Call for papers

## 12th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS 2016)

### Co-located with SPLASH 2016
### In association with ACM SIGPLAN
### November 1, 2016, Amsterdam

(http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-16/index.html)

The 12th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2016 invites high
quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the
design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Areas of
interest include but are not limited to:

* Innovative language features
* Innovative implementation techniques
* Innovative applications
* Development environments and tools
* Experience reports and case studies
* Domain-oriented programming
* Very late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation
* Reflection and meta-programming
* Software evolution
* Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
* Dynamic optimization
* JIT compilation
* Soft/optional/gradual typing
* Hardware support
* Educational approaches and perspectives
* Semantics of dynamic languages


### Submissions and proceedings

Submissions must not have been published previously nor being under
review at other events. 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.

Papers are to be submitted electronically at (https://dls16.hotcrp.com/)
in PDF format. Submissions must be in the ACM format with 10-point
fonts and should not exceed 12 pages. Please see full details in the
following link:

(http://conf.researchr.org/track/dls-2016/dls-2016-papers#Instructions-for-Authors)

DLS 2016 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make
their final papers the best that they can be. Accepted papers will be
published in the ACM Digital Library and will be freely available for
one month, starting two weeks before the event.

### Important dates

* Submissions: Jun 10, 2016 (UTC, firm deadline)
* First phase notification: Jul 22, 2016
* Revisions due: July 29, 2016
* Final notification: Aug 14, 2016
* Camera ready: Aug 26, 2016
* DLS: Nov 1, 2016

**AUTHORS TAKE NOTE:** The official publication date is the date the
proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date
may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The
official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings
related to published work.


### Program chair
Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil

dls16@inf.puc-rio.br

### Program committee

* Carl Friedrich Bolz, King’s College London, UK
* Gilad Bracha, Google, USA
* Marcus Denker, INRIA, France
* Zachary DeVito, Stanford, USA
* Jonathan Edwards, CDG Labs, USA
* Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA
* Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Germany
* Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil (chair)
* Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA
* Benjamin Livshits, Microsoft Research, USA
* Priya Nagpurkar, IBM Research, USA
* Joe Gibbs Politz, Swarthmore College, USA
* Chris Seaton, Oracle Labs, UK
* Manuel Serrano, INRIA, France
* Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, USA
* Laurence Tratt, King’s College London, UK
* Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA
* Haichuan Wang, Huawei America Research Center, USA