CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM SIGPLAN 1997 Conference on
Programming Language Design and Implementation
http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/pldi97
Las Vegas, Nevada, 15-18 June 1997
PLDI'97 provides a forum for researchers, developers, and
practitioners to hear about, discuss, and generally interact concerning
the latest practical and experimental work in the design and implementation
of
programming languages.
The
conference seeks original
papers that focus on practical issues concerning
programming languages, in
contrast to the POPL symposium, which typically seeks papers on foundations.
Emphasis is placed on
exciting new directions, on language design, and on experimental results and
experience derived from the design and implementation techniques presented.
Topics of interest include:
- Implementation of programming languages
- compiler construction
- program analysis
- optimizations for traditional & novel architectures
- intermediate representations
- storage management and runtime systems
- implementation of non-traditional languages
- incremental, interpretive, and interactive methods
- Evaluation of aspects of programming languages and their environments
- benchmarks and assessment
- experimental results on usability of languages/environments
- experimental results on performance of languages/environments
- debugging and related support
- New directions in programming languages
- design of new programming language and environmental features
- visual programming language design, implementation, and use
- end-user programming language design, implementation, and use
- programming language issues for mobile platforms and the World-Wide Web
Submission Procedure and Deadlines
Each submission method described below has its own
strict deadline:
late abstracts will
most likely be rejected by the program chair.
Receipt of a submission will be acknowledged to the
contact author,
who is ultimately
responsible for verifying arrival of the
abstract to the program chair.
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The preferred method for submission is the
interactive method .
Submissions by this method are due by 5 PM CST on
Friday, 8 November 1996.
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Alternatively, ghostview-readable Postscript may be
electronically mailed to
cytron@cs.wustl.edu.
Submissions by this method are due by 5 PM CST on
Friday, 8 November 1996.
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Where the above methods are infeasible,
authors may submit 15 double-sided
copies of an extended abstract to the program chair;
persons without access to photocopiers may submit a single copy.
Submissions by this method must be
sent by airmail and postmarked (not
metered) on or before Friday, 1 November 1996.
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The first sheet of the abstract - not the cover letter
- must include the phone number and street and Internet addresses for
the corresponding author. Abstracts must not exceed 5000 words, which
is approximately 10 pages typeset 10-point on 16-point spacing.
Excessively long abstracts will be rejected outright by the program
chair. Papers awaiting acceptance by another conference are ineligible
for this conference; if a closely related paper has been submitted to a
journal, the authors must notify the program chair.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by
20 January 1997. Full versions of the accepted papers
must be formatted according to ACM conventions, and a camera-ready copy
and electronic abstract must be
received by the program chair no later than 3 March 1997.
Authors of accepted papers must sign an ACM copyright release form.
Proceedings will be distributed at the conference and will appear as an
issue of SIGPLAN Notices. All papers published in the proceedings
are eligible for publication in refereed ACM publications at the
discretion of the editors.
- Preparing a suitable extended abstract is not easy.
In Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts,
SIGPLAN Notices
26, 6 (June 1991), 353-6,
William Pugh provides useful advice on how to prepare a
successful extended abstract.
- More entertaining advice on writing extended
abstracts is provided by Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton in
How to Have Your Abstract Rejected,
SIGACT News 8, 3 (July-Sep. 1976), 21-4.
- PLDI'97 is sponsored by ACM and
SIGPLAN.
Submission Evaluation
The program committee will
evaluate the technical contribution of a submission as well as its
general accessibility by the PLDI audience.
Abstracts will be judged on clarity, significance,
relevance, correctness, and originality.
The abstract must be organized so that it is easily understood by an
audience with varied expertise. The abstract should clearly identify
what has been accomplished, why it is significant, and how it compares
with previous work.
The conference will run two and a half days; it will be preceded by
one day of tutorials on Sunday, 15 June.
Announcement of tutorial topics will be provided
in the advance program for the conference and on the Internet
newsgroup comp.lang.sigplan.
Information is also available on the Wide World Web at
http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/pldi97.
PLDI '97 will be colocated with the
Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel
Programming (PPoPP)
Program Committee