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Call for papers: The 20th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2014)
by Yuan-Fang Li 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** *Call for Papers: The 20th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2014)* *Singapore Nov 18-21, 2014 * PRDC 2014 is the twentieth in this series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers the many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing systems has become increasingly critical. This symposium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Software aging and rejuvenation - Safety-critical systems and software - Architecture and system design for dependability - Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols - Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications - Cloud and Internet Information security - Dependability issues in computer networks and communications - Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems - Dependability issues in real-time systems, database, and transaction processing systems - Dependability issues in autonomic computing - Dependability issues in aerospace and embedded systems Paper Submissions Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 10 pages using IEEE format guidelines <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>or 20 pages double-spaced. Practical Experience Reports (max 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines or 12 pages double-spaced) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. The title page should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and affiliations, and a line specifying whether the submission is a Regular Paper or a Practical Experience Report. The full mailing address, phone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author should be specified. All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the submission web site <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prdc2014>. Papers will be reviewed internationally and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. One outstanding paper will be selected to receive the Best Paper Award. Important Dates Submission deadline: May 2, 2014 Notification: June 25, 2014 Best regards Yuan-Fang

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Oregon PL Summer School: call for participation
by Amal Ahmed 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

This year's Oregon Programming Languages Summer School will take place from June 16th to 28th, 2014. The registration deadline is April 14th. Full information on registration and scholarships an be found here: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool The school has a long and successful tradition (sponsored by the NSF, ACM SIGPLAN, and industry). It covers current research in the theory and practice of programming languages. Material is presented at a tutorial level that will help graduate students and researchers from academia or industry understand the critical issues and open problems confronting the field. Prerequisites are an elementary knowledge of logic and mathematics, as covered in undergraduate classes on discrete mathematics, and some knowledge of programming languages at the level of an undergraduate survey course. This year we will again offer a Coq boot camp session, to be held on June 15th -- one day before the summer school officially begins. The boot camp will provide a one-day, intensive, hands-on introduction to the practical mechanics of the Coq proof assistant. The Coq boot camp will be run by Michael Clarkson (George Washington University). More information is available at the above website. This year's program is titled Types, Logic, Semantics, and Verification. The speakers and topics include: Andrew Appel -- Software Verification Princeton University Lars Birkedal -- Category Theory Aarhus University Derek Dreyer -- Modular Reasoning about Stateful Programs Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Robert Harper -- Type Theory Foundations Carnegie Mellon University Greg Morrisett -- Certified Programming and State Harvard University Ulf Norell -- Programming in Agda Chalmers University of Technology Brigitte Pientka -- Proof Theory Foundations McGill University Stephanie Weirich -- Designing Dependently-Typed Programming Languages University of Pennsylvania Steve Zdancewic -- Software Foundations in Coq University of Pennsylvania We hope you can join us for this excellent program! Amal Ahmed Zena Ariola Greg Morrisett OPLSS 2014 organizers

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ANN: Budapest Hackathon 2014
by Csaba Hruska 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Dear Haskellers, We're organizing the first ever Haskell Hackathon in Budapest, Hungary. When: Saturday 31 May 2014 - Sunday 1 June 2014 This will be a great opportunity to meet up with fellow Haskellers, and show off your cool hobby projects in one of the most vibrant cities in Europe. There's also room for working on existing tools, for example you can team up with Luite Stegeman at the event to hack on GHC-JS. Details about the when, where and how: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/BudapestHackathon2014 See you all there!

