SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software最新文献

{"title":"The serious game: wemakewords","authors":"Ruth Demmel, B. Köhler, Stephan Krusche, Ludwig Schubert","doi":"10.1145/2048237.2048253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2048237.2048253","url":null,"abstract":"We suggest digital serious games as a means to create individualized learning environments that train social skills in parallel to the content. In cooperation with a child psychology practice we developed the collaborative and adaptive serious game weMakeWords as a prove of concept. The game teaches children how to read in a fun and approachable way, while adjusting itself to the chidren's need. In first preliminary evaluations the concept has been highly successful concerning the leaning outcome as well as in fostering collaboration between children.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117194429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What makes a programming language popular?: an essay from a historical perspective","authors":"M. Derk","doi":"10.1145/2089131.2089139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2089131.2089139","url":null,"abstract":"Among the thousands of programming languages available, some languages become extremely popular, while others, thought to be superior in many ways, languish. This essay explores this situation from a historical perspective.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126941504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"2nd workshop on free composition (FREECO)","authors":"Christoph Bockisch, L. Bergmans, D. Wampler","doi":"10.1145/2048237.2048257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2048237.2048257","url":null,"abstract":"The history of programming languages shows a continuous search for new composition mechanisms, which are better suited for structuring increasingly complex software systems into modules that can be developed and reused independently. Well-known examples are procedure calls, object aggregation, function composition, inheritance, delegation, mix-ins, aspects, andsoforth. Composition mechanisms can address various forms of composition of objects or components at the level of their behavior or interactions, e.g., by design patterns, contracts or explicit protocols. They can be general-purpose, but there is also a wide variety of domain-specific compositions, which are applicable for certain categories of applications. However, most languages adopt a very small and fixed set of composition mechanisms, usually with explicit notation and predefined semantics. If a language does not provide any mechanisms with the required compositional behavior, programmers need to write workarounds in the application program, which typically have a negative impact on the quality of the software. Alternatively they may introduce the new composition mechanisms through macros, libraries, frameworks or language extensions, which also negatively affects the application if it is not well-integrated with the application program. In this workshop we want to investigate composition techniques that are “free” in the sense that they are not fixed and limited by specific language or system designs. Instead we intend to explore the notion that languages should not offer a limited set of fixed composition mechanisms, but allow for flexibility, a wide variety of compositions, domain-specific and tailored compositions, or programmable compositions of various program artifacts. Examples of topics targeted by this workshop include, but are not limited to:","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128857970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TouchDevelop: programming cloud-connected mobile devices via touchscreen","authors":"N. Tillmann, Michal Moskal, J. D. Halleux, Manuel Fähndrich","doi":"10.1145/2048237.2048245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2048237.2048245","url":null,"abstract":"The world is experiencing a technology shift. In 2011, more touchscreen-based mobile devices like smartphones and tablets will be sold than desktops, laptops, and netbooks combined. In fact, in many cases incredibly powerful and easy-to-use smart phones are going to be the first and, in less developed countries, possibly the only computing devices which virtually all people will own, and carry with them at all times. Furthermore, mobile devices do not only have touchscreens, but they are also equipped with a multitude of sensors, such as location information and acceleration, and they are always connected to the cloud. TouchDevelop is a novel application creation environment for anyone to script their smartphones anywhere -- you do not need a separate PC. TouchDevelop allows you to develop mobile device applications that can access your data, your media, your sensors and allows using cloud services including storage, computing, and social networks. TouchDevelop targets students, and hobbyists, not necessarily the professional developer. Typical TouchDevelop applications are written for fun, or for personalizing the phone.\u0000 TouchDevelop's typed, structured programming language is built around the idea of only using a touchscreen as the input device to author code. It has built-in primitives which make it easy to access the rich sensor data available on a mobile device. In our vision, the state of the program is automatically distributed between mobile clients and the cloud, with automatic synchronization of data and execution between clients and cloud, liberating the programmer from worrying (or even having to know about) the details. We report on our experience with our first prototype implementation for the Windows Phone 7 platform, which already realizes a large portion of our vision. It is available on the Windows Phone Marketplace.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117083598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evolution of Mobile Software Development from Platform-Specific to Web-Based Multiplatform Paradigm","authors":"Luis Corral, A. Sillitti, G. Succi, A. Garibbo, Paolo Ramella","doi":"10.1145/2048237.2157457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2048237.2157457","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we outline a projection on the trend of using web technologies for creating end-user applications in mobile devices. Following a paradigm shift in the software industry, from only-binary applications to dynamic web applications, mobile web development tools evolve to offer an integral native solution that allows to simplify the soft-ware process and broad its scope to a true, single cross-platform development effort. Soon, mobile web development tools will be preferred by designers and programmers thanks to their versatility, economy and usefulness, less dependent on specific platforms and SDKs, while fully functional and reliable in comparison to their binary counterparts.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122941511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Automatic performance programming","authors":"Markus Püschel","doi":"10.1145/2048237.2048239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2048237.2048239","url":null,"abstract":"It has become extraordinarily difficult to write software that performs close to optimally on complex modern microarchitectures. Particularly plagued are domains that are data intensive and require complex mathematical computations such as information retrieval, scientific simulations, graphics, communication, control, and multimedia processing. In these domains, performance-critical components are usually written in C (with possible extensions) and often even in assembly, carefully \"tuned\" to the platform's architecture and microarchitecture. Specifically, the tuning includes optimization for the memory hierarchy and for different forms of parallelism. The result is usually long, rather unreadable code that needs to be re-written or re-tuned with every platform upgrade. On the other hand, the performance penalty for relying on straightforward, non-tuned, more elegant implementations is typically a factor of 10, 100, or even more. The reasons for this large gap are some (likely) inherent limitations of compilers including the lack of domain knowledge, and the lack of an efficient mechanism to explore the usually large set of transformation choices. The recent end of CPU frequency scaling, and thus the end of free software speed-up, and the advent of mainstream parallelism with its increasing diversity of platforms further aggravate the problem.