Onward! 2018 | Call for Papers

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               Call for Papers

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                Onward! 2018

           Co-located with SPLASH 2018
         November 4 - 9, 2018, Boston, USA

        https://2018.onward-conference.org


Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on
everything to do with programming and software: including
processes, methods, languages, communities and applications.
Onward! is more radical, more visionary and more open than
other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven.
We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching and
reporting on programming language and software engineering research.

Onward! has two tracks that accept submissions: Papers and Essays.

### Call for Onward! Essays

Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about
topics important to the software community. An essay can be long or short.
Anessay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about
the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what
is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be
aphilosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal
journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the
topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages
—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of
software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological,
psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings.

Instructions for authors and further information at:
https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-Onward-Essays

### Call for Onward! Papers

Onward! Papers is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could
make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But it is not
looking for research-as-usual papers—conferences like OOPSLA are the
place for that. Those conferences require rigorous validation such as
theorems or empirical experiments, which are necessary for scientific
progress, but which typically preclude discussion of early-stage ideas.
Onward! papers must also supply some degree of validation because mere
speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Onward! accepts
less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling arguments,
exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use of
worked-out examples to support new ideas is strongly encouraged.

Instructions for authors and further information at:
https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-papers

### Important Dates for both Essays and Papers

Submission deadline:    23 April 2018
Primary notification: 11 June 2018
Revisions deadline:     15 July 2018
Final notification: 30 July 2018

### Program Chairs

Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI, USA (Essays Chair)
Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Papers Chair)

### Onward! 2018 Essays Program Committee

Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Elisa Baniassad, University of British Columbia, Canada
Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Charlotte Herzeel, imec, Belgium
Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Jenny Quillien, Embodied Making Institute, United States
Annette Vee, University of Pittsburgh, United States

### Onward! 2018 Papers Program Committee

Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Daan Leijen, Microsoft Research, USA
Dave Thomas, Kx Systems, Canada
Friederich Steimann, Fernuniversität, Germany
Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Heather Miller, Northeastern University, USA
Jonathan Edwards, MIT, USA
Nada Amin, University of Cambridge, UK
Peng Wu, Huawei America Research Lab, USA
Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ralf Lammel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, Germany
Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Sean McDirmid, Independent
Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan
Stefan Marr, University of Kent, UK
Stephane Ducasse, INRIA, France
Vincent St-Amour, Northeastern University, USA
Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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