Deadline Extension: DLS05: ACM Dynamic Languages Symposium

[Guido van Rossum]

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From: Roel Wuyts <Roel.Wuyts at ulb.ac.be>
Date: Jun 21, 2005 1:39 AM
Subject: Deadline Extension: DLS05: ACM Dynamic Languages Symposium
To: Guido Van Rossum <guido at python.org>


            ACM Dynamic Languages Symposium 2005
                                 October 18, 2005
                             San Diego, California
                       (co-located with OOPSLA'05)

    URL: http://decomp.ulb.ac.be/events/dls05/


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Deadline Extension
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Several authors have requested an extension to the deadline. In order
to ensure fairness and consistency we have therefore decided to
extend the deadline with one more week. As noted below, papers are
now due by the 3rd July 2005.



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Abstract
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In industry, static languages (such as Java, C++ and C#) are much
more widely used than their dynamic counterparts (like Scheme, CLOS,
Python, Self, Perl, php or Smalltalk). So it appears as though
dynamic language concepts were forgotten and lost the race.

But this is not the case.

Java and C#, the latest mainstream static languages, popularized to a
certain extent dynamic language features such as garbage collection,
portability and (limited forms of) reflection. In the near future, we
expect this dynamicity to increase even further. E.g., it is getting
clearer year after year that pervasive computing is becoming the rule
and that concepts such as meta programming, reflection, mobility,
dynamic reconfigurability and distribution are becoming increasingly
popular. All of these features are the domain of dynamic languages,
and hence it is only logical that more dynamic language concepts have
to be taken up by static languages, or that dynamic languages can
make a breakthrough.

Currently, the dynamic language community is fragmented, split over a
multitude of paradigms (from functional over logic to object-
oriented), languages and syntaxes. This fragmentation severely
hinders research as well as acceptance, and results in either
language wars or, even worse, language ignorance. The goal of this
symposium is to provide a highly visible, international forum for
researchers working on dynamic features and languages. We explicitly
invite submissions from all kinds of paradigms (object-oriented,
functional, logic, ...), as can be seen from the structure of the
program committee.

DLS'05 invites the submission of technical papers presenting research
results or experience in all areas related to dynamic languages or
dynamic language concepts. Research papers should describe work that
advances the current state of the art. Experience reports should be
of broad interest and should describe insights gained from the
practical application of dynamic languages that are of use to other
researchers and practitioners. The program committee will evaluate
each contributed research and experience paper based on its
relevance, significance, clarity, originality, and correctness.

Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:
- closures
- delegation
- actors, active objects
- constraint systems
- mixins and traits
- reflection and meta-programming
- aspect-oriented programming in dynamic environments
- language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
- experience reports on successful application of dynamic languages

Papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

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Submission Guidelines
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Papers have to be submitted through our online submission system:
http://decomp.ulb.ac.be:8008/servlets/continue/submit.ss .

All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format (or
PostScript, if you do not have access to PDF-producing programs, but
this is not recommended). Submissions, as well as final versions,
must be formatted to conform to ACM Proceedings requirements: Nine
point font on ten point baseline, two columns per page, each column
3.33 inches wide by 9 inches tall, with a column gutter of 0.33
inches, etc. See the ACM Proceedings Guidelines. You can save
preparation time by using one of the templates from that page. Note
that MS Word documents must be converted to PDF before being
submitted. Page limit is 16 pages in the style mentioned above.

Please notice that only original papers are accepted that have not
been published and are not under review for publication elsewhere.
Papers violating this rule will be rejected without review, and the
other forum will be informed of the situation.

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  Important Dates
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- Firm deadline for receipt of submissions: July 3rd, 2005 (extended
from June 24th)
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: August 5th 2005
- Final version for the proceedings: To be decided

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Program Committee
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George Bosworth
Gilad Bracha
Will Clinger
Wolfgang De Meuter
Stephane Ducasse
Matthew Flat
Gopal Gupta
Robert Hirschfeld
Dan Ingalls
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Mark Miller
Eliot Miranda
Philippe Mougin
Oscar Nierstrasz
Dave Thomas
David Ungar
Guido Van Rossum
Peter Van Roy
Jon L White (G)
Roel Wuyts (Chair)

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Roel
Wuyts
DeComp
roel.wuyts at ulb.ac.be                               Université Libre
de Bruxelles
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/
~rowuyts/                                    Belgique
Vice-President of the European Smalltalk Users Group: www.esug.org




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