September 2015 - Haskell

SPLASH 2015 - 2nd Call For Participation
by Tijs van der Storm 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

/*************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'15) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 25th-30th October, 2015 http://www.splashcon.org https://twitter.com/splashcon https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************** 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **************************************************************/ The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH is now inviting calls for participation. ** REGISTRATION ** 28 September 2015 (Early Deadline) Contact: info(a)splashcon.org http://2015.splashcon.org/attending/registration ** CONFERENCE PROGRAM ** http://2015.splashcon.org/program/program-splash2015 ** KEYNOTE Speakers ** We are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers at SPLASH 2015: - Nick Feamster (Princeton University): Tomorrow’s Network Operators Will Be Programmers - Lars Bak (Google): How Dart Learned From Past Object-Oriented Systems - Rob DeLine (Microsoft Research): Modern software is all about data. Development environments should be, too. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-keynotes **SPLASH-I Speakers ** SPLASH-I is a series of industrial research talks that address topics relevant to the SPLASH community. Speakers are world-class experts in their field, selected and invited by the organizers. The SPLASH-I talks series is held in parallel with the OOPSLA main track. Talks are open to all attendees. - Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook): Flow: a static type checker for JavaScript - Hassan Chafi (Oracle Labs): Domain Specific Languages @ Oracle Labs: Current Experiences, Future Hopes - Chris Granger: Eve - Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox): Model, Execute, Deploy: Answering the Hard Questions about End-user Programming - Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs): Prospect: Finding and Exploiting Parallelism in a Productivity Language for Scientific Computing - Simon Marlow (Facebook): Fighting Spam with Haskell - Mark S. Miller (Google): Security as Extreme Modularity: A Standards Shaping Approach - Eliot Miranda (Cadence): Spur: Efficient Support for Live Programming in Dynamic Languages - Markus Voelter (independent): Language-Oriented Business Applications: Helping End Users become Programmers - Josh Watzman (Facebook): Changing Engines in Flight: Facebook's Conversion to Hack - Peng Wu (Huawei America Lab): When CT meets IT: Programming Challenges in the age of ICT Convergence http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-splash-i ** OOPSLA Research Papers** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). http://2015.splashcon.org/track/oopsla2015 ** Onward! Research Papers ** Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-papers ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps that by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/onward2015-essays ** DLS - Dynamic Languages Symposium ** DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages — from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript — on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow. We invite high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Keynote: Declare Your Language Speaker: Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dls2015 ** Panels ** The Panels track offers exciting discussion about topics related to SPLASH. Panel: Software Professionalism – Is it “Good Enough?” With: Dennis Mancl, Nancy Mead, Mary Shaw, Werner Wild http://2015.splashcon.org/event/splash2015-panels-software-professionalism-… Panel: The Future of Programming Languages and Programmers With: Lars Bak, Rob DeLine, Nick Feamster, Lindsey Kuper, Crista Lopes, Peng Wu http://2015.splashcon.org/event/splash2015-panels-the-future-of-programming… ** SPLASH-E ** The SPLASH-E track brings together researchers and educators to share educational results, ideas, and challenges centered in Software and Programming Languages. Submission formats vary, including papers, tool demos, lightning talks, challenge-topics for discussion, and suggested themes for "unconference" sessions. Help us create an engaging forum for educational issues related to SPLASH! http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash-e ** Artifacts ** The Artifact Evaluation process is a service provided by the community to help authors of accepted papers provide more substantial supplements to their papers so future researchers can more effectively build on and compare with previous work. The Artifact Evaluation Committee has been formed to assess how well paper authors prepare artifacts in support of such future researchers. Roughly, authors of papers who wish to participate are invited to submit an artifact that supports the conclusions of the paper. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-artifacts ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track will host a variety of high-quality workshops (13 in total), allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-workshops Selected Workshop keynotes: - AGERE! Daniel Wendel, Concurrent, Distributed Thinking for First-time Programmers in StarLogo Nova - MobileDeLi: Robert Seacord Mobile Security - PLATEAU: Mary Beth Rosson Computational Thinking for All: Expanding the Boundaries of Computing for Nonprogrammers - Parsing@SLE: Christian Kästner Parsing Unpreprocessed C Code - The TypeChef Experience - WODA: Koushik Sen Concolic Testing: A Decade Later ** Tutorials ** The SPLASH Tutorials track will consist of prestigious tutorials on current topics in software, systems, and languages research. The scope of the tutorials is the same as the conference itself: all aspects of software construction and delivery at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. The tutorials in particular focus on the nexus between research and practice, including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered at SPLASH. Tutorials should introduce researchers to current research in an area, or show important new tools that can be used in research. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-tutorials ** Demos ** The SPLASH Demonstrations track is an excellent vehicle for sharing your latest work with an experienced and technically savvy audience. Live demonstrations show the impact of software innovation. Demonstrations are not product sales pitches, but rather an opportunity to highlight, explain, and present interesting technical aspects of running applications in a dynamic and highly interactive setting. Presenters are encouraged to actively solicit feedback from the audience, which should lead to very interesting and entertaining demonstration sessions. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-demos ** Posters ** The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Posters can be independent presentations or associated with one of the other parts of SPLASH. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-posters ** Doctoral Symposium ** The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The Symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-ds ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session’s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners; providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-src ** PLMW - Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop ** The purpose of Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) is to give promising undergraduate students from around Pittsburgh who consider pursuing a graduate degree in this field an overview of what research in this field looks like and how to get into and succeed in graduate school. In other words, a combination whirlwind tour of this research area, networking opportunity, and how-to-succeed guide. The program of PLMW will include talks by prominent researchers of the field of programming languages and software engineering providing an insight in their research. http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-plmw ** RPG Richard's Pretty Good Talks ** RPG is my micro-conference. RPG is sporadically held, suddenly announced, and leaves little but mental limps and frustration / aka instability—take it as step #1 toward getting you decanalized. I choose the speakers and I don’t care what you think; I choose the topics and I always choose first loves. I want people telling me about things they cherish / not about how they make their living. Here’s what I’ve got going this year for the third edition. - Crista Lopes & Annette Vee, Programming as Writing (and vice versa?) - Billy Price & William Pollak, Singing the Blues / What is a Song? http://2015.splashcon.org/track/splash2015-rpg /************************************************************** Workshops **************************************************************/ AGERE! - Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control http://2015.splashcon.org/track/agere2015 DSM - Domain-Specific Modeling http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dsm2015 ETX - Eclipse Technology eXchange http://2015.splashcon.org/track/etx2015 FPW - Future Programming Workshop http://2015.splashcon.org/track/fpw2015 MobileDeLi - Mobile Development Lifecycle http://2015.splashcon.org/track/mobiledeli2015 NOOL - New Object-Oriented Languages http://2015.splashcon.org/track/nool2015 PLATEAU - Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools Keynote: Mary Beth Rosson (Pennsylvania State University) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/plateau2015 Parsing - Parsing @ SLE 2015 http://2015.splashcon.org/track/ParsingAtSLE2015 PROMOTO - Programming for Mobile and Touch http://2015.splashcon.org/track/promoto2015 REBLS - Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/rebls2015 SMART - Smart Software Strategies http://2015.splashcon.org/track/SmartSoftwareStrategies2015 SEPS - Software Engineering for Parallel Systems http://2015.splashcon.org/track/seps2015 WODA - Workshop on Dynamic Analysis http://2015.splashcon.org/track/woda2015 /************************************************************** Co-Located Events **************************************************************/ ** SLE - 8th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering ** Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term “software language” is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). Keynote Speaker: Stephane Ducasse (Inria) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/sle2015 ** GPCE - 14th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences ** The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. Keynote Speaker: Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/gpce2015 ** DBPL - 15th Symposium on Database Programming Languages ** For over 25 years, DBPL has established itself as the principal venue for publishing and discussing new ideas at the intersection of databases and programming languages. Many key contributions in query languages for object-oriented data, persistent databases, nested relational data, and semistructured data, as well as fundamental ideas in types for query languages, were first announced at DBPL. This creative research area is broadening into a subfield of data-centric computation, currently scattered among a range of venues. DBPL is an established destination for such new ideas and solicits submissions from researchers in databases, programming languages or any other community interested in the design, implementation or foundations of data-centric computation. Keynote: Gremlin: A Stream-Based Functional Language for OLTP and OLAP Graph Computing Speaker: Marko A. Rodriguez (DataStax) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/dbpl2015 ** PLoP - 22nd International Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming ** The Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference is a premier event for pattern authors and pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns and software development. The conference promotes development of pattern languages on all aspects of software, including design and programming, software architecture, user interface design, domain modeling, software processes, project management, and more. The program offers pattern authors an unique opportunity to have their pattern languages reviewed by fellow authors, which occurs mainly in the form of Writers’ Workshops. Keynote: Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software Speaker: Mary Shaw (Carnegie Mellon University) http://2015.splashcon.org/track/plop2015 /************************************************************** Supporters **************************************************************/ We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of our corporate supporters: Silver: - Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ - Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/ - NSF: http://www.nsf.gov/ Bronze: - IBM Research: http://www.research.ibm.com/ - Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/ - Intel: http://www.intel.com/ - Google: http://www.google.com/ - HP: http://www.hp.com/ - Huawei: http://www.huawei.com/ Other: - DePaul University: http://www.depaul.edu/ - The Royal Society Publishing: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/computer-science /************************************************************** Information and Organization **************************************************************/ Information: SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 28 September, 2015 Contact: info(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2015.splashcon.org Location: Sheraton Station Square Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Patrick Eugster (Purdue University) Onward! Papers Chair: Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) Onward! Essays Chair: Guy Steele Jr. (Oracle Labs) DLS Papers Chair: Manuel Serrano (INRIA) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Robby Findler (Northwestern University) and Michael Hind (IBM Research) Demos Co-Chair: Igor Peshansky (Google) and Pietro Ferrara (IBM Research) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Yu David Liu, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton Local Arrangements Chair: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University) Panels Chair: Steven D. Fraser (Independent Consultatnt) PLMW Workshop Co-Chairs: Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University), Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington), and Crista Lopes (UC Irvine) Posters Co-Chairs: Nick Sumner (Simon Fraser University) and Jeff Huang (Texas A&M University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Craig Anslow (Middlesex University) and Tijs van der Storm (CWI) SPLASH-E Chair: Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: Sam Guyer (Tufts University) and Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Jonathan Bell (Columbia University) and Daco Harkes (TU Delft) Sponsorship Chair: Tony Hosking (Purdue University) Tutorials Co-Chair: Romain Robbes (University of Chile) and Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) Video Chair: Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) Video Previews Czar: Thomas LaToza (George Mason University) Wavefront Co-Chairs: Dennis Mancl (Alcatel-Lucent) and Joe Kiniry (Galois) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) Workshop Co-Chairs: Du Li (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) SLE General Chair: Richard Paige (University of York) GPCE General Chair: Christian Kästner (Carnegie Mellon University) PLoP General Chair: Filipe Correia (University of Porto) DBPL General Chair: James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) and Thomas Neumann (TU Munich) -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Call for Contributions: BOB 2016 - Berlin, Feb 19, 2016
by Stefan Wehr 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

BOB Conference 2016 "What happens when we use what's best for a change?" http://bobkonf.de/2016/en/cfp.html Berlin, February 19 Call for Contributions Deadline: October 30, 2015 You drive advanced software engineering methods, implement ambitious architectures and are open to cutting-edge innovation? Attend this conference, meet people that share your goals, and get to know the best software tools and technologies available today. We strive to offer a day full of new experiences and impressions that you can use to immediately improve your daily life as a software developer. If you share our vision and want to contribute, submit a proposal for a talk or tutorial! Topics ------ We are looking for talks about best-of-breed software technology, e.g.: - functional programming - reactive programming - persistent data structures and databases - types - formal methods for correctness and robustness - ... everything really that isn’t mainstream, but you think should be. Presenters should provide the audience with information that is practically useful for software developers. This could take the form of e.g.: - experience reports - introductory talks on technical background - demos and how-tos Requirements ------------ We accept proposals for presentations of 45 minutes (40 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions), as well as 90 minute tutorials for beginners. The language of presentation should be either English or German. Your proposal should include (in your presentation language of choice): - an abstract of max. 1500 characters. - a short bio/cv - contact information (including at least email address) - a list of 3-5 concrete ideas of how your work can be applied in a developer's daily life - additional material (websites, blogs, slides, videos of past presentations, …) Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IrCa3ilxMrO2h1G1WC4ywoxdz8wohxaPW3dfiB0cq-… Organisation ------------ - submit your proposal here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IrCa3ilxMrO2h1G1WC4ywoxdz8wohxaPW3dfiB0cq-… - direct questions to `bobkonf at active minus group dot de` - proposal deadline: **October 30, 2015** - notification: November 15, 2015 - program: December 1, 2015 NOTE: The conference fee will be waived for presenters, but travel expenses will not be covered. Program Committee ----------------- (more information here: http://bobkonf.de/2016/programmkomitee.html) - Matthias Fischmann, zerobuzz UG - Matthias Neubauer, SICK AG - Nicole Rauch, Softwareentwicklung und Entwicklungscoaching - Michael Sperber, Active Group - Stefan Wehr, factis research Scientific Advisory Board ------------------------- - Annette Bieniusa, TU Kaiserslautern - Peter Thiemann, Uni Freiburg

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[PADL 2016] Final call for papers (Deadline extended)
by John Reppy 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Call for Papers =============== 18th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2016) http://conf.researchr.org/home/PADL-2016 St. Petersburg, Florida, United States Mon 18 - Tue 19 January 2016 Co-located with ACM POPL 2016 Conference Description ====================== Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications * Practical applications of theoretical results * New language developments and their impact on applications * Declarative languages and software engineering * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications * Practical experiences and industrial applications * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom * Practical extensions such as constraint-based, probabilistic, and reactive languages. PADL 2016 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages. PADL 2016 will be co-located with the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2016), in St. Petersburg, Florida (USA). Important Dates and Submission Guidelines ========================================= Abstract submission: September 18, 2015 Paper submission: September 27, 2015 Notification: October 21, 2015 Camera-ready: November 10, 2015 Symposium: January 18-19, 2016 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF using the Springer LNCS format. The submission will be done through EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl2016 All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify the program chair about the place on which it has previously appeared. PADL 2016 will accept both technical and application papers: * Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 15 pages (plus one page of references) in Springer LNCS format. * Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 8 pages in Springer LNCS format but such papers can also point to sites with supplemental information about the application or the system that they describe. The proceedings of PADL 2016 will appear in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag. Up to two best papers accepted for publication at PADL'16 will be invited to submit an extended version to the journal "Theory and Practice of Logic Programming" for rapid publication. The extended version should contain at least 30% new content compared to the published conference paper. In the case of rapid publications the extra material should consist of extensions of the existing material, such as proofs, further experimental results, implementation details and such like. Papers containing substantial revision and new results compared to the conference paper should be submitted as regular articles as normal. Authors invited to submit a rapid publication should confirm that such extra material is available. Program Committee ================= - Mario Alviano, University of Calabria (Italy) - Lars Bergstrom, Mozilla Research (USA) - Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews (UK) - Mats Carlsson, SICS (Sweden) - Manuel Carro, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and IMDEA Software Institute (Spain) - Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) - Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm (Germany) - Marco Gavanelli, University of Ferrara (Italy) - Geoffrey Mainland, Drexel University (USA) - Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University (USA) - John Reppy, University of Chicago (USA) - Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto (Portugal) - Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam (Germany) - Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven (Belgium) - Paul Tarau, University of North Texas (USA) - Niki Vazou, Univesrity of California, San Diego (USA) - Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Microsoft Research - Daniel Winograd-Cort, Yale University (USA) - Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center (USA) - Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo (USA) Contacts ======== For additional information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chairs: Marco Gavanelli and John Reppy University of Ferrara University of Chicago Italy USA http://docente.unife.it/marco.gavanelli http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr email: padl2016(a)easychair.org

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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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Senior Haskell developer roles at Standard Chartered, Singapore
by Don Stewart 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

The Strats team at SCB has two more open roles for Haskell developers in Singapore. These are exciting "director level" development roles in a large team. Location is Singapore. Details here: https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/senior-haskell-developer-roles-at-… Please contact me for more details.

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ANN: Creation of Haskell-Community list for Haskell.org Community Infrastructure Discussions
by Gershom B 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Dear all, The haskell.org committee [1] had a productive week during ICFP, and at some point we'll try to write up some of the small things underway and future plans -- many things are quite tentative at the moment. However, one thing that became clear to us (well, thanks to the useful prodding of SPJ) is that we have historically participated in discussions in other venues (-cafe, reddit, etc) and then had our own internal discussions (few, seldom, and largely organizational to be honest) on the low-traffic committee [at] haskell.org mail alias. But this leaves open people wondering what those discussions are. And it also leaves open where the *designated place* to discuss haskell.org community infrastructure is. The haskell-infrastructure [2] list is very quiet and really about technical considerations. Meanwhile, -cafe, reddit and soforth are about anything and everything. So we created another list, which will be a place where we seek to have our discussions related to plans for haskell.org committee work, and where we invite everyone to join us. This new list is the haskell-community list: https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community The committee alias will still work, and is still the way to just write directly to the members of the committee -- no list to join. But if you wish to have a discussion about how we have things set up on haskell community infrastructure, services provided, and that we might wish to add, and how you can help (or even just what your thoughts are on how things might be done), now there is a good place for that. Hope to continue conversations with many of you there, Gershom (for the haskell.org committee) [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee [2] http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/haskell-infrastructure

