*IMPORTANT DATES*
Submission deadline: June 5, 2015
Author notification: August 17, 2015
Final version: September 7, 2015
Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2015

*INVITED SPEAKERS*
Peter O'Hearn, Facebook
Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST
Eran Yahav, Technion
Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford

*ABOUT*
APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming language community.

APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS), founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. Past APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Singapore ('14), Melbourne ('13), Kyoto ('12), Kenting ('11), Shanghai ('10), Seoul ('09), Bangalore ('08), Singapore ('07), Sydney ('06), Tsukuba ('05), Taipei ('04) and Beijing ('03) after three informal workshops. Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer's LNCS.

*TOPICS*
The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on topics such as
* semantics, logics, foundational theory
* design of languages, type systems and foundational calculi
* domain-specific languages
* compilers, interpreters, abstract machines
* program derivation, synthesis and transformation
* program analysis, verification, model-checking
* logic, constraint, probabilistic and quantum programming
* software security
* concurrency and parallelism
* tools and environments for programming and implementation

Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool presentations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with program chair prior to submission.


*SUBMISSION*
We solicit submissions in two categories:
a) Regular research papers
describing original scientific research results, including tool development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them.
b) System and tool presentations
describing systems or tools that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. System and Tool presentations are expected to be centered around a demonstration. The paper and the demonstration should identify the novelties of the tools and use motivating examples. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submissions will be judged based on both the papers and the described systems or tools. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web.

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference.

*ORGANIZERS*
General Chair:
Sungwoo Park (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea)

Program Chair:
Xinyu Feng (Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China)

Program Committee:
James Brotherston (Univ. College London, UK)
James Cheney (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)
Huimin Cui (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China)
Mike Dodds (Univ. of York, UK)
Xinyu Feng (Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China)
Nate Foster (Cornell Univ., USA)
Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
Aquinas Hobor
(School of Computing, National Univ. of Singapore / Yale-NUS College)
Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul Univ., USA)
Annie Liu (Stony Brook Univ., USA)
Andreas Lochbihler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Santosh Nagarakatte (Rutgers Univ., USA)
David A. Naumann (Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA)
Michael Norrish (NICTA, Australia)
Hakjoo Oh (Korea Univ., Korea)
Murali Krishna Ramanathan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Xavier Rival (CNRS / ENS / INRIA, France)
Kohei Suenaga (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Gang Tan (Lehigh Univ., USA)
Alwen Tiu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Martin Vechev (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK)
Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, CAS, China)