Call for Papers
PLATEAU 2010
Second Workshop on
Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) in conjunction with SPLASH/Onward! 2010 October 17-21, 2010 (Reno, NV)
http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/WebHome
SUBMISSION SITE
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plateau10
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline August 13 Notification September 15 Registration October 15 Workshop October 18
SCOPE
Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure.
We plan to gather the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. We are also interested in the input of other members of the programming research community working on related areas, such as aspects, refactoring, design patterns, program analysis, program comprehension, software visualization, end-user programming, and other programming language paradigms. Some particular areas of interest are:
SUBMISSIONS
Participants are invited to submit a position paper describing their on going work. We will accept papers (from 4 to 6 pages) that describe work-in-progress or recently completed work based on the themes and goals of the workshop or related topics, report on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging open problems, or propose speculative new approaches. Longer submissions will be considered, but all submissions must be fewer than 10 pages.
Submissions and final papers should be formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm; this site also contains links to useful information on how to write effective submissions.
Accepted submissions will be made available through this website and workshop participants are encouraged to have read the position papers before attending the workshop. Participants are also asked to prepare a presentation to support their position paper.
ORGANIZERS
Emerson Murphy-Hill - University of British Columbia, Canada
Shane Markstrum - Bucknell University, USA
Craig Anslow - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Andrew Black - Portland State University, USA
Rob DeLine - Microsoft Research, USA
Christine Halverson - IBM Research, USA
Donna Malayeri - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Shane Markstrum - Bucknell University, USA
Rob Miller - MIT, USA
Emerson Murphy-Hill - University of British Columbia, Canada
James Noble - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Vibha Sazawal - University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Chris Scaffidi - Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Jeff Stylos - Microsoft, USA
Ewan Tempero - University of Auckland, New Zealand
Christophe Treude - University of Victoria, Canada
Ben Wiedermann - University of Texas, Austin, USA