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Second CFP: Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ML Family Workshop
by oleg＠okmij.org 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Thursday September 4, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden (immediately following ICFP and preceding OCaml Users and Developers Workshop) Call For Papers http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/ML14.html News: Post-proceedings will be published in EPTCS ML is a very large family of programming languages that includes Standard ML, OCaml, F#, SML#, Manticore, MetaOCaml, JoCaml, Alice ML, Dependent ML, Flow Caml, and many others. All ML languages, beside the great deal of syntax, share several fundamental traits. They are all higher-order, strict, mostly pure, and typed, with algebraic and other data types. Their type systems inherit from Hindley-Milner. The development of these languages has inspired a significant amount of computer science research and influenced a number of programming languages, including Haskell, Scala and Clojure, as well as Rust, ATS and many others. ML workshops have been held in affiliation with ICFP continuously since 2005. This workshop specifically aims to recognize the entire extended ML family and to provide the forum to present and discuss common issues, both practical (compilation techniques, implementations of concurrency and parallelism, programming for the Web) and theoretical (fancy types, module systems, metaprogramming). The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of the members of the ML family. We also encourage presentations from related languages (such as Scala, Rust, Nemerle, ATS, etc.), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas. The ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Format Since 2010, the ML workshop has adopted an informal model. Presentations are selected from submitted abstracts. There are no published proceedings, so any contributions may be submitted for publication elsewhere. We hope that this format encourages the presentation of exciting (if unpolished) research and deliver a lively workshop atmosphere. Each presentation should take 20-25 minutes, except demos, which should take 10-15 minutes. The exact time will be decided based on the number of accepted submissions. The presentations will likely be recorded. Post-conference proceedings The post-proceedings of selected papers from the ML Family and the OCaml Users and Developers workshops will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). The Program Committee shall invite interested authors of selected presentations to expand their abstract for inclusion in the proceedings. The submissions are to be reviewed according to the EPTCS standards. Coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop The OCaml workshop is seen as more practical and is dedicated in significant part to the OCaml community building and the evolution of the OCaml system. In contrast, the ML family workshop is not focused on any language in particular, is more research oriented, and deals with general issues of the ML-style programming and type systems. Yet there is an overlap, which we are keen to explore in various ways. The authors who feel their submission fits both workshops are encouraged to mention it at submission time or contact the Program Chairs. Scope We acknowledge the whole breadth of the ML family and aim to include languages that are closely related (although not by blood), such as Rust, ATS, Scala, Typed Clojure. Those languages have implemented and investigated run-time and type system choices that may be worth considering for OCaml, F# and other ML languages. We also hope that the exposure to the state of the art ML might favorably influence those related languages. Specifically, we seek research presentations on topics including but not limited to * Design: concurrency, distribution and mobility, programming for the web and embedded systems, handling semi-structured data, facilitating interactive programming, higher forms of polymorphism, generic programming, objects * Implementation: compilation techniques, interpreters, type checkers, partial evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, etc. * Type systems: fancy types, inference, effects, overloading, modules, contracts, specifications and assertions, dynamic typing, error reporting, etc. * Applications: case studies, experience reports, pearls, etc. * Environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, functional data structures, etc. * Education: ML and ML-like languages in college or high-school, in general or computer science curriculum. Four kinds of submissions will be accepted: Informed Positions, Research Presentations, Experience Reports and Demos. * Informed Positions: A justified argument for or against a language feature. The argument must be substantiated, either theoretically (e.g., by a demonstration of (un)soundness, an inference algorithm, a complexity analysis), empirically or by a substantial experience. Personal experience is accepted as justification so long as it is extensive and illustrated with concrete examples. * Research Presentations: Research presentations should describe new ideas, experimental results, or significant advances in ML-related projects. We especially encourage presentations that describe work in progress, that outline a future research agenda, or that encourage lively discussion. These presentations should be structured in a way which can be, at least in part, of interest to (advanced) users. * Experience Reports: Users are invited to submit Experience Reports about their use of ML and related languages. These presentations do not need to contain original research but they should tell an interesting story to researchers or other advanced users, such as an innovative or unexpected use of advanced features or a description of the challenges they are facing or attempting to solve. * Demos: Live demonstrations or short tutorials should show new developments, interesting prototypes, or work in progress, in the form of tools, libraries, or applications built on or related to ML. (You will need to provide all the hardware and software required for your demo; the workshop organizers are only able to provide a projector.) Important dates Monday May 19 (any time zone): Abstract submission Monday June 30: Author notification Thursday September 4, 2014: ML Family Workshop Submission Submissions should be at most two pages, in PDF format, and printable on US Letter or A4 sized paper. A submission should have a synopsis (2-3 lines) and a body between 1 and 2 pages, in one- or two-column layout. The synopsis should be suitable for inclusion in the workshop program. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website before the submission deadline (Monday May 19, 2014). For any question concerning the scope of the workshop or the submission process, please contact the program chair. Program Committee Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University, Japan Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Jacques Garrigue Nagoya University, Japan Dave Herman Mozilla, USA Stefan Holdermans Vector Fabrics, Netherlands Oleg Kiselyov (Chair) Monterey, CA, USA Keiko Nakata Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Didier Remy INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France Zhong Shao Yale University, USA Hongwei Xi Boston University, USA

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Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2014 edition
by Mihai Maruseac 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Dear all, I would like to collect contributions for the 24th edition of the ================================================================ Haskell Communities & Activities Report http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report Submission deadline: 1 May 2014 (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org, in plain text or LaTeX format) ================================================================ This is the short story: * If you are working on any project that is in some way related to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not important enough --- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway! * If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell me, so that I can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an entry. * Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that might be interested. More detailed information: The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to many questions. Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to know about! Looking forward to your contributions, Mihai Maruseac and Alejandro Serrano Mena (current co-editors) FAQ: Q: What format should I write in? A: The required format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template that is available at: http://haskell.org/communities/05-2013/template.tex There is also a LaTeX style file at http://haskell.org/communities/05-2013/hcar.sty that you can use to preview your entry. If you do not know LaTeX, then use plain text. If you modify an old entry that you have written for an earlier edition of the report, you should already have received your old entry as a template (provided I have your valid email address). Please modify that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as a template. Q: Can I include Haskell code? A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax (http://people.cs.uu.nl/andres/lhs2tex/) The report is compiled in mode polycode.fmt. Q: Can I include images? A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg format, then. Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar? A: No, plain file attachements are the way. Q: How much should I write? A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project. Images do not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an entry! The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please consider writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long. Q: Which topics are relevant? A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on language extensions or variants. We also like reports about distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also ask the editor. Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant? A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might help you. Q: If I do not update my entry, but want to keep it in the report, what should I do? A: Tell the editor that there are no changes. The old entry will typically be reused in this case, but it might be dropped if it is older than a year, to give more room and more attention to projects that change a lot. Do not resend complete entries if you have not changed them. Q: Will I get confirmation if I send an entry? How do I know whether my email has even reached the editor, and not ended up in a spam folder? A: Prior to publication of the final report, the editor will send a draft to all contributors, for possible corrections. So if you do not hear from the editor within two weeks after the deadline, it is safer to send another mail and check whether your first one was received. -- Mihai Maruseac (MM) "If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn." -- Atlas Shrugged.

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ICFEM 2014 Last Call-for-papers
by Liu Yang (Asst Prof) 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

