On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Alexandre
Bergel<alexandre(a)bergel.eu> wrote:
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
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> From: Shane Markstrum <smarkstr(a)acm.org>
> Date: 20 July 2009 16:40:22 GMT-04:00
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> 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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