Research Papers‹Programming› 2025
The International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming is a new conference focused on programming topics including the experience of programming. We have named it ‹Programming› for short.
‹Programming› seeks papers that advance knowledge of programming on any relevant topic, including programming practice and experience.
To present at ‹Programming› 2025, papers must be submitted to the first, second, or third issue of Volume 9 of the ‹Programming› journal (see details of the timeline).
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Wed 4 JunDisplayed time zone: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague change
10:30 - 12:00 | |||
10:30 30mTalk | Dynamic Program Slices Change How Developers Diagnose Gradual Run-time Type Errors Research Papers Felipe Bañados Schwerter University of British Columbia, Ronald Garcia University of British Columbia, Reid Holmes University of British Columbia, Karim Ali NYU Abu Dhabi | ||
11:00 30mTalk | Owi: Performant Parallel Symbolic Execution Made Easy, an Application to WebAssembly Research Papers Léo Andrès LMF, OCamlPro, Filipe Marques INESC-ID; Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Arthur Carcano OCamlPro, Pierre Chambart OCamlPRO, José Fragoso Santos INESC-ID; Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Jean-Christophe Filliatre CNRS | ||
11:30 30mTalk | PolyDebug: a Framework for Polyglot Debugging Research Papers Philémon Houdaille DIVERSE Team, IRISA-INRIA, CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, IRISA, University of Rennes, Benoit Combemale University of Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Gunter Mussbacher McGill University, Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen |
12:00 - 13:30 | |||
12:00 90mLunch | Lunch Catering |
13:30 - 15:00 | |||
13:30 30mTalk | Consistent Distributed Reactive Programming with Retroactive Computation Research Papers Tetsuo Kamina Oita University, Tomoyuki Aotani Sanyo-Onoda City University, Hidehiko Masuhara Institute of Science Tokyo | ||
14:00 30mTalk | Conversational Concurrency With Dataspaces and Facets Research Papers Sam Caldwell Northeastern University, Tony Garnock-Jones Maastricht University, Matthias Felleisen Northeastern University | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Skitter: A Distributed Stream Processing Framework with Pluggable Distribution Strategies Research Papers Mathijs Saey Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Joeri De Koster Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
15:30 - 17:00 | |||
15:30 30mTalk | Does Task Complexity Moderate the Benefits of Liveness? - A Controlled Experiment Research Papers Patrick Rein University of Potsdam; Hasso Plattner Institute, Stefan Ramson Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, Tom Beckmann Hasso Plattner Institute, Robert Hirschfeld Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam | ||
16:00 30mTalk | Two Approaches for Programming Education in the Domain of Graphics — An Experiment Research Papers Luca Chiodini USI Lugano, Juha Sorva Aalto University, Arto Hellas Aalto University, Otto Seppälä Aalto University, Matthias Hauswirth USI Lugano | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Study of the Use of Property Probes in an Educational Setting Research Papers |
Thu 5 JunDisplayed time zone: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague change
10:30 - 12:00 | |||
10:30 30mTalk | An attempt to catch up with JIT compilers: the false lead of optimizing inline caches Research Papers Aurore Poirier University of Rennes - Inria - CNRS - IRISA, Erven Rohou Université de Rennes - Inria - CNRS - IRISA, Manuel Serrano Inria; Université Côte d’Azur | ||
11:00 30mTalk | Automated Profile-guided Replacement of Data Structures to Reduce Memory Allocation Research Papers Lukas Makor JKU Linz, Sebastian Kloibhofer Johannes Kepler University Linz, Peter Hofer Oracle Labs, David Leopoldseder Oracle Labs, Hanspeter Mössenböck JKU Linz | ||
11:30 30mTalk | Meta-compilation of Baseline JIT Compilers with Druid Research Papers Nahuel Palumbo Université Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Inria, UMR 9189 - CRIStAL, Guillermo Polito Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, Stéphane Ducasse Inria; University of Lille; CNRS; Centrale Lille; CRIStAL, Pablo Tesone Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, Pharo Consortium |
12:00 - 13:30 | |||
12:00 90mLunch | Lunch Catering |
13:30 - 15:00 | |||
13:30 30mTalk | Probing the Design Space: Parallel Versions for Exploratory Programming Research Papers Tom Beckmann Hasso Plattner Institute, Joana Bergsiek Hasso Plattner Institute, Eva Krebs Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam, Germany, Toni Mattis University of Potsdam; Hasso Plattner Institute, Stefan Ramson Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, Martin C. Rinard Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robert Hirschfeld Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam | ||
14:00 30mTalk | Schema Evolution in Interactive Programming Systems Research Papers Jonathan Edwards Independent, Tomas Petricek Charles University, Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen, Geoffrey Litt Ink & Switch | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Evolution Language Framework for Persistent Objects Research Papers Tetsuo Kamina Oita University, Tomoyuki Aotani Sanyo-Onoda City University, Hidehiko Masuhara Institute of Science Tokyo |
15:30 - 17:00 | |||
15:30 30mTalk | On the State of Coherence in the Land of Type Classes Research Papers | ||
16:00 30mTalk | Monk: opportunistic scheduling to delay horizontal scaling Research Papers |
Unscheduled Events
Not scheduled Talk | A Formalization and Implementation of the Semantics of a Domain-Specific Language for Mixed-Initiative, Human-Computer Dialogs Research Papers |
Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
Upcoming Submission Deadlines
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February 1, 2024(passed) -
June 1, 2024(passed) -
October 1, 2024(passed)
Scope
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming accepts papers that advance knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. Additionally, papers must be written in a scholarly form. Scholarly works are those that describe ideas in the context of other ideas that are already known, so to contribute to the systematic and long-standing chaining of knowledge. Papers that fail to properly contextualize the work will not be considered.
