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Welcome to the homepage of [http://www.ifip.org/ifiptc2/ IFIP TC-2] working group on Program Generation (WG 2.11)

=Program Generation (WG 2.11)=

Program generation has the potential to revolutionize software development in the same way that automation and components revolutionized manufacturing. Current research in this area targets a host of technical problems both at the foundational and engineering levels. The aim of this IFIP Working Group of researchers and practitioners is to promote progress in this area.

==Current Activity==

'''Next meeting''': [[WG211/M25Schedule | Twenty-fifth meeting in Stellenbosch, South Africa ]] (December 2-5, 2025)

==Current Members==
{|
|[https://namin.seas.harvard.edu/ Nada Amin] (US)
|[http://www.irisa.fr/celtique/blazy/  Sandrine Blazy]  (FR)
|[https://www.type-driven.org.uk/edwinb Edwin Brady] (UK)
|-
|[http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/ Jacques Carette] (CA), Chair
|[http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/profile/edenney/ Ewen Denney] (US)
|[https://www.pl.informatik.uni-mainz.de/erdweg/ Sebastian Erdweg] (DE)
|-
|[http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~bfischer/ Bernd Fischer] (ZA)
|[http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/ Jeremy Gibbons] (UK)
|[http://www.diku.dk/~glueck Robert Gl&uuml;ck] (DK)
|-
|[http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~kh/Home/Home.html Kevin Hammond] (UK)
|[http://www.fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~igarashi/index.html.en Atsushi Igarashi] (JP)
|[http://denotational.co.uk/ Ohad Kammar] (UK)
|-
|[http://www.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~kam/ Yukiyoshi Kameyama] (JP)
|[http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/ Paul Kelly] (UK)
|[http://okmij.org/ftp/ Oleg Kiselyov] (JP)
|-
|[http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~laemmel Ralf L&auml;mmel] (DE)
|[http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Julia.Lawall/ Julia Lawall] (FR)
|[https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~mainland/ Geoffrey Mainland] (US)
|-
|[https://pdmosses.github.io Peter Mosses] (UK, NL)
|[http://ps.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/team/ostermann/ Klaus Ostermann] (DE)
|[http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/markusp Markus P&uuml;schel] (CH)
|-
|[http://creichen.net/ Christoph Reichenbach] (SE)
|[http://tiarkrompf.github.io/ Tiark Rompf]  (US)
|[https://www.ru.nl/personen/scholz-s Sven-Bodo Scholz] (NL)
|-
|[http://www.mmmi.sdu.dk/~ups Ulrik Pagh Schultz] (DK)
|[http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/ccshan/ Chung-chieh Shan] (US)
|[http://raintown.org/ Satnam Singh] (US)
|-
|[http://www.cs.umass.edu/~yannis/ Yannis Smaragdakis] (GR)
|[https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/ps/team/friedrich.steimann.shtml Friedrich Steimann] (DE)
|[http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~evw/ Eric Van Wyk] (US)
|-
|[https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jdy22/ Jeremy Yallop] (UK), Vice-Chair
|[https://grammarware.net/ Vadim Zaytsev] (NL)
|}

Emeritus members
{|
|[http://www.infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de/cl/staff/lengauer/ Christian Lengauer] (DE)
|[http://www.cs.rice.edu/~taha/ Walid Taha] (SE)
|}

==Past Activity==

* [[WG211/M24Schedule | Twenty-fourth meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ]]
* [[WG211/M23Schedule | Twenty-third meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ]]
* [[WG211/M22Schedule | Twenty-second meeting in Delft, The Netherlands ]]
* [[WG211/M21Schedule | Twenty-first meeting in Odense, Denmark ]]
* [[WG211/M20Schedule | Twentieth meeting in Paris, France ]]
* [[WG211/M19Schedule | Nineteenth meeting in Salem, USA ]]
* [[WG211/M18Schedule | Eighteenth meeting in Kyoto, Japan ]]
* [[WG211/M17Schedule | Seventeenth meeting in Koblenz, Germany ]]
* [[WG211/M16Schedule | Sixteenth meeting in Bloomington, Indiana, USA]]
* [[WG211/M15Schedule | Fifteenth meeting in London, England]]
* [[WG211/M14Schedule | Fourteenth meeting in Stellenbosch, South Africa]]
* [[WG211/M13Schedule | Thirteenth meeting in Pittsburgh, USA]]
* [[WG211/M12Schedule | Twelfth meeting in Minneapolis, USA]]
* [[WG211/M11Schedule | Eleventh meeting in Halmstad, Sweden]]
* [[WG211/M10Schedule | Tenth meeting in Bordeaux, France]]
* [[WG211/M9Schedule | Ninth meeting in Waterloo, Canada]]
* [[WG211/M8Schedule | Eighth meeting in St. Andrews Scotland]]
* [[WG211/M7Schedule | Seventh meeting in Mountain View, California]]
* [[WG211/M6Schedule | Sixth meeting in Passau]]
* [[WG211/M5Schedule | Fifth meeting in Copenhagen]]
* [[WG211/M4Schedule | Fourth meeting in Portland]]
* [[WG211/M3Schedule | Third meeting at Dagstuhl]]
* [[WG211/MeetingTwo | Second meeting at Rice, Houston, TX.]]
* [[WG211/MeetingOne | Kickoff meeting in St. Emilion]]

==Background==

* [[WG211/WG211-Aims-2011-02-25 | Current aims ]] of the working group, revised February 2011 

* [[Media:aims-2003-09-01.txt | Initial aims ]] of the working group, as submitted to IFIP, September 2003).

* [http://www.infosun.fim.uni-passau.de/cl/papers/DSPG2004.html Compendium of papers] resulting from [https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/03131 Dagstuhl seminar] that lead directly to the WG 2.11.


==Past members==
A few past members include
{|
|[https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/apel/ Sven Apel] (DE)
|[https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/faculty/olivier-danvy/ Olivier Danvy] (<del>DK</del> SG)
|[https://www.infosun.fim.uni-passau.de/cl/staff/herrmann/ Christoph Herrmann] (DE)
|-
|[https://cs.illinois.edu/about/people/emeritus-faculty/kamin Sam Kamin] (US)
|[https://eelcovisser.org/ Eelco Visser] (NL)
|}

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With the sudden and unexpected death of Prof. Eelco Visser, the IFIP WG
2.11 lost one of its founding members and a regular participant and central player in the group for close to two decades.

Eelco stood out by his calm demeanor and pleasant, sonoric voice. It gave him a special presence. Some time ago, he told us that he considered his first invitation to the WG as a pivotal event in his career and that he was very grateful for this. This was Dagstuhl Seminar 03131, which can be viewed as the conception event of WG 2.11.

Eelco implemented the group's goals more effectively and tangibly than many of us and he never made a big deal about it. The software systems he developed, be it Stratego, Spoofax or Researchr, have a far reach into the community and beyond. Eelco was always courteous, attentive and friendly but, being also passionate, he would not shy away from lively arguments. He was a pillar of strength and steadiness in the group. We will miss him dearly.