Aims & Scope

Following the merger of Computer Languages, Systems and Structures with the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing in 2018, we are excited to present the Journal of Computer Languages, a single publication which covers all areas of computer languages.

The Journal of Computer Languages (COLA) welcomes papers on all aspects of the design, implementation, and use of computer languages (specification, modelling, programming; textual or visual) and human-centric computing, from theory to practice. Most papers describe original technical research, but the journal also welcome empirical studies and survey articles.

Current research areas for the Journal of Computer Languages include:

Block-based languages
Cognitive, perceptive and motoric systems and models
Compilers and interpreters
Computational thinking
Design and development of concurrent, distributed, parallel, quantum and sequential languages
Domain-specific languages
End-user development
Generative approaches, meta-programming, meta-modelling
Human aspects and psychology of designing languages
Information visualization
Interaction models and languages
Location-based data and processes
Language design and implementation
Language-based security
Language evolution, integration, composition, and coordination
Language product lines
Language workbenches, meta-languages and development frameworks
Languages, models, and frameworks for visual analytics
Languages for large-scale scientific computing
Languages for software specification and verification
Libraries, run-time environments and language ecosystems
Modelling and programming languages
Modularity and extensibility of language specifications and programming
Parallel/distributed/neural computing and representations for visual information processing
Pattern languages
Pictorial systems and languages
Program analysis and optimization
Program comprehension
Program visualization and animation
Programming environments and tools
Programming paradigms (agent-oriented, aspect-oriented, intermittent, etc.)
Scientific visualization
Scripting languages
Semantics of computer languages
Semantics-based verification
Software language engineering
Software visualization
Type systems
User interface design languages
Visual languages and programming