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[eurolisp] CFPart: COP Workshop at ECOOP'09
by Jorge Vallejos 20 May '09

20 May '09

Apologies for multiple reception of this email. Call for participation = = = = = ======================================================================== International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP'09) Co-located with the 23rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'09) http://prog.vub.ac.be/cop09 = = = = = ======================================================================== OVERVIEW Context information plays an increasingly important role in our information centric world. Software systems must adapt to changing contexts over time, and must change even while they are running. Unfortunately, mainstream programming languages and development environments do not support this kind of dynamic change very well, leading developers to implement complex designs to anticipate various dimensions of variability. Context-oriented Programming (COP) directly supports variability depending on a wide range of dynamic attributes, making it possible to dispatch run-time behavior on any properties of the execution context. By now, several researchers have started to work on Context-oriented Programming and related ideas, and first implementations ranging from first prototypes to mature platform extensions used in commercial deployments have illustrated how multi-dimensional dispatch can indeed be supported effectively to achieve expressive run-time variation in behavior. DATE Tuesday 7th July, Workshop ACCEPTED PAPERS The following is the preliminary list of papers accepted for presentation at the workshop. - How should context-escaping closures proceed? Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universitiet Brussel Éric Tanter, University of Chile - Declarative Definition of Contexts with Polymorphic Events Angel Nuñez, École des Mines de Nantes Jacques Noyé, École des Mines de Nantes Vaidas Gasiünas, Technische Universität Darmstadt - Transactional Contexts: Harnessing the Power of Context-Oriented Reflection Sebastian Gonzalez, Université catholique de Louvain Marcus Denker, University of Chile Kim Mens, Université catholique de Louvain - Towards Safe and Flexible Object Adaptation Tetsuo Kamina, University of Tokyo Tetsuo Tamai, University of Tokyo - Improving the Development of Context-dependent Java Applications with ContextJ Malte Appeltauer, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo - A Comparison of Context-oriented Programming Languages Malte Appeltauer, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Jens Lincke, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Michael Perscheid, Hasso-Plattner-Institute - Model Driven Development of Context Aware Software Sytstems Andrea Sindico, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Vincenzo Grassi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” - Towards Context-Aware Propagators: Language Constructs for Context- Aware Adaptation Dependencies Engineer Bainomugisha, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Context-Oriented Programming with EventJava K R Jayaram, Purdue University Patrick Eugster, Purdue University ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Richard P. Gabriel, IBM Research, United States Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany Jorge Vallejos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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[eurolisp] [ELS 2009] Call for participation
by Marco Antoniotti 20 May '09

20 May '09

Apologies for multiple postings.... ************************************************************************ 2nd European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2009) Milan, Italy, May 27-29, 2009 Universita` degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca www.european-lisp-symposium.org ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************** REGISTRATION IS OPEN AT www.european-lisp-symposium.org. Check out the updated program. Scope and Program Highlights: ***************************** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of all aspects of the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The European Lisp Symposium 2009 program includes presentations of high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications, and educational perspectives, all involving Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, and so on. The European Lisp Symposium will feature the following highlights: - Scott McKay of ITA Software will talk about how Lisp use has evolved in his circannual industry work. - Mark Tarver of Lambda Associates will talk about Qi as a viral mutation of the Lisp DNA. - Mauro Pezze` of University of Milan-Bicocca will host a panel on Programmers' Productivity from a Software Engineering point of view. - Joao Pavao Martins and Ernesto Morgado of SISCOG will talk about the role of LISP in the success of SISCOG - Christophe Rhodes will give an unportable tutorial. - Michele Simionato will give a tutorial on Scheme module system and Scheme libraries portability issues across implementations. Social Events: ************** Friday 29th evening, Conference Banquet Saturday 30th morning, Guided tour to the "Futurismo" Exhibit in the center of Milan; 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the Futurism Manifesto; stretching it, the harbinger of Lisp 50 years later. Program Chair: ************** * Antonio Leitao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Local Chair: ************ * Marco Antoniotti, DISCo, Universita`† Milano Bicocca, Italy Program committee: ****************** * Giuseppe Attardi, Universita` di Pisa , Italy * Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Irene Durand, Universite` Bordeaux 1, France * Marc Feeley, Universite` de Montreal, Canada * Ron Garret, Amalgamated Widgets Unlimited, USA * Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA * Peter Norvig, Google Inc., USA * Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK * Kent Pitman, HyperMeta, USA * Christian Queinnec, Universite` Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK * Robert Strandh, Universite` Bordeaux 1, France * Mark Tarver, Lambda Associates, UK * Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France * JonL White, TheGingerIceCreamFactory of Palo Alto, USA * Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University, Japan Registration Fees: ****************** * Students EU100, regular EU220. Registration will include the proceedings, coffee breaks, the symposium dinner and other amenities. Accommodation is not included.

