CFP: OOPSLA 2024: Round 1 Call for Papers

by Umar Farooq, Sept. 12, 2023

Call for Papers: OOPSLA 2024 Round 1

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                       PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2024

                          Call for Papers

                OOPSLA 2024 will be held as part of

The ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications:

                  Software for Humanity (SPLASH'24)

              October 20-25, 2024, Pasadena, California, United States

           https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-oopsla

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### Important dates

#### ROUND 1:

Submission Deadline:               Fri Oct 20, 2023

Author Response:                   Mon Dec 11 - Wed Dec 13, 2023

Author Notification:               Fri Dec 22, 2023

Artifact Submission:               Fri Jan 5, 2024

Artifact kick-tires:               Sat Jan 6 - Fri Jan 19, 2024

Submission of Revisions:           Sun Feb 11, 2024

Author Notification of Revisions:  Sat Feb 24, 2024

Artifact Notification:             Fri Mar 1, 2024

Camera Ready:                      Fri Mar 8, 2024

#### ROUND 2:

Submission Deadline:                Fri Apr 5, 2024

Author Response:                    Mon Jun 3 - Wed Jun 5, 2024

Author Notification:                Fri Jun 21, 2024

Artifact Submission:                Fri Jul 5, 2024

Artifact kick-tires:                Sat Jul 6 - Fri Jul 19, 2024

Submission of Revisions:            Sun Aug 4, 2024

Author Notification of Revisions:   Sun Aug 18, 2024

Artifact Notification:              Fri Aug 23, 2024

Camera Ready:                       Sun Sep 1, 2024

Papers accepted at either of the rounds will be published in the 2024

volume of PACMPL(OOPSLA) and invited to be presented at the SPLASH

conference in October 2024.

### Scope

The OOPSLA issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

(PACMPL) welcomes papers focusing on all practical and theoretical

investigations of programming languages, systems and environments.

Papers may target any stage of software development, including

requirements, modelling, prototyping, design, implementation,

generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance,

and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the

development of new tools, techniques, principles, and evaluations.

#### Review Process

PACMPL(OOPSLA) has two rounds of reviewing with submission deadlines

around October and April each year. As you submit your paper you will

receive around three reviews and an opportunity to provide an author

response that will be read and addressed by the reviewers in the final

decision outcome summary. There are 5 possible outcomes at the end of

the round:

*Accept*: Your paper will appear in the upcoming volume of PACMPL

(OOPSLA).

*Conditional Accept*: You will receive a list of required revisions

that you will need to address. You must submit a revised paper, a clear

explanation of how your revision addresses these comments, and

"if possible" a diff of the PDF as supplementary material. Assuming

you meet the listed requirements, after further review by the same

reviewers, your paper will very likely  be accepted. This process

*has to be completed within two months of the initial decision* for the

paper to be accepted, so we encourage timely turnaround in case

revisions take more than one cycle to be accepted.

*Minor Revision*: The reviewers have concerns that go beyond what can

be enumerated in a list. Therefore, while you may receive a list of

revisions suggested by the reviewers, this will not necessarily be

comprehensive. You will have the opportunity to resubmit your revised

paper and have it re-reviewed by the same reviewers, which may or may

not result in your paper's acceptance. When you resubmit, you should

clearly explain how the revisions address the comments of the

reviewers, by including a document describing the changes and "if

possible" a diff of the PDF as supplementary material. This process

*has to be completed within two months of the initial decision* for the

paper to be accepted in the current round, so we encourage timely

turnaround in case revisions take more than one cycle to be accepted.

*Major Revision*: You will receive a list of revisions suggested by the

reviewers. Papers in this category are *invited to submit a revision

to the next round of submissions* with a specific set of expectations

to be met. When you resubmit, you should clearly explain how the

revisions address the comments of the reviewers, by including a

document describing the changes and "if possible" a diff of the PDF as

supplementary material. The revised paper will be re-evaluated in the

next round. Resubmitted papers will retain the same reviewers

throughout the process to the extent possible.

*Reject*: Rejected papers will not be included in the upcoming volume

of PACMPL(OOPSLA). Papers in this category are not guaranteed a review

if resubmitted less than one year from the date of the original

submission. A paper will be judged to be a resubmission if it is

substantially similar to the original submission. The Chairs will

decide whether or not a paper is a resubmission of the same work.

### Submissions

Submitted papers must be at most **23 pages** in 10 point font. There

is no page limit on references. No appendices are allowed on the main

paper, instead authors can upload supplementary material with no page

or content restrictions, but reviewers may choose to ignore it.

Submissions must adhere to the "ACM Small" template available from

[the ACM](http://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions). Papers

are expected to use author-year citations. Author-year citations may be

used as either a noun phrase, such as "The lambda calculus was

originally conceived by Church (1932)", or a parenthetic phase, such

as "The lambda calculus (Church 1932) was intended as a foundation for

mathematics".

PACMPL uses double-blind reviewing. Authors' identities are only

revealed if a paper is accepted. Papers must

1. omit author names and institutions,

2. use the third person when referencing your work,

3. anonymise supplementary material.

Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the

submission; see the DBR FAQ. When in doubt, contact the Review

Committee Chairs.

Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted

for publication elsewhere as described by [SIGPLAN's Republication  

Policy](http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication).

Submitters should also be aware of [ACM's Policy and Procedures on

Plagiarism](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy).

Submissions are expected to comply with the [ACM Policies for

Authorship](https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors).

#### Artifacts

Authors should indicate with their initial submission if an artifact

exists, describe its nature and limitations, and indicate if it will

be submitted for evaluation. Accepted papers that fail to provide an

artifact will be requested to explain the reason they cannot support

replication. It is understood that some papers have no artifacts.

