-based or reactive programming with
imperative paradigms. Of particular interest are topics from the following
areas:
•Study of the interactions of constraints and reactive programming with
imperative language features such as object-oriented programming, mutable
state, encapsulation, modules, or concurrency
•Applications and case-studies that showcase examples in which the
combination of constraints and reactive programming facilitates systems
development
•Empirical studies that motivate further research in the field
•Patterns, modularity mechanisms, and best-practices for larger applications
•IDEs and Tools
•Language runtimes, virtual machine support, or compilers
•Related fields that constraints and reactive programming can help
facilitate, such as self-healing systems, best-effort computing,
acceptability-oriented computing, or end-user programming

Authors are invited to submit short position papers or long technical
papers. using the ACM sigplanconf style at 9pt font size (see
http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html).
Short papers are imited to a maximum of 4 pages, excluding references. Long
papers are limited to a maximum of 10 pages, including references.
Submissions should not have been previously published nor be under review at
other events. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers
will be published in the ACM Digital Library (unless the authors wish
otherwise). Papers should be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crow16. 

Workshop Format

The format of the workshop will be that of a mini-conference. Participants
can present their work in slots of 30 minutes including Q&A. Because it is
often hard to understand the semantics of novel combinations of multiple
paradigms as in this workshop just by looking at the code, we also encourage
authors to present live demos.

The goal of the workshop is to come to a better understanding of the the
field. We hope to use the late afternoon session to draw conclusions from
the presented work, and to identify fundamental paradigmatic problems that
still need to be resolved to reconcile these different technologies and
paradigms.

Important Dates
•Submission deadline: January 15, 2016
•Notification: February 6, 2016
•Camera ready: February 13, 2016
•Workshop: March 14-15, 2016




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