[comp.lang.sigplan] SIGPLAN'91 call for papers

mauney@csljon.csl.ncsu.edu (Jon Mauney) (09/07/90)

                                 Call for Papers

                        ACM SIGPLAN'91 Conference on

                Programming Language Design and Implementation

                    Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 26-28, 1991


     SIGPLAN'91 continues the series of broad-based language and compiler
     design conferences. The conference will provide a forum for researchers
     and developers to gain awareness of current practical and experimental
     work across the breadth of the field. Emphasis will be placed on
     experimental results and experience with the languages and techniques
     described.


     The conference seeks original papers relevant to practical issues
     concerning the design, development, implementation, and use of
     programming languages (in contrast to the annual SIGACT/SIGPLAN POPL
     Conference which is oriented more toward foundations).The conference
     does not favor any particular programming paradigm or support
     architecture.  As usual for SIGPLAN-sponsored conferences, papers
     awaiting acceptance to any other conference are not eligible for
     SIGPLAN'91; if a closely related paper has been submitted to a journal,
     the program chair must be notified.

          Among the topics encompassed by the conference are:

 compiler construction                translation by program transformation
 interpretation                       benchmarks and assessment
 implementation by preprocessing      translator validation
 design and use of languages          design of internal representations
 special-purpose languages            incremental and interactive methods
 programming environments             implementation for non-traditional 
 optimization techniques for scalar      languages and/or architectures
   and parallel architectures      

     As usual, papers will be selected on the basis of novelty,
     significance, and overall quality of the contributions. Submissions
     should be in the form of an extended abstract summarizing the major
     results to be presented, their importance, and their relationship to
     other work in the field. The submissions will be read and evaluated by
     the program committee and should be sufficiently complete to be the
     basis for selection.The extended abstract should be no more than ten
     pages, typed double spaced or typeset 10 point type on 16 point
     spacing.


     Authors should submit twelve copies of an extended abstract (double
     sided, if possible) to be received by the program chair no later than
     November 19, 1990. Persons submitting papers from countries in which
     access to copying machines is difficult or impossible may submit a
     single copy. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by
     January 28, 1991. The accepted papers must be formatted according to
     ACM conventions and be eceived by the program chair no later than March
     18,1991. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign an ACM
     copyright release form.  Proceedings will be distributed at the
     conference and as a special issue of SIGPLAN Notices. All papers
     published in Proceedings are eligible for publication in refereed ACM
     publications at the discretion of the editor.

     Program Committee:
	  Andrew Black, DEC Cambridge Research Laboratory
	  Kent Dybvig, Indiana University
	  Christopher W. Fraser, AT&T Bell Laboratories
	  James Larus, University of Wisconsin -Madison
	  Peter Lee, Carnegie Mellon University
	  Jean-Jacques Levy, INRIA-Rocquencourt
	  Steven S. Muchnick, SUN Microsystems
	  William Pugh, University f Maryland
	  Barbara Ryder, Rutgers University
	  Vivek Sarkar, IBM T J Watson Research Center
	  Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve University
	  William E. Weihl, MIT

	The conference will be preceded by two days of tutorials on June
     24-25. There will be two tracks as in previous years:  the first will
     present an overview of the fundamentals of compiler construction for
     languages such as FORTRAN, Pascal, and C; the second will consider
     advanced topics.

     Conference Chair:        
	  Brent Hailpern          
	  IBM                   
	  Old Orchard Road     
	  Armonk, NY 10504    
	  (914)765-6481      
	  bth@ibm.com       

     Program Chair:
	  Barbara Ryder
	  Department of Computer Science
	  Hill Center, Busch Campus
	  Rutgers University       
	  New Brunswick, NJ 08903
	  (201)932-3699           
	  ryder@cs.rutgers.edu     

     Local Arrangements Chair:
	  Shahram Javey
	  IBM Canada Ltd., Dept.3T-520-1150-TOR
	  1150 Eglinton Ave.East
	  North York, Ontario M3C 1H7
	  Canada
	  (416)448-4201
	  javey@ibmlabnn.bitnet