Scala Days 2012 is coming, April 17-18 at the Barbican, London, UK. Now is the time to submit workshop research papers and for everyone to reserve the dates in their calendar.

Scala Days 2011 was a throughly enjoyable and successful event. Over 280 academic researchers and professional developers got together to share advanced research results, new ideas and explore some heavy duty commercial Scala applications. Scala Days provides a unique opportunity for researchers and commercial Scala users to transfer leading edge research into production systems or share practical know-how on how to get things done more effectively. A place to meet the leading experts from both communities.

This is a Call for Papers for the research workshop. We seek research papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to): language design and implementation, library design and implementation patterns, formal techniques for Scala-like programs, parallel, concurrent and distributed programming, safety and reliability, tools, and case studies. Please see the CFP for the submission schedule and further details.

As before, Scala Days 2012 will combine an academic research workshop with commercial developer talks and will be held, with Martin and the EPFL Scala team, at the Barbican Conference Centre, London, UK, on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April 2012. The dedicated Scala Days 2012 site will be available mid-December and there you will be able to check out the details and register for the event.

This year the event is already being sponsored by Typesafe and Skills Matter who are also providing the expertise to host the event and venue. Other sponsors will be very welcome. 

CFP: The Third Scala Workshop

Scala is a general-purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional programming.

This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. The third annual Scala research workshop will be held on Tuesday April 17th 2012 at the Barbican in London, co-located with Scala Days 2012.

We seek papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to):

1. Language design and implementation – language extensions, optimization, and performance evaluation.
2. Library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala – embedded domain-specific languages, combining language features, generic and meta-programming.
3. Formal techniques for Scala-like programs – formalizations of the language, type system, and semantics, formalizing proposed language extensions and variants, dependent object types, type and effect systems.
4. Concurrent and distributed programming – libraries, frameworks, language extensions, programming paradigms: (Actors, STM, ...), performance evaluation, experimental results.
5. Safety and reliability – pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring.
6. Tools – development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks.
7. Case studies, experience reports, and pearls
   
   

Important Dates

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, or projects related to Scala. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. All papers will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community.

Submissions must be in English and at most 12 pages total length (shorter papers are welcome). Please use the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference format (10pt), and submit through the EasyChair website. The accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website, but no formal proceedings will be published.

Program Committee

1. Nathan Bronson (Facebook)
2. Hassan Chafi (Oracle)
3. Miguel Garcia (EPFL)
4. Cay Horstmann (San Jose State University)
5. Nathaniel Nystrom (University of Lugano)
6. Bruno Oliveira (Seoul National University)
7. Jorge Ortiz (Foursquare)
8. Seth Tisue (Northwestern University)
9. Adriaan Moors (EPFL, chair)