SAC 2009 Programming Languages

A technical track on Programming Languages will be held at SAC'09. It will be a forum for engineers, researchers and practitioners throughout the world to share technical ideas and experiences relating to implementation and application of programming languages. Original papers and experience reports are invited in all areas of programming languages.

Topics
Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:


 * Compiling Techniques,
 * Domain-Specific Languages,
 * Formal Semantics and Syntax,
 * Garbage Collection,
 * Language Design and Implementation,
 * Languages for Modeling,
 * Model-Driven Development and Model Transformation,
 * New Programming Language Ideas and Concepts,
 * New Programming Paradigms,
 * Practical Experiences with Programming Languages,
 * Program Analysis and Verification,
 * Program Generation and Transformation,
 * Programming Languages from All Paradigms (Agent-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented, Functional, Logic, Object-Oriented, etc.),
 * Visual Programming Languages.

Submission
Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development relevant to the theme of the track. This includes the following categories of submissions:

1) Original and unpublished research work,

2) Reports of innovative applications to the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas,

3) Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains,

4) Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems.

All submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings. After the conference, selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of a prominent journal.

Important Dates
August 16, 2008: Paper Submissions (strict deadline) October 11, 2008: Author Notification October 25, 2008: Camera-Ready Copy

Program Committee Members

 * has PC member::Suad Alagic, University of Southern Maine, USA
 * has PC member::Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
 * has PC member::Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 * has PC member::Thomas Cleenewerck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Sophia Drossopolou, Imperial College, England
 * has PC member::Jan Heering, CWI, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria, Canada
 * has PC member::Bo Huang, Intel, China
 * has PC member::Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil
 * has PC member::Ralf Lammel, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany
 * has PC member::Annie Liu, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
 * has PC member::Pablo Martinez Lopez, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina
 * has PC member::Soo-Mook Moon, Seoul National University, Korea
 * has PC member::Terence Parr, University of San Francisco, USA
 * has PC member::Enrico Ponteli, New Mexico State University, USA
 * has PC member::Ganesan Ramalingam, Microsoft, India
 * has PC member::Komondoor Raghavan, IBM, India
 * has PC member::Martin Rinard, MIT, USA
 * has PC member::Bostjan Slivnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * has PC member::Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
 * has PC member::Harald Sondergaard, University of Melbourne, Australia
 * has PC member::Tachio Terauchi, Tohoku University, Japan
 * has PC member::Xiaoqing Wu, Countrywide Financial Corp, USA
 * has PC member::Wuu Yang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Track Chairs

 * has program chair::Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
 * has program chair::Barrett Bryant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA