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Haskell-related PhD Studentship at Kent
by Meng Wang 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Dear Haskellers, I am seeking a PhD student on a Haskell-related project: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/studyingforaphd/phd-wang.html This would be a good opportunity for someone who is interested in applying Haskell ideas to real problems. The funding covers maintenance, EU student fees and research related expenses. But non-EU students are welcome to apply too. For Sep 2015 starting, the application deadline is 17 April 2015. If you are interested, please contact me at m.w.wang(a)kent.ac.uk<mailto:m.w.wang@kent.ac.uk>. Best wishes, Meng — Dr Meng Wang School of Computing University of Kent http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/mw516/

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ANNOUNCE: ioctl 0.0.1
by Maciej Piechotka 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

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

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CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015
by Nabeel Al-Qirim 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015 IIT’15: The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology 2015 URL: http://www.it-innovations.ae/iit2015/posters.html The IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Committee invites all undergraduate and graduate students to submit an extended (2 pages max.) abstract and to display it as a poster during the IIT’15. The poster topic should fall within the conference’s theme and tracks. SUBMISSION Extended abstracts should be sent to Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae. All students are encouraged to review their abstracts with their faculty advisers prior to submission. All accepted abstracts will be published by the IIT’15 proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES -Student Poster (Extended Paper) Submission May 30, 2015 -Notification of Student Poster acceptance July 15, 2015 -Camera ready Extended Paper and Poster material September 01, 2015 -Conference November 01-03, 2015 BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARDS There will be a competition for best student poster award at the IIT’15. This award will be given to recognize student excellence in research and presentation. CONTACT Queries should be directed to: Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Thanks, Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Chair College of Information Technology United Arab Emirates University P.O Box 15551 - Al Ain United Arab Emirates Tel: +971-3-7135531 Mobile: +971-507308705 Fax: +971-3-7672018 Email: nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Website: http://nalqirim.wix.com/nabeel-al-qirim Disclaimer:"The content of this email together with any attachments, statements and opinions expressed herein contains information that is confidential in nature and intended for the named addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee of this email or you have received this message in error please notify the sender and delete the message and any associated files from your system, you have no right to copy, print, distribute or use this email or any of its attachments, or permit or disclose its contents to any other party in any way, except with the prior approval of the sender. In case of breach of what has been explained above, you will be held legally accountable." تنبيه: "إن محتوى هذا البريد الإلكتروني مع أي مرفقات والبيانات والآراء الواردة في هذه الوثيقة يحتوي على معلومات تعتبر سرية بطبيعتها وتستهدف المرسل اسمه (ق) فقط إذا لم تكن المرسل إليه من هذه الرسالة أو كنت قد تلقيت هذا. في رسالة الخطأ، الرجاء إبلاغ المرسل وحذف الرسالة وأية ملفات مرتبطة من النظام الخاص بك، ليس لديك الحق في نسخ أو طباعتها أو توزيعها أو استخدام هذا البريد الالكتروني أو أي من ملحقاته، أو السماح أو الكشف عن محتوياته إلى أي طرف آخر في بأي حال من الأحوال، إلا بموافقة مسبقة من المرسل، وفي حالة خرق ما سبق بيانه أعلاه، سوف تعقد لك مساءلة قانونيا" . www.uaeu.ac.ae<http://www.uaeu.ac.ae>

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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 322
by Semen Trygubenko / Семен Тригубен ко 21 May '15

21 May '15

New Releases 99 Haskell: A web service by Bram Hoskin Solve live Haskell coding problems based on H-99 in the browser to strengthen your understanding of the language. http://www.99haskell.org/ https://github.com/bramgg/99haskell/ Magic Cookies A commercial Android game is released that is written in Haskell using SDL2 for multimedia and the Arrowized Functional Reactive Programming DSL Yampa. The authors had to "escape their functional comfort zones and come up with smarter abstractions that mutable reality and performance demand". The game consists of 2K lines of code, of which 1K is game specific and 400 are Yampa code. The most complex parts were certain Yampa constructs (arrow-based, with lots of tupling/untupling). http://keera.co.uk/blog/2015/03/19/magic-cookies-released-google-play/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.keera.games.magiccookies https://github.com/keera-studios/keera-hails https://github.com/ivanperez-keera/Yampa Discussion Finding a GHC bug by Neil Mitchell A write up of the hunt for bug #10176 http://neilmitchell.blogspot.it/2015/03/finding-ghc-bug.html https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10176 What are your most persuasive examples of using Quickcheck? Quickcheck helped many people in a number of areas — compiler optimisations, date/time validation, regular expressions, encoding/decoding, topological sort, fuzzing HTTP APIs and even exhibiting classical voting paradox! Apart from the obvious benefit of helping to find big juicy bugs as well as valid but potentially harmless tiny bugs in edge cases that no-one cares about, Quickcheck can help attain enlightenment in the sense that spelling out Quickcheck properties in itself can be rewarding because this can reveal assumptions that have been made without realizing it. Roman Cheplyaka reminds us about SmallCheck and that it should be used instead of Quickcheck when one has a good idea about what depth is needed and when exhaustive search at that depth is affordable. https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/308ps6/what_are_your_most_persuas… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20092191/how-much-should-one-control-the… What is the difference between free monads and free monoids? A comment by Edward Kmett. https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2znhjk/what_is_the_difference_bet… Type-Checked Pseudo-Code Tom Ashworth argues that Haskell is an excellent tool for fleshing out ideas and prototyping solutions, and that it makes one generalize and shake out many conceptual bugs before concepts become code. https://phuu.net/2015/03/24/type-checked-pseudo-code.html Where does GHC spend most of it's time during compilation? Optimisation and codegen, it seems. Also, GHC compilation times went up substantially from version 7.6 to 7.8. https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/309430/where_does_ghc_spend_most_… Quotes of the Week "Haskell doesn't feel like code. It feels like a language for thinking in: it's expressive, terse and simple, especially as type-checked pseudo-code." (Tom Ashworth) https://phuu.net/2015/03/24/type-checked-pseudo-code.html "Well that's not in the spec. If you want to change the requirements you have to renegotiate the contract =P" (sccrstud92) https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2zxekg/while_learning_haskell_i_m… "Unit tests are double entry bookkeeping" (EvanDaniel) https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/308ps6/what_are_your_most_persuas… augustss> "Well, type checking is worst case exponential…" barsoap> "Yep. That's also the reason why I don't really get the insistence of dependently-typed languages to have to be total at the type level: I don't care whether type-checking takes ten or infinitely many years, both figures are too large." https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/309430/where_does_ghc_spend_most_… "Our prophet Djistra said that a testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs … <snip> … Today Djistra would have been stoned under a myriad of inutile unit tests that people perform for a sense of false security, in a sort of superstitious sacrificial ritual, a waste of time to convince himself and others that his software is right." (agocorona) https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/308ps6/what_are_your_most_persuas… "You might also consider these sorts of infelicities as teachable moments" (ericpashman) https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2zxekg/while_learning_haskell_i_m… "Nice gradual progression there. Big O notion, smoothly divided into 3 easy parts, then bam, Coyoneda. =) I approve. [Yes, I realize it is a bag of topics, not a course outline, but it still grabbed me.]" (edwardkmett) https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2zqyes/we_released_a_video_librar…

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CFP: UNIF 2015
by Mateu Villaret 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

