Call For Papers

                     19th International Workshop on
                 Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages
                              (FOOL 2012)
                   A Workshop of SPLASH (OOPSLA) 2012
                            Tucson, AZ, USA

                 http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~boyland/fool2012

Abstract       August 5
Full Paper     August 12
Notification   September 7
Final Paper    September 30
Workshop       October 22

The search for sound principles for object-oriented languages has
given rise to much work during the past two decades, leading to a
better understanding of the key concepts of object-oriented languages
and to important developments in type theory, semantics, program
verification, and program development.

Submissions for this event are invited in the general area of
foundations of object-oriented languages. Topics of interest include
language semantics, type systems, memory models, program verification,
formal calculi, concurrent and distributed languages, database
languages, and language-based security issues.

Papers are welcome to include formal descriptions and proofs, but
these are not required; the key consideration is that papers should
present novel and valuable ideas or experiences. The main focus in
selecting workshop contributions will be the intrinsic interest and
timeliness of the work, so authors are encouraged to submit polished
descriptions of work in progress as well as papers describing
completed projects.

We solicit submissions on original research not previously published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The program chair
should be informed of any related submissions; see the ACM SIGPLAN
Republication Policy. Submissions should be PDF in standard SIGPLAN
9pt conference format for a US-letter size page. While submissions can
be up to 12 pages, shorter papers describing promising preliminary
work are also encouraged. Papers must be submitted electronically via
EasyChair.

An informal proceedings will be made publicly available on the web
page. However, presentation at FOOL does not count as prior
publication, and many of the results presented at FOOL have later been
published at ECOOP, OOPSLA, POPL, and other main conferences.

Program Committee

    Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
    John Boyland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, chair
    Nicholas Cameron, Mozilla Corporation
    Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    William R. Cook, University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Stephen Freund, Williams College, MA, USA
    Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK
    Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Uday S. Reddy, University of Birmingham, UK
    Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, Korea
    Marco Servetto, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
    Scott F. Smith, The Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA 

Organizers

    Jonathan Aldrich
    John Boyland
    Jeremy Siek, chair 

Steering Committee

    Jonathan Aldrich
    Viviana Bono
    Atsushi Igarashi
    James Noble
    Jeremy Siek
    Elena Zucca