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[eurolisp] [CfPart] 6th European Lisp Workshop at ECOOP, July 6th 2009
by Didier Verna 19 May '09

19 May '09

Apologies for multiple reception. Please forward to any person you think might be interested. +------------------------------------------------------------+ | CALL FOR PARTICIPATION | | 6th European Lisp Workshop | | July 6, Genova, Italy - co-located with ECOOP 2009 | | http://elw.bknr.net/2009 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ Important Dates =============== ECOOP early registration deadline: May 20, 2009 ECOOP late registration deadline: July 03, 2009 6th European Lisp Workshop: July 06, 2009 Please note that registration must be done with ECOOP itself. There is a reduced registration fee for workshop-only attendance. The early registration deadline is in two days, so register now! See http://ecoop09.disi.unige.it/ for details. 2009 Special News ================= * Edi Weitz will give a keynote address on the use of his notorious open source libraries in commercial / industrial application. * The workshop is sponsored by ITA Software, Inc. Please visit them at http://www.itasoftware.com/ * This year, and for the first time, the workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Overview ======== "...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bio-informatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." -- Kent Pitman Lisp, one of the eldest computer languages still in use today, is gaining momentum again. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch, making it the ideal candidate for writing Domain Specific Languages. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and retains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming languages that followed. This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We solicit contributions that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies. Programme ========= In addition to Edi Weitz's keynote address, the workshop will feature: - technical papers on tools to interface modelling in biology, an infrastructure for offline work in web applications and a denotational semantics for modelling the class relationships of CLOS and its MOP, - tutorials on filtered dispatch and SWCLOS, a semantic web processor. Please visit the workshop's website in the next few days for a more detailed description. Organizers ========== Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel Robert Strandh, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux I, France Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London Hans Hübner, Software Developer, Berlin -- European Lisp Symposium, May 2009: http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org European Lisp Workshop, July 2009: http://elw.bknr.net/2009 Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com

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[eurolisp] International Summer School, Advances in Programming Languages
by Pascal Costanza 12 May '09

12 May '09

Please consider attending the Summer School described below. International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 25th-28th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL Overview This four-day residential International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages has a major theme of Concurrency, Distribution, and Multicore. Intended primarily for postgraduate research students, the School offers lectures and practical sessions on an engaging blend of cutting edge theoretical and practical techniques from international experts. The Summer School is supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/) , a Scottish Funding Council Research Pool. Participants from SICSA member institutions may attend at no cost. Confirmed Topics/Speakers · Static and dynamic languages , Prof Phillip Wadler, University of Edinburgh · Compiler technology for data-parallel languages, Dr Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire · New applications of parametricity , Dr Janis Voigtlander, Technical University of Dresden · Automatic vectorising compilation, Dr Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow · Foundational aspects of size analysis, Prof Marko van Eekeling/ Dr Olha Shakaravska, Radbout University Nijmegen · Context oriented programming , Dr Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel · Multi-core programming , Dr Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University · Multi-core compilation, Dr Alistair Donaldson, Codeplay Software Ltd · Principles and Applications of Refinement Types, Dr Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge · Resource aware programming in Hume, Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University/ Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews · Haskell concurrency & parallelism, Dr Satnam Singh, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Location The Summer School is based at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus, set in pleasant parkland to the west of Edinburgh, with easy access to the airport, city and central Scotland: (http://www.hw.ac.uk/welcome/directions.htm) The Summer School immediately precedes the 2009 International Conference on Functional Programming (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html) and takes place during the Edinburgh International Festival (http://www.eif.co.uk/ ) , and the associated Edinburgh Festival Fringe (http://www.edfringe.com/) and Edinburgh International Book Festival (http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/) . Steering Committee Prof Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University (Convenor) (mailto:G.Michaelson@hw.ac.uk) Prof Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews Dr Patricia Johann, University of Strathclyde Prof Phillip Wadler, University of Edinburgh Fee Full rate: £400; (free for SICSA students) Includes: four nights single room, en-suite accommodation with breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus coffee breaks and session materials. Day rate: £200; (free for SICSA students) Includes: lunch, coffee breaks, session materials Registration of interest If you are interested in attending the International Summer School, please complete the form available from: (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/ISS-AiPL/ISS-AiPL%20register.doc) or below, and return it to: <mailto: ISS-AiPL-register(a)macs.hw.ac.uk> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages 26th-29th August, 2009 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland Registration of interest Name: Address: Email: Phone: SICSA Uni: Yes / No Rate: Full / Day Accessibility requirements: Dietary requirements: Return to: <mailto: ISS-AiPL-register(a)macs.hw.ac.uk> -- ELS'09: http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net Vrije Universiteit Brussel Programming Technology Lab Artificial Intelligence Lab Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium

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