[FWD] CfP VMIL2008 (workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate,Languages for emerging modularization mechanisms)

[charlie hunt]

Fyi, in case anyone who is interested and has not seen this.

charlie ...

> Second international workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate
> Languages for emerging modularization mechanisms (VMIL 2008) - a
> one-day workshop affiliated with OOPSLA 2008.
>
> http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~design/vmil/
>
> Submission URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=VMIL-08
>
> Important Dates
> Submission Deadline: Aug 4, 2008, 23:59 Samoan
> Notification of Acceptance: Sept 4, 2008
> Camera ready copy due: Oct 1, 2008
> Workshop: Oct 19, 2008
>
> Program Committee
>
> * Eric Bodden (McGill University, Canada)
> * Juan Chen (Microsoft Research, USA)
> * Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
> * Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College, UK)
> * Eric Eide (University of Utah, USA)
> * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA)
> * Gregor Kiczales (University of British Columbia, Canada)
> * Hidehiko Masuhara (University of Tokyo, Japan)
> * Greg Morrisett (Harvard University, USA)
> * Angela Nicoara (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
> * Harold Ossher (IBM Research, USA)
> * and the organizers
>
> Organizers
> * Hridesh Rajan, (Iowa State University, USA)
> * Christoph Bockisch, (Darmstadt University of Technology)
> * Michael Haupt (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 
> Germany)
> * Robert Dyer (Iowa State University, USA)
>
> Motivation and Objectives
>
> Modern programming languages are compiled to intermediate code
> preserving the intention of high-level language constructs. Emerging
> modularization mechanisms, however, lack such handling. Recent
> research results have shown that deeper support for these
> modularization mechanisms, e.g., in virtual machines and intermediate
> languages, is feasible; it allows applying tailored optimizations and
> radically improves development processes such as incremental
> compilation, debugging, etc.
>
> The VMIL workshop, second in the series, is a forum for research in
> virtual machines and intermediate languages with support for emerging
> modularization mechanisms such as mix-ins, units, open classes,
> hyper-slices, adaptive methods, roles, composition filters, layers,
> pointcuts-and-advice, and inter-type declarations. Topics of interest
> include, but are not limited to: compilation-based and
> interpreter-based virtual machines as well as intermediate language
> designs with dedicated support for emerging modularization mechanisms,
> compilation techniques, optimization strategies, improved techniques
> for fast predicate evaluation (e.g., of pointcuts) inside virtual
> machines, and advanced caching and memory management schemes.
>
> The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
> compilation-based and interpreter-based virtual machine as well as
> intermediate language designs that better support these emerging
> modularization mechanisms, intermediate language constructs that
> better support these modularization mechanisms, compilation techniques
> from high-level languages to enhanced intermediate languages,
> optimization strategies for reduction of runtime overhead due to
> either compilation or interpretation, improved techniques for fast
> evaluation of pointcuts and other predicates inside virtual machines,
> use cases for deeper support in the virtual machines and intermediate
> languages, advanced caching and memory management schemes in support
> of the mechanisms.
>
> Paper Categories
>
> In these key areas, we invite high-quality papers in the following two
> categories.
>
> * Research and experience papers: These submissions should describe
> work that advances the current state of the art in support of advanced
> separation of concerns techniques in virtual machines and intermediate
> languages. Experience papers that are of broader interest and describe
> insights gained from practical applications. The page limit for these
> submissions is 10 pages.
>
> * Position papers: These submissions present and defend the author/s
> position on a topic related to the broader area of the workshop. The
> page limit for these submissions is 6 pages.
>
> Review Process
>
> The program committee will evaluate each paper based on its relevance,
> significance, clarity and originality. Each submission will be
> reviewed by at least three PC members.
>
> Paper Submission
>
> Papers should be submitted in PDF format at the submission URL
> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=VMIL-08. The results
> described must
> be unpublished and must not be under review for another workshop,
> conference or journal. Submissions must conform to ACM SIGPLAN format
> and must not exceed the page limit of the category in which it is
> classified by authors (including all text, figures, references and
> appendices). Submissions which do not conform to this will be desk
> rejected without reviews.