CFP: ACM SAC'04 Programming Languages Track

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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SAC'04 - ACM 2004 SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
March 14-17, 2004  
Nicosia, Cyprus

Technical Track on "Programming Languages"

<Track Chairs>  Chang-Hyun Jo <jo@ecs.fullerton.edu>
                                California State University, Fullerton, USA
                Marjan Mernik <marjan.mernik@uni-mb.si>
                                University of Maribor, Slovenia
                Barrett Bryant < bryant@cis.uab.edu>
                                The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

SAC '04

Over the past eighteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has
become a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers,
software engineers, and application developers from around the world to 
interact
and present their work. SAC 2004 is sponsored by the ACM Special 
Interest Group
on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). For additional information, please check 
the SAC
web page: "http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2004".
This document is also available at 
"http://www.ecs.fullerton.edu/~jo/sac/" and
"http://www.ecs.fullerton.edu/~jo/sac/sac2004-PL-CFP.pdf".

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (PL) Track  

A technical track on Programming Languages will be held at SAC'04. It 
will be
a forum for engineers, researchers and practitioners throughout the 
world to share
technical ideas and experiences relating to implementation and 
application of
programming languages. Original papers and experience reports are 
invited in all
areas of programming languages. Major topics of interest include but are 
not
limited to the following:

Compiling Techniques
Domain-Specific Languages
Formal Semantics and Syntax
Garbage Collection
Language Design and Implementation
New Programming Language Ideas and Concepts
New Programming Paradigms
Practical Experiences with Programming Languages
Program Analysis and Verification
Program Generation and Transformation
Programming Languages from All Paradigms (Agent-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented,
    Functional, Logic, Object-Oriented, etc.)
Visual Programming Languages

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of 
experimental
computing and application development relevant to the theme of the 
track. This
includes the following categories of submissions:
1) Original and unpublished research work,
2) Reports of innovative applications to the arts, sciences, 
engineering, and business areas,  
3) Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains,  
4) Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems.

All submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers will be selected based on 
their
originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of 
presentation.
Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. Expanded 
versions
of the accepted papers will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP
quarterly Applied Computing Review. A set of selected papers, which did 
not get
accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be 
published
as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings.

The following submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
* Submit the original manuscripts in an electronic format
    to:  <sacpl@ecs.fullerton.edu>. The file format should be PDF.
    The title of the submission should be the last name of the first
    author (e.g., If the first author is John Smith then the
    submission should be titled as "smith.pdf").
* The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in
    the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the
    third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title
    should be shown at the first page without the author's
    information.
* A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the
    author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including
    e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should
    be sent. This sheet should also be submitted in an electronic
    format to <sacpl@ecs.fullerton.edu> and it should be titled as
    "smith-cover.pdf".
* The body of paper should not exceed 4,000 words
    (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced, 12-point size). You
    may refer to the final copy format at
    "http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html". The
    total number of final pages without any extra page charge will be 5.
* An abstract including the title of the paper at the beginning
    (without having any author's information) as a separate text
    file should be submitted. It should be titled as "smith-abstract.txt"
* Submit a cover page (PDF format), a manuscript (PDF format)
    and an abstract (TEXT format) as attachments to your email.
    Your submission email text should include the author(s)
    name(s), the title, and a contact point (name and email address)
    you prefer.
* All submissions must be received by September 6, 2003.

IMPORTANT DATES

September 6, 2003: Paper Submissions  
October 18, 2003:  Author Notification  
November 8, 2003:  Camera-Ready Copy  
March 14-17, 2004: Conference at Nicosia, Cyprus

The SAC 2004 Programming Language Track Program Committee Members

    Mikhail Auguston, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
    Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Kyung-Goo Doh, Hanyang University, Korea
    Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy
    Tim Harris, Cambridge University, UK
    Pedro Henriques, University of Braga, Portugal
    Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    Rafael Lins, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
    Pablo Martinez, National University of La Plata, Argentina
    Crist'obal Pareja-Flores, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
    Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA
    Guenter Riedewald, University of Rostock, Germany
    Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia
    Peter Thiemann, University of Frieburg, Germany
    Dave Wile, Teknowledge Corp., USA
    Juergen Winkler, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany

Information for Other Related Tracks

For prospective authors of papers that specifically focus on the 
improvements
to the object-oriented domain (e.g., OO languages, OO systems, OO 
architectures)
please also look at the Object Oriented Programming and Systems Track at
"http://oops.disi.unige.it/" and
"http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2004/tech_tracks.htm".