========================================================== Call for Papers UNIF 2015 The 29th International Workshop on Unification June 28, 2015. Warsaw, Poland http://rdp15.mimuw.edu.pl/index.php?site=unif ********* part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP'15) ========================================================== UNIF 2015 is the 29th event in a series of international meetings devoted to unification theory and its applications. Unification is concerned with the problem of identifying terms, finding solutions for equations, or making formulas equivalent. It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. The International Workshop on Unification (UNIF) is a yearly forum for researchers in unification theory and related fields to meet old and new colleagues, to present recent (even unfinished) work, and to discuss new ideas and trends. It is also a good opportunity for young researchers and scientists working in related areas to get an overview of the current state of the art in unification theory. Topics of Interest ------------------ A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest include: - Unification algorithms, calculi and implementations - Equational unification and unification modulo theories - Unification in modal, temporal and description logics - Admissibility of inference rules - Narrowing - Matching algorithms - Constraint solving - Combination problems - Disunification - Higher-Order unification - Type checking and reconstruction - Typed unification - Complexity issues - Query answering - Implementation techniques - Applications of unification - Antiunification/Generalization Submission ---------- Following the tradition of UNIF, we call for submissions of abstracts (5 pages) in EasyChair style, to be submitted electronically as PDF files through the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2015 Abstracts will be evaluated by the Programme Committee (if necessary with support from external reviewers) regarding their significance for the workshop. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop and included in the informal proceedings of the workshop, available in printed form at the workshop and in electronic form from the UNIF homepage: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/unif/ Based on the number and quality of submissions we will decide whether to organize a special journal issue. Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission: May 3, 2015 * Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2015 * Final version: June 7, 2015 * Conference: June 28, 2015 Programme Committee ------------------- * Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany * Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (co-chair) * Adria Gascon, SRI international, USA * Silvio Ghilardi, Universita di Milano, Italy * Artur Jez, MPI, Germany * Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Jordi Levy, IIIA-CSIC, Spain * Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University, USA * George Metcalfe, University of Bern, Switzerland * Paliath Narendran, University at Albany-SUNY, USA * Jan Otop, IST, Austria * Christophe Ringeissen, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France * Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany * Mateu Villaret, Universitat de Girona, Spain (co-chair) For more information, please contact any of the two chairs Santiago Escobar or Mateu Villaret.

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Mentoring workshop @ ICFP
by Stephanie Weirich 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

CALL for Applications for Student Travel Support SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop @ ICFP Vancouver, BC (co-located with ICFP 2015) Sunday, August 30th, 2015 http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/icfp-plmw15/ We are pleased to invite students interested in functional programming research to the programming languages mentoring workshop at ICFP. The goal of this workshop is to introduce senior undergraduate and early graduate students to research topics in functional programming as well as provide career mentoring advice to help them get through graduate school, land a great job, and succeed. We have recruited leaders from the functional programming community to provide overviews of current research topics, and give students valuable advice about how to thrive in graduate school, search for a job, and cultivate habits and skills that will help them in research careers. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding ICFP, the International Conference on Functional Programming, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers and we hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. Through the generous donation of our sponsors, we are able to provide travel scholarships to fund student participation. These travel scholarships will cover reasonable travel expenses (airfare, hotel and registration fees) for attendance at both the workshop and the ICFP conference. Anyone may apply for a travel scholarship, but first priority will be given to women and underrepresented minority applicants from the United States and Canada. The workshop is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding for their travel and registration fees are welcome. In particular, many student attendance programs provide full or partial travel funding for students to attend ICFP 2015, including the ACM Student Research Competition. More information about student attendance programs at ICFP is available: http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/student-attendance.html APPLICATION for TRAVEL SUPPORT: The travel funding application is available here: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rxg/icfp-plmw/ The deadline for full consideration of funding is April 24th, 2015. Selected participants will be notified starting June 5th. ORGANIZERS: Ron Garcia, University of British Columbia Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania with Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University (and General Chair, ICFP 2015)

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AVoCS 2015: Second Call for Papers
by YuHui Lin 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

