March 2014 - Haskell - Haskell.org

ANNOUNCE: ioctl 0.0.1
by Maciej Piechotka 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

A package for type-safe I/O control. Currently only ioctl is supported. Currently simply a extract from my tuntap fork TODO: - Return the integer as well as structure (will break the API) - Port for Windows Network.Socket.IOCtl (as soon as I manage to setup some sane environment on this platform) - Wrapping around DeviceIoControl Example (in hsc): data NotRead = NotRead instance NotRead Int where ioctlReq _ = #const FIONREAD notRead s = ioctlsocket' s NotRead Regards

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2nd International Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems, GRENOBLE (FRANCE) JULY 7-10, 2014
by Ylies Falcone 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

[~~~~~~ Please disseminate widely within your teams & contacts ~~~~~~] 2nd International Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems July 7-10, 2014 Grenoble, France https://persyval-lab.org/summer-school/cps14 Université Joseph Fourier, PERSYVAL-Lab, and NASA-JPL are organizing the second edition of the CPS Summer School. The broad objective of the CPS Summer School is to explore the manifold relationship between networked embedded systems ("the internet of things") and humans as their creators, users, and subjects. The format of the Summer School is a four days meeting, organized around different aspects of rigorous engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems. This year, the objective of the school is to survey fundamental and applied aspects of modelling, monitoring and learning of systems as well as to identify novel opportunities and research directions in these areas through a series of lectures by international experts. Participants will also experience the relevant technologies during hands-on courses and be given a chance to present their own work. The school will provide a great opportunity to know other people working in the field, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future. The school will concentrate on the fields of system modelling, monitoring and learning. Over the last ten years we have seen a lot of growth in these areas, building on strong theoretical foundations to apply and extend techniques to new application domains. Runtime verification is a growing field with more and more efffective applications in safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. The field of specification mining (learning specifications from system behaviour) has also seen a surge in research effort, with the establishment of a number of competitions to drive forward the development of practical tools. This research community is at an ideal stage to benefit from a school such as this, to inspire, motivate and instruct new researchers into the field. Students participating at this summer school will learn the current state of the art in modeling, monitoring, and learning. Students will be able to apply new techniques coming from various communities and backgrounds to their own domain. The CPS Summer School will be held at Grenoble University. Courses will be given in English by experts from industry and academia working in various fields of CPS. Topics System modelling. Monitoring. Learning. Medical devices. Sensor networks. Scientific Organization Université Joseph Fourier (UJF) is located at the heart of the Alps, in outstanding scientific and natural surroundings. UJF is a leading University of Science, Technology and Health. Featuring in all of the major international rankings (Top 150 World Universities - Shanghai Ranking), the UJF offers initial and further education for jobs of the future in a wide range of fields: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, Biology, Medicine and Pharmacy, Engineering and Technology, Earth Science and Astronomy/Astrophysics, Environmental Studies, Geography and Territorial Sciences, as well as the Science of Physical and Sports Activities. PERSYVAL-Lab focuses on pervasive systems and algorithms at the convergence of physical and digital worlds. PERSYVAL-lab is built over high-level research laboratories present at Grenoble in Mathematics, Computer Science, Automatic Control, Signal Processing, and Hardware Architecture. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center located in Pasadena, California, United States. JPL is managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of robotic planetary spacecraft. Confirmed Speakers Eric Bodden (TU Darmstadt and EC SPRIDE, Germany). Olivier Coutelou (Schneider Electric, France). Radu Grosu (Technical Univesity Wien, Austria). Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL, USA). Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark). Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan, France). Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck, Germany). Roberto Passerone (Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy). Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA). Mohamad Sawan (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada). Bernhard Steffen (Technical University Dortmund, Germany). Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Germany). Organization Committee Saddek Bensalem (University of Grenoble, France). Yliès Falcone - (University of Grenoble, France). Klaus Havelund - (NASA JPL, USA). Fees The registration fee to the CPS Summer-School is: 250 euros for students, 400 euros for academics and people from industry. The registration comprises lunches, coffee breaks, and a reception party. Application Procedure and Important Dates Attendance is limited to 80, so we will be selecting amongst the candidates. The application procedure is as follows: Applicants declare their intention to apply by registering at https://persyval-calls.imag.fr/en/project/10 before April 14, 2014. The application should comprise a resume and contact information. The organization committee provides a response to applicants before April 21, 2014. Applicants proceed with online Registration and Fee payment before May 10, 2014. Online Registration Online Registration will be available only for selected applicants mid April 2014.

