PLACES 2014 - 6th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES)

Applications today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is inherently concurrent and communication-centred. PLACES aims to offer a forum where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the central challenges for programming in the near future, the development of programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern.
Submissions are invited in the general area of foundations of programming languages for concurrency, communication and distribution. Specific topics include:
language design and implementations for communications and/or concurrency
session types
concurrent data types
concurrent objects and actors
multicore programming
use of message passing in systems software
integration of sequential and concurrent programming
interface languages for communication and distribution
program analysis
web services
novel programming methodologies for sensor networks
high-level programming abstractions for security concerns in concurrent, distributed programming
runtime architectures for concurrency, scalability and/or resource allocations
Papers are welcome which present novel and valuable ideas as well as experiences.
Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, UK)