IWST 25 Information and Call For Papers

IWST 25 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Gdansk, Poland; July 1st to 4th, 2025 Co-located with ESUG 2025

Program

The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around contributions and experiences in building or using technologies related to Smalltalk. While maturity of presented ideas and results is not crucial, it is expected that their presentation triggers discussion and exchange of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Authors are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers.

Already Published Papers Track: This year's IWST organizes a track on Already Published Papers. More information.

Important Dates (All in AoE - Anywhere on Earth)

  • Extended abstract submission deadline: March 31st, 2025 AoE
  • Already Published Papers Abstract submission deadline: March 31st, 2025 AoE
  • Extended abstract notification deadline: April 7th, 2025 AoE
  • Already Published Papers Abstract notifications: April 10th, 2025 AoE
  • Full/short paper submission deadline: May 19th, 2025 AoE
  • Full/short paper first-round notification deadline: June 30th, 2025 AoE
  • Workshop: July 1-4, 2025
  • Full/short paper resubmission deadline: July 21st, 2025
  • Full/short paper final notification deadline: July 31st, 2025
  • Camera-ready package submission deadline: August 25th, 2025

Topics

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as:

  • Code Analysis
  • Automated Testing
  • Debugging
  • Compilers, Virtual Machines and Language implementations
  • Meta-programming and Meta-modeling
  • Refactorings
  • Design patterns
  • Experience reports
  • Libraries and frameworks
  • New dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk
  • Interaction and integration with other languages
  • Tools

Submissions, reviews, and selection

Authors interested to present their work at the IWST 2024 are invited to submit an abstract of the intended talk before the extended abstract submission deadline. The extended abstract should be not longer than 2 pages following the CEUR ART style. Author of the submitted extended abstratcs will be notified and invited to present their work by the extended abstract notification deadline which enables presenters to register at the early registration prices.

IWST invites everybody to submit full/short papers to be considered to be plublished in the IWST 2025 Proceedings.

Papers can both be presented in the conference and appear in proceedings independently of the initially submitted abstracts.

We are looking for papers of two kinds:

  • Short position papers (5 to 10 pages) describing fresh ideas and early results.
  • Full research papers (more than 10 pages) with deeper description of experiments and of research results.

Paper accepted for publishing will be published within a CEUR-WS Proceedings. Hence, both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the CEUR ART style.

We recommend using the template in single-column style, although you may use two colums. CEUR proceedings accept papers in both styles as soon as they use the template and have 5 or more pages.

All submissions must be sent via EasyChair, link to be announced.

Pay attention, for organisation constraints, when submitting your article you are expected to register to the conference and pay the conference fees.

Camera Ready Package Submission

The camera-ready (CR) package should be submitted through EasyChair. CR package should contain:

  • Final version of the paper (PDF)
  • Source files of the paper (Word/ODT/Latex, single column), as well as any figures, code listings, or additional materials needed.

Please make sure to update the info for this year's conference:

  • (Eventually) Log of changes addressing additional improvements potentially required after the second round of reviewing.
  • Signed copyright transfer form.

For the publication of the proceedings, it is necessary to have an agreement from all the authors. Publication on CEUR WS requires the usage of Creative Commons licences, to which you need to agree using one of the following documents (explanations copied from CEUR WS website)

  • AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (TP) (PDF prefilled in with IWST 2024 data | CEUR PDF) Authors shall use this form if they did include copyrighted third party material in their paper or accompanying material or they used Generative Artificial Intelligence tools to produce material in the paper.

In case of third-party material, they must then append a copy of the permission(s) by the third parties to use this material to the signed author agreement! In the case of material produced by Generative Artificial Intelligence tools, they must fill in and sign a declaration on which elements of the paper was produced by AI tools, see AI STATEMENT. This signed declaration must then be scanned and appended to the signed author agreement. Check ACADEMIC-ETHICS for CEUR WS rules on including such material.

Either form used must be signed by hand. Electronic signatures are not accepted by CEUR WS, due to the lack of international laws that acknowledge them.

Reviewing

As the workshop format encourages bringing fresh ideas and early results to be presented and discussed, and aims for giving a chance to young community members to learn and grow, we will allow submissions with a discussion potential to be conditionally accepted. In this case, authors are expected to follow the recommendations of the reviewers.

Consequently, the reviewing process will be organized in two rounds:

  • in the first round, all submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Based on these reviews authors will receive a notification with reviewers comments, advices, and requirements, and papers that are not rejected will be invited to be resubmitted in an improved form together with change log and answrers to the reviewers.
  • in the second round, PC chairs in collaboration with the reviewers where needed and possible, will evaluate the improved paper version and notifiy authors about final decision on acceptance/rejection.

Best Paper Award

To encourage the submission of high-quality ideas, contributions, and papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Award competition in the categories of best idea, best contribution to the community and best paper for this edition of IWST.

The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process and by the audience voting during the conference.

The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event.

The Awards will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be eligible, a paper/abstract must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference.

Program chairs

  • Steven Costiou, Inria Lille, France (chair),
  • Guille Polito, Inria Lille, France (chair),
  • Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (chair)

Program committee

To be announced