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Second CFP: WPTE'14, First International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation
by David Sabel 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE'14) affiliated with RTA/TLCA 2014 (a FLoC 2014 workshop, FLoC is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014) 13th July 2014, Vienna, Austria http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE14 Aims and Scope ============== The aim of WPTE is to bring together the researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area. Topics of interest and in the scope of WPTE are: * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program inversions and program synthesis. The programming languages of interest include pure, deterministic, impure, non-deterministic, concurrent, parallel languages, and may employ programming paradigms such as functional, logical, typed, imperative, object-oriented, and higher-order. Invited Speaker =============== Andy Gill (University of Kansas) Paper Submissions and Proceedings ================================= WPTE accepts two different kinds of contributions: * Full-papers: ------------ Full-papers must represent original work and should be submitted using the EasyChair interface. We plan to publish full-papers as formal proceedings in the 'OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)' of 'Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik'. Full-papers should not exceed 12 pages using the OASIcs LaTeX-templates. * Work in progress: ----------------- There will also be a slot for presenting work in progress. An extended abstract of at most 4 pages is required to be submitted using the EasyChair interface. These contributions will not be included in the OASIcs proceedings but they will be distributed to the workshop partipicants. One author of each accepted paper or abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: 25 April 2014 * Notification of acceptance: 23 May 2014 * Deadline for camera-ready proceedings: 28 May 2014 * Workshop: 13 July 2014, Austria, Vienna Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte14 * Homepage of WPTE'14 http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE14 * OASIcs Website (including LaTeX templates): http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics * Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 http://vsl2014.at Program Committee ================= Takahito Aoto (RIEC, Tohoku University) Yuki Chiba (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politècnica de València) Maribel Fernández (King's College London) Johan Jeuring (Open Universiteit Nederland and Universiteit Utrecht) Delia Kesner (Université Paris-Diderot) Sergueï Lenglet (Université de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schauß (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - chair Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) Janis Voigtländer (University of Bonn) Harald Zankl (University of Innsbruck) Organizers ========== Manfred Schmidt-Schauß (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) - chair Masahiko Sakai (Nagoya University) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Yuki Chiba (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Sponsors ======== Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main e.V.

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One PhD position for EU students available at the University of Dundee, Scotland.
by Marco Gaboardi 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

One PhD position for EU students available at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Contact ——————————— Marco Gaboardi - m.gaboardi(a)dundee.ac.uk Profile ——————————— The subject of the studentship is programming language semantics and implementation. The specific topic for the studentship will depend on the interests and expertise of the potential candidate. Possible topics are: language-based privacy and security, type systems, probabilistic programming, interactive theorem proving, logics and applications, program analysis tools. Conditions ——————————— The studentship covers 3 years with a standard stipend of about £13-14k a year plus some eligible travel and consumables. Requirements ——————————— The position is only for EU students. The ideal candidate must show a solid mathematical background and interest in theoretical and/or practical works. Previous experience in one or more of the areas described in the profile will be considered a plus. How to apply ——————————— The position is available immediately. Candidates must contact Marco Gaboardi - m.gaboardi(a)dundee.ac.uk Dundee and the university ——————————— Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and it is well connected with Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Dundee is promoted as 'One City, Many Discoveries' in honor of Dundee's history of scientific activities and of the RRS Discovery exploration vessel, which is berthed in the city harbor. Biomedical, technological and video game industries have been important for the development of the city in the last 20 years. The University of Dundee counts about 18.000 students and is situated in the city center. The university is ranked in the World's Top 250 Universities and has been voted one of the best universities in the UK for student experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee http://www.dundee.ac.uk The Theory of Computation group ——————————— The Theory of Computation group focuses on research into different areas covering functional programming, program analysis, computational logic, machine learning, constraint programming, graph theory, algorithms and applications like privacy, security, complexity, optimisation, and artificial intelligence.

