LDTA 2010 - LDTA 2010 10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications

This is the Call For Papers for the Tenth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2010)

LDTA is a two-day satellite event of ETAPS which will take place during ETAPS (March 27-28, 2010) in Paphos, Cyprus.

scope

LDTA is an application and tool oriented forum on meta programming in a broad sense. A meta program is a program that takes other programs as input or output. The focus of LDTA is on generated or otherwise efficiently implemented meta programs, possibly using high level descriptions of programming languages. Tools and techniques presented at LDTA are usually applicable in the context of "Language Workbenches" or "Meta Programming Systems" or simply as parts of advanced programming environments or IDEs. The applications areas include, but are not limited to:

Program analysis, transformation, generation and verification
Implementation of Domain Specific Languages (both graphical and textual)
Reverse engineering and reengineering
Refactoring and other source-to-source transformations
Application modelling (MDE, MDA, Software Factories, Software product lines)
Grammar engineering / Grammarware
Language definition and language prototyping
Debugging, profiling and testing
LDTA is a well-established workshop next to other conferences and workshops on (programming) language engineering topics such as SLE and GPCE. LDTA is traditionally a forum where computer science theories are put to the test of real-world software engineering issues, for example by applying:

context-free grammars to parser generation for real programming languages,
attribute grammars to static analyzer and compiler generation,
term rewriting to source-to-source transformation,
action semantics to programming language implementation,
model checking to software verification.
Note that LDTA solicits submissions from any technological or theoretical domain, as long as the paper is within the application scope.
submission procedure and publication

Submissions in the following categories are admissible:

research papers,
tool papers,
experience papers
The final version of the accepted papers will, pending approval, be published in the ACM Digital Library and will also be made available during the workshop.

Each submission must:

clearly and unambiguously state in which of the three categories it falls
be original, i.e. not published or submitted elsewhere,
contain a clear motivation,
contain a thorough analysis of the claimed contributions (for example by comparing to related work),
be written in less than 15 pages (research papers and experience reports), or less than 10 pages (tool papers)
use the standard LaTeX article style (\documentclass[10pt]{article}, \usepackage{authblk} for affiliations)
Please submit your abstract and paper using EasyChair.

The authors of each submission are required to give a presentation at LDTA 2010. The authors of the tool papers are required to include an interactive demonstration in their presentations.

The authors of the best papers will be invited to write a journal version of their paper which will be separately reviewed and, assuming acceptance, be published in journal form. As in past years, this will be done in a special issue devoted to LDTA 2010 of the journal Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier Science).

program committee

Claus Brabrand, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair)
Pierre-Etienne Moreau, Nancy-Universitié & LORIA, France (co-chair)
Uwe Aßmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Emilie Balland, INRIA, France
John Boyland, University of Wisconsin, USA
Giorgios Robert Economopoulos, University of Southampton, UK
Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, Norway
Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria, Canada
Shan Shan Huang, Logic Blox, USA
Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shane Markstrum, University of California, USA
Peter D. Mosses, Swansea University, UK
Klaus Ostermann, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Marc Pantel, University of Toulouse, France
Elizabeth Scott, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA
Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands
Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue, USA
important dates

Abstract submission deadline: (Friday) November 27, 2009
Paper submission deadline: (Friday) December 04, 2009
Notification of acceptance: (Friday) February 05, 2010
Workshop dates: during ETAPS, March 27-28, 2010