CFP: Workshop on Real-world Domain Specific Languages

Workshop on Real World Domain Specific Languages

Thursday, 1^st May, 2014

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

Call for Contributions

We’re pleased to invite contributions to a one day Workshop on Real World Domain Specific Languages to be held at Heriot-Watt University on 1^st May, 2014. The Workshop is sponsored by the EPSRC Rathlin project and the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).

We are particularly interested in stand-alone DSLs that address some real world need, rather than experimental DSLs exemplifying language properties. We are also interested in discussion of the whole notion of a DSL, especially “embedded” DSLs.

We seek presentations lasting up to 30 minutes, including questions. For presentations about DSLs, either complete or in progress, we’d like the common format:

·         motivation

·         design

·         implementation

·         use/evaluation

Confirmed presentations include:

·         Paul Cockshott (Glasgow): the Intermediate Language for Code Generation (ILCG) ;

·         Allin Cottrell (Wake-Forest) and Jack Lucchetti (Marche): the hansl language for the gretl econometrics system;

·         Rob Stewart (Heriot-Watt) and Deepyan Bhowmik (Heriot-Watt): the Rathlin Image Processing Language (RIPL).

If there is sufficient interest, after the event we will explore calling for papers to be refereed for a journal special issue.

Attendance is free, and refreshments and lunch will be provided.

If you’d like to take part in the workshop, either to present or to attend, please email an abstract of your proposed presentation to Rob Stewart ([email protected]).

Dates:

·         abstract submission deadline: Friday 21^st March

·         confirmation of acceptance: Tuesday 1^st April

·         workshop registration deadline: Friday 25^th April

·         workshop: Thursday 1^st May