FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGPLAN 1997 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/pldi97 Las Vegas, Nevada, 15-18 June 1997 PLDI'97 provides a forum for researchers, developers, and practitioners to hear about, discuss, and generally interact concerning the latest practical and experimental work in the design and implementation of programming languages. The conference seeks original papers that focus on practical issues concerning programming languages, in contrast to the POPL symposium, which typically seeks papers on foundations. Emphasis is placed on exciting new directions, on language design, and on experimental results and experience derived from the design and implementation techniques presented. Topics of interest include: * Implementation of programming languages o compiler construction o program analysis o optimizations for traditional & novel architectures o intermediate representations o storage management and runtime systems o implementation of non-traditional languages o incremental, interpretive, and interactive methods * Evaluation of aspects of programming languages and their environments o benchmarks and assessment o experimental results on usability of languages/environments o experimental results on performance of languages/environments o debugging and related support * New directions in programming languages o design of new programming language and environmental features o visual programming language design, implementation, and use o end-user programming language design, implementation, and use o programming language issues for mobile platforms and the World-Wide Web Submission Procedure and Deadlines Each submission method described below has its own strict deadline: late abstracts will most likely be rejected by the program chair. Receipt of a submission will be acknowledge immediately to the contact author, who is ultimately responsible for verifying arrival of the abstract to the program chair. 1. The preferred method for submission is the interactive method described in the PLDI '97 homepage. Submissions by this method are due by 5 PM CST on Friday, 8 November 1996. 2. Alternatively, ghostview-readable Postscript may be electronically mailed to cytron@cs.wustl.edu. Submissions by this method are due by 5 PM CST on Friday, 8 November 1996. 3. Where the above methods are infeasible, authors may submit 15 double-sided copies of an extended abstract to the program chair; persons without access to photocopiers may submit a single copy. Submissions by this method must be sent by airmail and postmarked (not metered) on or before Friday, 1 November 1996. The first sheet of the abstract - not the cover letter - must include the phone number and street and Internet addresses for the corresponding author. Abstracts must not exceed 5000 words, which is approximately 10 pages typeset 10-point on 16-point spacing. Excessively long abstracts will be rejected outright by the program chair. Papers awaiting acceptance by another conference are ineligible for this conference; if a closely related paper has been submitted to a journal, the authors must notify the program chair. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 20 January 1997. Full versions of the accepted papers must be formatted according to ACM conventions, and a camera-ready copy and electronic abstract must be received by the program chair no later than 3 March 1997. Authors of accepted papers must sign an ACM copyright release form. Proceedings will be distributed at the conference and will appear as an issue of SIGPLAN Notices. All papers published in the proceedings are eligible for publication in refereed ACM publications at the discretion of the editors. Submission Evaluation The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of a submission as well as its general accessibility by the PLDI audience. Abstracts will be judged on clarity, significance, relevance, correctness, and originality. The abstract must be organized so that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise. The abstract should clearly identify what has been accomplished, why it is significant, and how it compares with previous work. The conference will run two and a half days; it will be preceded by one day of tutorials on Sunday, 15 June. Announcement of tutorial topics will be provided in the advance program for the conference and on the Internet newsgroup comp.lang.sigplan. Information is also available on the Wide World Web at http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/pldi97. Program Chair General Chair Ron K. Cytron Marina Chen Washington University Boston University Department of Computer Science Computer Science Department Campus Box 1045 111 Cummington St. St. Louis, MO 63130 Boston, MA 02215 voice: +1 314 935 7527 voice: +1 617 353-8919 fax: +1 314 935 7302 fax: +1 617 353-6457 cytron@cs.wustl.edu mcchen@cs.bu.edu Program Committee Margaret M. Burnett o Oregon State University Steve Carr o Michigan Tech. University Sid Chatterjee o University of North Carolina Andrew Chien o University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ron K. Cytron o Washington University Jack Davidson o University of Virginia John Field o IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs Bert Halstead o DEC Cambridge Research Lab Urs Hoelzle o University of California, Santa Barbara Jon Riecke o AT&T Bell Laboratories Mooly Sagiv o University of Chicago Ed Schonberg o New York University Philip Wadler o University of Glasgow Jeannette Wing o Carnegie Mellon University