======================================================================== Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection (Metaâ18) Co-located with SPLASH 2018 November 6, 2018, Boston, USA https://2018.splashcon.org/track/meta-2018 Follow us on twitter @MetaAtSPLASH ======================================================================== The Metaâ18 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions, or software tools using them. The changing hardware and software landscape, and the increased heterogeneity of systems make metaprogramming once more an important research topic to handle the associate complexity. The challenges which metaprogramming faces are manifold. They start with typing of reflective programs, continue with performance and tooling, and reach into the empirical field to understand how metaprogramming is used and how it affects software maintainability. While industry accepted metaprogramming on a wide scale with Ruby, Scala, JavaScript and others, academia still needs to bring it to the same level of convenience, tooling, and understanding as for direct programming styles. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to the design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as empirical studies on typing models for such systems and languages. ### Topics of Interest The workshop is a venue for all approaches that embrace metaprogramming, from static to dynamic techniques: - reflection, meta-level architectures, staging, open language runtimes applications to middleware, frameworks, and DSLs - optimization techniques - contract systems, or typing of reflective programs - reflection and metaobject protocols to enable tooling - case studies and evaluation of such techniques, e.g., to build applications, language extensions, or tools - empirical evaluation of metaprogramming solutions - security in reflective systems and capability-based designs - meta-level architectures and reflective middleware for modern runtime platforms (e.g. IoT, cyber-physical systems, mobile/cloud/grid computing, etc) - surveys, conceptualization, and taxonomization of existing approaches In short, we invite contributions to the workshop on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of reflective APIs and meta-programming techniques, as well as empirical studies and typing for such systems and languages. ### Workshop Format and Submissions This workshop welcomes the presentation of new ideas and emerging problems as well as mature work as part of a mini-conference format. Furthermore, we plan interactive brainstorming and demonstration sessions between the formal presentations to enable an active exchange of ideas. Papers submitted by the first deadline will be considered for publication in the ACM DL, if not requested otherwise by the authors. Thus, they will be part of SPLASH workshop proceedings. For all papers, use of the SIGPLAN acmart style is mandatory: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Please use the provided double-column templates for Latex or Word. technical paper: max. 8 pages, excluding references position and work-in-progress paper: 1-4 pages, excluding references technology demos or a posters: 1-page abstract Demos, posters, position and work-in-progress papers can be submitted on a second, later deadline to discuss the latest results and current work, but will not be considered for publication in the ACM DL. For the submission, please use the submission system at: https://meta18.hotcrp.com/ ### Important Dates 7 Aug 2018 - Abstract Submission 17 Aug 2018 - Paper Submission (considered for ACM DL) 14 Sep 2018 - Notification 7 Sep 2018 - Demo, position or work-in-progress paper submission 30 Sep 2018 - Demo, position or work-in-progress paper notification 6 Nov 2018 - Workshop ### Organizing Committee Guido Chari, Czech Technical University Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Stefan Marr, University of Kent ### Program Committee Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway Camilo Bruni, Google, Germany Walter Cazzola, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Pascal Costanza, imec Marcus Denker, INRIA, Lille Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States Diego Garbervetsky, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Eduardo Guerra, INPE, National Institute for Space Research Pablo Inostroza, CWI, Netherlands Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology ,Japan Tom Van Cutsem, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium