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 <smarkstr@acm.org> Date: 20 July 2009 16:40:22 GMT-04:00 To: types-announce@lists.seas.upenn.edu, seworld@sigsoft.org, announce@aosd.net , chi-announcements@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG, hci-link@lists.uni-paderborn.de 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

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