************************************************************************ * * * 2nd European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2009) * * * * Milan, Italy, May 27-29, 2009 * * Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca * * * ************************************************************************ Important Dates: **************** * Submission deadline January 25, 2009 * Author notification February 27, 2009 * Final paper due March 23, 2009 * Symposium May 27-29, 2009 Accepted research papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). See the symposium website for more details. Scope: ****** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of all aspects of the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The European Lisp Symposium 2009 invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications, and educational perspectives, all involving Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, and so on. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Language design and implementation techniques * Language integration, interoperation and deployment * Language critique and future directions * Reflection and meta-level architectures * Educational approaches * Software adaptation and evolution * Configuration management * Artificial intelligence * Large and ultra-large-scale systems * Development methodologies * Development support and environments * Persistent systems * Scientific computing * Parallel and distributed computing * Data mining * Semantic web * Dynamic optimization * Innovative applications * Hardware and virtual machine support * Domain-oriented programming * Lisp pearls * Experience reports and case studies We also encourage submissions about past approaches that have been largely forgotten about, as long as they are presented in a new setting. We invite submissions in two categories: original contributions and work-in-progress papers. * Original contributions have neither been published previously nor are under review by other refereed events or publications. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art, or presents old results from a new perspective. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from substantive practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. * Work in progress describes ongoing work that is not ready for publication yet, but would benefit strongly from feedback by other researchers, practitioners and educators. Such contributions will not be published in the symposium proceedings, but will be made available at the symposium website. The work-in-progress track will be organized as a series of writers' workshops where authors work together to improve their papers. Some authors who submit papers for the main track will be suggested to contribute their work in this track instead, if the program committee decides that their submission is not yet ready for a publication. The writers' workshops will take place at the symposium in Milan on May 27, 2008. Program Chair: ************** * António Leitão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Local Chair: ************ * Marco Antoniotti, Università Milano Bicocca, Italy Program committee: ****************** * Giuseppe Attardi, Università di Pisa , Italy * Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Irene Durand, Université Bordeaux 1, France * Marc Feeley, Université de Montréal, Canada * Ron Garret, Amalgamated Widgets Unlimited, USA * Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA * Peter Norvig, Google Inc., USA * Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK * Kent Pitman, PTC, USA * Christian Queinnec, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK * Robert Strandh, Université Bordeaux 1, France * Mark Tarver, Lambda Associates, UK * Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France * JonL White, TheGingerIceCreamFactory of Palo Alto, USA * Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University, Japan Important Dates: **************** * Submission deadline January 25, 2009 * Author notification February 27, 2009 * Final paper due March 23, 2009 * Symposium May 27-29, 2009 For more information, see http://european-lisp-symposium.org -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com EPITA/LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire, 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Tel. +33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 Fax. +33 (0)1 53 14 59 22