Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions for the Journal of Systems and Software Special
Issue on «Software Language Engineering». This special issue is
related to the 2022 edition of the Software Language Engineering
Conference (https://2022.splashcon.org/home/sle-2022?) but **it is
open to all authors.**
Details follow.
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Journal of Systems and Software
Software Language Engineering Special Issue
Guest Editors
● Lola Burgueño, University of Malaga, Spain
● Walter Cazzola, Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
● Dimitris Kolovos, Professor, University of York, United Kingdom
Special issue information:
With the ubiquity of computers, software has become the dominating
intellectual asset of our time. In turn, this software depends on
software languages, namely the languages it is written in, the
languages used to describe its environment, and the languages driving
its development process. Given that everything depends on software and
that software depends on software languages, it seems fair to say that
for many years to come, everything will depend on software languages.
Software language engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering
languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It
abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modeling
languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the
engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the
establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the
best results. While SLE is certainly driven by its meta-circular
character (software languages are engineered using software
languages), SLE is not self-satisfying: its scope extends to the
engineering of languages for all and everything.
This special issue will represent a further step in identification,
definition and tooling of software languages.
Topics of interest related to the special issue, but are not limited to:
● Software Language Design and Implementation
○ Approaches to and methods for language design
○ Static semantics (e.g. design rules, well-formedness constraints)
○ Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics
○ Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation)
○ Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches
● Software Language Validation
○ Verification and formal methods for languages
○ Testing techniques for languages
○ Simulation techniques for languages
● Software Language Integration and Composition
○ Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools
○ Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages)
○ Traceability between languages
○ Deployment of languages to different platforms
● Software Language Maintenance
○ Software language reuse
○ Language evolution
○ Language families and variability, language and software product lines
○ Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design,
implementation, validation, maintenance)
● Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools
○ User studies evaluating usability
○ Performance benchmarks
○ Industrial applications
● Synergies between Language Engineering and emerging/promising research areas
○ AI and ML language engineering (e.g., ML compiler testing, code
classification)
○ Quantum language engineering (e.g., language design for quantum machines)
● Language engineering for physical systems (e.g., CPS, IoT, digital twins)
○ Socio-technical systems and language engineering (e.g., language
evolution to adapt to social requirements)
Manuscript submission information:
Proposed Dates and Outcomes
● Submission: 15 February 2023
● Notification to authors (first round): 15 April 2023
● Submission of revised papers (second round): 15 June 2023
● Notification to authors (second round): 15 August 2023
● Submission after second review: 15 October 2023
● Final acceptance: 15 November 2023
● Date of publication: 15 December 2023
Submission Guidelines
The call for this special issue is an open call. We invite innovative
research with a sound scientific or technological basis and
validation. We accept submissions of original and previously
unpublished manuscripts and we especially encourage the submission of
revised and extended papers from the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International
Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2022). If a previous
version of the manuscript has been published in a conference or
journal, then authors must explicitly explain the novelty of this new
submission and provide at least 30% new material. Surveys, literature
reviews and mapping studies would not be considered as part of this
special issue.
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted
through the Elsevier Editorial System at
https://www.editorialmanager.com/jssoftware/default1.aspx. Follow the
submission instructions given on this site. During the submission
process, select the article type "VSI:SLE" from the "Choose Article
Type" pull-down menu. All submissions must adhere to the general
principles of the Journal of Systems and Software articles.
Submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors,
available on the journal website, and must follow the format specified
in the JSS Guide for Authors
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-systems-and-software/0164-1212….
For more information about the special issue, please contact the guest editors.
# TFP 2023 -- Call For Participation
(trendsfp.github.io)
## Dates
Registration: Friday 6th January, 2023
TFPIE Workshop: Thursday 12th January, 2023
TFP Symposium: Friday 13th - Sunday 15th January, 2023
The Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an
international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of
functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future
trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for
presenting the latest research results, and other contributions.
This year, TFP will take place in-person at UMass Boston,
Massachusetts in the United States. It is co-located with the Trends
in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE) workshop, which will
take on the day before the main symposium.
## Scope
The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various
routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore
identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles
are solicited in any of these categories:
* Research Articles:
Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
* Position Articles:
On what new trends should or should not be
* Project Articles:
Descriptions of recently started new projects
* Evaluation Articles:
What lessons can be drawn from a finished project
* Overview Articles:
Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject
Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for
publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of
functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or
experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques
to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.
Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
* Functional programming in the cloud
* High performance functional computing
* Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
* Dependently typed functional programming
* Validation and verification of functional programs
* Debugging and profiling for functional languages
* Functional programming in different application areas:
security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded
systems, global computing, grids, etc.
* Interoperability with imperative programming languages
* Novel memory management techniques
* Program analysis and transformation techniques
* Empirical performance studies
* Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
* (Embedded) domain specific languages
* New implementation strategies
* Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area
If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of
TFP, please contact the TFP 2023 program chair, Stephen Chang.
## Best Paper Awards
TFP awards two prizes for the best papers each year.
First, to reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best
overall paper accepted for the post-conference formal proceedings.
Second, a prize for the best student paper is awarded each year.
TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students,
acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new
subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state
that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed
as first authors, and a student would present the paper.
In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the
best paper happens to be a student paper, then that paper will receive
both prizes.
## Instructions to Authors
Papers must be submitted at:
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp23>
Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions
formally reviewed either before or after the Symposium.
Further, pre-symposium submissions may either be full (earlier deadline)
or draft papers (later deadline).
## Pre-symposium formal review
Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be
submitted before the early deadline and will receive their reviews and
notification of acceptance for both presentation and publication
before the symposium. A paper that has been rejected for publication
but accepted for presentation may be resubmitted for the
post-symposium formal review.
## Post-symposium formal review
Draft papers will receive minimal reviews and notification of
acceptance for presentation at the symposium. Authors of draft papers
will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive
at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select
a subset of these articles for formal publication.
## Paper categories
Draft papers and papers submitted for formal review are submitted as
extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (20
pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs
to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It
should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether
the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which all authors
are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members
shortly after the symposium has taken place.
## Format
Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS
style. For more information about formatting please consult the
Springer LNCS web site.
## Program Committee
Peter Achten, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Nada Amin, Harvard University, USA
Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant, Untypable LLC, USA
Laura M. Castro, University of A Coruña, Spain
Stephen Chang (Chair), University of Massachusetts Boston, US
John Clements, Cal Poly, USA
Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Paul Downen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Kathy Gray, Meta Platforms, Inc., UK
Ben Greenman, University of Utah, USA
Jason Hemann, Seton Hall University, USA
Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA
Alexis King, Tweag, USA
Julia Lawall, Inria-Paris, France
Barak Pearlmutter, Maynooth University, Ireland
Norman Ramsey, Tufts University, USA
Ilya Sergey, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Melinda Tóth, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Ningning Xie, University of Toronto, Canada