GPCE 2025: Call for Papers

The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a programming languages conference focusing on techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. This is the 24th edition of the conference and will be co-located with ECOOP 2025 in Bergen, Norway.

Topics of Interest:

GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to:

• program transformation, staging,
• macro systems, preprocessors,
• program synthesis,
• code-recommendation systems,
• domain-specific languages,
• generative language workbenches,
• language embedding, language design,
• domain engineering,
• software product lines, configurable software,
• feature interactions,
• applications and properties of code generation,
• language implementation,
• AI/ML techniques for generative programming,
• generative programming for AI/ML techniques,
• low code / no code approaches.

GPCE promotes cross-fertilization between programming languages and software development and among different styles of generative programming in its broadest sense.

Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope.

Paper Categories

GPCE solicits four kinds of submissions:

• Full Papers: reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge for any GPCE topic. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding the bibliography.
• Short Papers: presenting unconventional ideas or new visions in any GPCE topics. Short papers do not always contain complete results as in the case of full papers, but can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Accepted short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding the bibliography, and must have the text “(Short Paper)” appended to their titles.
• Tool Demonstrations: presenting tools for any GPCE topic. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstration submissions must have the text “(Tool Demonstration)” appended to their titles. If they are accepted, tool descriptions will be included in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used to evaluate the planned demonstration.
• Generative Pearl: is an elegant essay about generative programming. Examples include but are not limited to an interesting application of generative programming and an elegant presentation of a (new or old) data structure using generative programming (similar to Functional Pearl in ICFP and Pearl in ECOOP). Accepted Generative Pearl papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Generative Pearl submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding the bibliography, and must have the text “(Generative Pearl)” appended to their titles.

Paper Selection

The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria:

• Novelty
• Significance
• Evidence
• Clarity

Best Paper Award

Following the tradition, the GPCE program committee will select the best paper among accepted papers. The authors of the best paper will be given the best paper award at the conference.

Paper Submission

The submission page will be announced soon.

All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format “acmart”. Be sure to use the latest LaTeX templates and class files, the SIGPLAN sub-format, and 10-point font. Consult the sample-sigplan.tex template and use the document-class \\documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}.

To increase fairness in reviewing, GPCE uses the double-blind review process which has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences:

• Author names, institutions, and acknowledgments should be omitted from submitted papers, and
• references to the authors’ own work should be in the third person.

No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer authors’ identities in implicit ways.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, contact the program chair.

ACM Artifact Badges (New!)

Starting the 2024 edition, authors can apply for an ACM Artifact Badge. Authors that want to apply for an ACM Artifact Badge are asked to add a brief paragraph in the ACKs section of their submission.

More information on ACM Artifact Badges: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-and-badging-current

Important Dates (CEST)

• Conference: Thu 3 Jul 2025
• Early-registration deadline: Wed 28 May 2025
• Final Notification: Mon 19 May 2025
• Author Response: Mon 12 May 2025
• Review Notification: Fri 9 May 2025
• Paper Submission (Extended): Wed 9 Apr 2025
• Abstract Submission: Wed 26 Mar 2025

Submission Link

https://gpce25.hotcrp.com/

Organizing Committee

• Nada Amin (Program Chair, Harvard University, United States)
• Amir Shaikhha (General Co-Chair, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
• Sebastian Erdweg (General Co-Chair, JGU Mainz, Germany)
• Jeremy Yallop (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Program Committee

• Guillaume Allais (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
• Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon, United States)
• Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
• Parisa Ataei (Oregon State University)
• Casper Bach (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
• Walter Binder (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
• Sheng Chen (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
• Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Maryam Mehri Dehnavi (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Simon Fowler (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Robert Glück (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• Vojin Jovanovic (Oracle Labs, Switzerland)
• Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Shoaib Kamil (Adobe Research)
• Julia Lawall (Inria, France)
• Ondřej Lhoták (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Malte Lochau (University of Siegen)
• Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University, United States)
• Judith Michael (University of Regensburg, Germany)
• Cyrus Omar (University of Michigan, United States)
• Klaus Ostermann (University of Tübingen, Germany)
• Lionel Parreaux (HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hong Kong SAR China)
• Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Ulrik Pagh Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
• Sandro Stucki (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Ruby Tahboub (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, United States)
• Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech, United States)
• Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh)
• Jeremy Yallop (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Vadim Zaytsev (University of Twente, Netherlands)
• L. Thomas van Binsbergen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands)

Steering Committee

• Coen De Roover (Steering Committee Chair, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• Nada Amin (Harvard University, United States)
• Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Sebastian Erdweg (JGU Mainz, Germany)
• Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Amir Shaikhha (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
• Thomas Thüm (Paderborn University, Germany)
• Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States)