--------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems AVoCS 2015 1-4 September 2015, Edinburgh, UK https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/ avocs2015(a)easychair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstract for full papers: 5th June 2015 Submission of full papers: 12th June 2015 Notification (full papers): 14th July 2015 Submission of research idea papers: 7th August 2015 Notification (research idea): 14th August 2015 Early registration: 18th August 2015 Submissions of final versions: 21st August 2015 INVITED SPEAKERS Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ & the University of Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate & the University of Edinburgh) SPONSORS Formal Methods Europe (FME) The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) BACKGROUND The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2015 is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members of the international research community on tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems. SCOPE The subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion where special discussion sessions will be organised around the research ideas presentations. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Model Checking - Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving - SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification - Abstract Interpretation - Specification and Refinement - Requirements Capture and Analysis - Verification of Software and Hardware - Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience - Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems - Dependable Systems - Verified System Development - Industrial Applications WORKSHOPS AI4FM 2015: 1 September 2015 -- www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/ VENUE The event will be held in the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in the centre of the historic old town of Edinburgh - an UNESCO world heritage site. STUDENT GRANTS Thanks to sponsorships from FME and SICSA we can offer financial support for a limited number of students registering for AVoCS in the form of a registration fee waiver (full or partial). As this is limited, we ask the students that would like to take the advantage of this support to submit a short application. The details on how to apply will be available in due course from the AVoCS webpage. SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions are handled via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2015 The papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages and should use the dedicated AVoCS 2015 EASST template available rom the the following link (for LaTeX and Word): http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst AVoCS also encourages the submissions of research ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages using the EASST template. The presentation of these ideas will be organised around discussions, where the presenter should also prepare a set of question in which the audience will discuss. PROCEEDINGS At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a Heriot-Watt University Technical Report; this report will also include the research ideas. After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the workshop post- proceedings which will appear in the Electronic Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal. SPECIAL SCP JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of a selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer Programming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ernie Cohen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ewen Denney, NASA Ames, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair) Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair) Gerwin Klein, NICTA/UNSW, Australia Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Panagiotis (Pete) Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK Marco Roveri, FBK, Italy Thomas Santen, Microsoft Research, Germany Bernard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Jan Strejček, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Tayssir Touili, LIAFA, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, France Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France Angela Wallenburg, Altran, UK John Wickerson, Imperial College London, UK Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway ORGANISERS Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK Yuhui Lin, Heriot-Watt University, UK (Local arrangements and publicity chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK ----- We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278.

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ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.1
by Austin Seipp 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.10.1 ============================================================== 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: * Several new language features and changes have been implemented: - Applicative is now a superclass of Monad and in the Prelude. - Many prelude combinators have been generalized - Static pointers * GHC now has preliminary and experimental support for DWARF based debugging. * `integer-gmp` has been completely rewritten. * Type-checking plugins can now extend the type checker. * Support for partial type signatures * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements. * Preliminary support for 'backpack' features like signatures. * Typeable is now generated by default for all data types automatically. We've also fixed a handful of issues reported since RC3: - A bug in the call arity analysis that would result in invalid core was fixed (#10176) - A bug in the Win32 package causing it to fail to load was fixed (#10165) - ghc-prim has (correctly) been bumped to version 0.4.0.0, to comply with the PVP. - Several libraries have been bumped to their latest available versions after coordination. The full release notes are here: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-1… 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: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms https://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: https://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: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at https://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users https://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 https://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too: https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug Hashes & Signatures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/ you will find a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes for the tarballs, using my GPG key (0F8F 3AA9 9235 C704 ADA0 B419 B942 AEE5 3B58 D86F). -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/

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VSTTE 15, Second Call for Papers
by Daniel Bundala 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

********************************************************************** 7th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments July 18 - 19, 2015 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/vstte15 Co-located with 25th Conference on Computer Aided Verification (http://i-cav.org/2015) ********************************************************************** Full Paper Submission Deadline: April 27, 2015 SCOPE: The Seventh Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich in 2005 followed by conferences in Toronto (2008), Edinburgh (2010), Philadelphia (2012), Atherton (2013), and Vienna (2014). The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art in the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. We welcome submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e., software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest include education, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification case-studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee. We are accepting both long (limited to 16 pages) and short (limited to 10 pages) paper submissions, written in English. Short submissions also cover Verification Pearls describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions must be in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results, and comparison to existing work. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. Papers should be submitted through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2015. Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2015 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The use of LaTeX and the Springer LNCS class files, obtainable fromhttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, is strongly encouraged. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published as post-Proceedings, to appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: April 20, 2015 Full paper submission: April 27, 2015 Notification: June 8, 2015 ORGANIZATION: General Chair: Martin Schaef (SRI International) Program Chairs: Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Sanjit A. Seshia (University of California, Berkeley) Publicity Chair: Daniel Bundala (UC Berkeley) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) Evan Chang (University of Colorado, Boulder) Ernie Cohen (University of Pennsylvania) Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (Toyota) Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) Vijay D'Silva (Google) Vijay Ganesh (University of Waterloo) Alex Groce (Oregon State) Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) (co-chair) Bill Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology) Chris Hawblitzel (Microsoft Research) Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Susmit Jha (United Technologies) Rajeev Joshi (Laboratory for Reliable Software, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Vladimir Klebanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Akash Lal (Microsoft Research India) Ruzica Piskac (Yale) Zvonimir Rakamaric (University of Utah) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (University of Cincinnati) Sanjit A. Seshia (UC Berkeley) (co-chair) Natarajan Shankar (SRI) Carsten Sinz (KIT) Nishant Sinha (IBM Research Labs) Alexander Summers (ETH Zurich) Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington) Sergey Tverdyshev (Sysgo AG) Arnaud Venet (CMU / NASA Ames Research Center) Karen Yorav (IBM Haifa Research Lab) ********************************************************************** Please contact vstte2015(a)easychair.org for further information **********************************************************************

