2nd USENIX Conference on Domain-Specific Languages - Call for Papers

2nd USENIX Conference on Domain-Specific Languages - Call for Papers

[Jackson Dodd]

2nd USENIX Conference on Domain-Specific Languages (DSL'99)

      October 3-6, 1999
      Austin, Texas

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Please find the Call for Papers at
http://www.usenix.org/events/dsl99/cfp.html
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Refereed Papers due:  March 22, 1999
Program Chair:  Thomas Ball, Lucent Technologies

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
Co-sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT (pending)

This conference is dedicated to discussion of the unique aspects of
domain-specific languages (DSLs): their design, their implementation, 
and their use in software engineering.  It will include refereed papers,
invited talks, Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, and tutorials.

We seek to advance the practice of DSL generally by:
   * eliciting examples of successful DSLs
   * highlighting the spectrum of benefits which DSLs can provide 
     (e.g., compile-time guarantees of behavior, improve program 
     performance, reduced interval, etc.)
   * discovering design principles, methodologies for creating DSLs
   * eliciting design techniques and tools for working with DSLs 
     throughout the software engineering life cycle
   * providing a framework within which language designers from 
     different domains can easily communicate
   * establishing the practical value of DSLs through the publication 
     of empirical data concerning productivity, quality, and 
     maintainability
   * creating a community that will continue to study and refine the
     practice of software engineering through DSLs

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