A NOTE ABOUT PUBLICATION STATUS

PRESENTATION OPTIONS

• Presentation of a Full Paper involves a written document made available before the meeting (see instructions below) and an oral description of the work. As noted below, MASPLAS may limit full paper presentations to one per institution.
• Poster Presentations involve whatever you want to put on paper for people to see as they walk among the posters. Poster authors should be available to answer questions during the poster session.
• The format of the Software Demo session will depend on the number of demos submitted and time available; it may run concurrently with the poster session or in its own time slot; the demonstrations may be scheduled sequentially or simultaneously. A presenter may give both a paper/poster and a demo.

PAPER/POSTER/DEMO SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Authors interested in presenting a full paper, poster, or software demo should submit a plain text or HTML abstract by Friday, March 27, 2009. The abstract should be less than one page. NOTE --- paper abstracts can be submitted as late as 3/31, and poster/demo abstracts as late as 4/7, if an "intent to submit" email is sent by 3/27. Submit abstracts via email.

Paper "acceptance" policy: There is no reviewing process for MASPLAS. If we cannot schedule all submissions on a single day, the faculty associated with papers from institutions with multiple submissions will be asked to 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.

Final papers should be submitted (again, via email) by Friday, April 3, 2009. 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.

Poster sessions and software demos do not require submission of any material beyond the abstract, but postscript or PDF files for posters or descriptions of demos that are received Friday, April 3, 2009 will be included on the web site. (Please identify them as MASPLAS posters/demos as per Instruction 2 for paper formatting below).

Haverford will provide a large surface to which papers can be pinned, and a table for setting up laptops for a software demo. Poster and demo presenters are still responsible for bringing all other materials such as hard copies of posters or a laptop for a demo.

PAPER FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

Papers to be presented at MASPLAS will appear 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'09
    Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems
    Haverford College, April 18th, 2009

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