CfPBoK by Vadim Zaytsev

Keynotes

With the exception of the virtual year of 2020, SLE has always had one or two keynote speakers, occasionally shared with other co-located conferences. This list includes shared SLE/GPCE keynotes, but not pure GPCE keynotes even on co-located years. Depending on many circumstances, some keynotes have a full associated paper, a published abstract (with a DOI) or an unpublished web-only abstract.

(2008) The Field of Software Language Engineering by Anneke Kleppe
(2008) Model-Driven Engineering Meets Generic Language Technology by Mark van den Brand
(2009) Eating Our Own Dog Food: DSLs for Generative and Transformational Engineering by James R. Cordy
(2009) If MDE Is the Solution, Then What Is the Problem? by Jean Bézivin
(2010) A Language for Software Variation Research by Martin Erwig
(2010) Software Engineering and the Semantic Web: A Match Made in Heaven or in Hell? by Abraham Bernstein
(2011) Towards a One-Stop-Shop for Analysis, Transformation and Visualization of Software by Paul Klint, Bert Lisser, Atze van der Ploeg
(2011) Designing Variability Modeling Languages by Krzysztof Czarnecki
(2012) Analysing Contributions by Oege de Moor
(2012) Addressing Cognitive and Social Challenges in Designing and Using Ontologies in the Biomedical Domain by Margaret-Anne Storey
(2013) Dark Knowledge and Graph Grammars in Automated Software Design by Don S. Batory, Rui Carlos Gonçalves, Bryan Marker, Janet Siegmund
(2014) From Language Engineering to Viewpoint Engineering by Colin Atkinson
(2015) What’s the Value of an End User? Platforms and Research: The Case of Pharo and Moose by Stéphane Ducasse
(2016) Redex: A Language for Lightweight Semantics Engineering by Robert Bruce Findler
(2017) Engineering Meta-Languages for Specifying Software Languages by Peter D. Mosses
(2018) A New Approach for Software Correctness and Reliability by Martin C. Rinard
(2019) Software Language Engineering — 42 Frequently Asked Questions by Ralf Lämmel
(2021) Integrating Usability into Programming Language Design by Jonathan Aldrich
(2021) Live Programming and Programming by Example: Better Together by Sorin Lerner
(2022) People Do Not Want to Learn a New Language But a New Library by Shigeru Chiba
(2023) Coccinelle: Impact and Internals by Julia Lawall
(2023) Artificial Languages are Dead. Long Live Artificial Languages! by Cristina Videira Lopes
(2024) There Is Only One Time in Software (Language) Engineering! by Benoît Combemale
(2025) A New DSL Textbook in Town! by Thorsten Berger
(2025) Can Programming Be Liberated from the Functional Style? by Friedrich Steimann
(2026) We Built the Languages. That was the Easy Part by Cédric Brun

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