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ANNOUNCE: graphviz-2999.18.0.0
by Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

This is my "sorry it took so long" release: I'd like to apologise to all the people that have been nagging^W gently asking me when a GHC 7.10.*-compatible release would be available that it's taken me until now to do this, but I'm finally pleased to be able to say that you can now use my graphviz library to generate/parse Dot code and visualise graphs using the Graphviz suite of tools. As part of this version release, graphviz is now developed using git and can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/ivan-m/graphviz The major version bump is due to an extra attribute being made available, so in most (all?) cases you can safely version bump your existing dependencies. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic(a)gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

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ETAPS 2016 2nd call for papers
by Tarmo Uustalu 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: ETAPS 2016 19th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2-8 April 2016 http://www.etaps.org/2016 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2016 is the ninteenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (4-7 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Peter Thiemann, Universität Freiburg, Germany) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Andrzej Wasowski, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Bart Jacobs, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Christof Löding, RWTH Aachen, Germany) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada, and Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) TACAS '16 hosts the 5th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Andrew D. Gordon (MSR Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, UK) Rupak Majumdar (MPI Kaiserslautern, Germany) * ESOP invited speaker: Cristina Lopes (University of California at Irvine, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Oscar Nierstrasz (Universität Bern, Switzerland) * POST invited speaker: Vitaly Shmatikov (University of Texas at Austin, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- * 9 October 2015: Submission deadline for abstracts * 16 October 2015: Submission deadline for full papers * 2-4 December 2015: Author response period (ESOP and FoSSaCS only) * 18 December 2015: Notification of acceptance * 8 January 2016: Camera-ready versions due -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. ESOP and FoSSaCS accept only research papers. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and be submitted electronically in pdf through the EasyChair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. FASE will try a light-weight double-blind review process (see http://www.etaps.org/2016/fase) - Research papers FASE, FOSSACS and TACAS have a page limit of 15 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) for research papers, whereas POST allows at most 20 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) and ESOP 25 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. ETAPS referees are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. In addition to regular research papers, TACAS solicits also case study papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). Both TACAS and FASE solicit also regular tool papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp). - Tool demonstration papers Submissions should consist of two parts: * The first part, at most 4 pages, should describe the tool presented. Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool. (This part will be included in the proceedings.) * The second part, at most 6 pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated. ESOP and FOSSACS do not accept tool demonstration papers. TACAS has a page limit of 6 pages for tool demonstrations. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (2-3 April, 8 April) -- Around 20 satellite workshops will take place before and after the main conferences. -- HOST CITY -- Eindhoven is located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. It is the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands. The city is well known for modern art, design and technology. The main airport of the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. All major airlines fly to Schiphol, and Schiphol has a direct and very frequent train connection to Eindhoven. Eindhoven also has a small international airport, Eindhoven Airport, with direct connections to more than thirty destinations in Europe. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2016 is hosted by Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Jan Friso Groote * Workshops chair: Erik de Vink and Julien Schmaltz * Publicity chair: Anton Wijs -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at j.f.groote(a)tue.nl, a.j.wijs(a)tue.nl.

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ETA on 7.10.3?
by David Banas 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Hi, Does anyone have an ETA for ghc v7.10.3? (I'm trying to decide between waiting and backing up to 7.8.2, for a particular project.) Thanks, -db

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ANNOUNCE: GPipe 2.0 released
by Tobias Bexelius 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

I am proud to announce the release of the next major version of GPipe on hackage:https://hackage.haskell.org/package/GPipe-2.0 GPipe is a functional type safe API for programming GPUs without having to deal with imperative and unsafe OpenGl bindings. GPipe 2.0 is a complete overhaul of previous GPipe design, providing a safer, more performant interface to OpenGl core profile 3.3. Read about the new features and see some demo of the new API athttp://tobbebex.blogspot.se/2015/09/gpipe-is-dead-long-live-gpipe.html Happy pixel pushing! /Tobias Bexelius

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