CFP: ICSE-17 Wkshp on SW Eng. and Prog. Langs.

CFP: ICSE-17 Wkshp on SW Eng. and Prog. Langs.

[Tucker Taft]

                          Call for Participation

              ICSE-17 Workshop on research issues in the intersection of 
               Software Engineering and Programming Languages

                       Seattle, April 24-25, 1995

Programming languages have a fundamental influence on how we think about
solving software engineering problems; likewise, new design or system
architecture paradigms may pose requirements on new programming language
capabilities. In this two-day workshop, we would like to bring together
researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and results, compare
approaches, and discuss problems of mutual interest to software engineers
and programming language designers.  The workshop will be a mixture of
lead-in presentations and extended round-table discussions on focused
topics.  Apart from the information exchange, a goal of the workshop will be
to identify a research agenda to cover possible deficits in both areas.

We solicit the submission of five (5) copies of position papers by
November15, 1994, to Erhard Ploedereder, Workshop Chair. Position papers
should be 1000 to 3000 words in length.  Participation in this workshop will
be by invitation only, based on the organizing committee's evaluation of the
position papers. For papers with multiple authors, a primary representative
should be identified. Generally only one of the authors will be invited.

A sampling of topics of interests are:
- new developments in programming languages with particular emphasis on 
  software engineering issues;
- the match between design methods and programming language support
- relevant experience reports from industry and academia
- practitioners' views on deficits in the synergy of software engineering 
  approaches and language capabilities 
- future directions in programming language design
- the role of programming languages in the software management process
- impact of programming languages on reliability and other quality attributes
- specialized environments for programming languages 
- the effect of programming languages on ease of analysis for tasks such as
  reverse engineering
- analogies between programming languages and other software languages (such as
  specification languages and architecure description languages)


Important Dates:
 Deadline for position paper submission:            November 15, 1994
 Notification of acceptance:                        January 15, 1995
 Final version of position papers due:              March, 1995

Workshop  Chair:
     Erhard Ploedereder
     University of Stuttgart
     Institute for Informatics
     Breitwiesenstr. 20-22
     D-70565 Stuttgart
     Germany
     Tel: +49+711-7816322
     Fax: +49+711-7816380
     e-mail: ploedere@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de


Workshop committee:
   Daniel Jackson, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
   Tucker Taft, Intermetrics (USA)


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