CALL FOR PAPERS

               ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on 
         Programming Language And Systems Technologies for
                   Internet Clients (PLASTIC)

			    October 24th
			  Portland, Oregon
		   In conjunction with SPLASH 2011


Today's Internet users expect to access Internet resources using
increasingly capable and ubiquitous client platforms.  This trend has
resulted in a wide-ranging diversification of hardware devices
supporting various form factors and interaction modes, a choice of web
browsers offering varying levels of performance, security and
standards compliance, as well as the emergence of domain-specific uses
of general-purpose Internet-related technologies, exemplified by Rich
Internet Applications (RIAs) and site-specific browsers. Despite the
heterogeneity, all these platforms implement a common set of standards
and technologies. While the resulting high level of interoperability
can be seen as a major reason for the Internet's success, its
constraints can also be viewed as limiting progress in client
technologies.


This workshop focuses on both innovative solutions in the area of
Internet client software that improves on the current state-of-the-art
while respecting the confines dictated by interoperability, as well as
bold, new ideas that break with the status quo. Consequently, we
solicit both long (regular) papers and short (position) papers
(submission guidelines below) and plan on providing adequate time for
discussions between paper presentations.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The list of topics include, but are not limited to:

- compilation and runtime techniques for Internet client programming
languages
- integration with server-side technologies, multi-tier programming
languages and environments
- concurrency and parallelism support for Internet clients
- hardware acceleration of Internet client computational capabilities
- support for heterogeneity of Internet client environments (such as
desktops, tablets and phones)
- Internet client security
- Internet client application deployment
- software engineering support (e.g. IDEs, refactoring, frameworks)
for client-side Internet applications
- alternative Internet client programming languages and models
- novel approaches to Internet client software stack architecture


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format using
EasyChair plastic submission page
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plastic2011). Submissions
of long (regular) papers must not exceed 10 pages in the ACM SIGPLAN
11 point format. Submissions of short (position) papers must not
exceed 4 pages in the ACM SIGPLAN 11 point format. The workshop
proceedings will be published both in the ACM Digital Library and on
the PLASTIC's website (http://plastic.host.adobe.com). Templates for
Word and LaTeX are available at:

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm


IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: August 19th
Acceptance notification: September 9th
Camera-ready version: October 14th
Workshop date: October 24th

ORGANIZATION:

General Co-Chairs: 
Adam Welc (Adobe): adam.welc@adobe.com
Michael Franz (University of California, Irvine): franz@uci.edu

Program Committee Chair: 
Krzysztof Palacz (Adobe): krzysztof.palacz@adobe.com

Program Committee:

Ras Bodik (UC Berkeley)
Andreas Gal (Mozilla)
Brian Goetz (Oracle)
Dan Ingalls (SAP)
Chandra Krintz (UC Santa Barbara)
Ben Livshits (MSR)
Bernd Mathiske (Adobe)
Florian Matthes (TU Munich)
Mark Miller (Google)
Tatiana Shpeisman (Intel)
Laurence Tratt (Middlesex University)
Jan Vitek (Purdue University)