[TYPES/announce] Multiparadigm Programming with OO Languages (MPOOL) Workshop - Call for papers

[Gavin Bierman]

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            SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND PARTICIPATION

                              Workshop on
        MULTIPARADIGM PROGRAMMING WITH OO LANGUAGES (MPOOL 2010)
                                 at the
    EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (ECOOP 2010)
                     21 or 22 July 2010, Maribor, Slovenia
                                 
While OO has become ubiquitously employed for design, implementation, and even 
conceptualization, many practitioners recognize the concomitant need for other 
programming paradigms according to problem domain.  We seek answers to the 
question of how to address the need for other programming paradigms--or even 
domain specific languages--in the general context of OO languages.

Can OO programming languages effectively support other programming paradigms or 
the embedding of other languages?  The answer seems to be affirmative, at least
for some paradigms.  For example, significant progress has been made for the
case of functional programming in C++. Additionally, several efforts have been
made to integrate support for other paradigms as a front-end for OO languages 
(the Pizza language, extending Java, is a prominent example). Libraries and
extensions for concurrency are also being developed for new and upcoming
multi-core and heterogeneous architectures.

This workshop seeks to bring together practitioners and researchers in this 
developing field to `compare notes' on their work--describe existing, 
developing, or proposed techniques, idioms, methodologies, language extensions, 
or software for expressing non-OO paradigms in OO languages; or theoretical 
work supporting or defining the same. High-level presentations of position are 
welcome, and reports of work in progress, are welcome.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  - non-OO programming with OO languages;
  - merging functional/logic/OO/other programs (language crossbinding);
  - non-OO programming at the meta level (e.g. template metaprogramming);
  - techniques for language embeddings (e.g. multistage programming); 
  - language embedding in OO languages (domain specific languages - DSLs)
  - module systems vs. object systems;
  - OO design patterns and their relation to functional patterns;
  - multiparadigm and multilingual programming in the .NET framework;
  - type system relationships across languages;
  - theoretical foundations of multiparadigm programming with OO languages;
  - multiparadigm approaches to support emerging hardware architectures (e.g.
    multi/many-core CPUs, GPGPUs, IBM Cell, etc).

The workshop will consist of short presentations with interspersed discussion 
sessions, and longer general discussions of themes or topics derived from some 
common element of subsets of presentations. We expect the majority of the 
participants to give presentations.

Prospective participants may submit either presentation abstracts or full 
papers. All accepted materials will be distributed at the workshop,
made available at the MPOOL 2010 Web site and will nbe published  by the ACM Digital 
Library. Papers need to be formatted accordingly -- see 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for details.

For authors of accepted presentations who require justification for travel 
the organizers can provide official letters of invitation. 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts or full papers in PDF, 
postscript, or Microsoft Word. Authors of accepted papers are responsible for 
submitting the final version using an appropriate ACM template to ensure 
inclusion in the proceedings. Submission and email correspondence to 
mpool10 at multiparadigm.net .

AUTHORS' SCHEDULE

May  4th,  2008:  Abstracts due.
May 19th,  2008:  Notification of acceptance.

ORGANIZATION

This workshop is a joint organization by the University of Applied Sciences, 
Regensburg, Germany, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.

ORGANIZERS / PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Gerald Baumgartner (Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA)
Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, UK)
Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA) 
Zoltan Horvath (University Eotvos Lorand of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
Jaakko Jarvi (Texas A&M University, Texas, USA) 
Herbert Kuchen (University of Muenster, Germany)
Philippe Narbel (University of Bordeaux I, France)
Joerg Striegnitz (University Of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany)

FURTHER INFORMATION

More information is available at

   http://www.multiparadigm.net