Selected and extended papers of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages 2012

摘要

The Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP) is an annual conference promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), which has become an important forum for researchers and practitioners in programming language design and implementation from around the world to interact and present their results and experience. This issue of Science of Computer Programming includes extended versions of selected papers from the XVI SBLP, held in Natal, Brazil on September 23-28, 2012.SBLP 2012 received 27 submissions from Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Portugal, USA and Uruguay. The Program Committee accepted 10 papers (37% acceptance rate), which have been published as volume 7554 of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, extended versions of seven papers have been submitted for publication in a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal. After a rigorous reviewing process, in which each paper was reviewed by at least three specialist reviewers, none of them member of the SBLP Program Committee, five submissions were accepted for publication.