SCP: Advances in Smalltalk based systems, from high level environment to hardware devices *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: *Oct. 15th, 2012* Notification of acceptance: Jan. 15th, 2013 Final papers due: May 15th, 2013 Publication date for the SCP special issue: Oct., 2013 *Call for Papers* In connection with the IWST series of workshops, held annually in association with the ESUG conference, the *Science of Computer Programming *_(_SCP <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-computer-programming/>_)_will feature a special issue with papers that focus on software system development based on Smalltalk. For this special issue we invite submission of high quality papers, including extended and updated versions of papers published at IWST in 2012 or earlier, and also including other papers with relevant topics as described below. *Topics* Relevant topics include Smalltalk support for the entire life cycle of software systems, ranging from high-level active specifications ?to low-level hardware support. * Requirements, specification, design, coding, testing, maintenance, metrics and renovation of software;? * Validation, verification, debugging; * Design, implementation and evaluation of domain specific languages; * Programming environments, development tools, visualization and animation;? * Virtual machines; * Mobile devices; * Software aspects of hardware design. This special issue of SCP will explore topics in the Smalltalk design of tools and environments that promote good software engineering properties, e.g., with respect to analyzability, predictability, expressiveness, evolvability, and semantic interactions. The special issue aims to highlight some hard and deep issues and tradeoffs, and to try to characterize the conflicts and, to the extent possible, describe useful solutions. *Submission Guidelines* Submission of high quality papers to this special issue of SCP are hereby invited, including extended and updated versions of papers published at IWST in 2012 or earlier, and also including other papers with relevant topics as described above. Submission is by Elsevier Editorial System <http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/> no later than October 15th, 2012, midnight Samoa Apia time. Authors should select the *Smalltalk Based System *special issue. Notification of acceptance is sent out on January 15th, 2013. A final version of the paper is due on May 15th, 2013. The paper must be formatted according to the Elsevier style as specified on authorinstructions - N10BF0 <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505623/authorinstructions#N10BF0>with a maximum of 20 pages including references and appendices etc. The papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Submitted papers will be treated as confidential during the review process. Submitted papers must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere, and in particular papers published at IWST workshops must be extended and/or updated compared to the workshop version of the paper. *Preliminary program Committee* */Loïc Lagadec/* *LabSticc, ENSTA-Bretagne, France//* */Alain Plantec, /* *LabSticc, University of Brest, France//* /Gabriela Arevalo/ Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina /Marcus Denker/ Rmod, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France /Luc Fabresse/ Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, /Tudor Girba/ CompuGroup Medical Schweiz, Switzerland /Andy Kellens/ Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium /Mickaël Kerboeuf/ LabSticc, University of Brest, France /Jannik Laval/ LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France /Yann Monclair/ JP Morgan, UK /Mariano Martinez Peck/ Ecole des Mines de Douai, France, /Lukas Renggli/ Google, Switzerland /Jorge Ressia/ Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland /Bastian Steinert/ HPI, Software Architecture Group, Germany /Hernan Wilkinson/ 10Pines, IT consultancy, Buenos Aires, Argentina