ACM SIGPLAN SYMPOSIUM ON LIBRARY-CENTRIC SOFTWARE DESIGN - LCSD'07

Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications

(OOPSLA'07) conference in Montreal, Canada, October 21-25, 2007

Libraries are central to all major scientific, engineering, and

business areas, yet the design, implementation, and use of libraries

are underdeveloped arts. This symposium is one of the first steps in

the process of placing all aspects of libraries on a sound technical

and scientific basis through research into fundamental issues and

A software library is an organized collection of code with associated

tools supporting programming in general or in specific domains,

usually united by a specified set of principles and conventions. Most

libraries are aimed for use by several people and in different

environments. The areas of software library research include

* Program and system design based on libraries

* Libraries supporting specific application domains, such as

* Evolution, refactoring, and maintenance of libraries

* Performance of libraries, including benchmarking and

* Design of language facilities and tools in support of library

* Validation, debugging, and testing of libraries

* Extensibility, parameterization, and customization

* Specification of libraries and their semantics

* Usability for library users and developers

* Documentation and teaching of libraries

* Creating and supporting communities of library users

We invite the submission of papers on software library

research, including, but not limited to, the above list of topics.

The papers should address issues important to libraries as

a field, i.e., describe ideas or techniques that can be reused for

libraries across problem domains and/or languages.

Authors should use the latest ACM SIGS conference

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM proceedings for the symposium.

Sep 15 Submission of final versions of the papers

For details of the electronic submission procedure, see the symposium's

* David Musser, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

* Sibylle Schupp, Chalmers University of Technology

* Jeremy Siek, University of Colorado at Boulder

* Sean Parent, Adobe Systems Incorporated

* Peter Sestoft, University of Copenhagen

* Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Labs, Texas A&M

* Michelle Strout, Colorado State University

* Todd Veldhuizen, University of Waterloo

In addition, the organizers will serve as program committee members,

with Jaakko J‰rvi and Josh Bloch as program co-chairs.

Primarily, the email address lcsd07@cs.tamu.edu should be used for

There will be an invited talk by Doug Lea, State University of New

York at Oswego. Doug Lea is the author of the book "Concurrent

Programming in Java", and co-author of the text "Object-Oriented

System Development". He is the author of several widely used software

packages and components, as well as articles, reports, and

standardization efforts dealing with object oriented software

development including those on specification, design and

implementation techniques, distributed, concurrent, and parallel

object systems, and software reusability.

The symposium is a scientific forum for presenting original

research in the design, implementation, and evaluation of software

libraries. Other major activities include the identification of open

questions specific to library research and the discussion of a

strategic plan for establishing library research as a field. The

outcome of the symposium is a combination of research contributions and

specific next steps for improving the infrastructure for library

Participants are expected to read the accepted submissions beforehand.

The technical presentations, although based on the accepted papers,

should not provide mere summaries of the papers. Instead, authors are

encouraged to use their presentation slots (20 + 10 mins) to bring up

The technical presentations are mixed with scientific and

organizational discussions. The discussions aim at furthering the

topics of the presentations, thus their agenda will be publicly

discussed among the participants and then posted on the website of the

symposium. All participants are expected to come prepared with their

The full-day symposium starts with a keynote talk for the stimulation

of discussion and concludes with a plenary discussion that decides the

specific next steps for improving the infrastructure for library

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND UPDATES please visit

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Jeremy Siek <jeremy.siek@colorado.edu>

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~siek/

Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of Colorado at Boulder