<div dir="ltr">========================================================================<br> "Scala 2013"<br><br> the Fourth Annual Scala Workshop<br> co-located with ECOOP 2013<br>
Montpellier, France<br> July 2nd, 2013<br><br> CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br> <a href="http://lamp.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2013">http://lamp.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2013</a><br>
========================================================================<br><br>Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common<br>programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly<br>
integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.<br><br>This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas<br>and results of interest to the Scala community.<br><br>We seek papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to):<br>
<br>- Language design and implementation – language extensions, optimization, and<br> performance evaluation.<br>- Library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala – embedded<br> domain-specific languages, combining language features, generic and meta-programming.<br>
- Formal techniques for Scala-like programs – formalizations of the language,<br> type system, and semantics, formalizing proposed language extensions and<br> variants, dependent object types, type and effect systems.<br>
- Concurrent and distributed programming – libraries, frameworks, language<br> extensions, programming paradigms: (Actors, STM, ...), performance<br> evaluation, experimental results.<br>- Safety and reliability – pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis<br>
and verification, runtime monitoring.<br>- Tools – development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing<br> frameworks.<br>- Case studies, experience reports, and pearls.<br><br>Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, or projects<br>
related to Scala. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers<br>may describe work in progress. All papers will be judged on a combination of<br>correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community.<br>
<br>In general, papers should explain their original contributions,<br>identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is<br>significant, and relating it to previous work (also for other<br>languages where appropriate). Papers in the last category of the list<br>
above need not necessarily report original research results; they may<br>instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful<br>to others, new Scala idioms, or programming pearls. In all cases, such<br>a paper must make a contribution which is of interest to the Scala<br>
community, or from which other members of the Scala community can<br>benefit.<br><br>Publications at the Scala Workshop represent works-in-progress and are<br>not intended to preclude later publication at any of the main<br>
conferences. Though, follow-up submissions do need to conform to the<br>publication policies of the targeted conference, which typically<br>equates to significant extension or refinement of the workshop<br>publication.<br>
<br>KEYWORDS: Library Design and Implementation, Language Design and<br>Implementation, Applications, Formal Techniques, Parallelism and<br>Concurrency, Distributed Programming, Tools, Experience Reports,<br>Empirical Studies<br>
<br><br>## Student Talks ##<br><br>In addition to regular papers and tool demos, we also solicit short<br>student talks by PhD students. A student talk is not accompanied by<br>a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in<br>
plain text). Student talks are about 5 minutes long, presenting<br>ongoing or completed research related to Scala, or announcing a<br>project that would be of interest to the Scala community.<br><br><br>## Proceedings ##<br>
<br>It is planned to publish accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library, unless<br>the authors choose not to. In case of publication in the ACM Digital Library,<br>authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work,<br>
to the extent transferable), but retain various rights (see ACM Copyright<br>Policy. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper<br>(source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material.<br>
<br><br>## Submission Details ##<br><br>* Abstract Submission: April 12, 2013<br>* Paper Submission : April 19, 2013<br>* Author Notification: May 17, 2013<br>* Final Papers Due : June 1, 2013 (to be confirmed)<br>* Early Registration : May 31, 2013<br>
<br>Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using<br>the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference style (10pt format). Regular<br>research papers must not exceed 10 pages, tool demonstration papers and short<br>
papers must not exceed 4 pages. "Tool Demos" and "Short Papers" should be<br>marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission.<br><br>Student talks are not accompanied by papers. Therefore, it is sufficient to<br>
only submit a plain-text abstract. "Student Talks" should be marked as such<br>with those words in the title at time of submission.<br><br>Submission is via EasyChair: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala2013</a><br>
<br><br>## Program Committee ##<br><br>* Marius Eriksen, Twitter<br>* Viktor Kuncak, EPFL<br>* Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt<br>* Matt Might, University of Utah<br>* Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano<br>* Bruno Oliveira, National University of Singapore<br>
* Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University<br>* Aleksandar Prokopec, EPFL<br>* David Van Horn, Northeastern University<br>* Tobias Wrigstad, Uppsala University<br><br><br>## Organizing Committee ##<br><br>* Philipp Haller (Chair), Typesafe<br>
* Martin Odersky, EPFL<br>* Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego<br>* Heather Miller (Co-Chair), EPFL<br>* Vojin Jovanovic, EPFL<br><br><br>## Links ##<br><br>* The Scala Workshop 2013 web site: <a href="http://lamp.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2013">http://lamp.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2013</a><br>
* The ECOOP/ECSA/ECMFA 2013 web site: <a href="http://www.lirmm.fr/ec-montpellier-2013">http://www.lirmm.fr/ec-montpellier-2013</a><br><br></div>