(We apologize in case you receive this email more than once) ---------------------------------------- 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, 3-7 November 2014 http://icfem2014.uni.lu ---------------------------------------- The 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2014) will be held at the Melia Hotel in Luxembourg, Luxembourg from 3rd November to 7 November 2014. Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving as an international forum for researchers and practitioners who have been seriously applying formal methods to practical applications. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, are encouraged to attend, present their research, and help advance the state of the art. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefit. ICFEM 2014 is organised and sponsored by The University of Luxembourg. The city of Luxembourg itself is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, on account of the historical importance of its fortifications. Luxembourg was the first city to be named European Capital of Culture twice. SCOPE AND TOPICS ---------------------------------------- Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods and their practical applications will also be considered. + Abstraction and refinement + Formal specification and modelling + Program analysis + Software verification + Software model checking + Formal approaches to software testing + Formal methods for self-adaptive systems Formal methods for object and + component systems Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems + Formal methods for cloud computing and cyber-physical systems Formal + methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability + Tool development, integration and experiments involving verified + systems Formal methods used in certifying products under international + standards Formal model-based development and code generation This year, ICFEM will have special tracks on application of formal methods in three areas: + Computer Security + Biology + Healthcare Submissions in these topics are especially encouraged. Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review process as other papers. Accepted special track papers will be organised into special sessions. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------------------------------- + Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research + Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------- Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Submission should be made through the ICFEM 2014 submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2014) handled by the EasyChair conference management system. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Formal Aspect Computing journal. WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL ---------------------------------------- The last two days of the conference (6th and 7th November 2014) will be dedicated to workshops, tutorials and other satellite events. The organising committee of ICFEM 2014 therefore cordially invites proposals for one-day workshops and one-day or half-day tutorials in any area related to formal methods or software engineering, but particularly in new or emerging fields of application of formal methods. Proposals for workshops/tutorial should contain: + a title and brief description of the topic and the history of the workshop/tutorial, if applicable; + the names and contact details of the potential organisers; a brief + justification of the topic and estimated size of audience; a + description of any special technical requirements. Proposals should be sent to ICFEM2014 Workshops Chair, Jun Sun, at <sunjun(a)sutd.edu.sg<mailto:sunjun@sutd.edu.sg>> no later than 22nd March 2014. SUMMER SCHOOL VTSA 2014 ---------------------------------------- The summer school on verification technology, systems & applications takes place at University of Luxembourg from October 27-31, 2014. It is a co-located event with ICFEM 2014 and is organized by the Montefiore Institute, University of Luxembourg, INRIA Nancy, and the Max Planck Insitute for Informatics Saarbrücken. More detailed information will be provided at the summer school's website. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions due: 11 April 2014 Full Paper Submissions due: 18 April 2014 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: 22 March 2014 Acceptance Notification: 20 June 2014 Camera-ready Papers Due: 13 July 2014 ORGANISING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Program Committee Co-Chairs Stephan Merz, INRIA, France Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Local Organisation Chair Andrzej Mizera, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Publicity Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Web Chair: Piotr Kordy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- Frank de Boer, CWI, The Netherlands Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Kostas Chatzikokolakis, CNRS and École Polytechnique, France Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Michaela Huhn, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany Pierre Kelsen, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy, France Jean Krivine, CNRS and Université Paris Diderot, France Peter Gorm Larsen, Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, France Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Zongyan Qiu, Peking University, China Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany Hai H. Wang, Aston University, United Kingdom Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China STEERING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jifeng He, East China Normal University, China Shaoying Liu (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Jeff Offutt, George Mason University, United States Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, United Kingdom ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you.

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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 289
by Daniel Santa Cruz 03 Apr '14

