OOPSLA 2007 is having a dynamic languages symposium again this year:

Dynamic Languages Symposium 2007

at ooPSLA 2007

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 22, 2007

http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/

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Important dates:

• Submission of papers: June 1, 2007 *hard deadline*
• Author notification: June 30, 2007
• Final versions due: July 7, 2007
• DLS 2007:   October 22, 2007
• OOPSLA 2007:   October 21-25, 2007

Scope:

The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at OOPSLA 2007 in Montreal, Canada, is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their implementation and application. While mature dynamic languages including Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Self, and Prolog continue to grow and inspire new converts, a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript are successful in a wide range of applications. DLS provides a place for researchers and practitioners to come together and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development.

DLS 2007 invites high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation and application. Accepted Papers will be published in the OOPSLA conference companion and the ACM Digital Library.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Innovative language features and implementation techniques
• Development and platform support, tools
• Interesting applications
• Domain-oriented programming
• Very late binding, dynamic composition, and runtime adaptation
• Reflection and meta-programming
• Software evolution
• Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
• Dynamic optimization
• Hardware support
• Experience reports and case studies
• Educational approaches and perspectives
• Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, and context-oriented programming

Submissions and proceedings

We invite original contributions that neither have been published previously nor are under review by other refereed events or publications. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from substantive practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality.

Papers are to be submitted electronically at http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls2007/ in PDF format. Submissions must not exceed 12 pages and need to use the ACM format, templates for which can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html .

Program chairs:

• Pascal Costanza, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Germany

Program committee:

• Gilad Bracha, Cadence Design Systems, USA
• Johan Brichau, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• William Clinger, Northeastern University, USA
• William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Stephane Ducasse, Universite de Savoie, France
• Brian Foote, Industrial Logic, USA
• Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
• Jeremy Hylton, Google, USA
• Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA
• Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Michael Leuschel, Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany
• Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory, USA
• Martin von Loewis, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
• Philippe Mougin, OCTO Technology, France
• Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne, Switzerland
• Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
• Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
• Nathanael Schaerli, Google, Switzerland
• Anton van Straaten, AppSolutions.com, USA
• Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs, Canada
• Dave Ungar, USA
• Allen Wirfs-Brock, Microsoft, USA
• Roel Wuyts, IMEC & Unversite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium