December 2016 - Haskell

[ANN] Change of ownership for VTY
by Corey O'Connor 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

Hi all, The (former) owner of VTY here. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to continue to contribute. Jonathan Daugherty has stepped up in my absence to provide excellent improvements and support. He is now the official owner/maintainer of VTY. Please give him the same great community support and thanks :) * http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vty I've had a wonderful time building VTY. Terminals are tricky pieces of old and new technology with plenty of arcane details. Yet, Haskell handles this domain with ease. Not something I expected when I first started! Even better, over the years VTY has evolved significantly and Haskell has supported this evolution with similar ease. Thanks to all in this wonderful community, Corey O'Connor

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ANNOUNCE: Haskell Communities and Activities Report (31st ed., November 2016)
by Mihai Maruseac 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

On behalf of all the contributors, we are pleased to announce that the Haskell Communities and Activities Report (31st edition, November 2016) is now available, in PDF and HTML formats: http://haskell.org/communities/11-2016/report.pdf http://haskell.org/communities/11-2016/html/report.html All previous editions of HCAR can be accessed on the wiki at https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report Many thanks go to all the people that contributed to this report, both directly, by sending in descriptions, and indirectly, by doing all the interesting things that are reported. We hope you will find it as interesting a read as we did. If you have not encountered the Haskell Communities and Activities Reports before, you may like to know that the first of these reports was published in November 2001. Their goal is to improve the communication between the increasingly diverse groups, projects, and individuals working on, with, or inspired by Haskell. The idea behind these reports is simple: Every six months, a call goes out to all of you enjoying Haskell to contribute brief summaries of your own area of work. Many of you respond (eagerly, unprompted, and sometimes in time for the actual deadline) to the call. The editors collect all the contributions into a single report and feed that back to the community. When we try for the next update, six months from now, you might want to report on your own work, project, research area or group as well. So, please put the following into your diaries now: ======================================== End of February 2016: target deadline for contributions to the May 2017 edition of the HCAR Report ======================================== Unfortunately, many Haskellers working on interesting projects are so busy with their work that they seem to have lost the time to follow the Haskell related mailing lists and newsgroups, and have trouble even finding time to report on their work. If you are a member, user or friend of a project so burdened, please find someone willing to make time to report and ask them to "register" with the editors for a simple e-mail reminder in November (you could point us to them as well, and we can then politely ask if they want to contribute, but it might work better if you do the initial asking). Of course, they will still have to find the ten to fifteen minutes to draw up their report, but maybe we can increase our coverage of all that is going on in the community. Feel free to circulate this announcement further in order to reach people who might otherwise not see it. Enjoy! -- Mihai Maruseac (MM) "If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can solve: find it." -- George Polya

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Call for Papers: ICFP 2017
by Lindsey Kuper 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

ICFP 2017 The 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming Oxford, United Kingdom http://icfp17.sigplan.org/ Call for Papers ### Important dates Submissions due: Monday, February 27, Anywhere on Earth https://icfp17.hotcrp.com Author response: Monday, April 17, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) - Thursday, April 20, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) Notification: Monday, 1 May, 2017 Final copy due: Monday, 5 June 2017 Early registration: TBA Conference: Monday, 4 September - Wednesday, 6 September, 2017 ### New this year Those familiar with previous ICFP conferences should be aware of two significant changes that are being introduced in 2017: 1. Papers selected for ICFP 2017 will be published as the ICFP 2017 issue of a new journal, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), which replaces the previous ICFP conference proceedings. The move to PACMPL will have two noticeable impacts on authors: * A new, two-phase selection and reviewing process that conforms to ACM’s journal reviewing guidelines. * A new, single-column format for submissions. 2. Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the reviewing process will have the option to submit materials for Artifact Evaluation. Further details on each of these changes are included in the following text. ### Scope ICFP 2017 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to features, and from abstraction to application. The scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages with objects, concurrency, or parallelism. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * *Language Design*: concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; type systems; interoperability; domain-specific languages; and relations to imperative, object-oriented, or logic programming. * *Implementation*: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection and memory management; multi-threading; exploiting parallel hardware; interfaces to foreign functions, services, components, or low-level machine resources. * *Software-Development Techniques*: algorithms and data structures; design patterns; specification; verification; validation; proof assistants; debugging; testing; tracing; profiling. * *Foundations*: formal semantics; lambda calculus; rewriting; type theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; program verification; dependent types. * *Analysis and Transformation*: control-flow; data-flow; abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program calculation. * *Applications*: symbolic computing; formal-methods tools; artificial intelligence; systems programming; distributed-systems and web programming; hardware design; databases; XML processing; scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces; multimedia and 3D graphics programming; scripting; system administration; security. * *Education*: teaching introductory programming; parallel programming; mathematical proof; algebra. Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical content should be accessible to a broad audience. ICFP 2017 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories — Functional Pearls and Experience Reports — that must be marked as such at the time of submission and that need not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at the end of this call. Please contact the program chair if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions **Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 27, 2017, Anywhere on Earth (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth>). This deadline will be strictly enforced. **Formatting**: (NOTE: NEW FORMAT REQUIREMENTS FOR ICFP 2017) Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Large" template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from <http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format>. There is a limit of 24 pages for a full paper or 12 pages for an Experience Report; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. These page limits have been chosen to allow essentially the same amount of content with the new single-column format as was possible with the two-column format used in past ICFP conferences. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. **Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at <https://icfp17.hotcrp.com/> (in preparation at the time of writing). Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. **Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 15:00 UTC on Monday, April 17, 2017, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Materials**: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. The material should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL. This supplementary material may or may not be anonymized; if not anonymized, it will only be revealed to reviewers after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). **Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at <https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors>. **Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at <http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication>. **Resubmitted Papers**: Authors who submit a revised version of a paper that has previously been rejected by another conference have the option to attach an annotated copy of the reviews of their previous submission(s), explaining how they have addressed these previous reviews in the present submission. If a reviewer identifies him/herself as a reviewer of this previous submission and wishes to see how his/her comments have been addressed, the program chair will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her previous review. Otherwise, no reviewer will read the annotated copies of the previous reviews. ### Review Process This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for presentation at ICFP 2017. We anticipate that there will be a need to clarify and expand on this process, and we will maintain a list of frequently asked questions and answers on the conference website to address common concerns. **ICFP 2017 will employ a two-stage review process.** The first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on initial reviews through the author response period mentioned previously. At the PC meeting, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on May 1, 2017. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set of mandatory revisions. After five weeks (June 5, 2017), the authors will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that the mandatory revisions can be addressed within five weeks and hence that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the second phase. The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be grounds for the paper’s rejection. This process is intended as a refinement of the review process that has been used in previous ICFP conferences. By incorporating a second stage, the process will conform to ACM’s journal reviewing guidelines for PACMPL. **ICFP 2017 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.** To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: 1. **author names and institutions must be omitted**, and 2. **references to authors' own related work should be in the third person** (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. ### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers * As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must adhere to the new ACM Large format. The page limits for final versions of papers will be increased to ensure that authors have space to respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions. * Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of the three ACM licensing options: copyright transfer to ACM; retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights; or open access on payment of a fee. Further information about ACM author rights is available from <http://authors.acm.org>. * At least one author of each accepted submissions will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. * We intend that the proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity via the OpenTOC mechanism. * ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. Downloads through Author-Izer links are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of an ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit <http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service> to learn how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL. * The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to *two weeks prior* to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. ### Artifact Evaluation Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be reviewed by a committee, separate from the program committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, for example, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in the ACM guidelines for artifact badging. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Further information about the motivations and expectations for Artifact Evaluation can be found at <http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-Artifacts>. ### Special categories of papers In addition to research papers, ICFP solicits two kinds of papers that do not require original research contributions: Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports, which are limited to half the length of a full paper. Authors submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines. #### Functional Pearls A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to: * a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea * an instructive example of program calculation or proof * a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure * an interesting application of functional programming techniques * a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational pearls. Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria. In particular, a pearl is not required to report original research, but, it should be concise, instructive, and entertaining. A pearl is likely to be rejected if its readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing. A submission that is intended to be treated as a pearl must be marked as such on the submission web page, and should contain the words "Functional Pearl" somewhere in its title or subtitle. These steps will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation criteria. Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however, for the purpose of computing the conference's acceptance rate. #### Experience Reports The purpose of an Experience Report is to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence that functional programming really works — or to describe what obstacles prevent it from working. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: * insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming * comparison of functional programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when using functional programming in a real-world project * curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in education * real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a functional language or for functional programming in general An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal ICFP paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to evaluate it. * Both in the proceedings and in any citations, the title of each accepted Experience Report must begin with the words "Experience Report" followed by a colon. The acceptance rate for Experience Reports will be computed and reported separately from the rate for ordinary papers. * Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long, excluding bibliography. * Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the conference, but depending on the number of Experience Reports and regular papers accepted, authors of Experience reports may be asked to give shorter talks. * Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our community to accumulate a body of evidence about the efficacy of functional programming, an acceptable Experience Report need not add to the body of knowledge of the functional-programming community by presenting novel results or conclusions. It is sufficient if the Report states a clear thesis and provides supporting evidence. The thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it need not be novel. The program committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on whether they judge the evidence to be convincing. Anecdotal evidence will be acceptable provided it is well argued and the author explains what efforts were made to gather as much evidence as possible. Typically, more convincing evidence is obtained from papers which show how functional programming was used than from papers which only say that functional programming was used. The most convincing evidence often includes comparisons of situations before and after the introduction or discontinuation of functional programming. Evidence drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient, but more weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of groups of people. An Experience Report should be short and to the point: it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results — the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team more productive. If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, it may be better off submitted it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. The program chair will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### Organizers General Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK) Program Chair: Mark Jones (Portland State University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Chair: Ryan R. Newton (Indiana University, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Ryan Trinkle (Obsidian Systems LLC, USA) Programming Contest Organiser: Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity and Web Chair: Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Video Chair: Jose Calderon (Galois, Inc., USA) Workshops Co-Chair: Andres Löh (Well-Typed LLP) Workshops Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Program Committee: Bob Atkey (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Dominique Devriese (KU Leuven, Belgium) Martin Erwig (Oregon State, USA) Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia, Canada) Kathryn Gray (University of Cambridge, England) John Hughes (Chalmers University and Quvik, Sweden) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University, Korea) Graham Hutton (University of Nottingham, England) Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego, USA) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Dan Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Digital Asset, Australia) Gabriel Scherer (Northeastern University, USA) Alexandra Silva (University College London, England) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Nicolas Wu (University of Bristol, England) Beta Ziliani (CONICET and FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)