03 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 March 1 to 31, 2014 So... where have I been? My wife and I recently welcomed into the world our new baby, and as some of you have already experienced, I was doing good getting *some* sleep at night. Life has slowly started to get back to a more predictable rhythm, and I am sure glad to be back doing this. For a while there I thought that any project of mine before bambina was going to have to be put into permament hold, but things are getting very manageble now. Sorry for the abscense! I was somewhat pleased to see that some in -cafe wondered if this was coming back... this one is for you! Some have mentioned that they wish to see more of the "reviews" that HWN used to have of blog entries, and/or email chains in the different mailing lists. I understand that dessire. I'm probably going to need some extra hands to write those, if there are to be back. Maybe we can start with something "lighter", a la tl;dr. I'm stil trying to work out how we'd do that exacly. I'll keep you all posted. Anyway, enough rambling. Quotes of the Week * acowley: I will push machines-concurrent to hackage one fine day edwardk: not concurrent-machines ? acowley: Man, I walked right into that bike shed * malc: I have a coworker who constantly reads haskell stuff at work, nudged him towards the lens talk, that should push him towards actually doing work at work. * Fuuzetsu: I know someone who pulls in Lens just for & and ?? * Eduard_Munteanu: Don't put your money in monads, you can never get it back. :P Top Reddit Stories * Haskell for all: Introductions to advanced Haskell topics Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 121, Comments: 23 On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/M6ZL9f Original: [2] http://goo.gl/YEKyCc * GHC 7.8.1 RC2 released Domain: well-typed.com, Score: 99, Comments: 36 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/jxlLQl Original: [4] http://goo.gl/05xnqX * Book review: Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell Domain: serpentine.com, Score: 87, Comments: 17 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/BfWSWC Original: [6] http://goo.gl/nDe2UG * The Haskell Cast #6 - Gabriel Gonzalez and Michael Snoyman on Pipes and Conduit Domain: haskellcast.com, Score: 83, Comments: 13 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/PwL2aV Original: [8] http://goo.gl/hwemr6 * Performance in Haskell from a noob's perspective Domain: self.haskell, Score: 74, Comments: 111 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/IuT0uJ Original: [10] http://goo.gl/IuT0uJ * New Haddock -- a visual guide to changes Domain: fuuzetsu.co.uk, Score: 72, Comments: 13 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/KWJSEh Original: [12] http://goo.gl/IXzESN * Full-time position available: computer scientist to create data types for scientific computing, in Haskell. Location: anywhere (telecommute). Domain: self.haskell, Score: 67, Comments: 17 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/Z8y9py Original: [14] http://goo.gl/Z8y9py * Haskell Type Classes Cheatsheet Domain: fundeps.com, Score: 62, Comments: 21 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/oAWk4C Original: [16] http://goo.gl/SqHbro * Malicious link in haskell.org docs for 6 years, 6 months, 6 days Domain: self.haskell, Score: 61, Comments: 6 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/V5y3hk Original: [18] http://goo.gl/V5y3hk * What's your "killer app" for your scientific/statistical programming environment? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 57, Comments: 92 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/jfbwdj Original: [20] http://goo.gl/jfbwdj * Find out the type of an expression/function with typed holes Domain: ro-che.info, Score: 56, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/hcjX1v Original: [22] http://goo.gl/TWLT5R * Elm 0.12 - making interactive UI elements easy and pure Domain: elm-lang.org, Score: 56, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/SRoog7 Original: [24] http://goo.gl/7FoFAz * QuickCheck 2.7 released Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 55, Comments: 7 On Reddit: [25] http://goo.gl/RN66bR Original: [26] http://goo.gl/3S38Uz Top StackOverflow Questions * Why is Haskell unable to read "7e7" but able to read "7a7"? votes: 42, answers: 3 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/ZI8qm8 * Strange GHCi lazy evaluation votes: 17, answers: 1 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/aoHvVp * Fast, branchless unsigned int absolute difference votes: 16, answers: 3 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/TT3Oxi * How can I write human-language units as postfixes in Haskell, like `3 seconds`? votes: 15, answers: 2 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/6MJk5C * Running Haskell on Xeon-Phi votes: 14, answers: 1 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/QEIayp Until next time, [32]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/03/introductions-to-advanced-haskell-topi… 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21bcb5/haskell_for_all_introductio… 3. http://www.well-typed.com/blog/87 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zgaln/ghc_781_rc2_released/ 5. http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2014/03/18/book-review-parallel-and-concurre… 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/20sdt4/book_review_parallel_and_co… 7. http://www.haskellcast.com/episode/006-gabriel-gonzalez-and-michael-snoyman… 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zfo9g/the_haskell_cast_6_gabriel_… 9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21g6uo/performance_in_haskell_from… 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21g6uo/performance_in_haskell_from… 11. http://fuuzetsu.co.uk/blog/posts/2014-03-24-New-Haddock-released%21-A-visua… 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/218rov/new_haddock_a_visual_guide_… 13. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/202pvl/fulltime_position_available… 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/202pvl/fulltime_position_available… 15. http://fundeps.com/posts/cheatsheets/2014-03-04-cheat-sheets/ 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zn3h9/haskell_type_classes_cheats… 17. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21959m/malicious_link_in_haskellor… 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/21959m/malicious_link_in_haskellor… 19. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zowv1/whats_your_killer_app_for_y… 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1zowv1/whats_your_killer_app_for_y… 21. http://ro-che.info/articles/2014-03-13-type-of-local-function.html 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/20bixd/find_out_the_type_of_an_exp… 23. http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.elm 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/218isr/elm_012_making_interactive_… 25. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.7.1/changelog 26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/213da9/quickcheck_27_released/ 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22689122/why-is-haskell-unable-to-read-7… 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22491700/strange-ghci-lazy-evaluation 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22445019/fast-branchless-unsigned-int-ab… 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22109333/how-can-i-write-human-language-… 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22253311/running-haskell-on-xeon-phi 32. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about

