<div dir="ltr"><div>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>  CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>    WAO 2017</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>    2nd Workshop on Actors and Active Objects</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>  A Satellite workshop of iFM 2017</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>   Torino, Italy</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>  18 September 2017</div><div><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>  <a href="http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/wao17">http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/wao17</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Description of the workshop</div><div>===========================</div><div><br></div><div>Distribution  and concurrency are  currently mainstream. The Internet</div><div>and  the broad  availability of  multi-processors  radically influence</div><div>software. This  brings  renewed  interest  in  developing  both  new</div><div>concurrency  models and  associated  programming languages  techniques</div><div>that help  in understanding, analyzing, and verifying  the behavior of</div><div>concurrent  and distributed  programs. The actors  or active  objects</div><div>concurrency  model  has  emerged  as  an  alternative  to  the  usual</div><div>thread-based concurrency model,  providing programmers with high-level</div><div>concurrency constructs that  help in producing concurrent applications</div><div>more modularly and  in a less error-prone way. It is  gaining a lot of</div><div>popularity mainly because  of the success of languages  like Scala and</div><div>Erlang. Also, most mainstream  languages are nowadays providing actors</div><div>or active-objects libraries.</div><div><br></div><div>The objective of the workshop is to discuss about current evolution of</div><div>actors  and  active  objects  and related  languages,  technology  and</div><div>tools. The goal is to make the workshop an active discussion forum for</div><div>all work  related to  actor languages and  active-objects in  order to</div><div>have a better view on the  current and future trends in this field and</div><div>perhaps  build longer  term  collaborations. The  workshop  will be  a</div><div>mixture  of  invited   presentations  and  short  tutorials  on</div><div>state-of-the-art languages/techniques/tools  by experts in  the field,</div><div>presentations  of recently  published  high-quality papers,  prototype</div><div>demonstrations, and  presentations of proofs-of-concept  and promising</div><div>ideas.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Invited speaker</div><div>===============</div><div><br></div><div>Lars Ake Fredlund, Technical University of Madrid</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Important dates</div><div>===============</div><div>  </div><div> Abstract submission:    June  7, 2017 (extended)</div><div> Paper submission:      June  9, 2017 (extended)</div><div> Notification:        July 10, 2017</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Submission information</div><div>======================</div><div><br></div><div>We solicit papers in the following categories:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) Regular research papers of at most 12 pages (excluding references)</div><div>  describing original  scientific research results  or its relevance</div><div>  to  real applications. Case studies  and tool  demonstrations are</div><div>  also welcome, in these cases with a maximum length of 8 pages. The</div><div>  paper should explain why the technique/case-study/tool is relevant</div><div>  for   the   community,   and,   in   particular,   for</div><div>  practitioners. Submissions  will  be  judged  on  the  basis  of</div><div>  significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.</div><div><br></div><div>(2) Position  papers of  at most 4  pages describing exciting  but not</div><div>  fully  polished  research  (proofs-of-concept,  promising  ideas,</div><div>  etc.).</div><div><br></div><div>(3) High-quality  already  published  papers. Authors  will  send  an</div><div>  extended abstract  of at  most 2 pages  describing the work  and a</div><div>  link to the publication.</div><div><br></div><div>Revised  versions of  accepted  papers of  category  (1), taking  into</div><div>account the feedback received at  the workshop, will be published in a</div><div>volume of  the Electronic Proceedings in  Theoretical Computer Science</div><div>(EPTCS) series after the workshop. For  submissions in categories (2)</div><div>and (3) there  will  be  a  light-weight  reviewing  process  where</div><div>submissions will be judged on their interest to the workshop audience.</div><div><br></div><div>Papers  will  be  submitted  (in  PDF  format)  through  Easychair  at</div><div><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wao2017">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wao2017</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organisers</div><div>==========</div><div><br></div><div>Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain</div><div>Guillermo Roman-Diez,   Technical University of Madrid, Spain</div><div><br></div><div>All questions about the workshop can be addressed to them via mail:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mzamalloa@fdi.ucm.es">mzamalloa@fdi.ucm.es</a></div><div><a href="mailto:groman@fi.upm.es">groman@fi.upm.es</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee</div><div>==================</div><div><br></div><div>Gul Agha         University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign </div><div>Nikolaos Bezirgiannis  Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)  </div><div>Richard<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bubel<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>     Technische Universitat Darmstadt</div><div>Stijn De Gouw      Open University (OU), The Netherlands</div><div>Enrique<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Martin-Martin  Complutense University of Madrid</div><div>Ludovic Henrio<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>     CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France</div><div>Ka I Pun         University of Oslo</div><div>Rudolf Schlatte<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>     University of Oslo</div><div>Kostis Sagonas      Uppsala University</div><div>Salvador Tamarit     Technical University of Madrid</div><div><br></div></div>