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CFP: FARM 2014: Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design
by Henrik Nilsson 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Dear all, This is the second FARM 2014 call for papres. Sorry for any duplicate postings! If you are using Haskell or any mostly functional language in any kind of musical, artistic, or design endeavour, please consider contributing to FARM 2014, the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop of Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design, co-located with ICFP 2014. Call-for-papers enclosed. Best regards, /Henrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FARM 2014 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Gothenburg, Sweden; 6 September, 2014 The ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (FARM) gathers together people who are harnessing functional techniques in the pursuit of creativity and expression. Functional Programming has emerged as a mainstream software development paradigm, and its artistic and creative use is booming. A growing number of software toolkits, frameworks and environments for art, music and design now employ functional programming languages and techniques. FARM is a forum for exploration and critical evaluation of these developments, for example to consider potential benefits of greater consistency, tersity, and closer mapping to a problem domain. FARM encourages submissions from across art, craft and design, including textiles, visual art, music, 3D sculpture, animation, GUIs, video games, 3D printing and architectural models, choreography, poetry, and even VLSI layouts, GPU configurations, or mechanical engineering designs. The language used need not be purely functional (“mostly functional” is fine), and may be manifested as a domain specific language or tool. Theoretical foundations, language design, implementation issues, and applications in industry or the arts are all within the scope of the workshop. Submissions are invited in two categories: * Full papers 5 to 12 pages using the ACM SIGPLAN template. FARM 2014 is an interdisciplinary conference, so a wide range of approaches are encouraged and we recognize that the appropriate length of a paper may vary considerably depending on the approach. However, all submissions must propose an original contribution to the FARM theme, cite relevant previous work, and apply appropriate research methods. * Demo abstracts Demo abstracts should describe the demonstration and its context, connecting it with the themes of FARM. A demo could be in the form of a short (10-20 minute) tutorial, presentation of work-in-progress, an exhibition of some work, or even a performance. Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages, using the ACM SIGPLAN template and will be subject to a light-touch peer review. If you have any questions about what type of contributions that might be suitable, or anything else regarding submission or the workshop itself, please contact the organisers at: workshop2014(a)functional-art.org KEY DATES: Abstract (for Full Papers) submission deadline: 7 May Full Paper and Demo Abstract submission Deadline: 11 May Author Notification: 30 May Camera Ready: 18 June Workshop: 6 September SUBMISSION All papers and demo abstracts must be in portable document format (PDF), using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. The text should be in a 9-point font in two columns. The submission itself will be via EasyChair. See the FARM website for further details: http://functional-art.org PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in the formal proceedings published by ACM Press and will also be made available through the the ACM Digital Library; see http://authors.acm.org/main.cfm for information on the options available to authors. Authors are encouraged to submit auxiliary material for publication along with their paper (source code, data, videos, images, etc.); authors retain all rights to the auxiliary material. WORKSHOP ORGANISATION Workshop Chair: Alex McLean, University of Leeds Program Chair: Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham Publicity Chair: Michael Sperber, Active Group GmbH Program Committee: Sam Aaron, Cambridge University David Duke, University of Leeds Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University Julie Greensmith, University of Nottingham Bas de Haas, Universiteit Utrecht Paul Hudak, Yale University David Janin, Université de Bordeaux Richard Lewis, Goldsmiths, University of London Louis Mandel, Collège de France Alex McLean, University of Leeds Carin Meier, Neo Innovation Inc Rob Myers, Furtherfield Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham (chair) Dan Piponi, Google Inc Andrew Sorensen, Queensland University of Technology Michael Sperber, Active Group GmbH For further details, see the FARM website: http://functional-art.org -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science The University of Nottingham nhn(a)cs.nott.ac.uk This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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PhD Position in dependent types, testing & hardware design
by Wouter Swierstra 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

