[TYPES/announce] Workshop on the Future of Alloy

[Eunsuk Kang]

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Call for Participation: Workshop on the Future of Alloy

Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Date & duration: April 30 & May 1, 2018
Registration & logistics: http://alloy.mit.edu/workshop
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The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of Alloy, share their perspectives, and formulate short/long-term agendas for improving the language & its tools. Participants from both industry and academia are welcome.

We hope to encourage discussions on the following topics (and others, suggested by participants):

- Extensions: What’s not so easy to express in Alloy, and what language extensions could we make? What are some alternative backends that we could explore (e.g., SMT)? 
- Benchmarks: How do we collect and share models built by users over the years? What kind of infrastructure do we need?
- Usability: What are some obstacles preventing a wider adoption of Alloy? What usability improvements could we make?
- Education: How do we teach Alloy to students and practitioners? What education materials could we develop and share among teachers?

Call for presentations: The content of the workshop will be driven largely by participants’ ideas about improving Alloy. To stimulate discussion, we are soliciting short 10~15 min talks from attendees. Topics for a talk may include (but not limited to): Your own positive/negative experiences with Alloy, ideas for improvement, a demo of your tool, or calls for community-wide effort. If you are interested in giving a talk, please fill out the relevant items in the registration form, linked from the workshop website:

http://alloy.mit.edu/workshop

Please share this announcement with other colleagues or students who may also be interested in attending the workshop. Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Eunsuk Kang, Sarfraz Khurshid, and Emina Torlak (Program co-chairs)
Daniel Jackson (General chair)​