CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Conference on
Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Trinity College, Dublin, June 15th-21st

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/pldi09

 

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.  Click here to see our thoughts on what makes a great PLDI paper.

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 and tools ● Novel programming models
● 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. Please read these guidelines for preparing your double-blind submission.

Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere (including journals and proceedings of refereed conferences and workshops).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.

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

General Chair

Michael Hind
IBM Research
hindm@us.ibm.com

Program Chair

Amer Diwan
University of Colorado
diwan@cs.colorado.edu

Local Arrangements Chair

David Gregg
Trinity College Dublin

Tutorials Chair

Kim Hazelwood
University of Virginia

Workshops Chair

Ranjit Jhala
University of California, San Diego

Student Research Competition Chair

Marco Pistoia
IBM Research

FIT (Fun Ideas and Thoughts) Session Chair

Rodric Rabbah
IBM Research

Program Committee

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

 

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 Jeff Foster, UMD Igor Peshansky, IBM
Alex Aiken, Stanford Steven Freund, Williams Erez Petrank, Technion
Jonathan Aldrich, CMU Healf Goguen, Google Oliver Ruething, TU Dortmund
David Bacon, IBM David Gregg, Trinity Mooly Sagiv, Tel Aviv U.
Mihai Budiu, Microsoft  Dan Grossman, U. Washington Vivek Sarkar, Rice
Rastislav Bodik, UC Berkeley Nigel Horspool, U. Victoria Bernhard Scholz, U. Sydney
Preston Briggs, Google Richard Jones, Kent Michael Schwartzbach, U. Aarhus
David Brooks, Harvard Akira Koseki, IBM  Olin Shivers, Northeastern
John Cavazos, U. Delaware Calvin Lin, UT Austin Manu Sridharan, IBM 
Bor-Yuh Chang, U. Colorado Darko Marinov, UIUC Darko Stefanovic, U. New Mexico
Trishul Chilimbi, Microsoft  Matthias Meyer, U. Stuttgart James Stichnoth, Intel
Cliff Click, Azul Systems Kathryn McKinley, UT Austin Michelle Strout, Colorado State
Kieth Cooper, Rice Vijay Menon, Google Kenjiro Taura, U. Tokyo
Jack Davidson, U. Virginia Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler U. Petr Tuma, Charles U.
Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS Frank Mueller, NCSU David Whalley, Florida State
Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM  David Padua, UIUC Jingling Xue, UNSW
Stephen Fink, IBM  Madhusudan Parthasarathy, UIUC Hongseok Yang, Queen Mary