\u0000 No promising general solution (besides extensive and expensive hand-coding) to this problem is on the horizon. One approach that has emerged from the numerical computing and compiler community in the last decade is called automatic performance tuning, or autotuning [2, 3, 7--10, 15]. In its most common form it involves the consideration or enumeration of alternative implementations, usually controlled by parameters, coupled with algorithms for search to find the fastest. However, the search space still has to be identified manually, it may be very different even for related functionality, it is not clear how to handle parallelism, and a new platform may require a complete redesign of the autotuning framework.\u0000 On the other hand, since the overall problem is one of productivity, maintainability, and quality (namely performance) it falls squarely into the domain of software engineering. However, even though a large set of sophisticated software engineering theory and tools exist, it appears that to date this community has not focused much on mathematical computations nor performance in the detailed, close-to-optimal sense above. The reason for the latter may be that performance, unlike various aspects of correctness, is not syntactic in nature (and in reality is often even unpredictable and, well, messy).\u0000 The aim of this talk is to draw attention to the performance/productivity problem for mathematical applications and to make the case for a more interdisciplinary attack. As a set of thoughts in this direction we offer some of the lessons we have learned in the last decade in our own research on Spiral [1,","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121493146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A literate experimentation manifesto","authors":"Jeremy Singer","doi":"10.1145/2048237.2048249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2048237.2048249","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new approach to experimental computer systems research, which we call Literate Experimentation. Conventionally, experimental procedure and writeup are divided into distinct phases: i.e. setup (the method), data collection (the results) and analysis (the evaluation of the results). Our concept of a literate experiment is to have a single, rich, human-generated, text-based description of a particular experiment, from which can be automatically derived: (1) a summary of the experimental setup to include in the paper; (2) a sequence of executable commands to setup a computer platform ready to perform the actual experiment; (3) the experiment itself, executed on this appropriately configured platform; and, (4) a means of generating results tables and graphs from the experimental output, ready for inclusion in the paper.\u0000 Our Literate Experimentation style has largely been inspired by Knuth's Literate Programming philosophy. Effectively, a literate experiment is a small step towards the executable paper panacea. In this work, we argue that a literate experimentation approach makes it easier to produce rigorous experimental evaluation papers. We suggest that such papers are more likely to be accepted for publication, due to (a) the imposed uniformity of structure, and (b) the assurance that experimental results are easily reproducible. We present a case study of a prototype literate experiment involving memory management in Jikes RVM.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134019962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Example embedding","authors":"Ohad Barzilay","doi":"10.1145/2089131.2089135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2089131.2089135","url":null,"abstract":"Using code examples in professional software development is like teenage sex. Those who say they do it all the time are probably lying. Although it is natural, those who do it feel guilty. Finally, once they start doing it, they are often not too concerned with safety, they discover that it is going to take a while to get really good at it, and they realize they will have to come up with a bunch of new ways of doing it before they really figure it all out.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125175498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The tradeoffs of societal computing","authors":"Swapneel Sheth, G. Kaiser","doi":"10.1145/2089131.2089137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2089131.2089137","url":null,"abstract":"As Social Computing has increasingly captivated the general public, it has become a popular research area for computer scientists. Social Computing research focuses on online social behavior and using artifacts derived from it for providing recommendations and other useful community knowledge. Unfortunately, some of that behavior and knowledge incur societal costs, particularly with regards to Privacy, which is viewed quite differently by different populations as well as regulated differently in different locales. But clever technical solutions to those challenges may impose additional societal costs, e.g., by consuming substantial resources at odds with Green Computing, another major area of societal concern. We propose a new crosscutting research area, Societal Computing, that focuses on the technical tradeoffs among computational models and application domains that raise significant societal issues. We highlight some of the relevant research topics and open problems that we foresee in Societal Computing. We feel that these topics, and Societal Computing in general, need to gain prominence as they will provide useful avenues of research leading to increasing benefits for society as a whole.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134536356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The accessibility toolkit","authors":"Halimat I. Alabi, B. Gooch","doi":"10.1145/2089131.2089136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2089131.2089136","url":null,"abstract":"We propose the creation of a repository of inclusive mobile application design tools and techniques. The repository will be based on existing and future research in the realm of accessibility and initially only available to academic researchers developing user studies. These developers may browse tool features based on operating system, ease of implementation, modality and range of user ability within each particular modality. To educate developers, the toolkit will utilize user personas for each modality that exemplify how users might use the features in the repository.\u0000 The proposed framework will make it easier for developers to accomplish their tasks, potentially making academic user studies and focus groups more inclusive to those with disabilities. This toolkit is not a one-size fits all solution, but rather a guide and repository of best mobile accessibility practices in the absence of an international standard. It represents one solution to a multifaceted problem that extends beyond the academic environment.","PeriodicalId":168332,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121972257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}