Deadline: 10/14/2026
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PACMPL Issue OOPSLA 2027
Call for Papers
OOPSLA 2027 will be held as part of
The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages,
and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH 2027)
Sun 10 - Fri 15 October 2027, Prague, Czechia
https://2027.splashcon.org/track/splashoopsla2027
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### Important dates [AoE (UTC-12h)]
Submission (Round 1): Wed 14 Oct 2026
Author Response (Round 1): Tue 1 - Sat 5 Dec 2026
Author Notification (Round 1): Fri 18 Dec 2026
Revision submission (Round 1): Fri 22 Jan 2027
Author Notification (Round 1): Fri 12 Feb 2027
Camera Ready (Round 1): Fri 5 Mar 2027
Submission (Round 2): Wed 7 Apr 2027
Author Response (Round 2): Tue 15 - Sat 19 Jun 2027
Author Notification (Round 2): Fri 2 Jul 2027
Revision submission (Round 2): Fri 30 Jul 2027
Author Notification (Round 2): Fri 13 Aug 2027
Camera Ready (Round 2): Fri 27 Aug 2027
NEW THIS YEAR: No individual may be an author of more than 5 submissions
in a given round, including no more than 2 submissions that have no
senior authors (as defined in the Reserve Reviewer Policy).
Papers accepted in either round will be published in the 2027 volume of
PACMPL(OOPSLA) and invited to present in-person at the SPLASH conference
in 2027. (Remote presentations will not be possible.)
### Scope
The OOPSLA issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
(PACMPL) welcomes papers focusing on all practical and theoretical
investigations of programming systems, languages, and environments.
Papers may target any stage of software development, including
requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation,
analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of
software systems. Contributions may include the development of new
tools, techniques, principles, and evaluations.
### Review Process
PACMPL(OOPSLA) has two rounds of reviewing. Each paper that proceeds to
full review receives at least three reviews and an author response.
*Accept*: Your paper will appear in the upcoming volume of
PACMPL(OOPSLA).
*Minor Revision*: While the Review Committee likes the work, it has some
specific concerns that it would like to see revised. Thus, you will
receive specific suggestions for your revised manuscript. The committee
expects the revisions to be doable within the revision phase. You have
the option to submit a revision by the revision deadline of the current
round (see deadlines above), or you can wait until the next round.
*Major Revision*: While the Review Committee thinks the direction of the
work has promise, it has significant concerns that it would like to see
revised. You may receive some specific required revisions, but will also
receive broader comments that may take significantly longer to execute.
For this reason, you cannot submit a revision by the revision deadline
of the current round, but you have to wait until the next round.
*Reject*: Your paper will not appear in the upcoming volume of
PACMPL(OOPSLA). In addition, a paper that is rejected in Round 1 is not
allowed to be resubmitted in Round 2. A paper is considered a
resubmission if, in the judgment of the Chairs, it is substantially
similar to the original submission. This restriction applies only within
OOPSLA 2027: a paper that is rejected in Round 2 is allowed to resubmit
to Round 1 of OOPSLA 2028, and papers rejected from OOPSLA 2026 (in
either round) are welcome at OOPSLA 2027.
The Chairs may desk-reject a submission without full review if it
violates the policies in this call, or if the Chairs, in consultation
with an Associate Chair or reviewer, judge it clearly below the bar for
OOPSLA. Desk-rejected papers receive a brief notification and count as
rejected for the no-resubmission rule.
At least one author of a paper submission must be registered as a
Reserve Reviewer as per the Reserve Reviewer Policy.
### Submissions
Initial submissions must be at most 23 pages using the template. This
page limit does not include required statements, references, or
supplementary material (such as appendices). However, papers must be
self-contained; reviewers are under no obligation to read the
supplementary material. Revisions can correspondingly go up to a maximum
of 25 pages.
PACMPL uses double-blind reviewing. Authors’ identities are only
revealed if a paper is accepted. Your papers must
- omit author names and institutions,
- use the third person when referencing your work,
- anonymize supplementary material.
Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted
for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN’s Re-Publication
Policy.
### Artifacts
To help readers understand the state of the intended artifact, we ask
you to add a section just before references titled Data-Availability
Statement in the initial submission. In it, indicate whether an artifact
exists, its nature and limitations, and whether it will be submitted for
Artifact Evaluation.
It is understood that some papers have no artifacts but, given the broad
range of what constitutes an artifact, it would be helpful to readers to
explain why the paper has none.
### Publication
The official publication date is the date the journal is made available
in the ACM Digital Library. The journal issue and associated papers
accepted in Round 1 (OOPSLA1) will be published no earlier than April 1,
2027, while those accepted in Round 2 (OOPSLA2) will be published no
earlier than October 1, 2027.
### Additional Information
Please submit using HotCRP: https://oopsla27.hotcrp.com/
Contact: oopsla-2027-rc-chairs@googlegroups.com