[fg-arc] [CFP] PEPM 2025 co-located with POPL

[Guillaume Allais]

Apologies for duplicates

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2025 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
Site: https://pepm25.hotcrp.com

# Important Dates, AoE, UTC-12h

Abstract due        Mon 14 Oct 2024
Paper due         Fri 18 Oct 2024
Author notification    Mon 18 Nov 2024
Camera ready        Wed 4 Dec 2024
Workshop        Tue 21 Jan 2025
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# About

The ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and
Program Manipulation (PEPM) has a history going back
to 1991 and has been held in conjunction with POPL
every year since 2006.
The origin of PEPM is in the discoveries of practically
useful automated techniques for evaluating programs
with only partial input. Over time, PEPM has broadened
its scope to include a variety of research areas centered
around semantics-based program manipulation — the systematic
exploitation of treating programs not only as subject
to black-box execution, but also as data structures
that can be generated, analyzed, and transformed while
establishing or maintaining important semantic properties.

# Scope

In addition to the traditional PEPM topics (see below),
PEPM 2025 welcomes submissions in new domains, in particular:

* Semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis
   and program optimisation.

* Modeling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed
   and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types,
   linear types, and contract specifications.

More generally, topics of interest for PEPM 2025 include, but
are not limited to:

* Program and model manipulation techniques such as:
   supercompilation, partial evaluation, fusion, on-the-fly
   program adaptation, active libraries, program inversion,
   slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, decompilation,
   and obfuscation.

* Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects
   including metaprogramming, generative programming,
   embedded domain-specific languages, program synthesis by sketching
   and inductive programming, staged computation, and
   model-driven program generation and transformation.

* Program analysis techniques that are used to drive
   program/model manipulation such as: abstract interpretation,
   termination checking, binding-time analysis, constraint solving,
   type systems, automated testing and test case generation.

* Application of the above techniques including case studies
   of program manipulation in real-world (industrial, open-source)
   projects and software development processes, descriptions of
   robust tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications,
   benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy
   program understanding and transformation, DSL implementations,
   visual languages and end-user programming, scientific computing,
   middleware frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed
   and web-based applications, embedded and resource-limited computation,
   and security.

This list of categories is not exhaustive, and we encourage
submissions describing new theories and applications related
to semantics-based program manipulation in general. If you have
a question as to whether a potential submission is within the
scope of the workshop, please contact the programme co-chairs,
Guillaume Allais (guillaume.allais at strath.ac.uk)
and Annie Liu (liu at cs.stonybrook.edu).

# Submission Categories and Guidelines

Three kinds of submissions will be accepted:

1. Regular Research Papers should describe new results,
   and will be judged on originality, correctness, significance,
   and clarity. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages.

2. Short Papers may include tool demonstrations and presentations
   of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting
   academic, industrial, and open-source applications that are new
   or unfamiliar. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages.

3. Talk Proposals may propose lectures about topics of interest
   for PEPM, existing work representing relevant contributions,
   or promising contributions that are not mature enough to be
   proposed as papers of the other categories. Talk Proposals
   must not exceed 2 pages.

References and appendices are not included in page limits.
Appendices may not necessarily be read by reviewers.
All the submissionss should be typeset using the two-column
‘sigplan’ sub-format of the new ‘acmart’ format available at:
http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/
and submitted electronically via HotCRP: https://pepm25.hotcrp.com

Reviewing will be single-blind.

Submissions are welcome from PC members (except the two co-chairs).

Accepted regular research papers will appear in formal proceedings
published by ACM, and be included in the ACM Digital Library.
Accepted short papers do not constitute formal publications and
will not appear in the proceedings.

At least one author of each accepted contribution must attend
the workshop (physically or virtually) to present the work.
In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration
of the described tool is expected.

# Program Committee

## Chairs

Guillaume Allais. University of Strathclyde. UK
Y. Annie Liu, Stony Brook University, US

## PC Members

Nada Amin, Harvard University, United States
Liang-Ting Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagenn, Denmark
Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
András Kovács, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jens Palsberg, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
Martin Rinard, MIT, United States
João Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

(Others TBC)