<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call]</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists]</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">************************************************************************************************************</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">IWST16 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Prague, Czech Republic; August 23th, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">************************************************************************************************************</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Goals and scopes</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We expect papers of three kinds:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Short position papers describing emerging ideas</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We will not enforce any length restriction.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">--------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Important Dates</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">--------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Submission deadline: <b>May 15th, 2016</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Notification deadline: June 20th, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Workshop : August 23th, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed)</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Best papers would be extended in an International Journal</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Topics</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Aspect-oriented programming,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Design patterns,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Experience reports,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Frameworks,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Interaction with other languages,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Meta-programming and Meta-modeling,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-Tools</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best Paper Award</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be illegible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Publication</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at <a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm" target="_blank">http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm</a>. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Submission</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">All submissions must be sent via easychair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst20160" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst20160</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Program chairs</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Anne Etien (Université de Lille 1, France)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Jannik Laval (Université Lyon 2 Lumière, France)</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">~~Jannik Laval~~<br>Enseignant-chercheur<br>Responsable Pédagogique Licence Coordonnateur de Projet en Système d'Information<br>IUT Lumière, Université Lyon Lumière<br>laboratoire DISP<br><a href="http://www.jannik-laval.eu" target="_blank">http://www.jannik-laval.eu</a><br><a href="http://www.phratch.com" target="_blank">http://www.phratch.com</a><br><a href="http://www.approchealpes.info" target="_blank">http://www.approchealpes.info</a></div>
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