============================================================== VACANCY : 1x Phd position in dependent types, testing & hardware design ============================================================== The research group of Software Technology is part of the Software Systems division of in the department of Information and Computer Science at the Utrecht University. We focus our research on functional programming, compiler construction, program analysis, validation, and verification. Financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), we currently have a job opening for: * 1x PhD researcher (PhD student) Software Technology The aim of the project is to develop a domain specific language for testing and verifying hardware, embedded in a general purpose dependently typed programming language. Besides research, the successful candidate will be expected to help supervise MSc students and assist teaching courses. We aim to start September 1, 2014 at the latest, but preferably sooner. --------------------------------- What we are looking for --------------------------------- The candidate should have an MSc in Computer Science, be highly motivated, speak and write English well, and be proficient in producing scientific reports. Knowledge of and experience with at least one of the following four areas is essential: * functional programming, such as Haskell or ML; * dependently typed programming, such as Agda, Coq, or Idris; * software testing, including familiarity with libraries such as QuickCheck and SmallCheck; * hardware description languages, such as Lava or VHDL; --------------------------------- What we offer --------------------------------- The candidate is offered a full-time position for four years. A part-time of at least 0.8 fte may also be possible. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, a partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The research group will provide the candidate with necessary support on all aspects of the project. More information is available on the website: Terms and employment: http://bit.ly/1elqpM7 A part-time of at least 0.8 fte may also be possible. Salary starts at EURO 2,083 and increases to EURO 2,664 gross per month in the fourth year of the appointment. Utrecht is a great place to live, having been ranked as one of the happiest places in the world, according to BBC travel. Living in Utrecht: http://bitly.com/HdbL0X --------------------------------- In order to apply --------------------------------- To apply please attach a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, and (email) addresses of two referees. Make sure to also include a transcript of the courses you have followed (at bachelor and master level), with the grades you obtained, and to include a sample of your scientific writing, such as your master thesis. It is possible to apply for this position if you are close to obtaining your Master's. In that case include a letter of your supervisor with an estimate of your progress, and do not forget to include at least a sample of your technical writing skills. Application closes on the May 30th, 2014. You can apply through the University's website: http://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/CandidatesPortalNoLogin/Vacancy.cfm?Por… --------------- Contact --------------- For further information you can direct your inquiries to: Wouter Swierstra phone: +31 (0)30 253 9207 e-mail: w.s.swierstra(a)uu.nl. website: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~swier004

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DEADLINE is TODAY: 2nd International Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems
by Ylies Falcone 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '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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Video chair at ICFP
by Johan Jeuring 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

Dear people, We are busy organising ICFP 2014, which will happen together with the Haskell Symposium and many other events in Göteborg in Sweden from August 31 until September 6 2014. I am looking for a Video chair to organise the recording of the events on video. Tasks - prepare the video recording of the events: equipment (camera's, software, microphones?), required post-processing, ... - instruct student-volunteers in assisting the recording process - oversee the post-processing of the recordings, and the uploads Budget - we have some budget available for buying or renting equipment for the video recordings, or we can pay you for you bringing your own equipment - we will defray your costs for travelling to Göteborg, staying in Göteborg, and attending ICFP 2014 and affiliated events Please contact me if you are interested in this position/task, With kind regards, Johan Jeuring General chair for ICFP 2014

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APLAS 2014: 2nd Call for papers
by Jacques Garrigue 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

=============================================================== APLAS 2014 12th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/APLAS2014/ 17-19 November 2014, Singapore CALL FOR PAPERS =============================================================== ================ INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Zhenjiang Hu (NII, Japan) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Julien Verlaguet (Facebook, USA) ========== BACKGROUND ========== APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming language community. APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS) founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. Past APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Melbourne ('13), Kyoto ('12), Kenting ('11), Shanghai ('10), Seoul ('09), Bangalore ('08), Singapore ('07), Sydney ('06), Tsukuba ('05), Taipei ('04) and Beijing ('03) after three informal workshops. Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer's LNCS. ====== TOPICS ====== The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on topics such as * semantics, logics, foundational theory; * design of languages, type systems and foundational calculi; * domain-specific languages; * compilers, interpreters, abstract machines; * program derivation, synthesis and transformation; * program analysis, verification, model-checking; * logic, constraint, probabilistic and quantum programming; * software security; * concurrency and parallelism; * tools and environments for programming and implementation. Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool presentations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with the program chair prior to submission. ========== SUBMISSION ========== We solicit submissions in two categories: *Regular research papers* describing original scientific research results, including tool development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. *System and Tool presentations* describing systems or tools that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. System and Tool presentations are expected to be centered around a demonstration. The paper and the demonstration should identify the novelties of the tools and use motivating examples. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submissions will be judged based on both the papers and the described systems or tools. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2014 Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ===== DATES ===== Abstracts due: May 26, 2014 (Monday) Submission due: June 2, 2014 (Monday) Notification: August 6, 2014 (Wednesday) Final paper due: September 1, 2014 (Monday) Conference: November 17-19, 2014 (Monday-Wednesday) ========== ORGANIZERS ========== General chair: Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore) Program chair: Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University) Program committee: Xiaojuan Cai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) James Chapman (Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia) Cristian Gherghina (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Eric Goubault (CEA LIST and Ecole Polytechnique, France) Fei He (Tsinghua University, China) Gerwin Klein (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Raghavan Komondoor (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Paddy Krishnan (Oracle, Australia) Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research, USA) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Julian Rathke (University of Southampton, UK) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, Korea) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Martin Sulzmann (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Munehiro Takimoto (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Jan Vitek (Purdue University, USA) Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA) ======= CONTACT ======= aplas2014 at easychair.org

