[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: AGERE! @ SPLASH 2014

[Alessandro Ricci]

CFP: AGERE! @ SPLASH 2014 - http://soft.vub.ac.be/AGERE14

4th Int. SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming based on  Actors, Agents,
and Decentralized Control

Held at SPLASH Conference http://splashcon.org/2014/
Portland, Oregon (US) - October 20/21, 2014

=====  Introduction  =====

The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution
is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction.
It calls for programming paradigms that, compared to current mainstream
paradigms, would allow us to more naturally think about, design, develop,
execute, debug, and profile systems exhibiting different degrees of
concurrency, autonomy, decentralization of control, and physical distribution.  

AGERE! is an ACM SIGPLAN workshop dedicated to focusing on and developing the
research  on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors,
agents and any related programming paradigm promoting a decentralized mindset
in solving problems and in developing systems to implement such solutions.  

The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design
and programming, bringing together researchers working on the models,
languages and  technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems
and applications.   
      
More info about the specific topics can be found on the AGERE! 2014 website. 
       
===== Contributions =====

The workshop welcomes three main kinds of contributions:

(1) mature contributions, to be published on the ACM Digital Library as an official 
    ACM SIGPLAN publication;

(2) position papers and work-in-progress contributions, to be discussed during the 
    event and included in the informal proceedings;

(3) demos, that will be presented and discussed during the event.

Info about the format and the page limits can be found on the AGERE! 2014 website 
(http://soft.vub.ac.be/AGERE14)

===== Special Issue =====

A special issue on a reference journal [*] will be organized with the extended and 
revised version of the best papers accepted and presented to the workshop. 
This special issue follows a previous one published in Science of Computer Programming, 
collecting best papers from AGERE! 2011 and 2012.

[*] Contacts are ongoing: targets include “Computer Languages, Systems and Structures” 
(Elsevier), “Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience” (Wiley), 
“Software: Practice and Experience” (Wiley), “Journal of Software and Systems” 
(Elsevier), “Science of Computer Programming” (Elsevier). 
				
=====  Important dates =====

- Full-paper abstract deadline:	 August 3, 2014
- Full-paper deadline: August 10, 2014
- Position/work-in-progress papers:	September 7, 2014
- demos: September 7, 2014

Papers can be submitted here:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ageresplash2014

in PDF format. Submissions should use the ACM format, following the guidelines in 
http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm.
			
===== Organization and Committees

Organizers and PC chairs:

Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Philipp Haller, Typesafe, Switzerland
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Carlos Varela,  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Steering Committee

Gul Agha, University of Illinois-Urbana, US
Rafael Bordini, FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel


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