[TYPES/announce] APLAS 2017: June 13 deadline, 2nd CfP, Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems

[Bor-Yuh Evan Chang]

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APLAS 2017 Second Call for Papers
15th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems

Suzhou, China, November 27-29, 2017

https://www-aplas.github.io/
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# Important Dates

- Abstract deadline: Tuesday, June 13, 2017
- Paper deadline: Friday, June 16, 2017
- Author response: Wednesday-Friday, July 26-28, 2017
- Author notification: Monday, August 14, 2017
- Camera-ready deadline: Friday, September 1, 2017
- Conference: Monday-Wednesday, November 27-29, 2017

All deadline times are AoE.

# About

APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a
forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas
in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia but is an
international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages
community.

APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software
(AAFS), founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many
researchers from Europe and the USA. Past APLAS symposiums were
successfully held in Hanoi ('16), Pohang ('15), Singapore ('14),
Melbourne ('13), Kyoto ('12), Kenting ('11), Shanghai ('10), Seoul
('09), Bangalore ('08), Singapore ('07), Sydney ('06), Tsukuba ('05),
Taipei ('04), and Beijing ('03) after three informal workshops.
Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer's LNCS.

# Topics

The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues broadly
spanning the areas of programming languages and systems. Papers are
solicited on topics such as

- semantics, logics, foundational theory
- design of languages, type systems, and foundational calculi
- domain-specific languages
- compilers, interpreters, abstract machines
- program derivation, synthesis, and transformation
- program analysis, verification, model-checking
- logic, constraint, probabilistic, and quantum programming
- software security
- concurrency and parallelism
- tools and environments for programming and implementation

Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums.
Papers identifying future directions of programming and those
addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are
especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of
APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool demonstrations category.
Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to
consult with program chair prior to submission.

# Submission

We solicit submissions in two categories:

- **Regular research papers** describing original scientific research
results, including system development and case studies. Regular
research papers *should not exceed 18 pages* in the Springer LNCS
format, including bibliography and figures.  This category encompasses
both theoretical and implementation (also known as system
descriptions) papers.  In either case, submissions should clearly
identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant.
Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance,
correctness, originality, and clarity.  System descriptions papers
should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on
originality, usefulness, and design.  In case of lack of space,
proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the
technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a
link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them.

- **System and tool demonstrations** describing a demonstration of a
tool or a system that support theory, program construction, reasoning,
or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The main purpose of a tool
paper is to display a completed, robust and well-documented
tool--highlighting the overall functionality of the tool, the
interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the
tool, an assessment of the tool's strengths and weaknesses, and a
summary of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of
tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live
demonstration of the tool at the conference. It is highly desirable
that the tools are available on the web. System and Tool papers should
not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography
and figures. They may include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra
pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the
content of the proposed live demo.

Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2017 using EasyChair. The
acceptable format is PDF.

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication
elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be
published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must
be presented at the conference.

# Review Process

*New for APLAS 2017*

## Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process

APLAS 2017 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.
Following this process means that reviewers will not see the authors'
names or affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors'
names will then be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews
have been submitted.

To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following:

- **Author names and institutions must be omitted** and
- References to the authors' own related work should be in the third
person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We
build on the work of ...").

The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an
initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it
impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try.
Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the
submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or
interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example,
important background references should *not* be omitted or anonymized,
even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas,
techniques, or infrastructure.  Authors should feel free to
disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they
normally would.  For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers
on the web or give talks on their research ideas.

## Author Response Period

During the author response period, authors will be able to read
reviews and respond to them as appropriate.

## Research Integrity

The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of
publication, to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is
possible if fatal flaws are discovered in the paper, or research
integrity is found to have been seriously breached.

# Organizers

## General Chair

Xinyu Feng (University of Science and Technology of China)

## Program Chair

Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder)

## Program Committee

Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University)
Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Sam Blackshear (Facebook)
Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica)
Yuting Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Stephen Chong (Harvard University)
Vijay D'Silva (Google)
Benjamin Delaware (Purdue University)
Rayna Dimitrova (MPI-SWS)
Cezara Dragoi (INRIA, ENS, CNRS)
William Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Guoliang Jin (North Carolina State University)
Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India)
Vu Le (Microsoft)
Akimasa Morihata (University of Tokyo)
Sergio Mover (University of Colorado Boulder)
Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers University)
Hakjoo Oh (Korea University)
Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira (The University of Hong Kong)
Xiaokang Qiu (Purdue University)
Arjun Radhakrishna (University of Pennsylvania)
Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research)
Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST)
Ilya Sergey (University College London)
Makoto Tatsuta (National Institute of Informatics)
Tachio Terauchi (JAIST)
Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica)
Yingfei Xiong (Peking University)
Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University)
Danfeng Zhang (Pennsylvania State University)
Xin Zhang (Georgia institute of Technology)
Kenny Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

## Local Organization Chair

Ming Fu (University of Science and Technology of China)