CFP - IWST 2018 - International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

CFP - IWST 2018 - International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IWST 2018 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
http://esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/International-Workshop-IWST_18

Cagliari, Italy; Between September 10th and 14th, 2018
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Goals and scopes
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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.

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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: June 15th, 2018
Notification deadline: July 20th, 2018
Workshop : between September 10th and 14th, 2018
All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed)

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Topics
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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

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Best Paper Award
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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 illegible, 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.

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Publication
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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.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. This site also
contains links to useful informations on how to write effective
submissions.

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Submission
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All submissions must be sent via easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst18

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Program chairs
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Anne Etien (Université de Lille, France)
Loic Lagadec (Ensta Bretagne, France)
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Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org
03 59 35 87 52
Assistant: Julie Jonas
FAX 03 59 57 78 50
TEL 03 59 35 86 16
S. Ducasse - Inria
40, avenue Halley,
Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza
Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650
France