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CFP: Erlang Workshop 2015
by Hans Svensson 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Hello all, Please find below the Call for Papers for the Fourteenth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Fourteenth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop ----------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver, Canada, September 4, 2015 Satellite event of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2015) August 30 - September 5, 2015 _http://www.erlang.org/workshop/2015/ErlangWorkshop2015.html_ Erlang is a concurrent, distributed functional programming language aimed at systems with requirements of massive concurrency, soft real time response, fault tolerance, and high availability. It has been available as open source for 16 years, creating a community that actively contributes to its already existing rich set of libraries and applications. Originally created for telecom applications, its usage has spread to other domains including e-commerce, banking, databases, and computer telephony and messaging. Erlang programs are today among the largest applications written in any functional programming language. These applications offer new opportunities to evaluate functional programming and functional programming methods on a very large scale and suggest new problems for the research community to solve. This workshop will bring together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming. We invite three types of submissions. 1. Technical papers describing language extensions, critical discussions of the status quo, formal semantics of language constructs, program analysis and transformation, virtual machine extensions and compilation techniques, implementations and interfaces of Erlang in/with other languages, and new tools (profilers, tracers, debuggers, testing frameworks, etc.). The maximum length for technical papers is restricted to 12 pages. 2. Practice and application papers describing uses of Erlang in the "real-world", Erlang libraries for specific tasks, experiences from using Erlang in specific application domains, reusable programming idioms and elegant new ways of using Erlang to approach or solve a particular problem. The maximum length for the practice and application papers is restricted to 12 pages. Note that this is a maximum length; we welcome shorter papers also, and the program committee will evaluate all papers on an equal basis independent of their lengths. 3. Poster presentations describing topics related to the workshop goals. Each includes a maximum of 2 pages of the abstract and summary. Presentations in this category will be given an hour of shared simultaneous demonstration time. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Hans Svensson, QuviQ AB, Sweden Melinda Tóth, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Program Committee ----------------------------- (Note: the Workshop Co-Chairs are also committee members) Jesper L. Andersen, Independent Clara Benac Earle, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Laura M. Castro, University of A Coruña, Spain Christopher Meiklejohn, Basho Technologies, Inc., US Samuel Rivas, Klarna AB, Sweden Tee Teoh, Erlang Solutions Ltd, UK Simon Thompson, University of Kent, UK Important Dates ----------------------- Submissions due: Friday, 22 May, 2015 Author notification: Friday, 26 June, 2015 Final copy due: Sunday, 19 July, 2015 Workshop date: September 4, 2015 Instructions to authors -------------------------------- Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair (via the "Erlang2015" event). The submission page is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erlang2015 Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. Paper submissions will be considered for poster submission in the case they are not accepted as full papers. Venue & Registration Details ------------------------------------------ For registration, please see the ICFP 2015 web site at: http://icfpconference.org/icfp2015/ Related Links -------------------- ICFP 2015 web site: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2015/ Past ACM SIGPLAN Erlang workshops: http://www.erlang.org/workshop/ Open Source Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/ EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erlang2015 Author Information for SIGPLAN Conferences: http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm Atendee Information for SIGPLAN Events: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Anti-harassment

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