The Sixth ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems - APLAS 2008 - Bangalore, India, Dec 9 - Dec 11, 2008 (Co-located with FSTTCS 2008)

• The registration site for APLAS 2008 is now open.
• Local Information
• Program (Tentative Schedule)
• Accepted Papers

• Overview
• Submission Information
• Important Dates
• Invited Speakers
• Organizers
• Call For Poster Presentations
• Accepted Papers
• Program (Tentative Schedule)
• Local Information
• The registration site for APLAS 2008 is now open.

APLAS aims at stimulating programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of recent results and the exchange of ideas and experience in topics concerned with programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages community.

The APLAS series is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS), which has been founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. The past formal APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Singapore (2007), Sydney (2006, Australia), Tsukuba (2005, Japan), Taipei (2004, Taiwan), and Beijing (2003,China), after three informal workshops held in Shanghai (2002, China), Daejeon (2001, Korea), and Singapore (2000). Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS 2895, 3302, 3780, 4279, and 4807.

The symposium is devoted to all topics ranging from foundational to practical issues in programming languages and systems. Submissions are solicited from, but not limited to, the following topics:

• semantics, logics, foundational theory
• type systems, language design
• program analysis, optimization, transformation
• software security, safety, verification
• compiler systems, interpreters, abstract machines
• domain-specific languages and systems
• programming tools and environments

Papers should be submitted electronically online via the conference submission web page at the EasyChair APLAS2008 site. Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF, viewable by Ghostview or Acrobat Reader. Submissions should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The proceedings of the symposium is planned to be published as a volume in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . Local copies of some relevant style files (as of June 13, 2008) for your convenience:

• llncs.cls (class file for LaTeX2e)
• llncs2e.zip (class file, documentation, sample, etc. for LaTeX2e)
• llncs.zip (for LaTeX)

• Paper Submission Deadline: June 27, 2008 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time)
• Author notification: August 16, 2008
• Camera-ready copy due: approximately September 10, 2008
• Conference: December 9 - December 11, 2008

• Dino Distefano (Queen Mary, University of London)
• Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul University)
• Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

• General Chair:

  S. Ramesh

  (India Science Lab, GM R&D;)

• Program Chair:

  G. Ramalingam

  (Microsoft Research India)

• Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:

  Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath	(Microsoft Research India)
  Prahladavaradan Sampath	(India Science Lab, GM R&D;)

• Program Committee:

  Tyng-Ruey Chuang	(Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  Xinyu Feng	(Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, U.S.A.)
  Mathew Flatt	(University of Utah, U.S.A.)
  Yuxi Fu	(Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
  Rajiv Gupta	(University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.)
  Siau-Cheng Khoo	(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  Naoki Kobayashi	(Tohoku University, Japan)
  P. Madhusudan	(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
  Soo-Mook Moon	(Seoul National University, Korea)
  Komondoor V Raghavan	(Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  G. Ramalingam	(Microsoft Research India)
  Mooly Sagiv	(Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  Koushik Sen	(University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.)
  Zhendong Su	(University of California, Davis, U.S.A.)
  Martin Sulzmann	(IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  Hongseok Yang	(Queen Mary, University of London, U.K.)
  Nobuko Yoshida	(Imperial College, London, U.K.)

APLAS 2008 will be held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.