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CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020) Nov 29-Dec 3, 2020 Fukuoka, Japan https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2020 The 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020) aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of the latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages community. APLAS 2020 will be tentatively held in Nishijin Plaza, Fukuoka City, Japan between November 30th and 2rd of December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 situation, all authors will be given the chance to present remotely regardless of whether the conference is held as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting. Papers are solicited on topics such as: - Semantics, logics, foundational theory - Design of languages, type systems, and foundational calculi - Domain-specific languages - Compilers, interpreters, abstract machines - Program derivation, synthesis, and transformation - Program analysis, verification, model-checking - Logic, constraint, probabilistic, and quantum programming - Software security - Concurrency and parallelism - Tools and environments for programming and implementation Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool demonstrations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with program chair prior to submission. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: June 26th, 2020 (anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: July 3rd, 2020 (anywhere on Earth) Author response: August 3-5, 2020 Author notification: August 14, 2020 Final version: September 1, 2020 Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2020 CALL FOR REGULAR RESEARCH PAPERS We solicit submissions in the form of regular research papers describing original scientific research results, including system development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions) papers. In either case, submissions should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. CALL FOR TOOL PAPERS We solicit submissions in the form of tool papers describing a demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and well-documented tool-highlighting the overall functionality of the tool, the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the tool, an assessment of the tool’s strengths and weaknesses, and a summary of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Edwin Brady, University of St. Andrews, UK Soham Chakraborty, IIT Delhi, India Andreea Costea, National University Of Singapore, Singapore Silvia Crafa, University of Padova, Italy Pierre-Evariste Dagand, LIP6/CNRS, France Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy Cristina David, University of Oxford, UK Benjamin Delaware, Purdue University, US Florian Rabe, University of Erlangen, Germany Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, UK James McKinna, The University of Edinburgh, UK Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Hakjoo Oh, Korea University, South Korea Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, South Korea Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium Ilya Sergey, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Servetto, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University, Netherlands Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, US Janis Voigtländer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Meng Wang, University of Bristol, UK Nicolas Wu, Imperial College London, UK Yizhou Zhang, Harvard University / University of Waterloo, US Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo, Japan SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page using HotCRP (https://aplas2020.hotcrp.com). The acceptable format is PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer’s LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. REVIEW PROCESS APLAS 2020 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following this process means that reviewers will not see the authors’ names or affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors’ names will then be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted. To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following: Author names and institutions must be omitted and References to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should not be omitted or anonymised, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. AUTHOR RESPONSE PERIOD During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and respond to them as appropriate. RESEARCH INTEGRITY The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of publication, to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is possible if fatal flaws are discovered in the paper, or research integrity is found to have been seriously breached. ABOUT Fukuoka City Fukuoka is a compact city. It only takes 10 minutes by subway from the airport to the city center. It takes 10 minutes by subway from the city center to Nishijin Station.