Call for Papers: Reflect’16 =========================== Workshop on Reflection and Runtime Meta-Programming Techniques Co-located with Modularity 2016 March 14 or 15, 2016, Málaga, Spain Twitter @ReflectWorkshop http://2016.modularity.info/track/Reflect-2016-papers With modern mainstream languages embracing runtime reflection, for instance in JavaScript with proxies and Ruby with its culture of using meta-programming, the research on meta-architectures, reflective programming, and other meta-programming techniques have become relevant and timely once again. Over the last couple of years, these techniques saw a surge of interest benefiting from the JavaScript standardization process as well as performance improvements based on just-in-time compilation that increased their general acceptance. The Reflect’16 workshop aims to bring together people who do research on reflection and runtime meta-programming, as well as users of such techniques to e.g. build applications, language extensions, or software tools. We invite contributions to the workshop on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of reflective APIs and runtime meta-programming techniques, as well as empirical studies and typing for such systems and languages. We welcome technical papers as well as work-in-progress and position papers from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Position paper should take a perhaps controversial stance on a specific topic and argue the position well. Topics of Interest ------------------ The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - applications to middleware, frameworks, and DSLs - reflection and metaobject protocols to enable tooling - meta-level architectures and reflective middleware for modern runtime platforms (e.g. IoT, cyber-physical systems, cloud/grid computing, exa-scale systems, smart grids, mobile systems) - optimization techniques to minimize runtime overhead of reflection - use for application-level runtime optimization - new language constructs for reflection and meta-programming - security in reflective systems and capability-based designs - application of reflective techniques to achieve adaptability, separation of concerns, code reuse, etc. - empirical studies to the dynamic behavior of reflective programs - application to enable complex concurrent systems - typing of reflective programs Workshop Format and Submissions ------------------------------- This workshop welcomes the presentation of mature work as well as discussion of new ideas and emerging problems as part of a mini-conference format. Furthermore, we plan for more interactive brainstorming and demonstration sessions between the formal presentations to enable an active exchange of ideas. The workshop papers will be published in both the electronic proceedings of the Modularity conference and in the ACM Digital Library, if not requested otherwise by the authors. Papers are to be submitted using the ACM sigplanconf style at 9pt font size. See http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html. position and work-in-progress paper: max. 4 pages technical paper: max. 8 pages demos and posters: 1-page abstract For the submission, please use the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=reflect16 Important Dates --------------- abstract submission: January 11, 2016 paper submission: January 15, 2016 notification: February 6, 2016 camera-ready: February 13, 2016 all deadlines: Anywhere on Earth (AoE), i.e., GMT/UTC−12:00 hour Workshop Organizers ------------------- Gilad Bracha, Google Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Stefan Marr, Johannes Kepler University Linz Program Committee ----------------- Daniele Bonetta, Oracle Labs, Austria Damien Cassou, University of Lille 1, France Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Stephane Ducasse, Inria, France Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, Germany Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University, USA Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1 and INRIA, France Eric Tanter, University of Chile, Chile Laurie Tratt, King’s College, UK Tom Van Cutsem, Bell Labs, Belgium Takuo Wantanabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tijs van der Storm, CWI, NL -- Stefan Marr Johannes Kepler Universität Linz http://stefan-marr.de/research/