I like the idea of this workshop. If someone is going to OOPSLA this year, this may be interesting. If someone plan to go there, let me know.
Cheers, Alexandre Begin forwarded message: > From: Shane Markstrum <[email protected]> > Date: 20 July 2009 16:40:22 GMT-04:00 > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > , [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: [SEWORLD] Call for Papers: Evaluation and Usability of > Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) 2009 > > Call for Papers > > PLATEAU 2009 > > First Workshop on > Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) > in conjunction with Onward!/OOPSLA 2009 > October 25-29, 2009 (Orlando, FL) > > http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome > > SUBMISSION SITE > > http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau09 > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Submission August 31 > Notification Mid-September (before close of early registration for > OOPSLA/Onward!) > Final version TBA > Workshop TBA, one-half or one-full day between October 25 and 29 > > SCOPE > > Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software > effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software > depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop > with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and > techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language > tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large > space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; > allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and > restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. > > We plan to gather the intersection of researchers in the programming > language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities > to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and > usability of programming languages and tools. We are also interested > in the input of other members of the programming research community > working on related areas, such as refactoring, design patterns, > program analysis, program comprehension, software visualization, > end-user programming, and other programming language paradigms. Some > particular areas of interest are: > > - empirical studies of programming languages > - methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation > - software design metrics and their relations to the underlying > language > - user studies of language features and software engineering tools > - visual techniques for understanding programming languages > - critical comparisons of programming paradigms, such as > object-oriented vs. functional > - tools to support evaluating programming languages > > SUBMISSIONS > > Participants are invited to submit a position paper describing their > on going work. We will accept papers (from 4 to 6 pages) that describe > work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes and > goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences gained, > question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose > speculative new approaches. Longer submissions will be considered, but > all submissions must be fewer than 10 pages. > > Submissions and final papers should be formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN > 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at > http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm; this site also > contains links to useful information on how to write effective > submissions. > > Accepted submissions will be made available through this website and > workshop participants are encouraged to have read the position papers > before attending the workshop. Participants are also asked to prepare > a presentation to support their position paper. > > ORGANIZERS (and members of the Committee) > > Craig Anslow - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand > Shane Markstrum - Bucknell University, USA > Emerson Murphy-Hill - University of British Columbia, Canada > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE > > Andrew Black - Portland State University, USA > Larry Constantine - University of Madeira, Portugal > Jeff Foster - University of Maryland, College Park, USA > Robert Fuhrer - IBM Research, USA > Donna Malayeri - EPFL, Switzerland/Carnegie Mellon University, USA > Stuart Marshall - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand > Todd Millstein - University of California, Los Angeles, USA > James Noble - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand > Ewan Tempero - University of Auckland, New Zealand > > For more information, please see the workshop website: > > http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome > > ============================================================ > To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to > mailto:[email protected] > > http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more > information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of > messages posted to the list. > ============================================================ > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
