SPLASH 2020
Sun 15 - Sat 21 November 2020 Online Conference

7th Workshop on Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems

Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design — so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) — have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored.

This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work.

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Invited Speakers

Plenary
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00:20 - 01:00
Breakfast in Paris (PLMW AMA)PLMW at SPLASH-I
00:20
40m
Talk
Ask Me Anything: Sriram Rajamani
PLMW
Sriram Rajamani Microsoft Research
02:20 - 03:00
Cocktails in SydneyMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I
02:20
40m
Social Event
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04:20 - 05:00
Dinner in BeijingMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I
04:20
40m
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06:20 - 07:00
06:20
40m
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07:00 - 08:20
Welcome to REBLS & KeynoteREBLS at SPLASH-IV
Chair(s): Ivan Perez NIA / NASA Formal Methods
07:00
20m
Day opening
Welcome to REBLS
REBLS
Ivan Perez NIA / NASA Formal Methods
07:20
60m
Keynote
Keynote: SCADE 6
REBLS
08:20 - 09:00
Breakfast in ChicagoMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I +12h
08:20
40m
Social Event
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09:00 - 10:20
Session 1REBLS at SPLASH-IV
Chair(s): Ivan Perez NIA / NASA Formal Methods
09:00
40m
Research paper
Debugging RxJS-based Applications
REBLS
Manuel Alabor University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST)
File Attached
09:40
40m
Talk
Managing Persistent Signals using Signal Classes
REBLS
Tetsuo Kamina Oita University, Tomoyuki Aotani Mamezou Co.,Ltd., Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
File Attached
10:20 - 11:00
Breakfast in SeattlePosters at SPLASH-I +12h

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10:20
40m
Poster
Posters Session 2
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11:00 - 12:20
Session 2REBLS at SPLASH-IV
Chair(s): Mark Santolucito Barnard College, Columbia University, USA
11:00
40m
Research paper
Asynchronous Monad for Reactive IoT Programming
REBLS
Tian Zhao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Adam Berger University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, Yonglun Li University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
File Attached
11:40
40m
Research paper
The essence of live coding: Change the program, keep the state!
REBLS
Manuel Bärenz sonnen eServices GmbH
12:20 - 13:00
Breakfast in WellingtonMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I
12:20
40m
Social Event
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13:00 - 14:20
Session 3REBLS at SPLASH-IV
Chair(s): Manuel Bärenz sonnen eServices GmbH
13:00
40m
Talk
An Introduction to Denotative Continuous Spacetime Programming (Work in Progress)
REBLS
Adriaan Leijnse Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
File Attached
13:40
40m
Talk
Reactive Sorting Networks
REBLS
Bjarno Oeyen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Sam Van den Vonder Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel
14:20 - 15:00
Cocktails in ParisMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I +12h
14:20
40m
Social Event
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15:00 - 16:20
Session 4REBLS at SPLASH-IV
Chair(s): Ivan Perez NIA / NASA Formal Methods
15:00
40m
Talk
Multitier Languages for Reactive Microservice Architectures
REBLS
Simon Schoenwaelder TU Darmstadt, Pascal Weisenburger TU Darmstadt, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen
File Attached
15:40
20m
Day closing
Closing remarks
REBLS
Ivan Perez NIA / NASA Formal Methods
16:20 - 17:00
Breakfast in SeoulMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I +12h
16:20
40m
Social Event
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18:20 - 19:00
Cocktails in RioMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I +12h
18:20
40m
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20:20 - 21:00
Cocktails in New YorkMeet The Speakers (MTS) at SPLASH-I
20:20
40m
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22:20 - 23:00
Lunch in TokyoPosters at SPLASH-I

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22:20
40m
Poster
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Call for Papers

A number of publications on middleware and language design – so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) – have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is still lacking, and modularity mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed, and, consequently, patterns and tools for developing large reactive applications are still in their infancy.

This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to better define the field by developing taxonomies and discussing overviews of the existing work.

We welcome all submissions on reactive programming, functional reactive programming, and event- and aspect- oriented systems, including but not limited to:

  • Language design, implementation, runtime systems, program analysis, software metrics, patterns and benchmarks.

  • Formal models for reactive and event-based programming.

  • Study of the paradigm: interaction of reactive and event-based programming with existing language features such as object-oriented programming, pure functional programming, mutable state, concurrency.

  • Modularity and abstraction mechanisms in large systems.

  • Advanced event systems, event quantification, event composition, aspect-oriented programming for reactive applications.

  • Functional Reactive Programming (FRP), self-adjusting computation and incremental computing.

  • Synchronous languages, modeling real-time systems, safety-critical reactive and embedded systems.

  • Applications, case studies that show the efficacy of reactive programming.

  • Empirical studies that motivate further research in the field.

  • Patterns and best-practices.

  • Related fields, such as complex event processing, reactive data structures, view maintenance, constraint-based languages, and their integration with reactive programming.

  • Implementation technology, language runtimes, virtual machine support, compilers.

  • IDEs, Tools.

The format of the workshop is that of a mini-conference. Participants can present their work in slots of 30 mins with Q&A included. Because of the declarative nature of reactive programs, it is often hard to understand their semantics just by looking at the code. We therefore also encourage authors to use their slots for presenting their work based on live demos.

Submissions

REBLS encourages submissions of two types of papers:

  • Full papers: papers that describe complete research results. These papers will be published in the ACM digital library.

  • In-progress papers: papers that have the potential of triggering an interesting discussion at the workshop or present new ideas that require further systematic investigation. These papers will not be published in the ACM digital library.

Format

  • Submissions should use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference acmart Format with the two-column, sigplan Subformat, 10 point font, using Biolinum as sans-serif font and Libertine as serif font. All submissions should be in PDF format. If you use LaTeX or Word, please use the ACM SIGPLAN acmart Templates. The page http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format contains instructions for authors, and a package that includes an example file acmart-sigplan.tex.

  • Authors are required to explicitly specify the type of paper in the submission (i.e., full paper, in-progress paper).

  • Full papers can be up to 12 pages in length, excluding references. In-progress papers can be up to 6 pages, excluding references. Papers do not need to make use of all pages, but they will be summarily rejected if they exceed the page limits.

Instructions for Authors

  • Papers should be submitted through: https://rebls20.hotcrp.com/

  • For fairness reasons, all submitted papers should conform to the formatting instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions will be summarily rejected.

  • Program Committee members are allowed to submit papers, but their papers will be held to a higher standard.

  • Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN’s Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication). Submitters should also be aware of ACM’s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism.

  • All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors.

Questions? Use the REBLS contact form.