Please note that the artifact submission deadline will be following

closely the paper submission deadline so make sure you check the

Artifact Call as soon as you submit your paper to PACMPL(OOPSLA).

##### Data-Availability Statement

To help readers find data and software, OOPSLA recommends adding a

section just before the references titled Data-Availability Statement.

If the paper has an artifact, cite it here. If there is no artifact,

this section can explain how to obtain relevant code. The statement

does not count toward the OOPSLA 2024 page limit. It may be included

in the submitted paper; in fact we encourage this, even if the DOI is

not ready yet.

Example:

\section{Conclusion}

....

\section*{Data-Availability Statement}

The software that supports~\cref{s:design,s:evaluation}

is available on Software Heritage~\cite{artifact-swh}

and Zenodo~\cite{artifact-doi}.

\begin{acks}

....

#### Expert PC Members

During the submission, we will ask you to list up to 3 non-conflicted

PC members who you think are experts on the topic of this submission,

starting with the most expert. This list will not be used as an input

during the paper assignment and it will not be visible to the PC. It

may be used by the PC Chair and Associate Chairs for advice on

external experts if the paper lacks expert reviews.

### Publication

PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal, all papers will be freely

available to the public. Authors can voluntarily cover the article

processing charge ($400 USD), but payment is not required. The

official publication date is the date the journal is made available in

the ACM Digital Library. The journal issue and associated papers may

be published up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference.

The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent

filings related to published work.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are

acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all [ACM

Publications Policies](https://www.acm.org/publications/policies),

including ACM’s [new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human

Participants and Subjects](https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects).

Alleged violations of this policy or an ACM Publications Policy will

be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your

paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM

Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain [an ORCID ID](https://orcid.org/register),

so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.

ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently

made a [commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published

authors](https://authors.acm.org/author-resources/orcid-faqs).

We are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper

attribution and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name

normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

The ACM Publications Board has recently updated the ACM Authorship

Policy in several ways:

- Addressing the use of generative AI systems in the publications

process

- Clarifying criteria for authorship and the responsibilities of

authors

- Defining prohibited behaviour, such as gift, ghost, or purchased

authorship

- Providing a linked FAQ explaining the rationale for the policy and

providing additional details

You can find the updated policy here:

[https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship](https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship)

##### Review Committee

Review Committee Chairs:

Alex Potanin, Australian National University, Australia

Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Review Committee Associate Chairs:

Anders Møller, Aahrus University, Denmark

Lingming Zhang, UIUC, USA

Review Committee:

Aleksandar Nanevski, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain

Alex Summers, University of British Columbia, Canada

Alexandra Bugariu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Andreas Zeller, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany

Anitha Gollamudi, UMass, USA

Ankush Desai, AWS, USA

Ashish Tiwari, Microsoft Research, USA

Ben Hermann, TU Dortmund, Germany

Ben Titzer, CMU, USA

Benjamin Delaware, Purdue University, USA

Bernardo Toninho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, U. Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Casper Bach Poulsen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Colin Gordon, Drexel University, USA

Corina Pasarenau, NASA, USA

Cyrus Omar, University of Michigan, USA

Damien Zufferey, Sonar Source, Switzerland

Dana Drachsler Cohen, Technion, Israel

David Darais, Galois, USA

David Pearce, ConsenSys, New Zealand

Di Wang, Peking University, China

Emma Söderberg, Lund University, Sweden

Emma Tosch, Northeastern University, USA

Fabian Muehlboeck, Australian National University, Australia

Fei He, Tsinghua University, China

Filip Niksic, Google, USA

Fredrik Kjolstad, Stanford University, USA

Guido Salvaneschi, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Hila Peleg, Technion, Israel

Jiasi Shen, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China (Hong Kong)

Jonathan Bell, Northeastern University, USA

Jonathan Brachthäuser, University of Tübingen, Germany

Joseph Tassarotti, New York University, USA

Justin Hsu, Cornell University, USA

Karine Even-Mendoza, King's College London, UK

Kenji Maillard, Inria Rennes, France

Matthew Flatt, U. Utah, USA

Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft, UK

Max Schaefer, GitHub, UK

Michael Coblenz, UCSD, USA

Milos Gligoric, UT Austin, USA

Minseok Jeon, Korea University, Korea

Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Uppsala University, Sweden

Owolabi Legunsen, Cornell University, USA

Pamela Zave, AT&T Laboratories, USA

Pavel Panchekha, University of Utah, USA

Rahul Gopinath, University of Sydney, Australia

Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside, USA

Saman Amarasinghe, MIT, USA

Santosh Pande, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Sean Treichler, NVIDIA, USA

Shachar Itzhaky, Technion, Israel

Shaz Qadeer, Facebook, USA

Sheng Chen, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan

Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA

Sreepathi Pai, University of Rochester, USA

Stefan Brunthaler, University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munchen, Germany

Steve Blackburn, Google, Australia

Subhajit Roy, IIT Kanpur, India

Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, Korea

Swarnendu Biswas, IIT Kanpur, India

Thanh Vu Nguyen, George Mason University, USA

Tiark Rompf, Purdue, USA

Tien Nguyen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Tomas Petricek, Charles University, Czech Republic

Umut Acar, CMU, USA

Wei Le, Iowa State, USA

Wei Zhang , Meta, USA

Xiaokang Qiu, Purdue University, USA

Yingfei Xiong, Peking University, China

Yizhou Zhang, University of Waterloo, Canada

Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Yu David Liu, Binghamton, USA

Yu Feng, UCSB, USA

Yuepeng Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada

##### Artifact Evaluation Committee

Artifact Evaluation Committee Chairs:

Guillaume Baudart, Inria - École normale supérieure, France

Sankha Narayan Guria, University of Kansas, USA