APLAS 2012 Call For Papers
Tenth Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
Kyoto, Japan, December 11–13, 2012
(co-located with CPP 2012)
GENERAL CHAIR
Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto Univ.
PROGRAM CHAIR
Ranjit Jhala, UC San Diegoaplas2012@easychair.org
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Amal Ahmed (Northeastern Univ.)
Satish Chandra (IBM)
Juan Chen (Microsoft Research)
Jean-Christophe Filliâtre (LRI)
Deepak Garg (MPI-SWS)
Aarti Gupta (NEC Labs America)
Arie Gurfinkel (SEI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Aquinas Hobor (Natl. Univ. Singapore)
Chung-Kil Hur (MPI-SWS)
Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto Univ.)Ranjit Jhala (UC San Diego)
Thomas Jensen (INRIA)
Akash Lal (Microsoft Research)
Keiko Nakata (Inst. of Cybernetics, Tallinn)
James Noble (Victoria Univ. of Wellington)
Luke Ong (Univ. of Oxford)
Sungwoo Park (Pohang Univ. Sci. Tech.)Zvonimir Rakamaric (Univ. of Utah)
Tachio Terauchi (Nagoya Univ.)
Dimitrios Vytiniotis (Microsoft Research)
Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica)
Stephanie Weirich (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Eran Yahav (Technion)
Xiangyu Zhang (Purdue Univ.)
Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
IMPORTANT DATESAbstract Deadline: June 11, 2012
Paper Deadline:
June 15, 2012
Notification:
August 27, 2012
Camera-Ready:
September 19, 2012
Conference:
December 11-13, 2012

BACKGROUND: APLAS aims at stimulating programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in topics concerned with programming languages and systems.
APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide
programming language community.
APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS)
founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe
and the USA. The past APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Kenting(’11), Shanghai (’10), Seoul (’09), Bangalore (’08), Singapore (’07), Sydney (’06),
Tsukuba (’05), Taipei (’04) and Beijing (’03) after three informal workshops.
Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer-Verlag’s LNCS.
The 2012 conference will be held at Kyoto, Japan.
TOPICS: The symposium is devoted to both foundational and practical issues
in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on, but not limited
to, the following topics:• semantics, logics, foundational theory;• design of languages and foundational calculi;• domain-specific languages;• type systems;• compilers, interpreters, abstract machines;• program derivation, synthesis and transformation;• program analysis, constraints, verification, model-checking;• software security;• concurrency, parallelism;• tools for programming, verification, implementation.
APLAS 2012 is not limited to topics discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapidchanges of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System
and Tool presentations category. Authors concerned about the appropriatenessof a topic are welcome to consult with Program Chair prior to submission.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION: We solicit submissions in two categories:
Regular research papers, describing original research results, including tool
development and case studies, from a perspective of scientific research. Regular research papers should not exceed 16 pages in the Springer LNCS format,
including bibliography and figures. They should clearly identify what has beenaccomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basisof significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. In case of lack ofspace, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technicalresults of the paper could be provided as Appendix or a link to a web page.
System and Tool presentations, describing systems or tools that support theory, program construction, reasoning, and/or program execution in the scope ofAPLAS. Unlike presentations of regular research papers, presentation of accepted
papers in this category is expected to be centered around a demonstration. Thepaper and the demonstration should identify the novelties of the tools and use
motivating examples. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in theSpringer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submissions will be
judged based on both the papers and the systems or tools as described in thepapers. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2012). Acceptable formats
are PostScript or PDF, viewable by Ghostview or Acrobat Reader. Submitted
papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume
in Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Accepted papers
must be presented at the conference.