DLS - Dynamic Languages Symposium

The 10th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2014 is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages — from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript — on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow.

http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-14/

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08:30 - 10:00	Invited paper and technical paper session 1DLS at Salon I Chair(s): Laurence Tratt King's College London

08:30 60m Talk		Invited talk: Why do we know so little about programming languages, and what would have happened if we had known more? DLS Stefan Hanenberg University of Duisburg-Essen
09:30 20m Talk		Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua DLS Lourival Vieira Neto The NetBSD Foundation, Roberto Ierusalimschy PUC-Rio, Ana Lúcia de Moura , Marc Balmer

10:30 - 12:00	Technical paper session 2DLS at Salon I Chair(s): James Noble Victoria University of Wellington

10:30 20m Talk		Abstracting Abstract Control DLS J. Ian Johnson Northeastern University, David Van Horn
10:50 20m Talk		Contracts for Domain-Specific Languages in Ruby DLS T. Stephen Strickland Brown University, Brianna M. Ren , Jeffrey S. Foster
11:10 20m Talk		Sweeten Your JavaScript: Hygienic Macros for ES5 DLS Tim Disney , Nathan Faubion , Dave Herman , Cormac Flanagan UC Santa Cruz
11:30 20m Talk		Design and Evaluation of Gradual Typing for Python DLS Michael Vitousek , Andrew Kent , Jeremy G. Siek , Jim Baker

13:30 - 15:00	Technical paper session 3DLS at Salon I Chair(s): Christian Wimmer Oracle Labs

13:30 20m Talk		SqueakJS - A Modern and Practical Smalltalk That Runs in Any Browser DLS Bert Freudenberg CDG Labs, Dan Ingalls , Tim Felgentreff Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Tobias Pape Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Robert Hirschfeld HPI
13:50 20m Talk		ACDC-JS: Explorative Benchmarking of JavaScript Memory Management DLS Martin Aigner University of Salzburg, Thomas Hütter , Christoph Kirsch , Alexander Miller , Hannes Payer , Mario Preishuber
14:10 20m Talk		Dynamic Page Sharing Optimization for the R Language DLS Helena Kotthaus Department of Computer Science 12, TU Dortmund University, Ingo Korb , Michael Engel , Peter Marwedel
14:30 20m Talk		Using JavaScript and WebCL for Numerical Computations: A Comparative Study of Native and Web Technologies DLS Faiz Khan , Vincent Foley-Bourgon , Sujay Kathrotia , Erick Lavoie McGill University, Laurie Hendren McGill University

15:30 - 17:00	Technical paper session 4DLS at Salon I Chair(s): Jonathan Edwards MIT, USA

15:30 20m Talk		Typed Objects in JavaScript DLS Nicholas Matsakis Mozilla Corporation, Dave Herman , Dmitry Lomov
15:50 20m Talk		Object Versioning to Support Recovery Needs: Using Proxies to Preserve Previous Development States in Lively DLS Bastian Steinert Hasso Plattner Institute, Lauritz Thamsen , Tim Felgentreff Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Robert Hirschfeld HPI
16:10 20m Talk		Dynamic Detection of Object Capability Violations Through Model Checking DLS Dustin Rhodes , Tim Disney , Cormac Flanagan UC Santa Cruz
16:30 20m Talk		On the Use of Type Predicates in Object-Oriented Software: The Case of Smalltalk DLS Oscar Callaú University of Chile, Romain Robbes , Éric Tanter University of Chile, David Röthlisberger , Alexandre Bergel

Accepted Papers

	Title
	Abstracting Abstract Control DLS J. Ian Johnson, David Van Horn
	ACDC-JS: Explorative Benchmarking of JavaScript Memory Management DLS Martin Aigner, Thomas Hütter, Christoph Kirsch, Alexander Miller, Hannes Payer, Mario Preishuber
	Contracts for Domain-Specific Languages in Ruby DLS T. Stephen Strickland, Brianna M. Ren, Jeffrey S. Foster
	Design and Evaluation of Gradual Typing for Python DLS Michael Vitousek, Andrew Kent, Jeremy G. Siek, Jim Baker
	Dynamic Detection of Object Capability Violations Through Model Checking DLS Dustin Rhodes, Tim Disney, Cormac Flanagan
	Dynamic Page Sharing Optimization for the R Language DLS Helena Kotthaus, Ingo Korb, Michael Engel, Peter Marwedel
	Invited talk: Why do we know so little about programming languages, and what would have happened if we had known more? DLS Stefan Hanenberg
	Object Versioning to Support Recovery Needs: Using Proxies to Preserve Previous Development States in Lively DLS Bastian Steinert, Lauritz Thamsen, Tim Felgentreff, Robert Hirschfeld
	On the Use of Type Predicates in Object-Oriented Software: The Case of Smalltalk DLS Oscar Callaú, Romain Robbes, Éric Tanter, David Röthlisberger, Alexandre Bergel
	Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua DLS Lourival Vieira Neto, Roberto Ierusalimschy, Ana Lúcia de Moura, Marc Balmer
	SqueakJS - A Modern and Practical Smalltalk That Runs in Any Browser DLS Bert Freudenberg, Dan Ingalls, Tim Felgentreff, Tobias Pape, Robert Hirschfeld
	Sweeten Your JavaScript: Hygienic Macros for ES5 DLS Tim Disney, Nathan Faubion, Dave Herman, Cormac Flanagan
	Typed Objects in JavaScript DLS Nicholas Matsakis, Dave Herman, Dmitry Lomov
	Using JavaScript and WebCL for Numerical Computations: A Comparative Study of Native and Web Technologies DLS Faiz Khan, Vincent Foley-Bourgon, Sujay Kathrotia, Erick Lavoie, Laurie Hendren

Call for Submissions

DLS 2014 invites high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, and freely available for 2 weeks before and after the event itself. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Innovative language features and implementation techniques
Development and platform support, tools
Interesting applications
Domain-oriented programming
Very late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation
Reflection and meta-programming
Software evolution
Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
Dynamic optimization
Hardware support
Experience reports and case studies
Educational approaches and perspectives
Semantics of dynamic languages

Submissions should not have been published previously nor be under review at other events. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from substantive practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, length, and originality.

Submission

Papers are to be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=dls14 in PDF format. Submissions must be in the ACM SIGPLAN format (see http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm) and not exceed 12 pages. Authors are reminded that brevity is a virtue.

DLS 2014 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make their final papers the best that they can be. After the first round of reviews, papers will be rejected, conditionally accepted, or unconditionally accepted. Conditionally accepted papers will be given a list of issues raised by reviewers. Authors will then submit a revised version of the paper with a cover letter explaining how they have or why they have not addressed these issues. The reviewers will then consider the cover letter and revised paper and recommend final acceptance or rejection.