Proceedings 17th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software
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The pith
The PLACES 2026 proceedings collect new ideas on programming language support for concurrent and distributed systems.
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
Core claim
This volume contains the proceedings of PLACES 2026. The workshop offers a forum for exchanging new ideas on how to address the challenges of concurrent and distributed programming and how to improve the foundations of modern and future computer applications, welcoming contributions on language design, models, type systems, verification, and applications in areas such as microservices, sensor networks, blockchains, event processing, and business process management.
What carries the argument
The workshop forum itself, which gathers researchers to discuss and advance programming language approaches to concurrency and communication-centric software.
Load-bearing premise
The workshop will take place as scheduled on April 11, 2026, in Turin, Italy, and will feature contributions aligned with the described topics.
What would settle it
Checking whether the workshop occurs on the stated date and location and whether the accepted papers address the listed challenges in concurrent and distributed programming.
read the original abstract
This volume contains the proceedings of PLACES 2026, the 17th edition of the Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software. The workshop is scheduled to take place in Turin, Italy, on April 11, 2026, as a satellite event of ETAPS, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. PLACES offers a forum for exchanging new ideas on how to address the challenges of concurrent and distributed programming and how to improve the foundations of modern and future computer applications. PLACES welcomes researchers from various fields, and its topics include the design of new programming languages, models for concurrent and distributed systems, type systems, program verification, and applications in various areas (e.g., microservices, sensor networks, blockchains, event processing, business process management).
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. This manuscript is the abstract for the proceedings of PLACES 2026, the 17th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software. It states that the workshop will occur on April 11, 2026, in Turin, Italy, as a satellite event of ETAPS, and describes the workshop's purpose as a forum for ideas on concurrent and distributed programming, along with its topics (new languages, models, type systems, verification, and applications such as microservices and blockchains).
Significance. The manuscript contains no research results, derivations, proofs, or empirical claims; it is purely descriptive of an upcoming event. If the described workshop occurs, it may facilitate exchange in the PL field, but the text itself adds no novel contribution, falsifiable prediction, or machine-checked content to the literature.
minor comments (1)
- The provided full text indicates that only the abstract is available, with no actual papers or contributions included in the volume description.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for their review of our manuscript. We acknowledge that this submission is a descriptive abstract for the PLACES 2026 workshop proceedings rather than a research article containing new results.
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Referee: The manuscript contains no research results, derivations, proofs, or empirical claims; it is purely descriptive of an upcoming event.
Authors: We agree. The manuscript is intended solely as the abstract and announcement for the proceedings volume of the PLACES 2026 workshop. It documents the event details, purpose, and topics to inform the programming languages community, which is the standard format for such workshop proceedings announcements. revision: no
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Referee: If the described workshop occurs, it may facilitate exchange in the PL field, but the text itself adds no novel contribution, falsifiable prediction, or machine-checked content to the literature.
Authors: We agree that the manuscript introduces no new technical contributions or predictions. Its purpose is to record the workshop's organization and scope, thereby supporting community awareness and participation in discussions on concurrent and distributed programming topics such as type systems, verification, and applications in microservices and blockchains. revision: no
Circularity Check
No significant circularity
full rationale
The document is a workshop proceedings description consisting solely of an abstract that states the event schedule, location, and topical scope. It advances no technical claims, models, proofs, equations, predictions, or empirical results. There is no derivation chain, no fitted parameters, and no self-citation load-bearing steps; the statement that PLACES 'offers a forum' is purely definitional and descriptive rather than predictive or falsifiable.
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