<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div> LDTA 2012 Call for Papers</div><div><br></div><div> 12th International Workshop on</div><div> Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.ldta.info/">www.ldta.info</a></div><div><br></div><div> Tallinn, Estonia </div><div> March 31 & April 1, 2012</div><div> an ETAPS workshop</div><div><br></div><div>LDTA is an application and tool-oriented workshop focused on</div><div>grammarware - software based on grammars in some form. Grammarware</div><div>applications are typically language processing applications and</div><div>traditional examples include parsers, program analyzers, optimizers</div><div>and translators. A primary focus of LDTA is grammarware that is</div><div>generated from high-level grammar-centric specifications and thus</div><div>submissions on parser generation, attribute grammar systems,</div><div>term/graph rewriting systems, and other grammar-related</div><div>meta-programming tools, techniques, and formalisms are encouraged.</div><div><br></div><div>LDTA is also a forum in which theory is put to the test, in many cases</div><div>on real-world software engineering challenges. Thus, LDTA also</div><div>solicits papers on the application of grammarware to areas including,</div><div>but not limited to, the following:</div><div>- program analysis, transformation, generation, and verification,</div><div>- implementation of Domain-Specific Languages,</div><div>- reverse engineering and re-engineering,</div><div>- refactoring and other source-to-source transformations,</div><div>- language definition and language prototyping, and</div><div>- debugging, profiling, IDE support, and testing.</div><div><br></div><div>Note that LDTA is a well-established workshop similar to other</div><div>conferences on (programming) language engineering topics such as SLE</div><div>and GPCE, but is solely focused on grammarware.</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission</div><div>-------------------------</div><div>LDTA solicits papers in the following categories.</div><div><br></div><div>- research papers: original research results within the scope of LDTA</div><div> with a clear motivation, description, analysis, and evaluation.</div><div><br></div><div>- short research papers: new innovative ideas that have not been</div><div> completely fleshed out. As a workshop, LDTA strongly encourages</div><div> these types of submissions.</div><div><br></div><div>- experience report papers: description of the use of a grammarware</div><div> tool or technique to solve a non-trivial applied problem with an</div><div> emphasis on the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen approach</div><div> to the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>- tool demo papers: discussion of a tool or technique that explains</div><div> the contributions of the tool and what specifically will be</div><div> demonstrated.</div><div><br></div><div>Each submission must clearly state in which of these categories it</div><div>falls, and must not be published or submitted elsewhere. Papers are to use</div><div>the standard LaTeX article style and the authblk style for</div><div>affiliations; a sample of which is provided at <a href="http://www.ldta.info/">www.ldta.info</a>.</div><div>Research and experience papers are limited to 15 pages, tool</div><div>demonstration papers are limited to 10 pages, and short papers are</div><div>limited to 6 pages. The final version of the accepted papers will,</div><div>pending approval, be published in the ACM Digital Library and will</div><div>also be made available during the workshop.</div><div><br></div><div>Please submit your abstract and paper using EasyChair at</div><div><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldta2012">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldta2012</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The authors of each submission are required to give a presentation at</div><div>LDTA 2011 and tool demonstration paper presentations are intended to</div><div>include a significant live, interactive demonstration.</div><div><br></div><div>The authors of the best papers will be invited to write a journal</div><div>version of their paper which will be separately reviewed and, assuming</div><div>acceptance, be published in journal form. As in past years this will</div><div>be done in a special issue of the journal Science of Computer</div><div>Programming (Elsevier Science).</div><div><br></div><div>Invited Speaker</div><div>---------------------</div><div>Janis Voigtländer (University of Bonn, Germany).</div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates</div><div>---------------------</div><div>Abstract submission: Nov. 28, 2011</div><div>Full paper submission: Dec. 5, 2011</div><div>Author notification: Jan. 20, 2012</div><div>Camera-ready papers: Feb. 05, 2012</div><div>LDTA Workshop: Mar. 31 - Apr. 1, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>LDTA Tool Challenge</div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>The 2011 Workshop pioneered the LDTA Tool Challenge where tool</div><div>developers were invited to develop solutions to a range of language</div><div>processing tasks over a simple but evolving set of imperative</div><div>programming languages. We expect a challenge to form part of LDTA</div><div>every two years. The 2012 workshop will feature presentations devoted</div><div>to a de-brief of the 2011 challenge, based on the paper currently</div><div>being prepared by challenge participants.</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee</div><div>---------------------------</div><div>Suzana Andova, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (co-chair)</div><div>Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway</div><div>Kyung-Goo Doh, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea</div><div>Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA</div><div>Görel Hedin, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden</div><div>Zoltán Horváth, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary </div><div>Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan</div><div>Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</div><div>Ivan Kurtev, University of Twente, The Netherlands</div><div>Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia</div><div>Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano, Switzerland</div><div>Joăo Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portuga</div><div>Sylvain Schmitz, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France</div><div>Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia (co-chair)</div><div>Robert Tairas, Inria, France</div><div>Laurence Tratt, King's College London, UK</div><div>Vadim Zaytsev, Centre for Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands</div><div><br></div><div>Organizing Committee</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway</div><div>Emilie Balland, INRIA, France</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div>---------------------------</div><div>Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands</div><div>Görel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden</div><div>Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia</div><div>Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, United States</div></div>--<br>To unsubscribe this mailing list, send a mail to <a href="mailto:sympa@loria.fr">sympa@loria.fr</a> with SIGNOFF tom-users in the subject.<br>To invite someone to subscribe, send a mail with INVITE tom-users user@host in the subject.<br></body></html>