Smalltalks 12 - Research Track - Extended Deadline!

CALL FOR PAPERS

SMALLTALKS 2012
6th International Conference on Smalltalk Technologies
http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2012
Research Track: Call for Papers
November 7th - 9th, 2012

Important dates:

Submission (Hard Deadline): (Extended) September 24th, 2012
(Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours).
Notification of acceptance: October 8th, 2012.
Camera Ready Submission: November 2nd, 2012.

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Conference Location: Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco,
Puerto Madryn, Argentina

The Smalltalks series of conferences (www.fast.org.ar) is a lively
forum on Smalltalk-based software
technologies that brings together more than 200 people from both
academia and industry for a period of three days.

Past editions of Smalltalks have included many high-quality
presentations from industry and research.
These contributions have shown interesting applications of Smalltalk,
advances in the Smalltalk language, didactic uses of Smalltalk and so
on.

Similar to last year, Smalltalks 2012 will include a dedicated research track.
We welcome submissions to this research track presenting original
scientific contributions to, or using, Smalltalk in general.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

-        Aspects, Aspect Languages and Applications.
-        Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing and
Embedded Systems.
-        Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines.
-        Educational Material.
-        Language Engineering, Extensions.
-        Model Driven Engineering / Development.
-        Meta-Modeling, Reflection and Meta-programming.
-        Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures and Components.
-        Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, UI Frameworks.
-        Source-code analysis and manipulation (Static analysis,
refactoring, type inference, metrics).
-        Team Management.
-        Testing, Extreme Programming / Practices.
-        Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming.
-        Experience Reports.

Important dates:

Submission (Hard Deadline): (Extended!) September 24th, 2012
(Argentinian time: UTC/GMT -3 hours).
Notification of acceptance: October 8th, 2012.
Camera Ready Submission: November 2nd, 2012.


Papers:

Papers should be written in English, in PDF-format and should not exceed 15
pages (including references and figures), using the JOT journal format.

Templates for LaTeX formats can be found at
http://www.jot.fm/authors.html

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission web site at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smalltalks2012

The accepted papers will be digitally available on the conference
website. We are currently negotiating a special edition of a journal
for which the best papers will get invited.

Papers submitted must not have been previously published and must not be
under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to
submission guidelines. If you have questions, please send an e-mail to
Jorge Ressia ([hidden email])

Special Issue Publication
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The best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their
work in a special issue of the International Journal JOT (The Journal
of Object Technology), http://www.jot.fm/

Program Committee
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- Alexandre Bergel (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
- Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Damien Cassou (Inria Arles Research Group, France)
- Gabriela Arevalo (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)
- Gonzalo Zabala (Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Argentina)
- Hernan Wilkinson (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Jannik Laval (INRIA Lille/LABRI Bordeaux, France)
- Johan Fabry (DCC, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
- Luc Fabresse (Ecole des Mines Douai, France)
- Lukas Renggli (Google, Switzerland)
- Marcus Denker (INRIA Lille, France)
- Mircea Lungu (University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Noury Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines Douai, France)
- Serge Stinckwich (Institut de recherche pour le developppement, France)
- Tudor Girba (CompuGroup Medical Schweiz AG, Switzerland)


Program Chair
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Jorge Ressia (Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland)