ELS'18 - 11th European Lisp Symposium
Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores
Marbella, Málaga
Spain
April 16-17 2018
Sponsored by Brunner Software GmbH, Franz Inc.,
LispWorks Ltd., and EPITA
http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/
Recent news:
- Invited speakers announced (see below)
- Registration open. Don't miss the March 25 deadline for the early
bird discount!
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
Keynote speakers:
- Vsevolod Domkin -- Lisp in a Startup: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- R. Matthew Emerson -- This Old Lisp (a look at Clozure CL)
Important dates:
- 25 Mar 2018 Early registration deadline
- 16-17 Apr 2018 Symposium
Programme chair:
David Cooper, Genworks Intl., USA
Local chairs:
Andrew Lawson, Ravenpack, Spain
Programme committee:
Andy Wingo, Igalia, Spain
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths University, UK
Christopher Wellons Null Program Canada
Irène Durand, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Ludovic Courtès, Inria, France
Michael Sperber, DeinProgramm, Germany
Nicolas Neuss, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Olin Shivers Northeastern University USA
Philipp Marek, Austria
Robert Strandh, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France
Sacha Chua Living an Awesome Life Canada
Scott McKay, Future Fuel, USA
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ELS'18 - 11th European Lisp Symposium
Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores
Marbella, Málaga
Spain
April 16-17 2018
Sponsored by Brunner Software GmbH and EPITA
http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/
*** Important: submission deadline extended to Sunday Feb. 25!
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
The 11th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies
We invite submissions in the following forms:
Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.
Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
tools, libraries, and applications.
Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
180 minutes.
The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
registered on-site every day.
All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and
terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2018
Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.
Important dates:
- 25 Feb 2018 Submission deadline (*** extended! ***)
- 19 Mar 2018 Notification of acceptance
- 25 Mar 2018 Early registration deadline
- 02 Apr 2018 Final papers due
- 16-17 Apr 2018 Symposium
Programme chair:
David Cooper, Genworks Intl., USA
Local chairs:
Andrew Lawson, Ravenpack, Spain
Programme committee:
Andy Wingo, Igalia, Spain
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths University, UK
Christopher Wellons Null Program Canada
Irène Durand, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Ludovic Courtès, Inria, France
Michael Sperber, DeinProgramm, Germany
Nicolas Neuss, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Olin Shivers Northwestern University USA
Philipp Marek, Austria
Robert Strandh, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France
Sacha Chua Living an Awesome Life Canada
Scott McKay, Future Fuel, USA
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European Lisp Conference 2018, European Lisp Conference '18
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Reminder: submission deadline this sunday!
ELS'18 - 11th European Lisp Symposium
Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores
Marbella, Málaga
Spain
April 16-17 2018
Sponsored by Brunner Software GmbH and EPITA
http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
The 11th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies
We invite submissions in the following forms:
Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.
Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
tools, libraries, and applications.
Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
180 minutes.
The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
registered on-site every day.
All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and
terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2018
Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.
Important dates:
- 18 Feb 2018 Submission deadline
- 19 Mar 2018 Notification of acceptance
- 25 Mar 2018 Early registration deadline
- 02 Apr 2018 Final papers due
- 16-17 Apr 2018 Symposium
Programme chair:
David Cooper, Genworks Intl., USA
Local chairs:
Andrew Lawson, Ravenpack, Spain
Programme committee:
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths University, UK
Christopher Wellons Null Program Canada
Irène Durand, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Ludovic Courtès, Inria, France
Michael Sperber, DeinProgramm, Germany
Nicolas Neuss, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Olin Shivers Northwestern University USA
Robert Strandh, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France
Sacha Chua Living an Awesome Life Canada
Scott McKay, Future Fuel, USA
Search Keywords:
#els2018, ELS 2018, ELS '18, European Lisp Symposium 2018,
European Lisp Symposium '18, 10th ELS, 10th European Lisp Symposium,
European Lisp Conference 2018, European Lisp Conference '18
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We are happy to announce the release of Spot 2.5.
Spot is a library of algorithms for manipulating LTL formulas and
omega-automata (objects as commonly used in model checking).
A detailed list of new features in this new release is given at the end
of this email. The main features of this release are algorithms for
working with parity acceptance, new functions to convert to co-Büchi
when possible, a new tool for LTL synthesis, and some speedup
of our determinization algorithm.
You can find the new release here:
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/dload/spot/spot-2.5.tar.gz
See https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ for documentation and installation
instructions.
(Note that due to some technical issues on our side, it might
be a few days before the packages for Debian *unstable*
are updated.)
This release contains code contributed by Alexandre Gbaguidi Aïsse,
Thibaud Michaud, Laurent Xu, Maximilien Colange, Etienne Renault,
and myself.
As always, please direct any feedback to <spot(a)lrde.epita.fr>.
New in spot 2.5 (2018-01-20)
Build:
- We no longer distribute the doxygen-generated documentation in
the tarball of Spot to save space. This documentation is still
available online at https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/doxygen/. If you
want to build a local copy you can configure Spot with
--enable-doxygen, or simply run "cd doc && make doc".
- All the images that illustrate the documentation have been
converted to SVG, to save space and improve quality.
Tools:
- ltlsynt is a new tool for synthesizing a controller from LTL/PSL
specifications.
- ltlcross learned --reference=COMMANDFMT to specify a translator
that should be trusted. Doing so makes it possible to reduce the
number of tests to be performed, as all other translators will be
compared to the reference's output when available. Multiple
reference can be given; in that case other tools are compared
against the smallest reference automaton.
- autcross, ltlcross, and ltldo learned --fail-on-timeout.
- ltl2tgba, autfilt, and dstar2tgba have some new '--parity' and
'--colored-parity' options to force parity acceptance on the
output. Different styles can be requested using for instance
--parity='min odd' or --parity='max even'.
- ltl2tgba, autfilt, and dstar2tgba have some new '--cobuchi' option
to force co-Büchi acceptance on the output. Beware: if the input
language is not co-Büchi realizable the output automaton will
recognize a superset of the input. Currently, the output is
always state-based.
- genltl learned to generate six new families of formulas, taken from
the SYNTCOMP competition on reactive synthesis, and from from
Müller & Sickert's GandALF'17 paper:
--gf-equiv=RANGE (GFa1 & GFa2 & ... & GFan) <-> GFz
--gf-implies=RANGE (GFa1 & GFa2 & ... & GFan) -> GFz
--ms-example=RANGE GF(a1&X(a2&X(a3&...)))&F(b1&F(b2&F(b3&...)))
--ms-phi-h=RANGE FG(a|b)|FG(!a|Xb)|FG(a|XXb)|FG(!a|XXXb)|...
--ms-phi-r=RANGE (FGa{n}&GFb{n})|((FGa{n-1}|GFb{n-1})&(...))
--ms-phi-s=RANGE (FGa{n}|GFb{n})&((FGa{n-1}&GFb{n-1})|(...))
- autfilt learned --streett-like to convert automata with DNF
acceptance into automata with Streett-like acceptance.
- autfilt learned --acceptance-is=ACC to filter automata by
acceptance condition. ACC can be the name of some acceptance
class (e.g. Büchi, Fin-less, Streett-like) or a precise acceptance
formula in the HOA syntax.
- ltldo learned to limit the number of automata it outputs using -n.
- ltlfilt learned to measure wall-time using --format=%r, and
cpu-time with --format=%R.
- The --format=%g option of tools that output automata used to
print the acceptance condition as a *formula* in the HOA format.
This %g may now take optional arguments to print the acceptance
*name* in different formats. For instance
... | autfilt -o '%[s]g.hoa'
will separate a stream of automata into different files named
by their acceptance name (Buchi, co-Buchi, Streett, etc.) or
"other" if no name is known for the acceptance condition.
- Tools that produce formulas now support --format=%[OP]n to
display the nesting depth of operator OP.
- The new -x tls-impl=N option allows to fine-tune the
implication-based simplification rules of ltl2tgba. See the
spot-x(7) man page for details.
- All tools learned to check the SPOT_OOM_ABORT environment
variable. This is only useful for debuging out-of-memory
conditions. See the spot-x(7) man page for details.
New functions in the library:
- spot::iar() and spot::iar_maybe() use index appearance records (IAR)
to translate Rabin-like automata into equivalent parity automaton.
This translation preserves determinism and is especially useful when
the input automaton is deterministic.
- spot::print_aiger() encodes an automaton as an AIGER circuit, as
required by the SYNTCOMP competition. It relies on a new named
property "synthesis outputs" that describes which atomic
propositions are to be encoded as outputs of the circuits.
- spot::dnf_to_streett() converts any automaton with a DNF
acceptance condition into a Streett-like automaton.
- spot::nsa_to_nca(), spot::dfn_to_nca(), spot::dfn_to_dca(), and
spot::nsa_to_dca(), convert automata with DNF or Streett-like
acceptance into deterministic or non-deterministic co-Büchi
automata. spot::to_dca() and spot::to_nca() dispatch between
these four functions. The language of produced automaton includes
the original language, but may be larger if the original automaton
is not co-Büchi realizable. Based on Boker & Kupferman FOSSACS'11
paper. Currently only supports state-based output.
- spot::scc_info::states_on_acc_cycle_of() returns all states
visited by any accepting cycle of the specified SCC. It only
works on automata with Streett-like acceptance.
- spot::is_recurrence(), spot::is_persistence(), and
spot::is_obligation() test if a formula is a recurrence,
persistance or obligation. The SPOT_PR_CHECK and SPOT_O_CHECK
environment variables can be used to select between multiple
implementations of these functions (see the spot-x(7) man page).
- spot::is_colored() checks if an automaton is colored
(i.e., every transition belongs to exactly one acceptance set).
- spot::change_parity() converts between different parity acceptance
conditions.
- spot::colorize_parity() transforms an automaton with parity
acceptance into a colored automaton (which is often what people
working with parity automata expect).
- spot::cleanup_parity_acceptance() simplifies a parity acceptance
condition.
- spot::parity_product() and spot::parity_product_or() are
specialized (but expensive) products that preserve parity
acceptance.
- spot::remove_univ_otf() removes universal transitions on the fly
from an alternating Büchi automaton using Miyano and Hayashi's
breakpoint algorithm.
- spot::stutter_invariant_states(),
spot::stutter_invariant_letters(),
spot::highlight_stutter_invariant_states(), ... These functions
help study a stutter-sensitive automaton and detect the subset of
states that are stutter-invariant. See
https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/stutter-inv.html for examples.
- spot::acc_cond::name(fmt) is a new method that names well-known
acceptance conditions. The fmt parameter specifies the format to
use for that name (e.g. to the style used in HOA, or that used by
print_dot()).
- spot::formula::is_leaf() method can be used to detect formulas
without children (atomic propositions, or constants).
- spot::nesting_depth() computes the nesting depth of any LTL
operator.
- spot::check_determinism() sets both prop_semi_deterministic()
and prop_universal() appropriately.
Improvements to existing functions in the library:
- spot::tgba_determinize() has been heavily rewritten and
optimized. The algorithm has (almost) not changed, but it is
much faster now. It also features an optimization for
stutter-invariant automata that may produce slightly smaller
automata.
- spot::scc_info now takes an optional argument to disable some
features that are expensive and not always necessary. By
default scc_info tracks the list of all states that belong to an
SCC (you may now ask it not to), tracks the successor SCCs of
each SCC (that can but turned off), and explores all SCCs of the
automaton (you may request to stop on the first SCC that is
found accepting).
- In some cases, spot::degeneralize() would output Büchi automata
with more SCCs than its input. This was hard to notice, because
very often simulation-based simplifications remove those extra
SCCs. This situation is now detected by spot::degeneralized()
and fixed before returning the automaton. A new optional
argument can be passed to disable this behavior (or use -x
degen-remscc=0 from the command-line).
- The functions for detecting stutter-invariant formulas or
automata have been overhauled. Their interface changed
slightly. They are now fully documented.
- spot::postprocessor::set_type() can now request different forms
of parity acceptance as output. However currently the
conversions are not very smart: if the input does not already
have parity acceptance, it will simply be degeneralized or
determinized.
- spot::postprocessor::set_type() can now request co-Büchi
acceptance as output. This calls the aforementioned to_nca() or
to_dca() functions.
- spot::remove_fin() will now call simplify_acceptance(),
introduced in 2.4, before attempting its different Fin-removal
strategies.
- spot::simplify_acceptance() was already merging identical
acceptance sets, and detecting complementary sets i and j to
perform the following simplifications
Fin(i) & Inf(j) = Fin(i)
Fin(i) | Inf(j) = Inf(i)
It now additionally applies the following rules (again assuming i
and j are complementary):
Fin(i) & Fin(j) = f Inf(i) | Inf(j) = t
Fin(i) & Inf(i) = f Fin(i) | Inf(i) = t
- spot::formula::map(fun) and spot::formula::traverse(fun) will
accept additionnal arguments and pass them to fun(). See
https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/tut03.html for some examples.
Python-specific changes:
- The "product-states" property of automata is now accessible via
spot.twa.get_product_states() and spot.twa.set_product_states().
- twa_word instances can be displayed as SVG pictures, with one
signal per atomic proposition. For some examples, see the use of
the show() method in https://spot.lrde.epita.fr/ipynb/word.html
- The test suite is now using v4 of the Jupyter Notebook format.
- The function rabin_is_buchi_realizable() as its name suggests checks
if a rabin aut. is Büchi realizable. It is heavily based on
tra_to_tba() algorithm.
Deprecation notices:
(These functions still work but compilers emit warnings.)
- spot::scc_info::used_acc(), spot::scc_info::used_acc_of() and
spot::scc_info::acc() are deprecated. They have been renamed
spot::scc_info::marks(), spot::scc_info::marks_of() and
spot::scc_info::acc_sets_of() respectively for clarity.
Backward incompatible changes:
- The spot::closure(), spot::sl2(), spot::is_stutter_invariant()
functions no longer take && arguments. The former two have
spot::closure_inplace() and spot::sl2_inplace() variants. These
functions also do not take a list of atomic propositions as an
argument anymore.
- The spot::bmrand() and spot::prand() functions have been removed.
They were not used at all in Spot, and it is not Spot's objective
to provide such random functions.
- The spot::bdd_dict::register_all_propositions_of() function has
been removed. This low-level function was not used anywhere in
Spot anymore, since it's better to use spot::twa::copy_ap_of().
Bugs fixed:
- spot::simplify_acceptance() could produce incorrect output if the
first edge of the automaton was the only one with no acceptance
set. In spot 2.4.x this function was only used by autfilt
--simplify-acceptance; in 2.5 it is now used in remove_fin().
- spot::streett_to_generalized_buchi() could generate incorrect
automata with empty language if some Fin set did not intersect all
accepting SCCs (in other words, the fix from 2.4.1 was incorrect).
- ltlcross could crash when calling remove_fin() on an automaton
with 32 acceptance sets that would need an additional set.
- the down_cast() helper function used in severaly headers of Spot
was not in the spot namespace, and caused issues with some
configurations of GCC.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Bonjour,
nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter au Séminaire des étudiants du LRDE.
Il aura lieu le mercredi 24 janvier 2018 à partir de 14h00 en L7 au LRDE (KB).
Les étudiants ING3 présenteront le résultat de leurs travaux des derniers
mois.
Au programme :
SPOT — BIBLIOTHEQUE DE MODEL CHECKING
14h00 : Traduction efficace de formules
LTL d’équité en automates déterministes – LAURENT XU
En vérification formelle de la logique temporelle linéaire (LTL)
à l’aide d’!-automates, la négation d’une formule LTL est traduite
en !-automate. La construction d’un automate plus petit
réduit beaucoup le temps d’exécution et la consommation mémoire
des opérations suivantes de la chaîne de traitement de
la vérification formelle. Müller et Sickert ont présenté une méthode
efficace pour traduire n’importe quelle formule LTL en
un petit automate déterministe. Cette méthode consiste à découper
la formule en trois ensembles de sous-formules qui appartiennent
respectivement au fragment de sureté ou de garantie,
au fragment d’équité et au reste. Ils traduisent ensuite individuellement
ces ensembles de sous-formules en automates
déterministes qu’ils combinent par la suite. Spot peut déjà traduire
les formules d’obligation en automates déterministes minimaux.
Les formules d’obligation étant un surensemble des
formules de sureté et de garantie, on généralise la traduction
de Müller et Sickert en remplaçant le fragment de sureté ou
de garantie par le fragment d’obligation. En ce qui concerne
le fragment d’équité, ils ont présenté un algorithme de traduction
efficace qui produit de petits automates déterministes. Ils
ont également présenté comment construire efficacement un
produit de ces automates avec d’autres automates. Nous présentons
comment nous implémentons ces deux méthodes dans
Spot.
14h30 : Tester l’appartenance à Persistence
ou Récurrence dans Spot – ALEXANDRE GBAGUIDI AÏSSE
Il existe une hiérarchie de propriétés temporelles, définie par
Manna et Pnueli (1990). Cette hiérarchie contient entre autres
les classes de récurrence et persistence. Savoir si une formule
de logique temporelle à temps linéaire (LTL) f est récurrente
(respectivement persistente) est intéressant car cela guarantit
que f peut être traduit en un automate de Büchi déterministe
(respectivement en un automate de co-Büchi). Auparavant,
Spot, une bibliothèque de manipulation de formules LTL
avait une unique façon de tester l’appartenance d’une formule
aux classes de persistence ou récurrence. Grâce à nos précédents
travaux présentés dans A co-Büching Toolbox, Spot a désormais
deux façons de procéder. Nous avons comparé et amélioré
ces deux méthodes en matière de temps d’exécution.
15h00 : Approches incrémentales pour la
synthèse de contrôleur – THIBAUD MICHAUD
Nous proposons deux approches incrémentales pour le problème
de la synthèse de contrôleur à partir de spécifications en
logique temporelle. Dans un travail antérieur, nous avons decrit
notre implémentation d’un outil de synthèse de contrôleur
reposant sur la réductibilité du problème à la résolution d’un
jeu à parité, et avons établi que l’étape la plus coûteuse était
la déterminisation d’un !-automate. Nous décrivons maintenant
deux approches pour mitiger le problème : l’une est basée
sur les automates good-for-games, et l’autre restreint les actions
du contrôleur afin de simplifier la déterminisation. Nos expérimentations
montrent que la deuxième approche est bien plus
prometteuse que la première.
Attention : le LRDE a déménagé, il se trouve au 24 rue Pasteur, 2e étage,
au fond de la cour Pasteur (https://www.lrde.epita.fr/wiki/Contact).
--
Daniela Becker
Responsable administrative du LRDE
We are happy to announce that the following article has been accepted for
publication in the 24th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for
the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'18), to be held in
Thessaloniki, Greece, from April 14th to April 20th 2018.
"CDCLSym: Introducing Effective Symmetry Breaking in SAT Solving"
Hakan Metin (1), Souheib Baarir (1,2,3),
Maximilien Colange (3), Fabrice Kordon (1)
(1): Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, LIP6 CNRS UMR 7606, France
(2): Université Paris Nanterre
(3): LRDE, EPITA, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Abstract:
SAT solvers are now widely used to solve a large variety of problems,
including
formal verification of systems. SAT problems derived from such applications
often exhibit symmetry properties that could be exploited to speed up their
solving. /Static symmetry breaking /is so far the most popular approach
to take
advantage of symmetries. It relies on a symmetry preprocessor which augments
the initial problem with constraints that force the solver to consider
only a
few configurations among the many symmetric ones.
This paper presents a new way to handle symmetries, that avoids the main
problem of the current static approaches: the prohibitive cost of the
preprocessing phase. Extensive experiments on the benchmarks of last
six SAT
competitions show that our approach is competitive with the best
state-of-the-art static symmetry breaking solutions.
--
Maximilien Colange
Assistant Professor
LRDE -- EPITA
(+33) 1 53 14 59 45
The Vcsn team is happy to announce that the following paper was
accepted and published in Volume XXVII of the Scientific Annals of
Computer Science.
Derived-Term Automata of Multitape Expressions with Composition
Akim Demaille
EPITA/LRDE
Rational expressions are powerful tools to define automata, but often
restricted to single-tape automata. Our goal is to unleash their
expressive power for transducers, and more generally, any multitape
automaton; for instance (a⁺|x + b⁺|y)*. We generalize the
construction of the derived-term automaton by using expansions. This
approach generates small automata, and even allows us to support a
composition operator.
The paper on the Scientific Annals of Computer Science's website
http://www.info.uaic.ro/bin/Annals/Article?v=XXVII2&a=1
For more information about this publication see
http://publis.lrde.epita.fr/demaille.17.sacs
To play with Vcsn on the topic of this paper
http://vcsn-sandbox.lrde.epita.fr/notebooks/Doc/SACS-2017.ipynb
Vcsn's home page
http://vcsn.lrde.epita.fr
ELS'18 - 11th European Lisp Symposium
Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores
Marbella, Málaga
Spain
April 16-17 2018
Sponsored by EPITA
http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
The 11th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies
We invite submissions in the following forms:
Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.
Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
tools, libraries, and applications.
Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
180 minutes.
The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
registered on-site every day.
All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and
terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2018
Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.
Important dates:
- 18 Feb 2018 Submission deadline
- 19 Mar 2018 Notification of acceptance
- 25 Mar 2018 Early registration deadline
- 02 Apr 2018 Final papers due
- 16-17 Apr 2018 Symposium
Programme chair:
David Cooper, Genworks Intl., USA
Local chairs:
Andrew Lawson & Nick Levine, Ravenpack, Spain
Programme committee:
tba
Search Keywords:
#els2018, ELS 2018, ELS '18, European Lisp Symposium 2018,
European Lisp Symposium '18, 10th ELS, 10th European Lisp Symposium,
European Lisp Conference 2018, European Lisp Conference '18
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Hello,
I'm happy to announce the deployment of Quickref[1], a new global
documentation project for Common Lisp.
Quickref provides automatically generated reference manuals for the
whole Quicklisp world, that is, more than 1500 libraries and 3000 ASDF
systems. The documentation is generated by Declt[2] in HTML. Declt
documents every possible bit of information (systems, files, packages,
variables, functions, classes etc.) with full indexing and
cross-referencing.
Quickref was made by Antoine Martin, as part of an internship with
me. Many thanks to him! We still have some cleanup and packaging to do,
but we expect to open-source the infrastructure soon. I also want to
thank Mark Evenson, Erik Huelsmann and the Common Lisp Foundation for
hosting the project on common-lisp.net.
Footnotes:
[1] http://quickref.common-lisp-net/
[2] https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/software/lisp/misc.php#declt
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Hello,
I'm happy to announce the release of DoX version 2.4.
What's new in this version:
* Improve AUCTeX support.
* Fix spurious spaces in index entries
Grab it directly here:
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/software/latex.php#dox
or wait until it propagates through CTAN...
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