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RV 2014: LAST Call for Papers, Deadline in 1 week
by Runtime Verification 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

[Apologizes for duplicates] 14th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 22 - 25, 2014 *Toronto, Canada* http://rv2014.imag.fr/ <http://rv2014.imag.fr/images/CfP.pdf> Scope: Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include: - specification languages - specification mining - program instrumentation - monitor construction techniques - logging, recording, and replay - fault detection, localization, containment, recovery and repair - program steering and adaptation - metrics and statistical information gathering - combination of static and dynamic analyses - program execution visualization - monitoring techniques for safety/mission-critical systems - monitoring distributed systems, cloud services, and big data applications - monitoring security and privacy policies Application areas of runtime verification include safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. Technical Research Papers Track: Technical research papers can be submitted in two categories: regular and short papers. Papers in both categories will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee. All accepted technical papers will appear in an LNCS<http://www.springer.com/series/558> volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv2014> system. - *Regular papers* (up to 15 pages) should present original unpublished results. Theoretical and experimental papers as well as papers on applications of runtime verification and case studies are all welcome. A non-monetary Best Paper Award will be given. A selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal Methods in System Design. - *Short papers* (up to 5 pages) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. Accepted short papers will be presented in special short talk (10 minutes) and poster sessions. Program committee Borzoo Bonakdarpour <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~bbonakda/> (University of Waterloo, Canada), *co-chair* Scott Smolka <http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~sas/> (Stony Brook Universtiy, USA), *co-chair* Gul Agha <http://cs.illinois.edu/directory/profile/agha> (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Thomas Ball <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tball/> (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) Howard Barringer <http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/howard.barringer> (The University of Manchester, UK) Ezio Bartocci <http://www.eziobartocci.com/> (TU Wien, Austria) David Basin <http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/basin/> (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Saddek Bensalem <http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~bensalem/> (Verimag, France) Ivona Brandic <http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/staff/ivona/> (TU Wien, Austria) Marsha Chechik <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~chechik/> (University of Toronto, Canada) Michael Clarkson <http://faculty.cs.gwu.edu/~clarkson/> (George Washington University, USA) Laura Dillon <http://www.cse.msu.edu/~ldillon/> (Michigan State University, USA) Shlomi Dolev <http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dolev/> (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Alastair Donaldson <http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~afd/> (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler <http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/> (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone <http://www.ylies.fr/> (Université Joseph Fourier, France) Vijay Garg <http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~garg/> (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Steve Goddard <http://cse.unl.edu/~goddard/papers.html> (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Ganesh Gopalakrishnan <http://www.cs.utah.edu/~ganesh/> (University of Utah, USA) Wolfgang Grieskamp (Google, USA) Radu Grosu <http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~grosu/> (TU- Wien, Austria) Klaus Havelund <http://www.havelund.com/> (NASA/JPL, USA) Mats Heimdahl <http://www.umsec.umn.edu/about/director> (University of Minnesota, USA) Laurie Hendren <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/> (McGill University, Canada) Gerard Holzmann <http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/people/gh.html> (NASA/JPL, USA) Daniel Keren <http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/~dkeren/> (Haifa University, Israel) Sandeep Kulkarni <http://www.cse.msu.edu/~sandeep/>(Michigan State University, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska <http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/marta.kwiatkowska/> (University of Oxford, UK) Insup Lee <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lee/home/home/index.shtml> (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Axel Legay <http://people.irisa.fr/Axel.Legay/> (IRISA/INRIA, France) Martin Leucker <http://www.isp.uni-luebeck.de/leucker/> (University of Lübeck, Germany) Leonardo Mariani<http://www.lta.disco.unimib.it/lta/personalPages/leonardoMariani/leonardoMa…> (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) Patrick Meredith <http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/Patrick_Meredith> (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) David Naumann <http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~naumann/> (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Doron Peled <http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~doronp/> (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Mauro Pezze <http://www.inf.usi.ch/personal-info?id=1187> (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Lee Pike <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~lepike/> (Galois Inc., USA) Zvonimir Rakamaric <http://www.zvonimir.info/> (University of Utah, USA) Grigore Rosu <http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/Grigore_Rosu> (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Andrey Rybalchenko <http://www7.in.tum.de/~rybal/> (TU-Munich, Germany) Andre Schiper <http://people.epfl.ch/andre.schiper?lang=fr> (EPFL, Switzerland) Oleg Sokolsky <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sokolsky/> (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Scott Stoller <http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~stoller/> (Stony Brook University, USA) Serdar Tasiran <http://home.ku.edu.tr/~stasiran/> (Koc University, Turkey) Michael Whalen <http://www.umsec.umn.edu/directory/Michael-Whalen> (University of Minnesota, USA) Lenore Zuck <http://www.cs.uic.edu/~lenore/> (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tool Demonstrations Track: The aim of the RV 2014 tool demonstration track is to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to show and to discuss the latest advances, experiences and challenges in devising and developing reliable software tools for runtime verification. Tool demonstration papers will be reviewed by the Tools Track Program Committee. All accepted tool demonstration papers will appear in the conference proceedings LNCS volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv2014> system. Tool papers should meet the following criteria: - A tool paper should present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. - Each submission must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS/Springer proceeding format, including all text, references and figures. The paper must be written in English and provided in PDF format. - Each submission must be accompanied at the time of the submission by a short screencast (between 5-10 minutes), with voice and overlay text commentary illustrating the demonstration of the tool (a link to it should be provided in the paper). - The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available with their submission. - Each tool paper must include a script in an appendix (not included in the page count) describing how the demo will be conducted during the conference presentation with screenshots presenting step-by-step the tool's capabilities, highlighting the main characteristics and the usage. Evaluation Each submission will be reviewed by at least four members of the tool demonstration track program committee. The evaluation criteria will include: - the presentation quality - the availability (possibly in a open-source format) of the software. - the relevance for the Runtime Verification audience - the technical soundness of the presented tool - the originality of the underlying ideas Tool Demonstration Committee Ezio Bartocci, (TU-Vienna, Austria), *Chair* Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone (Université Joseph Fourier, France) Klaus Havelund (NASA/JPL, USA) Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota, USA) Important Dates: Both research papers and tool demonstration tracks will follow the following timeline: - *Abstract deadline:* April 8, 2014 - *Full paper deadline:* April 15, 2014 - *Rebuttal phase:* May 18-20, 2014 - *Acceptance notification:* June 10, 2014 - *Camera ready submission:* June 25, 2014 - *Conference dates:* 22-25 September, 2014

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ANN: Haskell bindings for Z3: package z3 0.3.2 released
by Iago Abal 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

I am happy to announce a new version of the z3 package http://hackage.haskell.org/package/z3 the (unofficial) Haskell bindings for Microsoft's Z3 theorem prover. We didn't announce this package before, but we believe that now it is stable enough to be useful for a broader audience. These bindings are especially appropriate in the following cases: * If your program runs lot of queries, and probably would benefit from incremental solving. Here the performance benefit w.r.t. translating each query to SMT-LIB and calling an external solver should be significant. * If you need to extract interpretations for arrays and functions. * If you need to access specific Z3 features such as Quantifiers or Solvers. We offer three different interfaces: * Z3.Base: a low-level interface, it just performs marshalling. * Z3.Monad: introduces a class MonadZ3 and a concrete monad Z3 that does some bookkeeping for you. Most people seem to be using this interface. * Z3.Lang: a high-level interface in the form of an embedded language. This interface has been deprecated in the current release, we will continue to develop it, but it will be in separate package. The bindings are still incomplete as there are some API functions that have not been added yet. The infrastructure is there, and adding support for new API functions is (most of the times) straightforward. We appreciate that, if you fork the project and add extra functions, then you send the changes back to us. These bindings still use the old Z3 API of Z3 3.x versions, but there is some support for the new API that some people is using satisfactorily. (Z3 4.0 was released while we were still exploring the design of the library and we preferred not to switch to the new API at that time). Full support for the new API should come in the next release. Iago

