Abstract
Welcome to MPLR 2019, the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Man- aged Programming Languages and Runtimes. MPLR is a successor to the conference series Managed Languages and Runtimes (ManLang). As indicated in the call for papers, it is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most important computing systems around, ranging from small-scale (embedded and real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data platforms) and anything in between (mobile, IoT, and wearable applications). The languages that the conference is interested in include, but are not limited to, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Smalltalk, C#, F#, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, R, and their virtual machines.
This year, MPLR received 23 submissions in three different categories: regular research papers, that have been evaluated based on their relevance, novelty, technical rigor, and contribution to the state-of-the-art; work-in-progress research papers, describing promising new ideas; industry and tool papers, presenting technical challenges and solutions for managed language platforms in the context of deployed applications and systems.
Each submitted paper has been carefully evaluated by a Program Committee of 21 members and received 3 or 4 reviews. At least one of the reviews was from an “expert” reviewer, who had previously written a paper closely related to the paper’s topics. Reviewers engaged in a 2-week online discussion, accepting in the end 14 papers, of
which 9 regular research papers, 3 work-in-progress research papers, and 2 tool papers. Seven of the accepted papers were subject to a shepherding process, so that a PC member could ensure that important changes identified during the selection process were made in the camera-ready version.
Besides the authors and the two keynote speakers, we wish to thank all the PC members who dedicated many hours of their time to reviewing and PC discussion, ACM SIGPLAN for sponsoring MPLR, and the SPLASH Organizing Committee for their help in managing many issues.
We hope that the readers will find these proceedings interesting and that conference participants will enjoy MPLR!
This year, MPLR received 23 submissions in three different categories: regular research papers, that have been evaluated based on their relevance, novelty, technical rigor, and contribution to the state-of-the-art; work-in-progress research papers, describing promising new ideas; industry and tool papers, presenting technical challenges and solutions for managed language platforms in the context of deployed applications and systems.
Each submitted paper has been carefully evaluated by a Program Committee of 21 members and received 3 or 4 reviews. At least one of the reviews was from an “expert” reviewer, who had previously written a paper closely related to the paper’s topics. Reviewers engaged in a 2-week online discussion, accepting in the end 14 papers, of
which 9 regular research papers, 3 work-in-progress research papers, and 2 tool papers. Seven of the accepted papers were subject to a shepherding process, so that a PC member could ensure that important changes identified during the selection process were made in the camera-ready version.
Besides the authors and the two keynote speakers, we wish to thank all the PC members who dedicated many hours of their time to reviewing and PC discussion, ACM SIGPLAN for sponsoring MPLR, and the SPLASH Organizing Committee for their help in managing many issues.
We hope that the readers will find these proceedings interesting and that conference participants will enjoy MPLR!
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes |
| Subtitle of host publication | MPLR'19 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | iii-iii |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |