AGERE! @ SPLASH 2013

Workshop held at the ACM SPLASH Conference 2013

October 27-28, 2013 - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Introduction

ăgo ăgo, ăgis, egi, actum, ăgĕre

latin verb meaning to act, to lead, to do, common root for actors and agents The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction. It calls for programming paradigms that, compared to current mainstream paradigms, would allow us to more naturally think about, design, develop, execute, debug, and profile systems exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, autonomy, decentralization of control, and physical distribution.

AGERE! is an ACM SIGPLAN workshop dedicated to focusing on and developing the research on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents and any related programming paradigm promoting a decentralized mindset in solving problems and in developing systems to implement such solutions.

The workshop is designed to cover both 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. The proceedings of the workshop will be published on the ACM Digital Library, as an official ACM SIGPLAN publication. The AGERE! workshop was successfully organized in SPLASH 2012 and is proposed to be offered again at SPLASH 2013.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

Ideas, concepts, formalization of the computation and programming models for concurrent objects, actors, agents and decentralized control Programming
Theory and practice of programming languages based on actors/concurrent objects/agents (typing, modularity, mechanism for extensibility, reuse, etc)
Libraries, frameworks and platform based on actors, concurrent objects, agents and high-level paradigms for concurrent/distributed/asynchronous programming
Programming techniques
Actor-based / agent-based programming idioms
Integration with mainstream languages and technologies
Design principles underlying relevant paradigms and bridging the gap between design and programming
Design patterns for actor/agent based systems
Theory and tools about testing, debugging, profiling, verifying and validating software systems based on such paradigms
Design and development of real-world applications
Experiences and reflections about using these paradigms in teaching programming (concurrent, distributed - but not only)

Contributions

AGERE! welcomes four kinds of contributions

Full papers: Length up to 10 pages (ACM format). These papers should present new previously unpublished research in one or more of the topics identified above.
Short papers & position papers: Length up to 4 pages (ACM format). These papers should introduce a contribution (an idea, a viewpoint, an argument, work in progress...) which may be in its initial stage and not fully developed but which is worth being presented given its relevance to the AGERE! topics, to trigger discussions and interactions.
Reviews & Surveys: Length up to 10 pages (ACM format). These papers should provide a good synthesis and reflections about some aspect (specific or general) relevant to topics of the workshop, contributing to discussions on the state of the art and open issues.
Demos: Length up to 4 pages (ACM format). These contributions should be about a technology/system to be demonstrated during the workshop.

Important Dates and Submission

Deadlines:

Abstracts: August 11^th, 2013
Papers: August 18^th, 2013

Papers can be submitted here:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ageresplash2013 in PDF format.

Submissions should use the ACM format, following the guidelines in http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm .

Organizers

Nadeem Jamali, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Gera Weiss, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Akinori Yonezawa, University of Tokyo, Japan

Program Committee

Philipp Haller, Typesafe, Switzerland
Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway
Rafael Bordini, FACIN-PUCRS, Brazil
Birna van Riemsdijk, TUDelft, The Netherlands
Amal El Fallah Segrouchni, LIP6, Paris
Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein, Switzerland
Mirko Viroli, Università di Bologna, Italy
Yoshiki Ohshima, VPRI, US

Steering Committee

Gul Agha, University of Illinois-Urbana, US
Rafael Bordini, FACIN-UFRS, Brazil
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Invited Talks

Back to the future: SIMULA style concurrent objects
Toward the future of personal computing system construction

3rd International Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control