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ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.2
by Austin Seipp 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.2 ============================================================== The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC, 7.8.2. This is an important bugfix release relative to 7.8.1, so we highly recommend upgrading from 7.8.1. The full release notes are here: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.2/html/users_guide/release-7-8-2.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ We supply binary builds in the native package format for many platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same place. Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later. Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language. GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below). On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC developers' home page http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ Supported Platforms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building Developers ~~~~~~~~~~ We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug Hashes & Signatures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Included in this email is a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes for the tarballs, using my GPG key (keyid 0x3B58D86F). -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/

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PPDP 2014: Call for Papers
by Jacob Johannsen 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

====================================================================== Call for papers 16th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2014 Canterbury, Kent, September 8-10, 2014 (co-located with LOPSTR 2014) http://users-cs.au.dk/danvy/ppdp14/ ====================================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 MAY, 2014 PPDP 2014 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declaratrive programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Functional programming * Logic programming * Answer-set programming * Functional-logic programming * Declarative visual languages * Constraint Handling Rules * Parallel implementation and concurrency * Monads, type classes and dependent type systems * Declarative domain-specific languages * Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs * Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages * Language extensions for security and tabulation * Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity * Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems * Practical experiences and industrial application This year the conference will be co-located with the 24th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2014). The conference will be held in Canterbury, UK. Previous symposia were held at Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a journal. Important Dates Abstract Submission: 12 May, 2014 Paper submission: 15 May, 2014 Notification: 30 June, 2014 Camera-ready: To be announced Symposium: 8-10 September, 2014 Invites for journal publication: To be announced Submission of journal version: To be announced Notification: To be announced Camera-ready version: To be announced Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP 2014. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist the program committee in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices. Program Committee Michael Adams University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Dariusz Biernacki University of Wroclaw, Poland Bernd Brassel Recordbay, Germany Mike Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Olivier Danvy (chair) Aarhus University, Denmark Marc Denecker KU Leuven, Belgium Joshua Dunfield Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Zoe Drey ENSTA Bretagne/Lab-STICC, France Thibaut Feydy NICTA, Australia Danko Ilik Inria, France Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba, Japan Chantal Keller Microsoft Research -- Inria Joint Centre Temur Kutsia RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Dan Licata Wesleyan University, USA Akimasa Morihata University of Tokyo, Japan Matthias Puech McGill University, Canada Tiark Rompf Oracle Labs and EPFL, Switzerland Kristoffer H. Rose Two Sigma Labs, New York, USA Ilya Sergey IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Ralf Treinen University Paris-Diderot, France Frank D. Valencia CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France Program Chair Olivier Danvy Department of Computer Science Aarhus University Aabogade 34 DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Email: danvy(a)cs.au.dk Symposium Chairs: Andy King School of Computing University of Kent Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF United Kingdom Email: A.M.King(a)kent.ac.uk Olaf Chitil School of Computing University of Kent Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF United Kingdom Email: O.Chitil(a)kent.ac.uk Publicity Chair: Jacob Johannsen Department of Computer Science Aarhus University Aabogade 34 DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Email: cnn(a)cs.au.dk

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RV 2014, Deadlines extended: abstract April 18, full paper April 25
by Runtime Verification 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