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Open PhD position in Formal Methods for Software Product Lines at IT University of Copenhagen
by Iago Abal 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

(Apologies for duplicates) The VARIETE project seeks an excellent PhD student to work on analysis methods for code and models found in highly configurable software systems (software product lines). Find more details at: http://variete.wikit.itu.dk/Positions Prospective starting date is in fall 2014. Duration of the scholarship is 3 or 4 years. The position comes with entry level public servant salary (ca. 2200 EUR per month after taxes are deducted), social benefits (like paid vacation time, health care and pension saving scheme) along with a travel budget and all other support funds required for executing the research project. Personal contact via email prior to applying is strongly encouraged. Contact: Associate Professor Andrzej Wąsowski (wasowski(a)itu.dk) Postdoc Aleksandar Dimovski (adim(a)itu.dk) Deadline for application is April 23 at 23:59 CET. Application: https://delta.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=168671&… Iago

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AI4FM 2014: Call for Participation
by Iain Whiteside 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

------------------------------------------------- AI4FM 2014 - the 5th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2014/ Singapore, 13th May, 2014 In association with FM 2014 ------------------------------------------------- --- Call For Participation --- Workshop information --------------- Workshop: May 13th, 2014 Registration: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/registration.html Confirmed Speakers --------------- Gerwin Klein, NICTA Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Chin Wei Ngan, National University of Singapore Dominique Méry, LORIA and Université de Lorraine Andrius Velykis, Newcastle University Ligia Nistor and Jonathan Aldrich, CMU Cliff Jones, Newcastle University Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University About the workshop --------------- This workshop will bring together researchers from formal methods, automated reasoning and AI; it will address the issue of how AI can be used to support the formal software development process, including requirement analysis, modelling and proof. Previous AI4FM workshops have included a mix of industrial and academic participants and we anticipate attracting a similarly diverse audience. Rigorous software development using formal methods allows the construction of an accurate characterisation of a problem domain that is firmly based on mathematics; by applying standard mathematical analyses, these methods can be used to prove that systems satisfy formal specifications. Research has shown that with tools backed by mature theory, formal methods are becoming cost effective and their use is easier to justify, not as an academic exercise, legal requirement or niche markets -- but as part of a business case. However, while industrial use of formal methods is increasing, in order to make it more mainstream, the cost of applying formal methods, in terms of mathematical skill level and development time, must still be reduced. A desirable outcome of the workshop is to identify key areas where AI can help with such issues as well as discussions about how it can be utilised. Organisers --------------- * Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Iain Whiteside (Newcastle University, UK) Contact Details ---------------- If you have any queries, please email the organisers at the following email address: ai4fm2014(a)ai4fm.org<mailto:ai4fm2014@ai4fm.org>

