[erlang-questions] CALL FOR PAPERS

[Joe Armstrong]

There's a new ACM conference starting which is all about topics
that quite a few of us find very interesting.

This should be a good place to publish results on
the use of Erlang for making distributed systems.

I'm sure the conference would welcome a lot
of "practical applications of ... " type papers.

Here's your chance to tell the (academic) world about
your wonderful Erlang applications

Cheers

/Joe Armstrong


CALL FOR PAPERS

AGERE!
Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications based on  Agents,
Actors, and Decentralized Control

http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it

International Workshop to be held at SPLASH 2011, Portland, USA
(http://splashcon.org/2011/)

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

IMPORTANT DATES:
Title and Abstract Submission: Friday, 5 August 2011
Paper Submission: Friday, 12 August 2011
Demo submission: Friday, 9 September 2011
Workshop: Monday, 24 October 2011

RESUME
The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is
not only a matter of
performance, but also of design and abstraction, calling for
programming paradigms that would
allow more naturally than the current ones to think, design, develop,
execute, debug and profile
programs exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, reactiveness,
autonomy, decentralization
of control, distribution. This workshop aims at exploring programming
approaches explicitly
providing  a level of abstraction that promotes a decentralized
mindset in solving problems and
programming  systems. To this end, the abstractions of agents and
actors (and systems of
agents and actors)  are taken as a natural reference: the objective of
the workshop is then to
foster the research in all aspects of agent-oriented programming and
actor-oriented
programming as evolution of mainstream paradigms (such as OOP),
including the theory and
the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers
working on the models,
languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world
systems and applications.

Read more at: http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it

"Start the workshop Now!" - join the group:

https://groups.google.com/group/agere-at-splash

to contribute to ongoing discussions about the AGERE! topics and
workshop organization

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Rafael  H.   Bordini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(in alphabetic order, to be completed)

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Joe Armstrong,  Ericsson, Sweden
Olivier Boissier, LSTI ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Rafael Bordini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jean-Pierre Briot, LIP6, Paris 6, France
Rem Collier, UCL, Dublin
Mehdi Dastani, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jurgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany
Koen Hindriks, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jomi Hubner, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jamali Nadeem, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Ravi Pandya, Microsoft
Jens Palsberg, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Birna van Riemsdijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni,  LIP6 - University Pierre and Marie Curie
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Akinori Yonezawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
...