The First Scala Workshop

Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.

This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. The first workshop will be held at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday 15 April 2010, co-located with Scala Days 2010 (15-16 April).

We seek papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to):

1. Language design and implementation – language extensions, optimization, and performance evaluation.
2. Library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala – embedded domain-specific languages, combining language features, generic and meta-programming.
3. Formal techniques for Scala-like programs – formalizations of the language, type system, and semantics, formalizing proposed language extensions and variants, dependent object types, type and effect systems.
4. Concurrent and distributed programming – libraries, frameworks, language extensions, programming paradigms: (Actors, STM, ...), performance evaluation, experimental results.
5. Safety and reliability – pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring.
6. Tools – development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks.
7. Case studies, experience reports, and pearls

Important Dates

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, or projects related to Scala. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. All papers will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community.

Submissions must be in English and at most 12 pages total length in the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference format (10pt). No formal proceedings will be published, but there will be a webpage linking to all accepted papers. The workshop also welcomes short papers.

The papers can be submitted by using the Scala Workshop EasyChair website. Details about the Scala Days 2010 event will be available shortly after the submission deadline at http://days2010.scala-lang.org.

Program Committee

• Ian Clarke, Uprizer Labs
• William Cook, UT Austin
• Adriaan Moors, KU Leuven
• Martin Odersky, EPFL (chair)
• Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University
• David Pollak, Liftweb
• Lex Spoon, Google