From: Toni Veglia
Subject: Conference on Domain-Specific Languages - Call for Papers
Date:
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Announcement and Call for Papers
Conference on Domain-Specific Languages
October 15-17, 1997
Red Lion Resort--Santa Barbara, California
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Sponsored by the USENIX Association
In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN (pending)
IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers due : June 13, 1997
Author notification: July 10, 1997
Camera-ready final papers due: September 2, 1997
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Chris Ramming - AT&T Labs (Program Chair)
Thomas J. Ball - Lucent Bell Laboratories
Gerard Berry- CMA, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Jon Bentley - Lucent Bell Laboratories
Peter Buneman - University of Pennsylvania
Luca Cardelli - Digital Equipment Corporation
Steve Johnson - Transmeta Corporation
Takayuki Dan Kimura - Washington University
Todd Knoblock - Microsoft Research
David Ladd - Spyglass (Speaker Chair)
Adam Porter - University of Maryland
Jan Prins - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
INTRODUCTION
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Language is central to the discipline of software engineering.
Programmers use a variety of languages in their daily work, and
new languages appear frequently. This proliferation is not
gratuitous: each new language offers specific solutions to genuine
software problems. However, not all languages address the problem
of general-purpose computing: domain-specific languages (DSLs)
are explicitly designed to cover only a narrow class of problems,
while offering compelling advantages within that class. This
conference is dedicated to the discussion of the unique aspects of DSL
design, DSL implementation, and the use of DSLs in software
engineering.
Domain-specific languages give rise to a number of questions. What
are the design principles for the creation of new DSLs? How can the
process of DSL design be codified and structured? What roles can
domain-specific languages play in software engineering? How does
the use of domain-specific languages affect software engineering
process? What are the tools, environments, and techniques needed to
support the use of domain-specific languages? What are the concrete
technical advantages and disadvantages of domain-specific
languages? What are the economic costs and benefits of domain-
specific languages? These and other questions are the focus of this
conference on domain-specific languages.
The conference seeks to advance the practice of DSL design, DSL
implementation, and software engineering generally by:
-- eliciting examples of successful domain-specific languages
-- highlighting the spectrum of benefits which domain-specific
languages can provide
-- discovering design principles and methodologies for creating DSLs
-- eliciting design techniques and tools for working with domain-
specific languages throughout the software engineering lifecycle
-- providing a framework within which language designers from
different domains can easily communicate
-- establishing the practical value of domain-specific languages
through the publication of empirical data concerning productivity,
quality, and maintainability
-- creating a community that will continue to study and refine the
practice of software engineering through domain-specific languages
CONFERENCE TOPICS
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The technical sessions will include refereed papers, invited talks,
and Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. We seek papers that draw on
experience in a wide variety of areas, including but not limited to
the following topics.
- formal methods
- software design and architecture
- declarative languages
- software engineering
- software process
- database languages
- program analysis and automated transformation
- computer architecture
- design process and languages
- visual languages and environments
- hardware specification languages
- parallel computing languages
- type theory
- distributed computing languages
- testing
- prototyping
PAPER CRITERIA
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