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Deadline Extension / Last Call for papers: HLPP 2014 - 7th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications
by Clemens Grelck 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS HLPP 2014 7th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Amsterdam, Netherlands July 3-4, 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/hlpp2014amsterdam/ =========================================================================== New extended deadline: April 14 (anywhere on earth) =========================================================================== Aims and scope: As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 7th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held July 3-4 in the historic center of Amsterdam. =========================================================================== Proceedings: Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). =========================================================================== Important dates: Submission deadline: April 4 (now extended to April 14) Author notification: May 1 (or slightly thereafter) Camera-ready paper due: June 16 =========================================================================== Topics: HLPP 2014 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: + High-level programming and performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and their tools + Declarative parallel programming methodologies + Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods + Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation + Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs + Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming + Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs + High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms + High-level parallel methods for large datasets + Applications of parallel systems using high-level languages and tools + Teaching experience with high-level tools and methods =========================================================================== Paper preparation and submission: Papers submitted to HLPP2014 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical programme committee (see below). Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the HLPP 2014 symposium and present the paper. =========================================================================== Programme committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jost Berthold, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Rob Bisseling, Utrecht University, Netherlands Murray Cole, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Joel Falcou, MetaScale / Université Paris-Sud, France Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Gaétan Hains, Université Paris-Est, France Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Youry Khmelevsky, University of British Columbia / Okanagan College, Canada Herbert Kuchen, University of Münster, Germany Kiminori Matsuzaki, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Frank Penczek, Intel Ulm, Germany Susanna Pelagatti, University of Pisa, Italy Tiark Rompf, Oracle Labs / Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Francisco de Sande, University of La Laguna, Spain Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden Vijay Saraswat, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom =========================================================================== HLPP Organizer and programme chair: Clemens Grelck Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam Science Park 904 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands c.grelck(a)uva.nl =========================================================================== HLPP steering committee: Clemens Grelck (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gaétan Hains (Université Paris-Est, France) Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology, Japan) Frédéric Loulergue (Université d'Orléans, France) Quentin Miller (Somerville College Oxford, United Kingdom) Alexander Tiskin (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) =========================================================================== Previous HLPP symposia and workshops: HLPP 2013, Paris, France HLPP 2011, Tokyo, Japan HLPP 2010, Baltimore, USA HLPP 2005, Coventry, United Kingdom HLPP 2003, Paris, France HLPP 2001, Orléans, France =========================================================================== -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 www.science.uva.nl/~grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Second CFP: Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP) 2014
by José Pedro Magalhães 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Apologies for multiple postings. ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WGP 2014 10th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming Gothenburg, Sweden Sunday, August 31, 2014 http://www.wgp-sigplan.org/2014 Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2014) ====================================================================== Goals of the workshop --------------------- Generic programming is about making programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic program are often quite rich in structure; for example they may be other programs, types or type constructors, class hierarchies, or even programming paradigms. Generic programming techniques have always been of interest, both to practitioners and to theoreticians, and, for at least 20 years, generic programming techniques have been a specific focus of research in the functional and object-oriented programming communities. Generic programming has gradually spread to more and more mainstream languages, and today is widely used in industry. This workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners in generic programming from around the world, and features papers capturing the state of the art in this important area. We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of * generic programming, * programming with (C++) concepts, * meta-programming, * programming with type classes, * programming with modules, * programming with dependent types, * type systems for generic programming, * polytypic programming, * adaptive object-oriented programming, * component-based programming, * strategic programming, * aspect-oriented programming, * family polymorphism, * object-oriented generic programming, * implementation of generic programming languages, * static and dynamic analyses of generic programs, * and so on. Program Committee ----------------- José Pedro Magalhães (co-chair), University of Oxford Tiark Rompf (co-chair), Oracle Labs & EPFL Peter Achten, Radboud University Nijmegen Nada Amin, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Pierre-Évariste Dagand, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University Miles Sabin, Underscore Consulting LLP, Chuusai Ltd. Alexander Slesarenko, Huawei Labs & Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) Anthony M. Sloane, Macquarie University Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University Meng Wang, Chalmers University of Technology Proceedings and Copyright ------------------------- We plan to have formal proceedings, published by the ACM. Authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the extent transferable), but retain various rights (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy) Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. Submission details ------------------ Deadline for submission: Sunday 2014-05-11 Notification of acceptance: Friday 2014-06-06 Final submission due: Wednesday 2014-06-18 Workshop: Sunday 2014-08-31 Submitted papers should fall into one of two categories: * Regular research papers (12 pages) * Short papers: case studies, tool demos, generic pearls (6 pages) Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results. Short papers need not present novel or fully polished results. Good candidates for short papers are those that report on interesting case studies of generic programming in open source or industry, present demos of generic programming tools or libraries, or discuss elegant and illustrative uses of generic programming ('pearls'). All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (two-column, 9pt). Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages. If applicable, papers should be marked with one of the labels 'case study, 'tool demo' or 'generic pearl' in the title at the time of submission. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgp2014 Travel Support -------------- Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC program, see its web page (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm) History of the Workshop on Generic Programming ---------------------------------------------- Earlier Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in * Boston, Massachusetts, US 2013 (affiliated with ICFP13), * Copenhagen, Denmark 2012 (affiliated with ICFP12), * Tokyo, Japan 2011 (affiliated with ICFP11), * Baltimore, Maryland, US 2010 (affiliated with ICFP10), * Edinburgh, UK 2009 (affiliated with ICFP09), * Victoria, BC, Canada 2008 (affiliated with ICFP), * Portland 2006 (affiliated with ICFP), * Ponte de Lima 2000 (affiliated with MPC), * Marstrand 1998 (affiliated with MPC). Furthermore, there were a few informal workshops * Utrecht 2005 (informal workshop), * Dagstuhl 2002 (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference), * Nottingham 2001 (informal workshop). There were also (closely related) DGP workshops in Oxford (June 3-4 2004), and a Spring School on DGP in Nottingham (April 24-27 2006, which had a half-day workshop attached). WGP Steering Committee ---------------------- Shin-Cheng Mu (chair) Jaako Järvi Andres Löh Ronald Garcia Jacques Carette Jeremiah Willcock Tim Sheard Stephanie Weirich Tarmo Uustalu

