The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around contributions and experiences in building or using technologies related to Smalltalk. While the maturity of the presented ideas and results is not crucial, it is expected that their presentation will trigger discussion and the exchange of ideas. The topics of your paper can cover all aspects of Smalltalk, both theoretical and practical. Authors are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers.

Topics

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk-related topics such as:

• Code Analysis
• Automated Testing
• Debugging
• Compilers, Virtual Machines and Language Implementations
• Meta-programming and Meta-modelling
• Refactorings
• Design patterns
• Experience reports
• Libraries and frameworks
• New dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk
• Interaction and integration with other languages
• Tools

Call for Submissions

At IWST, presentations and publications are decoupled. This means that you can present your work at the workshop without having it published in the proceedings.

We invite two kinds of submissions:

• original contributions that are not submitted or published elsewhere, and
• contributions previously published in scientific journals or other external venues.

The process of collecting the submissions, evaluation, and publication is organized in several steps:

TL;DR;

• The first call is for presential presentations at IWST@ESUG’26 in Plovdiv. We require only an extended abstract. We also accept presentations of previously published articles.
• The second call is for publication in the IWST proceedings. We accept short and long papers.

Step 1 - Call for Presentations

Authors interested in presenting their work (original or previously published) submit an extended abstract before the extended abstract submission deadline. Author of the submitted extended abstracts will be notified and (potentially) invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline.

You do not need your paper to be included in the workshop proceedings to present it at the conference; an accepted presentation abstract is enough! However, at least one author of each accepted presentation must be registered for the conference (pay the conference fees), attend the conference and present the accepted work, to have the submission considered for inclusion in the proceedings.

What is an Extended Abstract? It’s a short (up to 2 pages long) description of some work you are willing to present. Please describe the context of your work, the problem, what solution you are exploring, and how you expect to evaluate it.

Abstracts are only required to evaluate the work for presentation. They will not be published in the proceedings, but we will share them with the audience during the workshop. Therefore, take care to submit your abstract in a shareable form. Furthermore, if you already have your paper ready for submission, it can be submitted, but please be aware that this working version of your paper, which is still not ready and accepted for publishing, will be shared on the website. We will assume that you agree with this.

What is an Extended Abstract on Previously Published Contributions?

As a special category of presentation, we invite authors of contributions related to IWST’s topics, accepted for publication in Journals and Proceedings of top-rated international conferences within the previous 2 years, to submit an (extended) abstract and present their published results to the IWST workshop collocated with ESUG.

Authors of publications that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a presentation proposal to IWST organizers thorugh EasyChair submission page. Authors will be invited to present their paper after checking that the submission meets the above criteria. Having the submissions already reviewed and accepted by the peers, they will not be reviewed again for technical content. We will tend to include in the program as many previously published contributions as possible; only in case an exceptionally high number of proposals is received, we will be forced to make a selection based on the quality and significance criteria. The accepted presentations in this category will be presented as invited talks.

For previously published contributions and submissions that are not intended to be extended for the proceedings, the process ends here, with the presentation at the workshop.

Step 2 - Submit for Publication in Proceedings

Authors of abstracts on original contributions, invited for presentations who are interested in publishing a paper based on the work to be presented, are invited to submit a full/short paper on original contributions for further review process and potential publication in our proceedings. How about papers on original contributions?

We are looking for papers of two kinds:

• Short position papers - 5 to 10 pages describing fresh ideas and early results.
• Full research papers - 10 to 20 pages with a deeper description of experiments and of research results.

Papers accepted for publication will be published within the Workshop Proceedings (Publisher under negotiation).

Step 3 - Review Round

A two-round review process of full/short papers submitted in Step 2.

As the workshop format encourages bringing fresh ideas and early results to be presented and discussed, and aims to give a chance to young community members to learn and grow, we will allow submissions with discussion potential to be conditionally accepted. In this case, authors are expected to follow the recommendations of the reviewers.

Consequently, the reviewing process will be organized in two rounds:

First round. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Based on these reviews, authors will receive a notification with reviewers’ comments, advices, and requirements, and papers that are not rejected will be invited to be resubmitted in an improved form together with a change log and answers to the reviewers.

Second round PC chairs, in collaboration with the reviewers, where needed and possible, will evaluate the improved paper version and notify authors about the final decision on acceptance/rejection.

Step 4 - Camera Ready

Camera-ready submissions and publishing the proceedings.

IMPORTANT

All accepted papers will be published in an open-access proceedings, such as CEUR-WS, Hal, or arXiv, depending on the rules defined by publishers at the moment of publication.

Independently on the final choice for proceedings publisher service, all submissions from Step 1 to Step 4, should be prepared using the CEUR ART style, - please use only the latex single column template. All submissions must be submitted to the EasyChair submission page.