Dynamic Languages Symposium 2009

Co-located with OOPSLA 2009

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

Disney's Contemporary Resort Orlando, Florida, United States, October 26, 2009

http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/dls/dls-09/
Call for papers

The 5th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at OOPSLA 2009 is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and application. While mature dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Self, Prolog, and APL continue to grow and inspire new converts, a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, Tcl, and JavaScript are successful in a wide range of applications. DLS provides a place for researchers and practitioners to come together and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development.

DLS 2009 invites high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation and application. Accepted Papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

* Innovative language features and implementation techniques
* Development and platform support, tools
* Interesting applications
* Domain-oriented programming
* Very late binding, dynamic composition, and runtime adaptation
* Reflection and meta-programming
* Software evolution
* Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
* Dynamic optimization
* Hardware support
* Experience reports and case studies
* Educational approaches and perspectives
* Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, and context-oriented programming

Submissions and proceedings

We invite original contributions that neither have been published previously nor are under review by other refereed events or publications. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from substantive practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Papers are to be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=dls2009 in PDF format. Submissions must not exceed 12 pages and need to use the ACM format, templates for which can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Important dates

* Submission of papers: June 1, 2009 (hard deadline)
* Author notification: July 13, 2009
* Final versions due: August 4, 2009
* DLS 2009: October 26 (Monday)
* OOPSLA 2009: October 25-29

Program chair

* James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
kjx@mcs.vuw.ac.nz

Program committee

* Davide Ancona, Università di Genova, Italy
* Elisa Baniassad, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
* Gilad Bracha, The Ministry of Truth, USA
* Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK
* Marc Feeley, University of Montreal, Canada
* Martin von Löwis, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
* Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Michael Richmond, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
* Robert Strandh, Université Bordeaux 1, France
* Antero Taivalsaari, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Finland
* Carolyn L. Talcott, SRI International, USA
* Glenn Vanderburg, USA
* Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue University, USA