We accept descriptions of work under different perspectives:
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Art: knowledge and technical skills acquired through practice and personal experiences. Examples include libraries, frameworks, languages, APIs, programming models and styles, programming pearls, and essays about programming.
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Science (Theoretical): knowledge and technical skills acquired through mathematical formalisms. Examples include formal programming models and proofs.
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Science (Empirical): knowledge and technical skills acquired through experiments and systematic observations. Examples include user studies and programming-related data mining.
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Engineering: knowledge and technical skills acquired through designing and building large systems and through calculated application of principles in building those systems. Examples include measurements of artifacts’ properties, development processes and tools, and quality assurance methods.
Independent of the type of work, the journal accepts submissions covering several areas of expertise, including but not limited to:
- General-purpose programming
- Distributed systems programming
- Parallel and multi-core programming
- Graphics and GPU programming
- Security programming
- User interface programming
- Database programming
- Visual and live programming
- Data mining and machine learning programming, and for programming
- Interpreters, virtual machines, and compilers
- Modularity and separation of concerns
- Model-based development
- Metaprogramming and reflection
- Testing and debugging
- Program verification
- Programming education
- Programming environments
- Social coding
Upon submission, authors are requested to state what type of paper they are submitting and what areas of expertise are covered by the paper. These two classifications, combined, are used to select reviewers and to apply suitable assessment criteria for the papers. They are not used beyond that purpose. Misclassification by the authors may lead to negative assessments from reviewers.
Paper Selection
The following criteria are used when evaluating submitted papers:
- Novelty and Importance: The paper presents new insights or results, and contributes significantly to the advancement, analysis, or synthesis of knowledge in the field.
- Scholarship and Clarity: The paper places its ideas and results appropriately and clearly within the context established by previous research in the field.
More specific criteria for assessing papers depends on the type of the paper:
- Papers submitted as “The Art” should include a very solid contextualization of the work, and, when applicable, they should include the artifacts themselves.
- Papers submitted as “Science” should describe the methods or formalisms in detail, as well as any data and scripts used to analyze it.
- Papers submitted as “Engineering” should present the methods in detail, unveil results that are clearly better than some accepted baseline, and include the artifacts used to reach the conclusions.
Artifacts are recommended, but not required, for the initial submission. Depending on the papers, reviewers may take the existence of artifacts as a positive signal about the work. Also depending on the papers, artifacts may be required as a condition for publication.
Reviewing and Selection Process
There are two rounds of review. The first round assesses the papers according to the quality criteria stated above, and results in the selection of a subset of submissions that are either accepted as-is or are deemed potentially acceptable. All other papers are rejected. Authors of potentially acceptable papers are requested to improve specific aspects of the research and the paper. Authors are given a specified period of time to perform the revisions and re-submit the paper. During the second and final reviewing round, the same reviewers assess how well the revision requests have been addressed by the authors, and whether the final paper maintains or improves the level of contribution of the original submission. Revisions that significantly lessen the contribution of the work or that fail to adequately address the reviewers’ original concerns will result in the paper’s rejection.
Papers rejected in either the first or second phases may be resubmitted one more time to the journal. The resubmission will be treated as a new submission, and the paper may be assigned to new reviewers. After a second rejection, subsequent submissions of the same paper will be desk-rejected.
Information for Authors
Submission
Use the the online submission system.
Typesetting
Submissions must use the LaTeX template of the journal. Please download the template package; a manual is included.
Language and Page Limits
Papers must be written in English using high standards of writing. Papers that show poor mastery of the English language will be rejected without review.
The main part of the paper should not exceed 22 pages (in the provided style), but there is no limit for bibliography and appendices. The page limit for the main part of the paper is in place in order to keep the paper on focus and to avoid overloading the reviewers. Authors are encouraged to move important details to appendices, which may be consulted by the reviewers. In some cases, if authors feel that the main part requires substantially more pages, they should explain the reasons why in the additional comments field of the submission form; examples of these cases may include papers with substantial source code listings, and essays. Papers whose length is incommensurate with their contribution will be rejected.
The submission is required to contain an ACM subject classification.
Abstract
Each submission must be accompanied by a plain-language abstract of up to 500 words that presents the key points in the paper in a manner understandable by experienced practitioners and researchers in nearby disciplines. The abstract should avoid mathematical symbols whenever possible, and it must address the following:
- Context: What is the broad context of the work? What is the importance of the general research area?
- Inquiry: What problem or question does the paper address? How has this problem or question been addressed by others (if at all)?
- Approach: What was done that unveiled new knowledge?
- Knowledge: What new facts were uncovered? If the research was not results oriented, what new capabilities are enabled by the work?
- Grounding: What argument, feasibility proof, artifacts, or results and evaluation support this work?
- Importance: Why does this work matter?
NOTE: The absence of an abstract conforming to this specification is grounds for the rejection of the paper without review.
Attribution, Prior Papers, and Concurrent Submissions
Submitted papers must present original work made by the authors, must not overlap significantly with the authors’ previously published work, and must not be under review on another journal or conference.
Single-Blind Review
Currently, review uses a traditional process where author names are visible to reviewers. Submissions do not need to be anonymized to hide author names.