Selected Papers from SBLP 2006: The 10th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages

The SBLP is an event sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). It is a forum where researchers, educators, and practitioners can present and discuss the fundamental principles and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation and implementation of programming languages and systems. This SBLP edition featured the following contributions: (i) two tutorials: Pervasive Computation: how to program, and Web Services in Java; (ii) 16 technical papers on the following topics: program transformations, mobile, www and network, optimisation, tools and programming language environment, and theoretical foundations; (iii) five invited talks: Register Allocation via Coloring of Araújo, UNICAMP-Brazil) and What is natural language? Differences compared to artifical languages, and consequences for natural language processing (Diana Santos, Lisbon-Portugal). The Program Committee of the 10 th SBLP received 50 submissions (46 technical papers and 4 tutorials) from which 16 full papers and two tutorials were selected performing an acceptance rate below 35%. All submissions were evaluated by five reviewers. This Special Issue of J.UCS presents 11 papers selected from the 16 papers accepted for the SBLP 2006. They are organized by themes: • Compilier Optimisation: The Design of the YAP Compiler: An Optimizing Compiler for Logic Programming Languages, and Our Experiences with Optimizations in Sun's Java Just-In-Time Compilers.