LDTA 2010

10th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications

LDTA is an application and tool oriented forum on meta programming in a broad sense. A meta program is a program that takes other programs as input or output. The focus of LDTA is on generated or otherwise efficiently implemented meta programs, possibly using high level descriptions of programming languages. Tools and techniques presented at LDTA are usually applicable in the context of "Language Workbenches" or "Meta Programming Systems" or simply as parts of advanced programming environments or IDEs.

Topics

• Program analysis, transformation, generation, and verification
• Implementation of Domain Specific Languages (both graphical and textual)
• Reverse engineering and reengineering
• Refactoring and other source-to-source transformations
• Application modelling (MDE, MDA, Software Factories, Software product lines)
• Grammar engineering / Grammarware
• Language definition and language prototyping
• Debugging, profiling, and testing

Submission procedure and publication

Submissions in the following categories are admissible:

• research papers
• tool papers
• experience papers

The final version of the accepted papers will, pending approval, be published in the ACM Digital Library and will also be made available during the workshop.

Each submission must:

• clearly and unambiguously state in which of the three categories it falls
• be original, i.e. not published or submitted elsewhere
• contain a clear motivation
• contain a thorough analysis of the claimed contributions (for example by comparing to related work);
• be written in less than 15 pages (research papers and experience reports), or less than 10 pages (tool papers)
• use the standard LaTeX article style (\documentclass[10pt]{article}, \usepackage{authblk} for affiliations)

The authors of each submission are required to give a presentation at LDTA 2010. The authors of the tool papers are required to include an interactive demonstration in their presentations.

The authors of the best papers will be invited to write a journal version of their paper which will be separately reviewed and, assuming acceptance, be published in journal form. As in past years, this will be done in a special issue devoted to LDTA 2010 of the journal Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier Science).

Important dates

• Abstract submission deadline: (Friday) November 27, 2009
• Paper submission deadline: (Friday) December 04, 2009
• Notification of acceptance: (Friday) February 05, 2010
• Workshop dates: (weekend) during ETAPS, March 20-28, 2010