Stefan Marr had sent this on some JVM lists; but it's super relevant for those of us doing research on or with pypy, too. ======================================================================== Call for Papers Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations (VMIL’18) Co-located with SPLASH 2018 November 4, 2018, Boston, USA https://2018.splashcon.org/track/vmil-2018 Follow us on twitter @vmil18 ======================================================================== The concept of virtual machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues. The workshop is intended to be welcoming to a wide range of topics and perspectives, covering all areas relevant to the workshop’s theme. Aspects of interest include, but are not limited to: - design issues in VMs and IRs (e.g. IR design, VM modularity, polyglotism) - compilation (static and dynamic compilation strategies, optimizations, data representations) - memory management - concurrency (both internal and user-facing) - tool support and related infrastructure (profiling, debugging, liveness, persistence) - the experience of VM development (use of high-level languages, bootstrapping and self-hosting, reusability, portability, developer tooling, etc) - empirical studies on related topics, such as usage patterns, the usability of languages or tools, experimental methodology, or benchmark design #### Submission Guidelines 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 the above or related areas. The suggested length of these submissions is 6-10 pages (maximum 10pp). Work-in-progress or position papers: These papers should document ongoing efforts in an area of interest which have not yet yielded final results, and/or should present and defend the authors' position on a topic related to the broad area of the workshop. The suggested length of these submissions is 4-6 pages (maximum 6pp). For the first submission deadline, all paper types are considered for publication in the ACM Digital Library, except if the authors prefer not to be included. Publication of work-in-progress and position papers at VMIL is not intended to preclude later publication elsewhere. Submissions will be judged on novelty, clarity, timeliness, relevance, and potential to stimulate discussion during the workshop. For the second deadline, we will consider only work-in-progress and position papers. These will not be published in the ACM DL, and will only appear on the web site. The address of the submission site is: https://vmil18.hotcrp.com/ #### Important Dates All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE), i.e. GMT/UTC−12:00 hour Abstract Submission 07 August 2018 Paper Submission 17 August 2018 Paper Notification 14 September 2018 ACM Camera Ready Deadline 28 September 2018 “Late submission” deadline 07 September 2018 (WIP/position papers only) “Late submission” notification 30 September 2018 Workshop Date 04 November 2018 #### Format Instructions Please use the SIGPLAN acmart style for all papers: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. The provided double-column template is available for Latex and Word. #### Program Committee Stephen Kell, University of Cambridge Stefan Marr, University of Kent Leif Andersen, Northeastern University Steve Blackburn, Australian National University Stephen Dolan, University of Cambridge Apala Guha, Simon Fraser University Christine H. Flood, Red Hat Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Tomas Kalibera, Czech Technical University Christos Kotselidis, The University of Manchester Doug Lea, State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego Sanhong Li, Alibaba Inc. Mark Marron, Microsoft Research Erez Petrank, Technion Julien Ponge, INSA Lyon, CITI Laboratory / Red Hat Richard Roberts, Victoria University of Wellington Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University -- Stefan Marr School of Computing, University of Kent http://stefan-marr.de/research/ _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev -- William Leslie Notice: Likely much of this email is, by the nature of copyright, covered under copyright law. You absolutely MAY reproduce any part of it in accordance with the copyright law of the nation you are reading this in. Any attempt to DENY YOU THOSE RIGHTS would be illegal without prior contractual agreement.