[OOPS @ SAC 2018] Extended submission deadline: Sept. 25

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          OOPS 2018 Call for Papers

Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems

       http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS18

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Technical Track at the 33rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2018

April 9 - 13, 2018

Pau, France

- Important Dates

Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts

    *September 25, 2017 (extended deadline)*

Paper and SRC notifications

    November 10, 2017

Paper and SRC camera-ready copies

    November 25, 2017

Author registration

    December 10, 2017

SAC 2018

    April 9 - 13, 2018

- Track Chair

Davide Ancona ([hidden email])

DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy

- SAC 2018

For the past thirty two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a

primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software

engineers, and application developers from around the world.

SAC 2018 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and

is hosted by hosted by Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), Pau, France.

- Call For Student Research Abstracts

Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas

are invited to submit original abstracts of their research work in areas of experimental

computing and application development related to SAC 2018 Tracks. The Student Research

Competition (SRC) Program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet

and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest.

- OOPS Track: Aims and Topics

Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become the mainstream programming paradigm for

developing complex software systems in most application domains.

However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand

for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of

creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and

usability.

To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical

aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation,

concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, debugging,

evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation.

The specific topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the

following:

*    Aspects and components

*    Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation

*    Context-oriented programming

*    Databases and persistence

*    Distribution and concurrency

*    Dynamic and scripting languages

*    Evaluation

*    Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming

*    Formal verification

*    Internet of Things technology and programming

*    Integration with other paradigms

*    Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation

*    Language design and implementation

*    Modular and generic programming

*    Reflection, meta-programming

*    Runtime verification and monitoring

*    Safe, secure and dependable software

*    Static analysis

*    Testing and debugging

*    Type systems and type inference

*    Virtual machines

OOPS offers a great opportunity to the OOP community to gain visibility, and to

exploit the inter-disciplinary nature of SAC.

- Submission Instructions

Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START

submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2018 home page.

Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should

represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in

any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome.

SAC 2018 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and

institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in

the third person.

The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style

(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration

fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages at additional fee of

US$80 per page.

Papers accepted as posters are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the

registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional

fee of US$80.

SRC abstracts are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration

fee. No extra pages are allowed.

Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must

be submitted by September 15, 2017. For more information please visit the SAC 2018 home

page.

- Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted

posters will be published as extended abstracts in the same proceedings.

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers and posters in the

conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is

a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included

in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research

abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. Student registration

is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of

papers/posters in the conference proceedings.

Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions

(http://oops.disi.unige.it/special-issues), depending on the quality and the overall

number of accepted papers, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an

extended version for a journal special issue (http://oops.disi.unige.it/special-issues),

after the conference.