In prior years, MASPLAS has allowed only one paper presentation per institution. This year, we will relax this restriction to the degree possible within our time constraints: If we cannot schedule all submissions on a single day, the faculty associated with papers from institutions with multiple submissions must select a limited number of papers for full presentation, with the option of presenting remaining papers at the poster session. The manner of this selection will be left to the authors rather than the organizers of MASPLAS, but we hope it can be accomplished in a manner consistent with Haverford's tradition of Quaker non-violence.

This year's proceedings will be available only via the web site.

As in past years, submissions to MASPLAS may be either new work or previously published related work.

PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:

Authors interested in presenting a full paper or poster should submit a plain text or HTML abstract by Wednesday, April 2, 2003. The abstract should be less than one page. Submit abstracts via email to masplas@cs.haverford.edu.

Final papers should be submitted (again, via email) by Friday, April 11, 2003. If you wish to use any presentation tools other than traditional transparencies or a projector for your own laptop, you should also let us know by this date.

No electronic submission beyond the abstract is required, but postscript or PDF files for posters that are received Friday, April 18, 2003 will be included on the web site. (Please identify them as MASPLAS posters as per instruction 2 for paper formatting below). Poster presenters are still responsible for bringing hard copies of their posters to the workshop.

PAPER FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS:

Papers will appear in the electronic proceedings on the MASPLAS Web site. The length of a paper can be no longer than 10 pages.
As papers will be obtainable individually, it is important that you follow the format directions below.

In an effort to balance the amount of work required by the program chair and the consistency of the proceedings, we have decided to let the authors determine the format of their paper with THREE exceptions, listed below. If possible, we suggest that authors use a two-column proceedings style for the formatting of their papers. If this is not possible, one-column style will suffice.

1. Papers must be in either postscript (readable by ghostview) or PDF (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader).

2. The title page of the paper should contain the following:

    Proceedings of MASPLAS'03
    Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems
    Haverford College, April 26th, 2003

This reference may appear either across the top of the first page OR in footnote style at the bottom of the first page.