SPLASH 2023
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2023 Cascais, Portugal

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.

Plenary
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09:00 - 10:30
keynoteREBLS at Room IV
Chair(s): Vadim Zaytsev University of Twente, Netherlands
09:00
90m
Keynote
Implementing, verifying and debugging distributed event-based systems
REBLS
A: Elisa Gonzalez Boix Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Gallery
11:00 - 12:30
Technical session 1REBLS at Room IV
11:00
45m
Talk
Periodic and Aperiodic Task Description Mechanisms in an FRP Language for Small-Scale Embedded Systems
REBLS
Kento Sogo Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yuta Tsuji Tokyo Institute of Technology, Sosuke Moriguchi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Takuo Watanabe Tokyo Institute of Technology
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11:45
45m
Talk
Thorium: Verifiable, Dynamic, Reactive Software
REBLS
Kevin Baldor The University of Texas at San Antonio, Jianwei Niu University of Texas at San Antonio, Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Technical session 2REBLS at Room IV
Chair(s): Ragnar Mogk Technische Universität Darmstadt
14:00
30m
Talk
ComPOS: a DSL for Composing IoT Systems With Weak Connectivity
REBLS
Alfred Åkesson Lund University, Sweden, Görel Hedin Lund University, Niklas Fors Lund University
14:30
30m
Talk
Actix-Telepathy
REBLS
Phillip Wenig Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Thorsten Papenbrock Philipps-Universität Marburg
15:00
30m
Talk
Realizing Persistent Signals in JavaScript
REBLS
Daichi Hidaka Oita University, Tetsuo Kamina Oita University
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Gallery

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 and verification of 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 where participants present their work. 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 sub-format, 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 sample-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

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date for full papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date may affect the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.