SBLP 2020 was scheduled to be held in Natal (Brazil), but due to the COVID-19 circumstances the event was postponed to October and it will be held online.

SBLP 2020 is the 24th edition of the Brazilian Symposium onProgramming Languages. It is promoted by the Brazilian ComputerSociety (SBC) and constitutes a forum for researchers, students andprofessionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in thedesign, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use ofprogramming languages.

SBLP's first edition was in 1996. Since 2010, it is part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice: http://cbsoft2020.imd.ufrn.br/

Submission Guidelines

Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submissions inEnglish are encouraged because the proceedings will be indexedin the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper impliesthat at least one of its authors will register for the symposiumto present it. Papers must be original and not simultaneouslysubmitted to another journal or conference.

SBLP 2020 will use a lightweight double-blind review process.The manuscripts should be submitted for review anonymously(i.e., without listing the author’s names on the paper) andreferences to own work should be made in third person. Authors with a conflict of interest with a PC member shouldfill the following form: https://forms.gle/H2nYcUx14XBjN3MHA

Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via theEasychair System:  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2020

The following paper categories are welcome (page limits includefigures, references and appendices):

    * Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column conference    format, available at    http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

    * Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format. Short papers can    discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or    can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses.

Committees

Program Committee

• Alex Garcia                   Instituto Militar de Engenharia
• Alvaro  Moreira             Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
• Anamaria Moreira         Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
• André Murbach Maidl    Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
• Bernhard Scholz           The University of Sydney
• Beta Ziliani                    Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
• Christiano Braga           Universidade Federal Fluminense
• Cristiano Vasconcellos  Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
• Fernando Castor           Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Fernando Pereira          Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
• Francisco Sant'Anna     Unversidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Co-chair)
• Hans-Wolfgang Loidl     Heriot-Watt University
• Henrique Rebêlo           Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• João Paulo Fernandes  University of Coimbra
• Krishna Nandivada        IIT Madras
• Laure Gonnord              University of Lyon
• Leonardo Reis              Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
• Louis-Noel Pouchet      Colorado State University
• Lucilia Figueiredo         Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
• Marisa Bigonha            Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
• Martin Musicante          Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
• Pavlos Petoumenos     University of Manchester
• Renato Cerqueira         IBM Research
• Roberto Ierusalimschy  PUC-Rio
• Rodrigo Ribeiro             Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
• Sandro Rigo                  Universidade de Campinas
• Sérgio Medeiros           Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Chair)
• Simon  Thompson        University of Kent
• Tomofumi Yuki              INRIA

Venue

Natal, Brazil, September 21-25, 2020.

Virtual, October, 19-23, 2020.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sblp2020 at easychair dot org