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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada

Well-designed and implemented domain-specific languages (DSLs) can achieve both usability and performance benefits over general-purpose programming languages. By raising the level of abstraction and exploiting domain knowledge, DSLs can make programming more accessible, increase programmer productivity, and support domain-specific optimizations.

Workshop Goal

Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs.

Workshop Format

DSLDI is a single-day workshop and will consist of an invited speaker followed by moderated audience discussions structured around a series of short talks. The role of the talks is to facilitate interesting and substantive discussion. Therefore, we welcome and encourage talks that express strong opinions, describe open problems, propose new research directions, and report on early research in progress.

Proposed talks should be on topics within DSLDI’s area of interest, which include but are not limited to:

  • solicitation and representation of domain knowledge
  • DSL design principles and processes
  • DSL implementation techniques and language workbenches
  • domain-specific optimizations
  • human factors of DSLs
  • tool support for DSL users
  • community and educational support for DSL users
  • applications of DSLs to existing and emerging domains
  • studies of usability, performance, or other benefits of DSLs
  • experience reports of DSLs deployed in practice

Workshop Dinner

We will have an informal workshop dinner after the workshop.

When: 6:00pm

Where: Al Porto Ristorante, 321 Water St. (directions via Google Maps)

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08:30 - 10:00
Session 1DSLDI at Regency A
Chair(s): Lindsey Kuper Intel Labs, Eric Walkingshaw Oregon State University
09:00
10m
Day opening
Welcome
DSLDI
P: Lindsey Kuper Intel Labs, P: Eric Walkingshaw Oregon State University
09:10
50m
Talk
Gradual Typing: Foundations for Mixing Static and Dynamic (Keynote Talk)
DSLDI
K: Ronald Garcia University of British Columbia, Canada
File Attached
10:30 - 12:00
Session 2DSLDI at Regency A
Chair(s): Nada Amin University of Cambridge
10:30
22m
Talk
Substance and Style: domain-specific languages for mathematical diagrams
DSLDI
Wode Ni Columbia University, Katherine Ye , Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University, Keenan Crane Carnegie Mellon University
File Attached
10:52
22m
Talk
Debugging Domain-Specific Languages Defined with Macros
DSLDI
Xiangqi Li University of Utah, Matthew Flatt University of Utah
File Attached
11:15
22m
Talk
DSL Design for Reinforcement Learning Agents
DSLDI
Christopher Simpkins Georgia Institute of Technology, Spencer Rugaber Georgia Institute of Technology, Charles Isbell, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology
File Attached
11:37
22m
Talk
Tangent: automatic differentiation using source code transformation in Python
DSLDI
Bart University of Montreal, Alexander B. Wiltschko Google Brain
File Attached
13:30 - 15:00
Session 3DSLDI at Regency A
Chair(s): Eric Walkingshaw Oregon State University
13:30
22m
Talk
MkMod: A Domain Specific Language for developing Linux Kernel Modules
DSLDI
Manasij Mukherjee Chennai Mathematical Institute
File Attached
13:52
22m
Talk
Bacatá: a generic notebook generator for DSLs
DSLDI
Mauricio Verano Merino Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Jurgen Vinju Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Tijs van der Storm Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen
File Attached
14:15
22m
Talk
Thapl—A Theatrical DSL
DSLDI
Yossi Gil Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, David H. Lorenz Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Matan I. Peled Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
File Attached
14:37
22m
Talk
Towards Naturalistic EDSLs using Algebraic Effects
DSLDI
Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser University of Tübingen, Germany
Link to publication Pre-print Media Attached File Attached
15:30 - 17:00
Session 4DSLDI at Regency A
Chair(s): Lindsey Kuper Intel Labs
15:30
22m
Talk
Property Law as a Programming Language
DSLDI
Shrutarshi Basu Cornell University, James Grimmelmann Cornell Law School, Nate Foster Cornell University
File Attached
15:52
22m
Talk
Embedding By Normalisation
DSLDI
Shayan Najd University of Edinburgh
File Attached
16:15
22m
Talk
Reliable composition of domain-specific language features
DSLDI
Ted Kaminski University of Minnesota, Eric Van Wyk University of Minnesota, USA
File Attached
16:37
22m
Day closing
Discussion and closing remarks
DSLDI

Call for Talk Proposals

We solicit talk proposals in the form of short abstracts (max. 2 pages). A good talk proposal describes an interesting position, open problem, demonstration, or early achievement. The submissions will be reviewed on relevance and clarity, and used to plan the mostly interactive sessions of the workshop day. Publication of accepted abstracts and slides on the website is voluntary.

Important note: DSLDI ’17 will use blind-until-review reviewing (i.e., reviewers can see author names only after submitting a review). Therefore, authors should omit their names from the submitted PDF.