Call For Papers

The Fourth International Valentin Turchin Workshop on Metacomputation (META 2014) aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of program analysis and program manipulation, collectively referred to as metacomputation: supercompilation, partial evaluation, distillation, mixed computation, generalized partial computation, slicing, verification, as well as cross-fertilization with other modern research and development directions, and their applications.

This series of workshops is devoted to the memory of Valentin Turchin (1931-2010).

The workshop will be held in June 29 - July 3, 2014, in an ancient Russian town Pereslavl-Zalessky, on the bank of Pleshcheevo lake, in Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. Pereslavl-Zalessky belongs to the Golden Ring of the historical sites of Russia.

The previous workshops in this series were META 2008, META 2010, and META 2012.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Distillation
• Generalized partial computation
• Mixed computation
• Partial evaluation
• Program inversion
• Program slicing
• Program verification techniques including theorem proving and testing
• Supercompilation
• Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects
• Tool descriptions, case studies, tutorials, surveys and problem statements on these topics

Important Dates

• April 3, 2014 (Thursday) - submission: please submit at least authors, title and abstract to EasyChair
• April 5, 2014 (Saturday) - please submit a draft to allow the PC members to select papers for review (you can change the file several times)
• April 10, 2014 (Thursday) - proper submission due for reviewing
• April 25, 2014 (Friday) - notification of acceptance
• May 12, 2014 (Monday) - camera ready paper due for pre-proceedings

• June 28 (Saturday) - arrival
• June 29 - July 3 (Sunday - Thursday) - workshop
• July 4 (Friday) - departure

Submission

Interested researchers are invited to submit full papers or extended abstracts (sufficient to evaluate the quality of contribution), describing completed research or work-in-progress, as well as tutorials, surveys, tools, applications, demonstrations, practical experience, ideas, concepts, position statements, open problems and discussion topics.

All submissions will be accepted as PDF file using the LNCS style via EasyChair. Final papers are to be prepared in LaTeX in the LNCS format following the Springer LNCS guidelines.

See additional information on the site http://meta2014.pereslavl.ru.

The proceedings will be published at a local publishing house before the workshop. They will be made accessible in electronic form via Internet.

Invited Speaker

• Neil D. Jones, Professor Emeritus of the University of Copenhagen, DIKU, Denmark

Workshop Chair

• Sergei Abramov, Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Program Committee Chairs

• Andrei Klimov, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Sergei Romanenko, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Program Committee Members

• Sergei Abramov, Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Mikhail Bulyonkov, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Robert Glück, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
• Arkady Klimov, Institute for Design Problems in Microelectronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Ilya Klyuchnikov, JetBrains; Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Dimitur Krustev, IGE+XAO Balkan, Bulgaria
• Alexei Lisitsa, Liverpool University, United Kingdom
• Neil Mitchell, Standard Charted, United Kingdom
• Antonina Nepeivoda, Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Peter Sestoft, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Alexander Slesarenko, Huawei Labs; Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Morten Heine Sørensen, Formalit, Denmark

Organizing Committee

• Andrei Klimov, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
• Medeja Khimshiashvili, Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute
• Valeria Jumaguzhina, Pereslavl City University
• Natalia Fedotova, Pereslavl City University

Contact

Email: meta2014@u.pereslavl.ru
Web: http://meta2014.pereslavl.ru