PLDI 2015 Tutorials

Tutorials

Call for Workshops and Tutorials

Proposals are invited for workshops and tutorials to be co-located with PLDI 2015. Events can either be sponsored by SIGPLAN or supported through in-cooperation status. The preference is for one-day workshops and half-day tutorials, but other schedules can also be considered. Tentatively, tutorials and workshops will be held on June 13/14 (Saturday/Sunday) before the main conference.

Workshops

A workshop proposal should provide the following information.

1. A Preliminary Call For Workshop Papers, including:

• Name of the workshop
• Number of days for the workshop
• An abstract: 150-200 words describing the workshop, suitable for the PLDI web site
• A summary of the workshop format: e.g., refereed papers, and/or short papers, and/or invited talks, and/or problem solving, and/or brainstorming sessions. How will papers or other submissions be reviewed?
• A description of how the workshop papers and results will be published or otherwise disseminated (see note below)
• References to previous workshops on the same/similar topic (if any)

2. About Each Organizer:

• Name, affiliation, and contact information
• Primary contact: identify one organizer as the primary contact
• A brief biography (up to 200 words), focusing on the organizer’s expertise in the field and experience as a workshop organizer

3. Expected Participants:

A brief discussion about the expected workshop participants. Historic numbers of participants can be provided if available.

Tutorials

A tutorial proposal should include the following information.

• Name of the tutorial
• Length of the tutorial
• An abstract: 150-200 words describing the tutorial, suitable for the PLDI Web site
• A summary of the tutorial format
• References to previous offerings of the tutorial if any, and previous numbers of participants
• A brief discussion about the expected audience

Submission and Review

Proposals should be submitted by email to the workshop chair Xiangyu Zhang (xyzhang at cs.purdue.edu).

Workshop and tutorial proposals are due on

• November 10th.

Notifications will be sent by

• November 20th.

The number of accepted proposals will be limited by the available conference rooms. Late submissions will only be evaluated if there is space available, on a first-come-first-served basis.

Each proposal will be evaluated according to the value and relevance of its workshop topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the potential of the proposed workshop to attract participants and generate useful results.

Timeline

To ensure the success of the workshop/tutorial program. Accepted workshops and tutorials will be expected to meet deadlines as summarized below.

Workshop Dates

• Call for papers and web site: December 20, 2014
• Full program disseminated: April 18, 2015
• Papers available to participants: May 13, 2015

Tutorial Dates

• Full program disseminated: April 18, 2015

Dissemination of Workshop Results

A proposal should clearly state how the results of the workshop — i.e., the papers and other outcomes — will be made available to participants and others, both before and after the workshop event. The PLDI 2015 Workshop chair will provide guidance to the organizers of accepted workshops that wish to publish proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.

Contact

For additional information about this call for workshops/tutorials, please contact Xiangyu Zhang (xyzhang at cs.purdue.edu).

6/13 Saturday

Workshops

• WAX:Workshop on Approximate Computing Across the Stack
• WOW:Workshop on WALA
• CHIUW: The Second Annual Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop
• The Sixth Annual Scala Symposium
• ARRAY: ACM SIGPLAN 2nd International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming

Tutorials

• A Semantics-Directed Approach to Program Termination ( morning)
• Using the Intel C++ Compiler for General Purpose Computation Offload to Intel Processor Graphics ( morning)
• RASCAL: Program Analysis and Transformation with Rascal ( afternoon)
• System-level Program Analysis and Architectural Evaluation with Simics ( CANCELLED DUE TO INSUFFICIENT REGISTRATION )

6/14 Sunday

Workshops

• CHIUW : The Second Annual Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop (morning)
• SOAP: 4th International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis
• X10
• PLOOC:Programming Languages Technology for Massive Open Online Courses

Tutorials

• PINPLAY:Using PinPlay for Reproducible Analysis and Replay Debugging ( morning)
• AutoTune:Autotuning programs with OpenTuner ( afternoon)
• Doop Framework 101 ( afternoon)
• Machine Learning for Code Analytics ( afternoon)