IWST 19 Information and Call For Papers

IWST19 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Cologne, Germany; August 27-29th, 2019

Awards

  • First Prize: "Inspecting Block Closures: To Generate Shaders for GPU Execution" by Ronie Salgado.
  • Second Prize: "Illicium : A modular transpilation tool-chain from Pharo to C" by Pierre Misse-Chanabier, Vincent Aranega, Guillermo Polito and Stéphane Ducasse.
  • Third Prize: "GildaVM: a Non-Blocking I/O Architecture for the Cog VM" by Guillermo Polito, Pablo Tesone, Eliot Miranda and David Simmons.

List of Accepted Articles

All the articles can be found at http://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/articles/2019-08-26-IWST19.zip.

Session: Domain specific tools

  • Serge Stinckwich and Konrad Hinsen, Building a scientific workbench in Pharo
  • Tomohiro Oda, Yasuhiro Yamamoto and Kumiyo Nakakoji PintGlas - A Live Mobility Framework for Pharo
  • Sebastijan Kaplar, Miroslav Zarić and Gordana Milosavljević NewWave Workflow Engine

Session: Tests, Smells and Refactoring

  • Julien Delplanque, Stéphane Ducasse and Oleksandr Zaitsev, Magic Literals in Pharo
  • Manuel Leuenberger Can I Remove This Method? How Live Feedback from the Ecosystem Supports Co-Evolution
  • Mehrdad Abdi, Henrique Rocha and Serge Demeyer Test Amplification in the Pharo Smalltalk Ecosystem
  • Dayne Guerra, Julien Delplanque and Stéphane Ducasse Exposing Test Analysis Results with DrTests
  • Clement Dutriez, Benoît Verhaeghe and Mustapha Derras Switching of GUI framework: the case from Spec to Spec2

Session: VM and low level

  • Guillermo Polito, Pablo Tesone, Eliot Miranda and David Simmons GildaVM: a Non-Blocking I/O Architecture for the Cog VM
  • Ronie Salgado Inspecting Block Closures: To Generate Shaders for GPU Execution
  • Pierre Misse-Chanabier, Vincent Aranega, Guillermo Polito and Stéphane Ducasse Illicium : A modular transpilation tool-chain from Pharo to C

Session: Debug and memory saving

  • Javier Pimás and Guido Chari Powerlang: a Vehicle for Lively Implementing Programming Languages
  • Théo Rogliano, Pablo Tesone and Guillermo PolitoVirtualization for porting programs
  • Tobias Pape, Jakob Reschke, Patrick Rein, Fabio Niephaus, Marcel Taeumel and Robert Hirschfeld Tracking Objects: Object Versioning in the Presence of File-based Version Control Systems
  • Carolina Hernandez Phillips, Guillermo Polito, Luc Fabresse, Stéphane Ducasse, Noury Bouraqadi and Pablo Tesone Challenges in Debugging Bootstraps of Reflective Kernels
  • Matthew Ralston and Dave Mason Tail Call Elimination in OpenSmalltalk

Call for Papers

Goals and scopes The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints.

We expect papers of three kinds:

  • Short position papers describing emerging ideas
  • Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results.
  • Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application.

We will not enforce any length restriction.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: June 15th, 2019
  • Notification deadline: July 20th, 2019
  • Workshop: between August 27th and 29th, 2019

Topics

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as:

  • Aspect-oriented programming,
  • Design patterns,
  • Experience reports,
  • Frameworks,
  • Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk,
  • Interaction with other languages,
  • Meta-programming and Meta-modeling,
  • Tools

Best Paper Award

To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST.

We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place.

The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event.

The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference.

Publication

Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. Submission

All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst19

PC chairs

  • Anne Etien, Université de Lille, France
  • Loïc Lagadec, ENSTA Bretagne, France

PC members

  • Vincent Aranega, Université de Lille, France
  • Vincent Blondeau, Lifeware, Switzerland
  • Andrei Chiș, feenk gmbh, Switzerland
  • Steven Costiou, Inria, France
  • Luc Fabresse IMT Lille Douai, France
  • Andre Hora, UFMG, Brazil
  • Sebastijan Kaplar, Fakultet Tehnickih Nauka, Serbia
  • Dave Mason, Ryerson University, US
  • Kasper Østerbye, Independent, Denmark
  • Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
  • Alain Plantec, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
  • Guillermo Polito, CNRS, France
  • Gordana Rakic, Faculty of Science, Serbia
  • Henrique Rocha, University of Antwerp, France
  • Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer Universidad Católica Boliviana - "San Pablo", Bolivia
  • Ciprian Teodorov Ensta Bretagne, France
  • Pablo Tesone, Pharo Consortium, France
  • Andres Valloud, LabWare