PLDI 2009 Call for papers

                      CALL FOR PAPERS
                ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Conference on
        Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
               Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
                       June 15th-21st
       Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT
              http://www.cs.colorado.edu/pldi09


IMPORTANT DATES
  Abstract deadline: Friday, Nov 7th, Midnight EST
  Paper deadline: Friday, Nov 14th, Midnight EST
  Rebuttal period: Monday, Jan 12th to Wednesday, Jan 14th
  Notification: Tuesday, January 27th

SCOPE OF THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM.
The PLDI conference seeks original research papers that focus on
issues in the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and use
of programming languages. A strong PLDI submission will present a
creative solution to a real problem, or evaluate existing solutions in
a way that sheds new insights, or both.

TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics as
they relate to the design, development, implementation, evaluation,
and use of programming languages:

Extracting parallelism from programs
Exploiting explicit parallelism in programs
Memory management
Language constructs for parallelism
Program analyses
Performance analysis, evaluation, and tools
Performance optimizations
Pointer analyses
Domain-specific languages
Novel programming models and tools
Type systems and program logics
Debugging techniques and tools
Language designs and extensions
Analyses and tools for transforming and understanding programs
Checking or improving the safety, security, or correctness of programs
Interaction of compilers and run-time systems with underlying systems

SUBMISSION.

Submissions may not exceed 10 pages formatted according to the ACM
proceedings format. These 10 pages include everything (i.e., it is the
total length of the paper). The program chair will reject papers that
exceed the length requirement or are submitted late.

Templates for ACM format are available for Word Perfect, Microsoft
Word, and LaTex at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm
(use the 9 pt template). Submissions should be in PDF and printable on
US Letter and A4 sized paper.

Paper submission is double-blind to reduce reviewer bias against or
for authors or institutions. Thus, the submissions cannot include
author names or institutions.

Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted
for publication elsewhere (including journals and proceedings of
refereed conferences and workshops). See the SIGPLAN republication
policy for more details
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm).


EVALUATION.
The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each
submission as well as its general accessibility to the PLDI
audience. Papers will be judged on significance, originality,
relevance, correctness, and clarity. The paper must be organized so
that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise. The
paper should clearly identify what has been accomplished, why it is
significant, and how it relates to previous work.


        GENERAL CHAIR                  PROGRAM CHAIR
         Michael Hind                    Amer Diwan
         IBM Research              University of Colorado
       [email protected]            [email protected]

   LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR           TUTORIALS CHAIR
         David Gregg                   Kim Hazelwood
    Trinity College Dublin         University of Virginia

       WORKSHOPS CHAIR          STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION CHAIR
         Ranjit Jhala                  Marco Pistoia
           UCSD                         IBM Research

           FIT (Fun Ideas and Thoughts) SESSION CHAIR
                        Rodric Rabbah
                        IBM Research


                      PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel           Chandra Krintz, UCSB
Steve Blackburn, Australian Natl. U.    Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
Hans Boehm, HP                          Ondrej Lhotak, Univ. of Waterloo
Karl Crary, CMU                         Tamiya Onodera, IBM Tokyo
Pedro Diniz, Inst. Superior T™écnico     Jens Palsberg, UCLA
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent Univ.            Bill Pugh, U. of Maryland
David Grove, IBM Research               Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research
Matthias Hauswirth, U. of Lugano        Jeremy Siek, U. of Colorado
Laurie Hendren, McGill Univ.            Yannis Smaragdakis, U. of Oregon
Wilson Hsieh, Google                    Linda Torczon, Rice U.
Jens Knoop, TU Vienna                   Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue U.


                  EXTERNAL REVIEW COMMITTEE

The external review committee (ERC) is a new addition to PLDI 2009.
This committee will provide most (if not all) of the external reviews
for PLDI.  We added the ERC to ensure that most of the paper reviews
are from (i) experts and (ii) from people that are reviewing a number
of PLDI papers and are thus calibrated to the paper quality.

Vikram Adve, UIUC                       Calvin Lin, UT Austin
Alex Aiken, Stanford                    Matthias Meyer, U. Stuttgart

Jonathan Aldrich, CMU                   Kathryn McKinley, UT Austin

David Bacon, IBM                        Darko Marinov, UIUC

Mihai Budiu, Microsoft                  Vijay Menon, Google

Rastislav Bodik, UC Berkeley            Hanspeter M™össenb™öck, Johannes
Kepler U.
Preston Briggs, Google                  Frank Mueller, NCSU

David Brooks, Harvard                   David Padua, UIUC

John Cavazos, U. Delaware               Madhusudan Parthasarathy, UIUC

Bor-Yuh Chang, U. Colorado              Igor Peshansky, IBM

Trishul Chilimbi, Microsoft             Erez Petrank, Technion

Cliff Click, Azul Systems               Oliver Ruething, TU Dortmund

Kieth Cooper, Rice                      Mooly Sagiv, Tel Aviv University

Jack Davidson, U. Virginia              Vivek Sarkar, Rice

Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS                   Bernhard Scholz, U. Sydney

Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM                 Michael Schwartzbach, U. Aarhus

Stephen Fink, IBM                       Olin Shivers, Northeastern

Jeff Foster, UMD                        Manu Sridharan, IBM

Steven Freund, Williams                 Darko Stefanovic, U. New Mexico

Healf Goguen, Google                    Michelle Strout, Colorado State

David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin     Kenjiro Taura, U. Tokyo

Dan Grossman, U. Washington             Petr Tuma, Charles U.

Nigel Horspool, U. Victoria             David Whalley, Florida State

Richard Jones, Kent                     Jingling Xue, UNSW

Akira Koseki, IBM                       Hongseok Yang, Queen Mary

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