IWST 19 Information and Call For Papers
IWST19 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Cologne, Germany; August
27-29th, 2019
Goals and scopes
The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk
and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all
aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit
research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks:
one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints.
We expect papers of three kinds:
• Short position papers describing emerging ideas
• Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results.
• Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this
kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application.
We will not enforce any length restriction.
Important Dates
• Submission deadline: June 15th, 2019
• Notification deadline: July 20th, 2019
• Workshop: between August 27th and 29th, 2019
Topics
We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk
related topics such as:
• Aspect-oriented programming,
• Design patterns,
• Experience reports,
• Frameworks,
• Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk,
• Interaction with other languages,
• Meta-programming and Meta-modeling,
• Tools
Best Paper Award
To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very
proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST.
We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it
possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for
second place and 400 USD for third place.
The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards
will be given during the ESUG conference social event.
The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also
that to be eligible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and
that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference.
Publication
Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format.
Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/
<http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/>. This site also contains links to useful
informations on how to write effective submissions. Submission
All submissions must be sent via easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst19
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst19>
Program chairs
• Anne Etien (Université de Lille, France)
• Loïc Lagadec (Ensta Bretagne, France)