PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Computer Society 1998 International Conference on Computer Languages Loyola University Chicago Chicago, USA, 14-16 May 1998 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Languages, and by ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages This is the sixth in a series of conferences devoted to all aspects of computer languages, serving to bring together people broadly interested in machine processable descriptions. The hallmarks of ICCL are diversity, openness to a wide range of linguistic research, and international representation. The focus is on new ideas in languages and language technology which are innovative or experimental in nature. Papers are sought that describe significant new theoretical or experimental results in the design, evaluation or implementation of programming/specification languages. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: * Implementation, optimization * Theory, semantics * Abstract interpretation, flow analysis * Partial evaluation * Parallel and distributed languages * Object-oriented languages * Functional and logic languages * Multiparadigm languages * Real-time and fault-tolerant languages * Requirements, design, and specification languages * Internet programming languages * Domain-specific languages Papers should be at most 20 double-spaced pages in length, should have an abstract of 250 words, and a separate cover page indicating the title, authors, and a list of keywords. Papers will be judged on the basis of their relevance, significance, originality, correctness, and clarity. Accepted papers will appear in a full proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, for which authors will be expected to sign a copyright release form. Papers may be submitted electronically by sending an e-mail containing a platform-independent PostScript file (which can be printed on A4 and/or on 11" x 8.5" paper) to the address iccl98@csc.ncsu.edu, or by sending 5 copies of papers to Purush Iyer, program committee co-chair, at the address below. Submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter that includes a return mailing address, telephone number and email address. The papers are due by Oct 1, 1997. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Jan 20, 1998. Camera ready versions of accepted papers will be due Feb 15, 1998. On the day prior to the Conference, a workshop on Internet programming languages is being planned by Henri Bal (bal@cs.vu.nl) and Boumediene Belkhouche (bb@eecs.tulane.edu); details for this and other pre-conference activities will be publicized in a separate announcement. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS CONFERENCE CHAIR Purush Iyer Young-il Choo David Schmidt Dept of Computer Gifford-Fong Computing and Info. Science Associates Sciences Dept. North Carolina State yic@gfa-genesis.com Nichols Hall 234 University Kansas State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 Manhattan, KS 66506, USA Tel: +1 919-515-7291 Tel: +1-913-532-6350 Fax: +1 919-515-2878 Fax: +1-913-532-7353 purush@csc.ncsu.edu schmidt@cis.ksu.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Henri Bal (Vrije University, NL) Boumediene Belkhouche (Tulane University, US) Young-Il Choo (Gifford-Fong Associates, US) Radhia Cousot (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, FR) Pascal Fradet (IRISA, FR) Dan Friedman (Indiana University, US) Rajiv Gupta (University of Pittsburgh, US) Laurie Hendren (McGill University, CA) Fritz Henglein (DIKU, DK) Purush Iyer (NC State University, US) Joxan Jaffar (National University of Singapore, SG) Kim Marriott (Monash University, AU) Martin Odersky (University of South Australia, AU) Jens Palsberg (Purdue University, US) Uday Reddy (University of Illinois, Urbana, US) John Reppy (AT&T Research, US) Tom Reps (University of Wisconsin, US) Jeremy Gibbons (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Dave Schmidt (Kansas State University, US) Bernhard Steffen (University of Passau, DE) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR STEERING COMMITTEE Konstantin Laufer Joseph Urban (Chair), Arizona State Univ., USA Loyola University Boumediene Belkhouche, Tulane University, USA Chicago, IL, USA Pei Hsia, University of Texas, Arlington, USA