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[TFPIE2014] final call for papers
by Peter Achten 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

3rd International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2014) May 25, 2014 Utrecht University Soesterberg, The Netherlands (http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~jlc/tfpie14/) The 3rd International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2014, will be co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2014) at Soesterberg, at the “Kontakt der Kontinenten” hotel in the Netherlands on Sunday, May 25th. TFP will follow from May 26-28. The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2014 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website/wiki. Visitors to the TFPIE 2014 website/wiki will be able to add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up work. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles not selected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012) and in Provo Utah, USA (2013). ** Invited Speaker ** TFPIE is pleased to announce that professor Johan Jeuring of Utrecht University and Open University, both in The Netherlands is giving an invited talk entitled: "Automatic tutoring and assessing functional programs". ** Program Committee ** James Caldwell, (Program Chair) University of Wyoming Peter Achten, Radboud University, Nijmgen Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews, St Andrews Jurriaan Hage, Universiteit Utrecht Philip Holzenspies, University of Twente Daniel R. Licata, Wesleyan University Marco T Morazan, Seton Hall University Christian Skalka, University of Vermont David Van Horn, Northeastern University ** Submission Guidelines ** There will be two types of presentations at TFPIE 2014. Regular papers and “best lecture” presentations. The best lecture talks are intended to allow for presentations or short lectures of purely pedagogical material. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2014 ** Papers ** TFPIE 2014 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * FP and beginning CS students * FP and Computational Thinking * FP and Artificial Intelligence * FP in Robotics * FP and Music * Advanced FP for undergraduates * FP in graduate education * Engaging students in research using FP * FP in Programming Languages * FP in the high school curriculum * FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics * FP and Philosophy ** Best Lectures ** In addition to papers, this year we are requesting “best lecture” presentations. What’s your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. ** Important Dates ** * 1 February 2014: TFPIE submissions open on easychair. * 14 April 2014: Early registration for TFP closes * 21 April 2014: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts * 27 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for presentation * 15 May 2014: Registration for TFPIE closes - as does late registration for TFP * 25 May 2014: Presentations in Soesterberg, Netherlands * 29 June 2014: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due * 16 August 2014: Notification of acceptance for proceedings * 8 September 2014: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full paper; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn. At least one author from each accepted presentation must attend the workshop.

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