Welcome to PLAN-X 2007!
The XML data model and its associated languages add interesting twists to programming language practice as well as theory. Just like its four predecessors, the PLAN-X 2007 workshop turns the spotlight on how programming languages can embrace, for example, tree-shaped XML data structures, regular expression types extracted from schema descriptions, very small or large XML instances, queries against XML data, and XML transformations. XML reaches deep into all aspects of language design, type systems, compilers, as well as runtimes and PLAN-X 2007 is the forum to present and discuss novel research work in this area.
PLAN-X 2007 has been held on Saturday, January 20, 2007, just after and colocated with POPL 2007, the ACM SIGPLAN – SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (January 17-19, 2007, Nice, France).
Workshop Registration (closed)
PLAN-X 2007 is held in cooperation with POPL 2007. You can register for the workshop via the POPL 2007 registration process (online or offline). On-site registration will be possible as well. On the workshop day, Saturday, January 20, the conference desk will be open from 8:30–12:00.
The workshop will feature an invited talk by Christoph Koch (U Saarland, Germany) and a mixture of 8 paper presentations plus a plenary and interactive software demonstrations session. Your registration includes a copy of the PLAN-X 2007 informal proceedings, coffee breaks, and lunch.
Registration rates are shown below. The rates are unaffected by the POPL 2007 early bird registration deadline. Note that you can upgrade an existing POPL 2007 registration to include PLAN-X 2007. Workshop-only registration is possible as well.
| ACM or SIGPLAN Member | Non-Member | Student |
|---|---|---|
| US$89 | US$99 | US$89 |
Call for Papers and Demos (closed)
We invite contributions – papers as well as software demonstrations – from members of the programming language, database, theory, and document processing communities and look forward to a workshop in which this diversity of contributions and attendees leads to lively discussion and a fun event.
If you are architecting a software system that fuses programming language and XML technology in interesting and innovative ways, please submit a software demonstration proposal to PLAN-X 2007. The workshop program will feature a special demo session. A two-page description of the accepted software demonstrations will be included in the proceedings.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include the following (though interesting and/or innovative papers on all aspects of programming languages for XML are welcome):
- Design of programming and query languages for XML
- Programming in the XML data model itself (e.g., extending XQuery into a full-fledged programming language)
- Formal accounts of XML and its processors (based on logic, automata, variants of lambda calculus, etc.)
- Compilers and interpreters for XML-aware languages and optimization techniques
- Type systems, schema languages, and other constraints (e.g., keys) for tree-shaped data
- Tree automata and transducers
- Languages and systems that can cope with XML fragments (messages) or very large XML instances (beyond main-memory size)
- Programming language glue between browsers, web services, and databases
- Pioneering applications of XML-aware language technology
Proceedings
Accepted submissions will be collected to form the informal PLAN-X 2007 proceedings, to be indexed on Michael Ley's DBLP site and distributed at the workshop. The material may thus be published elsewhere at a later date.
Paper Format and Submission (closed)
PLAN-X 2007 calls for contributions relevant to the open list of topics sketched above. We explicitly welcome reports on innovative, off-beat, and ''early stage'' approaches as long as the submission reports on original work not published or submitted elsewhere.
- - Please format your papers according to the ACM guidelines and SIG proceedings templates. The mandatory submission file format is PDF.
- - Regular papers should not exceed 10 pages in length including references and appendices, but shorter abstracts (of, e.g., 2000 words) often suffice and are acceptable as well.
- - Software demonstration proposals are limited to 2 pages and should include a sketch of the methods you employ as well as a description of what exactly will be demoed. Please submit your demonstration proposal via the regular paper submission site and add "(Demo)" to your submission's title.
Important Dates
| Paper submission: | Tue, Oct 10, 2006, 5 PM (PDT) |
| Notification of acceptance: | Sat, Nov 25, 2006 |
| Camera-ready copy due: | Sun, Dec 17, 2006 |
| Workshop: | Sat, Jan 20, 2007 |
Workshop Chairs
|
General Chair Torsten Grust Technische Universität München Munich, Germany E-Mail: grust@in.tum.de |
Program Chair Giorgio Ghelli Università di Pisa Pisa, Italy E-Mail: ghelli@di.unipi.it |
Program Committee
| - Michael Benedikt | (Lucent, USA) |
| - Daniela Florescu | (Oracle, USA) |
| - Alain Frisch | (INRIA Rocquencourt, France) |
| - Giorgio Ghelli, Chair | (U Pisa, Italy) |
| - Haruo Hosoya | (U Tokyo, Japan) |
| - Anders Møller | (U Aarhus, Denmark) |
| - Mukund Raghavachari | (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) |
| - Alan Schmitt | (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France) |
| - Sophie Tison | (U Lille, France) |
| - Philip Wadler | (U Edinburgh, UK) |