[mcclim-devel] [CfP] 3rd European Lisp Workshop

[Christophe Rhodes]

[ Apologies for the circular; no doubt most people have already seen
  this -- though note that this Call for Papers contains important
  information about a financial incentive!  With nothing to do for now
  but test and fix bugs, there should be loads of spare energy for
  writing papers... ]

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|                      3rd European Lisp Workshop                      |
|      July 3 & 4 - Nantes, Frances - co-located with ECOOP 2006       |
|               Supported by ALU and Ravenbrook Limited                |
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Important News

* Nick Levine will be giving a keynote presentation at the workshop.
  He has been a professional Lisp consultant for over two decades and
  is the organizer of the upcoming International Lisp Conference in
  Cambridge, UK. We are grateful to Ravenbrook Limited for sponsoring
  the keynote presentation.

* The Association of Lisp Users has kindly sponsored a $500 prize fund
  for exceptional papers submitted to this year's workshop. Both the
  ALU and the workshop organizers are looking forward to your
  submissions.


Important Dates
 Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): April 1, 2006
 Notification of acceptance:                     May 1, 2006
 ECOOP early registration deadline:              May 23, 2006

For more information visit http://lisp-ecoop06.bknr.net/
Contact: Pascal Costanza, pc at p-cos.net

Organizers
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Pascal Costanza, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Theo D'Hondt, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Arthur Lemmens, Independent Consultant, Amsterdam
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Overview
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"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics,
AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor
applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge
Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language,
Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web
Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to
list."
  -- Kent Pitman

Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In
the decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for
language design experiments as well as the preferred implementation
language for applications in diverse fields.

The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to
implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Common
Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first
object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and
retains the most complete and advanced object system of any
programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented
programming languages that followed.

It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a
steadily growing interest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups
in existence worldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions
which are being transferred to other languages, as
for example in Aspect-Oriented Programming, support for
Domain-Specific Languages, and so on.

This two-day workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based
languages in research, industry and education. We solicit
papers and suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the
opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities
in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion
between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners
reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of
current Lisp technologies.

The workshop will have two components on separate days; there will
be a day for formally-presented talks, and a day for breakout groups
discussing or working on particular topics.  Additionally, there
will be opportunities for short, informal talks and demonstrations on
experience reports, underappreciated results, software under
development, or other topics of interest.

Papers
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Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes
and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and
answers. We encourage that papers be published on the website in order
to provide background information in advance.

Suggested Topics

 New language features or abstractions
 Experience reports or case studies
 Protocol Metaprogramming and Libraries
 Educational approaches
 Software Evolution
 Development Aids
 Persistent Systems
 Dynamic Optimization
 Implementation techniques
 Innovative Applications
 Hardware Support for Lisp systems
 Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
 Aspect-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming

Breakout Groups
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The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and
work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and
provide for rooms and infrastructure.

Suggested Topics for Breakout Groups

 Lisp Infrastructure Development and Distribution
 Language Features (e.g. Predicate Dispatching)
 Environments for creating web applications
 Brainstorming sessions for new or existing open source projects
 Persistence Systems
 Compiler technology
 Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems
 Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education

Submission Guidelines
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Potential attendees are encouraged to submit

* a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or
  empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for
  software engineering purposes;

* a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where
  research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in
  the near future;

* a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an
  agenda and/or expected results.

Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Pascal Costanza (pc at p-cos.net)
before the submission deadline.