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2nd Call For Papers: Erlang Workshop 2014
by Laura M. Castro 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hello all, Please find below the second Call for Papers for the Thirteenth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Thirteenth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop ----------------------------------------------------------- Göteborg, Sweden, September 5, 2014 Satellite event of the 19th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2014) September 1-3, 2014 http://www.erlang.org/workshop/2014 Erlang is a concurrent, distributed functional programming language aimed at systems with requirements of massive concurrency, soft real time response, fault tolerance, and high availability. It has been available as open source for 15 years, creating a community that actively contributes to its already existing rich set of libraries and applications. Originally created for telecom applications, its usage has spread to other domains including e-commerce, banking, databases, and computer telephony and messaging. Erlang programs are today among the largest applications written in any functional programming language. These applications offer new opportunities to evaluate functional programming and functional programming methods on a very large scale and suggest new problems for the research community to solve. This workshop will bring together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming. We invite three types of submissions. 1. Technical papers describing language extensions, critical discussions of the status quo, formal semantics of language constructs, program analysis and transformation, virtual machine extensions and compilation techniques, implementations and interfaces of Erlang in/with other languages, and new tools (profilers, tracers, debuggers, testing frameworks, etc.). The maximum length for technical papers is restricted to 12 pages. 2. Practice and application papers describing uses of Erlang in the "real-world", Erlang libraries for specific tasks, experiences from using Erlang in specific application domains, reusable programming idioms and elegant new ways of using Erlang to approach or solve a particular problem. The maximum length for the practice and application papers is restricted to 12 pages. Note that this is a maximum length; we welcome shorter papers also, and the program committee will evaluate all papers on an equal basis independent of their lengths. 3. Poster presentations describing topics related to the workshop goals. Each includes a maximum of 2 pages of the abstract and summary. Presentations in this category will be given an hour of shared simultaneous demonstration time. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Laura M. Castro, University of A Coruña, Spain Hans Svensson, QuviQ AB, Sweden Program Committee ----------------------------- (Note: the Workshop Co-Chairs are also committee members) Jesper L. Andersen, Erlang Solutions Ltd., UK Richard Carlsson, Klarna AB, Sweden Lars-Åke Fredlund, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Fréd Hébert, Heroku, USA Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden & NTUA, Greece Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK Steve Vinoski, Basho Technologies, USA Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh, UK Important Dates ----------------------- Submissions due: Sunday, 11 May, 2014 Author notification: Friday, 6 June, 2014 Final copy due: Sunday, 22 June, 2014 Workshop date: September 5, 2014 Instructions to authors -------------------------------- Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair (via the "Erlang2014" event). The submission page is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erlang2014 Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions will be considered for poster submission in the case they are not accepted as full papers. Venue & Registration Details ------------------------------------------ For registration, please see the ICFP 2014 web site at: http://icfpconference.org/icfp2014/ Related Links -------------------- ICFP 2014 web site: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2014/ Past ACM SIGPLAN Erlang workshops: http://www.erlang.org/workshop/ Open Source Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/ EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erlang2014 Author Information for SIGPLAN Conferences: http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm Atendee Information for SIGPLAN Events: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Anti-harassment -- Laura M. Castro Department of Computer Science Universidade da Coruña (Spain) http://www.madsgroup.org/staff/laura

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HaL-9 - Call for Contributions
by Henning Thielemann 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

HaL ist ein lokaler Haskell-Workshop mit überregionaler Bedeutung, der nun bereits das 9. Mal stattfindet. Dieses Jahr laden wir für den 20. Juni ins Institut für Informatik an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg ein. Wir suchen Beiträge zu Haskell im Besonderen und der funktionalen Programmierung im Allgemeinen, aber auch Anknüpfungen an andere Programmierparadigmen. Dabei interessieren wir uns unter anderem für die Themenbereiche * Neues von Sprache, Bibliotheken, Werkzeugen, * Anwendungen von Kunst bis Industrie, * Lehre und Forschung an Schulen und Hochschulen. Die Beiträge können präsentiert werden als * Tutorium (etwa 90 min) * Vortrag (etwa 30 min) * Demonstration, künstlerische Aufführung Die Veranstaltungssprache ist Deutsch, nach Absprache auch Englisch. Presentations will be given in German but we can switch to English if requested. Bitte reichen Sie Kurzfassungen der Beiträge ein (max. 3 Seiten), die dem Programmkomitee eine Einschätzung ermöglichen, sowie eine knappe Zusammenfassung von etwa 100 Wörtern. Teilnehmer des Workshops sind Interessenten (keine Erfahrung mit Haskell oder funktionaler Programmierung), Anfänger (wenig Erfahrung) und Experten. Wir bitten die Vortragenden, die Zielgruppe des Beitrags anzugeben und die nötigen Vorkenntnisse zu beschreiben. Bei Tutorien sollen Teilnehmer auf eigenen Rechnern arbeiten. Bitte beschreiben Sie dazu die vorher zu installierende Software. Senden Sie die Beitragsvorschläge als PDF-Dokument bis zum 27. April 2014 an hal-committee(a)iba-cg.de Wir werden Ihnen bis zum 9. Mai mitteilen, ob wir Ihren Beitrag in das Programm aufnehmen. Für das Organisationsteam Henning Thielemann

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