[ecoop-info] CFP: VMIL 2017 - 9th Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages

[Adam Welc]

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                      Call for Papers: VMIL 2017

     9th Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages


                      Co-located with SPLASH 2017

                    October 24th, Vancouver, Canada


          http://conf.researchr.org/track/vmil-2017/vmil-2017


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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP


The VMIL workshop is a forum for research in virtual machines and

intermediate languages. It focuses on novel ideas on modular

approaches to programming language implementation and optimization,

extensible virtual machines, as well as reusable runtime components.

VMIL also investigates programming language mechanisms and dynamic

tooling facilities that are currently implemented as code

transformations or in libraries but are worthwhile candidates for

integration with the run-time environment. VMIL's area of interest

includes exploration how said mechanisms can be elegantly (and

reusably) expressed at the intermediate language level (e.g., in

bytecode), how their implementations can be optimized, and how virtual

machine architectures might be shaped to facilitate such

implementation efforts. Examples of such mechanisms are concurrency

constructs (e.g. actors, capsules, processes, software transactional

memory), transactions, and development tools (profilers, runtime

verification).


TOPICS OF INTEREST


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


- Modular compilation-based and interpreter-based virtual machine

  designs

- Intermediate language constructs that better support programming

  language level features

- Reusable implementation of runtime components (e.g. interpreters,

  garbage collectors, intermediate representations)

- Static and dynamic compiler techniques for different languages

- Tooling support for different languages (e.g. debugging, profiling,

  etc.)

- Modular language implementations that use existing frameworks and

  systems

- New research ideas on how we want to build languages in the future.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES


In these key areas, we invite high-quality papers in the following two

categories.

- Research and experience papers: These submissions should describe

work that advances the current state of the art in support of advanced

separation of concerns techniques in virtual machines and intermediate

languages. Experience papers that are of broader interest and describe

insights gained from practical applications. The page limit for these

submissions is 10 pages.

- Position papers: These submissions present and defend the author’s

position on a topic related to the broader area of the workshop. The

page limit for these submissions is 4 pages.


Submissions should use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference acmart Format with

‘sigplan’ Subformat (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/), 10

point font, using the font family Times New Roman. All submissions

should be in PDF format.


The address of the submission site is: https://vmil17.hotcrp.com/


IMPORTANT DATES


Submission deadline: August 14, 2017

Authors notification: September 15, 2017

Camera ready deadline: September 22, 2017


All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE), i.e. GMT/UTC−12:00 hour


ORGANIZATION


Organizing Committee


Steve Blackburn, Australian National University

Christoph Bockisch, Phillips-Univeristat Marburg

Michael Haupt, eBay

Tony Hosking, Australian National University

Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University

Witawas Srisa-an, University of Nebraska-Lincoln


Program Committee


Matthias Grimmer, Oracle Labs (Co-chair)

Adam Welc, Huawei America Research Center (Co-chair)

Walter Binder, University of Lugano

Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio

Richard Jones, University of Kent

Tomas Kalibera, Northeastern University

Christor Kotselidis, The University of Manchester

Ben L. Titzer, Google

Jennifer B. Sartor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel