1st European Lisp and Scheme Workshop

June 13 - Oslo - Norway - co-located with ECOOP 2004
Supported by ALU

For more information visit
http://www.cs.uni-bonn.de/~costanza/lisp-ecoop/

Contact: costanza@cs.uni-bonn.de

Important Dates:

Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2004
ECOOP early registration deadline: May 17, 2004
Workshop registration deadline: June 3, 2004

Overview:

Lisp has a tradition of providing a fruitful basis for language design experiments for many decades. The structure of Lisp, including its current major dialects Common Lisp and Scheme, makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard. It is, arguably, the most complete and advanced object system of any language.

Despite having somewhat disappeared from the radar of popular computer science, Lisp has just started to gain momentum again. Many current trends are strongly influenced by the metaprogramming notions that are prevalent in Lisp, for example Aspect-Oriented Programming, Domain-Oriented Programming, Model-Driven Architectures, Generative Programming, and so on, that make heavy use of metaprogramming in the background.

This one-day workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in those and related areas. We want to solicit papers that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We also want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies.

Suggested Topics:

• Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
• New language features / abstractions
• Case studies
• Experience reports
• Industrial applications
• Aspect-Oriented Programming
• Domain-Oriented Programming
• Generative Programming
• Ambient Intelligence
• Context-Oriented Programming
• Unanticipated Software Evolution
• Design Patterns

Submission Guidelines:

Potential attendants are expected to submit

• either a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical results about Lisp- and Scheme-based uses or new approaches for software engineering purposes
• or a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research and practice based on Lisp and Scheme should be heading in the near future

Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Pascal Costanza (costanza@cs.uni-bonn.de) before the submission deadline.