General talk about software patterns

[Pascal Costanza <pc AT p-cos.net>]

Call for Participation

2nd European Lisp and Scheme Workshop
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July 26 - Glasgow, Scotland - co-located with ECOOP 2005

Supported by ALU
For more information visit http://lisp-ecoop05.bknr.net
or contact 
pc AT p-cos.net.

News (June 2, 2005)
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Important Dates
+ Abstract submission deadline: June 10, 2005
+ Notification of acceptance: June 17, 2005
+ ECOOP early registration deadline: June 24, 2005
+ Final paper submission deadline: July 15, 2005

Other News
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+ Richard P. Gabriel has agreed to give a keynote talk at the workshop:

   "On the Interaction of Life and Machines in Self-Sustaining Systems"

   Software systems today are produced according to a manufacturing
   model: A finished product is constructed at the factory and shipped
   to its final destinationwhere it is expected to act like any other
   machine-reliably but oblivious to its surroundings and its own
   welfare. Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself
   and its own future. A promising approach seems to be to separate
   software that does the work from software that keeps the system
   alive.

+ The submission deadline has been extended to June 10, 2005. Due to the
late publication of the fee structure for the ECOOP conference, we have
split submission into two phases: You can submit an abstract of your
paper or breakout group proposal before June 10 and we will notify you
of acceptance or rejection on June 17. The final paper / breakout group
proposal should be submitted by July 15.

+ The early registration deadline for ECOOP 2005 is June 24, 2005.
Participating is cheaper than you may think: If you only participate at
the workshop, the fee is 180 pounds (ca. 260 Euros or 320 US-Dollars) or
90 pounds (ca. 130 Euros or 160 US-Dollars) for students. This includes
coffee breaks and lunches on the two workshop days, the main reception
on the first workshop day and access to BoFs and the poster display on
the two workshop days. See http://2005.ecoop.org/fees.html for full
details.

Overview
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   "...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and
    Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining,
    EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance,
    Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling
    and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk
    Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these
    are the only things they happened to list." -- Kent Pitman

Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In the
decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for language
design experiments as well as the preferred implementation language for
applications in diverse fields. The structure of Lisp, including Common
Lisp and Scheme as its major dialects of today, makes it easy to extend
the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without
starting from scratch. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System
(CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an
ANSI standard at the beginning of the 1990's. It is, arguably, the most
complete and advanced object system of any programming language, and has
influenced many other object-oriented programming languages that were to
follow.
Despite having somewhat disappeared from the radar of popular computer
science, Common Lisp and Scheme are still alive and have just started to
gain momentum again. There is a steadily growing interest in Lisp as
such, with numerous user groups having formed recently worldwide, and
Lisp's metaprogramming notions that are being transferred to other
languages to different extents, as for example in AOP, MDA, DSL, and so
on.
This two-day workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based
languages in research, industry and education. We want to solicit papers
and suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp
provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software
engineering. We also want to promote lively discussion between
researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on
their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp
technologies.
The workshop will be split into two parts: The first part is for talks
with a more classroom-like atmosphere, the second will consist of a
number of sessions for breakout groups discussing or working on
particular topics.

Papers
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Presentations on the workshop can take anything between 5 minutes and an
hour. Additional time will be given for questions and answers. Papers
may be published on the website in order to provide background
information in advance.

Suggested topics for presented papers
+ Macro programming
+ Metaprogramming
+ Reflection
+ New language features / abstractions
+ Persistence Systems
+ Hardware support for Lisp systems
+ Case studies
+ Experience reports
+ Industrial applications
+ Object-Oriented Programming
+ Declarative Programming
+ Aspect-Oriented Programming
+ Domain-Oriented Programming
+ Generative Programming
+ Ambient Intelligence
+ Unanticipated Software Evolution
+ Design Patterns
+ Educational Perspectives

Breakout Groups
===============

The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and
work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and
provide for rooms and infrastructure.

Suggested topics for breakout groups
+ Discuss the feature set of the next version of Slime
+ Work on details of the CLRFI process
+ Exchange experiences with various macro systems for Scheme
+ Detail a wishlist for R6RS
+ Environments for creating web applications
+ Persistence systems
+ Compiler technology
+ Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems
+ Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education

In order to have effective discussions at those breakout groups, we are
negotiating meeting rooms for an extra day in addition to the actual
workshop with the ECOOP organizers.

Submission Guidelines
=====================

Potential attendants are expected to submit
+ either a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical
results about Lisp- and Scheme-based uses or new approaches for software
engineering purposes
+ or a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research
and practice based on Lisp and Scheme should be heading in the near
future
+ a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an
agenda and/or expected results

Abstract submissions should be mailed as PDF or text to Pascal Costanza
(pc AT p-cos.net)
 before the submission deadline. Please indicate whether
you need an earlier notification of acceptance than the official date.
The final paper should be mailed before the respective submission
deadline - afterwards, we cannot guarantee timely publication at the
website anymore.

Registration
============

This workshop is co-located with ECOOP 2005, and this time it is one of
the official workshops at that conference. Therefore, registration, fee
and accomodation are all handled through the conference organization.
See the conference website and especially
http://2005.ecoop.org/fees.html and http://2005.ecoop.org/travel.html
for further information.

Advance registration to the workshop is handled through the primary
contact person of the Workshop, Pascal Costanza 
(pc AT p-cos.net).
 Please
contact him by regular email with your submission or input to the
workshop in order to receive your login to the workshop website. Include
your preferred login name for the workshop website with your
application. Further information for participants will be provided on
the workshop website.

Organizing Committee
====================

The organizing comitee consists of the following people:
+ Pascal Costanza, http://www.pascalcostanza.de,
  Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (contact organizer)
+ Theo D'Hondt, http://prog.vub.ac.be/~tjdhondt,
  Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
+ Arthur Lemmens, Independent Consultant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+ Manuel Serrano, http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/,
  INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

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Pascal Costanza                  Vrije Universiteit Brussel
mailto:Pascal.Costanza AT vub.ac.be
 Programming Technology Lab
http://www.pascalcostanza.de     Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel (Belgium)