[ecoop-info] CFP: REBLS 2018 - 5th International Workshop on Reactive and Event-Based Languages & Systems

[Francisco Sant'anna]

5th International Workshop on Reactive and Event-Based Languages &
Systems
Boston, United States - November 4th,
2018
https://2018.splashcon.org/track/rebls-2018-papers



Held at SPLASH
Conference
http://2018.splashcon.org/



=====  Introduction
=====


Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related
programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of
advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our
applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number
of publications on middleware and language design - so-called reactive and
event-based languages and systems (REBLS) - have already seen the light,
but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction
with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation
technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally
lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and
patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is
vastly unexplored.


This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages
and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research
results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and
overviews of the existing work.




===== Contributions
=====


Even though reactive programming and event-based programming are receiving
ever more attention, the field is far from mature. This workshop will join
forces and try to gather researchers working on the foundational models,
languages and implementation technologies. We welcome all submissions on
reactive programming, aspect- and


event-oriented systems, including but not limited
to:


- Language design, implementation, runtime systems, program analysis,
software metrics, patterns and benchmarks.


- Study of the paradigm: interaction of reactive and event-based
programming with existing language features such as object-oriented
programming, mutable state, concurrency.


- Advanced event systems, event quantification, event composition,
aspect-oriented programming for reactive applications.


- Functional-reactive programming, self-adjusting computation and
incremental computing.


- Synchronous languages, modeling real-time systems, safety-critical
reactive and embedded systems.


- Applications, case studies that show the efficacy of reactive
programming.


- Empirical studies that motivate further research in the
field.


- Patterns and
best-practices.


- Related fields, such as complex event processing, reactive data
structures, view maintenance, constraint-based languages, and their
integration with reactive programming. IDEs, Tools.

- Implementation technology, language runtimes, virtual machine support,
compilers.


- Modularity and abstraction mechanisms in large
systems.


- Formal models for reactive and event-based
programming.


The format of the workshop is that of a mini-conference. Participants can
present their work in slots of 30 mins with Q&A included. Because of the
declarative nature of reactive programs, it is often hard to understand
their semantics just by looking at the code. We therefore also encourage
authors to use their slots for presenting their work based on live demos.






=====  Submissions
=====


REBLS encourages submissions of two types of
papers:


- Research results: complete works that will be published in the ACM
digital library.


- In progress papers: papers that have the potential of triggering an
interesting discussion at the workshop or present new ideas that require
further systematic investigation. These papers will not be published in the
ACM digital library.


Info about the format and the page limits can be found on the REBLS'18
website:
http://2018.splashcon.org/track/rebls-2018





=====  Important dates
=====


- Papers deadline:             August 17,
2018


- Papers notification:         September 25,
2018


- Workshop:                      November 4,
2018




==== Steering Committee
====


Guido Salvaneschi, TU
Darmstadt
Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel
Patrick Eugster, Purdue University and TU
Darmstadt
Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY
Buffalo




==== Program Committee
====


Francisco Sant'Anna, Rio de Janeiro State University
(chair)
Adrien Guatto, University of
Bamberg
Aggelos Biboudis,
EPFL
Antony Courtney,
Facebook
Dominique Devriese, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven
Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
José Proença, Universidade do
Minho
Louis Mandel, IBM
Watson
Steven Smyth, Kiel
University
Tetsuo Kamina, Oita
University
Tim Felgentreff, Hasso Plattner
Institute
Tomoyuki Aotani, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
Yoshiki
Ohshima




===== REBLS @ SPLASH 2018
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Francisco
Sant'Anna
http://ceu-lang.org/chico/