[DEADLINES EXTENDED] [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) Yliès 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 18, 2014 (extended) - *Full paper deadline:* April 25, 2014 (extended) - *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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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 290
by Daniel Santa Cruz 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Welcome to issue 289 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from April 1 to 5, 2014 Quotes of the Week * edwardk: Zombies are expensive. Top Reddit Stories * foldl is broken! Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 148, Comments: 63 On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/LXmJTV Original: [2] http://goo.gl/viOG5O * A small Haskell extension Domain: augustss.blogspot.nl, Score: 76, Comments: 23 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/buI46t Original: [4] http://goo.gl/LnAV9y * New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond Domain: haskell.org, Score: 74, Comments: 26 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/DdXTfO Original: [6] http://goo.gl/g0FPBS * Libc considered harmful Domain: sylvain-henry.info, Score: 58, Comments: 28 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/aq39Mf Original: [8] http://goo.gl/qdQDXm * Category Theory by Tom LaGatta Domain: youtube.com, Score: 58, Comments: 53 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/oIzG1e Original: [10] http://goo.gl/DeLu5G * Idris 0.9.12 released with major laziness, codata, and documentation updates plus metavars in types Domain: idris-lang.org, Score: 55, Comments: 25 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/4MtXJS Original: [12] http://goo.gl/3tXbqC * A cool paper I found on "Functional Programming and 3D Games". It discusses everything from collision detection to physics and texturing. [PDF] Domain: cse.unsw.edu.au, Score: 52, Comments: 3 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/6PYB2e Original: [14] http://goo.gl/Tf6fa2 * Error reporting with locations Domain: augustss.blogspot.fr, Score: 47, Comments: 28 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/ikaENm Original: [16] http://goo.gl/hntlJT * [ANN] Haste now has a website and a mailing list Domain: haste-lang.org, Score: 42, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/Ife2FA Original: [18] http://goo.gl/lRWmhv * Haskell in the Newsroom Domain: infoq.com, Score: 41, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/M4tehD Original: [20] http://goo.gl/bpvgLA * Haskell application architecture best practices Domain: self.haskell, Score: 32, Comments: 23 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/XjHfNJ Original: [22] http://goo.gl/XjHfNJ Top StackOverflow Questions * Haskell - Is it possible to make pointfree functions more readable using different combinators than (.)? votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/5b036l * How to detect if a program has been compiled using -threaded? votes: 10, answers: 2 Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/Cr7pMA * What does the star mean in this haskell code? votes: 9, answers: 2 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/qnolS7 * What about arrows? votes: 9, answers: 2 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/b1wwp4 * Triggering a documentation update for a Hackage package votes: 8, answers: 1 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/ErTVzf * Combining Data.Dynamic and type classes votes: 7, answers: 0 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/n8qMo9 * Systematically applying a function to all fields of a haskell record votes: 6, answers: 3 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/tNkLGu * Transforming a List of 2-Tuples in Haskell votes: 6, answers: 3 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/dDe8QP * Error in ghci which I cannot reproduce in written haskell file votes: 6, answers: 1 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/bg8DCw * Why can I call a monadic function without supplying a monad? votes: 6, answers: 1 Read on SO: [32] http://goo.gl/xZZ5iO * Deriving default instances using GHC.Generics votes: 6, answers: 1 Read on SO: [33] http://goo.gl/Autu6r Until next time, [34]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://www.well-typed.com/blog/90/ 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21wvk7/foldl_is_broken/ 3. http://augustss.blogspot.nl/2014/04/a-small-haskell-extension.html 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2239wh/a_small_haskell_extension/ 5. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2014-April/113373.html 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21wbme/new_ghc_features_for_7101_a… 7. http://sylvain-henry.info/blog/posts/2014-04-01-libc-considered-harmful.html 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/220ae4/libc_considered_harmful/ 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6L6XeNdd_k 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/229scs/category_theory_by_tom_laga… 11. http://www.idris-lang.org/idris-0-9-12-released/ 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2284s5/idris_0912_released_with_ma… 13. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/munc-thesis.pdf 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21zush/a_cool_paper_i_found_on_fun… 15. http://augustss.blogspot.fr/2014/04/haskell-error-reporting-with-locations.… 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/226otd/error_reporting_with_locati… 17. http://haste-lang.org/ 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21x4wm/ann_haste_now_has_a_website… 19. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/haskell-newsroom-nyt 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/222i82/haskell_in_the_newsroom/ 21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/223i80/haskell_application_archite… 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/223i80/haskell_application_archite… 23. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22872098/haskell-is-it-possible-to-make-… 24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22839824/how-to-detect-if-a-program-has-… 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22807728/what-does-the-star-mean-in-this… 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22871648/what-about-arrows 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22783637/triggering-a-documentation-upda… 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22876370/combining-data-dynamic-and-type… 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22807619/systematically-applying-a-funct… 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22828259/transforming-a-list-of-2-tuples… 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22839784/error-in-ghci-which-i-cannot-re… 32. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22841899/why-can-i-call-a-monadic-functi… 33. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22850983/deriving-default-instances-usin… 34. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about

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ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.1
by Austin Seipp 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1 ============================================================== The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There have been a number of significant changes since the last major release, including: * New type-system features * Closed type families * Role checking * An improved solver for type naturals * Better support for cross compilation * Full iOS support * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager * Dynamic linking for GHCi * Several language improvements * Pattern synonyms * Overloaded list syntax * Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class * A new parallel --make mode * Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support * A brand-new low level code generator * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements. The full release notes are here: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ We supply binary builds in the native package format for many platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same place. Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later. Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language. GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below). On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC developers' home page http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ Supported Platforms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building Developers ~~~~~~~~~~ We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug Hashes & Signatures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Included in this email is a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes for the tarballs, using my GPG key (keyid 0x3B58D86F). -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/

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