The Second 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 second annual workshop will be held at Stanford University in the San Francisco Bay Area, on Thursday the 2nd of June 2011, co-located with Scala Days 2011 (2nd-3rd of June).

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 2011 event will be available shortly after the submission deadline at http://days2011.scala-lang.org.

Program Committee

• Nathan Bronson, Stanford University
• Miguel Garcia, EPFL
• Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Cay Horstmann, San Jose State University
• Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
• Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano
• Martin Odersky, EPFL (chair)
• Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University
• James Strachan, FuseSource