The increasingly concurrent and parallel landscape of hardware and software infrastructures demands the exploration and understanding of a wide variety of foundational and practical ideas. The International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES) is dedicated to work in this area. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from different fields to exchange new ideas about these challenges to modern and future programming, where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern.


Submissions

Submissions are invited in the general area of programming language approaches to concurrency, communication and distribution, ranging from foundational issues, through language implementations, to applications and case studies. Submissions are peer-reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers, with the aim of allocating at least one expert reviewer. Papers are reviewed based on their novelty, clarity, and technical soundness. Submissions must not be submitted for publication elsewhere and must be formatted in EPTCS format, containing a maximum of 8 pages (with no restriction on bibliography or appendices, which the reviewers need not read). Accepted papers will be published as an issue of EPTCS. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places22


Topics

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Design and implementation of programming languages with first class concurrency and communication primitives
Models for concurrent and distributed systems, such as process algebra and automata, and their mechanisation in proof assistants
Behavioural types, including session types
Concurrent data types, objects and actors
Verification and program analysis methods for safe and secure concurrent and distributed software
Interface and contract languages for communication and distribution
Applications to microservices, sensor networks, scientific computing, HPC, blockchains, robotics
Concurrency and communication in event processing and business process management


Important dates

Submission deadline: 4th February 2022, AOE
Author notification: 28 February 2022, AOE
Camera ready: 11 March 2022, AOE
Workshop: 3rd April 2022


Special Issues

Authors of selected papers from PLACES 2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their workshop papers to a special issue to Information and Computation and/or JLAMP.