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Work on mail.haskell.org beginning, please report any problems
by John Wiegley 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Hello Haskellers, Beginning today, I am upgrading our Postfix installation on mail.haskell.org, and introducing some new options to reduce the amount of spam that hits our mailman server. If you experience delivery problems, or any bounced mail, please send a copy of the full bounce message to my address: jwiegley(a)gmail.com. I'll be making more changes gradually over the next few days, and watching the mail logs, but it's possible that mail accepted before will suddenly start getting rejected, depending on how well-behaved your sending mail server is. Activities planned for this Christmas break are: - [x] Upgrade Postfix to 2.11 - [X] Enable postscreen for pre-queue RBL filtering - [ ] DKIM sign messages sent from mailman - [ ] Implement DMARC policy (i.e., reject incoming messages improperly DKIM signed, or failing SPF check) - [ ] Prevent mail being spoofed from haskell.org addresses - [ ] Tighten sender and recipient restrictions - [ ] Re-assess inbound and outbound rate limits - [ ] Use SpamAssassin for post-queue filtering - [ ] If helpful, enable deep protocol pre-filtering - [ ] Document all the above, so others can help with e-mail admin Thank you, John Wiegley Haskell.org, infrastructure team

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[FNC-Conf] FNC 2017 CFPs: The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 - Paper Submission Due: March 8, 2017 - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All FNC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) FNC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/) FNC 2017 will be gel in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chairs Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Advisory Committee Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Bjšrn A. Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 - Paper Submission Due: March 8, 2017 - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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CFP: DCOSS 2017 - Ottawa, Canada
by RODOLFO IPOLITO MENEGUETTE 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

=================================================== Call-For-Papers: 13th DCOSS 2017 Ottawa, Canada, June 5 - 7, 2017 http://www.dcoss.org/ ==================================================== IMPORTANT: Paper registration through EDAS: January 6th, 2016 Paper Submission: January 12th, 2017 =================================================== ------ DCOSS 2017 is the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Ottawa, Canada in June 5-7, 2017. Due to their potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The focus of DCOSS series of conferences is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked sensor systems, including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing. DCOSS puts together a highly selective program where it primes for quality and innovation on works. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Social networks and applications Sensors for smart grid systems, green networks and sustainability Computation and programming models Energy models, minimization, awareness Distributed collaborative information processing Detection and tracking Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability Abstractions for modular design Fault tolerance and security Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration Dynamic resource management Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation Design automation and application synthesis techniques Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation Case studies: lessons from real world deployments Network coding and compression Paper Submission and Publication: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Please submit your paper through EDAS link ( https://edas.info/N23046 ). More detailed instructions about paper submissions can be fount at the link below. - http://www.dcoss.org/ Important Dates: Paper Registration Deadline: 6th January, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: 12th January, 2017 Organizing Committee: GENERAL CHAIR Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia Soumaya Charkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

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CFP: DCOSS 2017 - Ottawa, Canada
by Robson De Grande 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

=================================================== Call-For-Papers: 13th DCOSS 2017 Ottawa, Canada, June 5 - 7, 2017 http://www.dcoss.org/ ==================================================== IMPORTANT: Paper registration through EDAS: January 6th, 2016 Paper Submission: January 12th, 2017 =================================================== ------ DCOSS 2017 is the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Ottawa, Canada in June 5-7, 2017. Due to their potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The focus of DCOSS series of conferences is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked sensor systems, including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing. DCOSS puts together a highly selective program where it primes for quality and innovation on works. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Social networks and applications Sensors for smart grid systems, green networks and sustainability Computation and programming models Energy models, minimization, awareness Distributed collaborative information processing Detection and tracking Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability Abstractions for modular design Fault tolerance and security Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration Dynamic resource management Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation Design automation and application synthesis techniques Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation Case studies: lessons from real world deployments Network coding and compression Paper Submission and Publication: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Please submit your paper through EDAS link (https://edas.info/N23046) More detailed instructions about paper submissions can be fount at the link below. - http://www.dcoss.org/ Important Dates: Paper Registration Deadline: 6th January, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: 12th January, 2017 Organizing Committee: GENERAL CHAIR Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia Soumaya Charkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

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Off the Beaten Track 2017: Call for Participation
by Robert Atkey 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

# Call for Participation: Off the Beaten Track 2017 http://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2017/OBT-2017 21st January 2017 (co-located with POPL 2017, Paris, France) ## Registration http://popl17.sigplan.org/attending/registration ** Early registration deadline: Saturday 17th Dec 2016 ** ## Invited Speakers - Moa Johansson, Chalmers, Sweden - Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK ## Background Programming language researchers have the principles, tools, algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This workshop’s goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often show up in our top conferences, but where programming language research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers and thus increase our community’s impact on the world. While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We are at least as interested in problems as in solutions. ## Programme 09:00-10:00 Invited talk: Reasoning about Functional Programs: Exploring, Testing and Inductive Proofs. Moa Johanssen 10:00-10:30 coffee break 10:30-10:55 Can we machine-learn programming language semantics? Dan Ghica, Khulood Alyahya and Victor Patentasu 10:55-11:20 How Far Apart Should Those Programs Be? Ugo Dal Lago 11:20-11:45 Programming Quantum Annealers George Stelle and Scott Pakin 11:45-12:10 Understanding the POSIX Shell as a Programming Language Michael Greenberg 12:10-14:00 lunch 14:00-15:00 Invited Talk: Varieties of Programming Experience Alan Blackwell 15:00-15:25 Bootstrapping the next generation of mathematical social machines Ursula Martin, Alison Pease and Joe Corneli 15:30-16:00 coffee break 16:00-16:25 Designing extensible, domain-specific languages for mathematical diagrams Katherine Ye, Keenan Crane, Jonathan Aldrich and Joshua Sunshine 16:25-16:50 Laziness Boxes You In Jose Manuel Calderon Trilla and Stephen Magill 16:50-17:15 Programming with Epistemic Logic Markus Eger and Chris Martens 17:15-17:40 Preventing False Discoveries in Adaptive Data Analysis: a Programming Language approach Marco Gaboardi 17:40-18:05 Running Incomplete Programs Ian Voysey, Cyrus Omar and Matthew Hammer

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ACM/SPEC ICPE 2017 - Call for Posters and Demonstrations
by Andrea Rosa 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

ICPE 2017 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG L'Aquila, Italy April 22-26, 2017 https://icpe2017.spec.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Posters and Demonstrations Submission: Dec 23, 2016 Posters and Demonstrations Notification: Jan 16, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like Web-based systems, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, have increasingly distributed and dynamic system architectures that provide high flexibility, however, also increase the complexity of managing end-to-end application performance. ICPE brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, and security. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Posters provide a forum for authors to present their work in an informal and interactive setting, allowing the authors and the interested participants to engage in discussions about the work presented. The contents of a poster should motivate the relevance of the presented work to the performance engineering community, briefly summarize the goals and status of the work, and provide pointers to further information and related work. Demonstrations provide an opportunity to showcase an existing tool or a research prototype, and would be also a welcome addition to an accepted research, work in progress, or industrial track paper. The authors are expected to prepare a 5-minute "teaser" presentation and subsequently perform a live demonstration on their own equipment during a dedicated demonstration session. Best Poster and a Best Demonstration prizes will be awarded in recognition of outstanding poster presentations or live demonstrations. More information can be found at https://icpe2017.spec.org/submissions/posters-and-demonstrations.html<https://icpe2017.spec.org/submissions/workshops.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION OPTIONS Both poster and demo submissions can be accompanied by a 2-page paper, clearly identifying the novelty of the ideas presented on a poster, or involved in building the showcased tool or a prototype. Demonstration papers may include uses cases or specific results presented during the live demonstration. Both poster and demonstration papers will be reviewed and will appear in the conference proceedings. The track is also open to submissions without an accompanying paper. In that case, a poster should be submitted as a 1-page document, while a demonstration should be submitted as a presentation slide-deck. Such submissions will be reviewed directly based on the submitted material. However, lacking a standard paper form, such submissions will not appear in the conference proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers accompanying a poster or a demonstration must be in the standard ACM format for conference proceedings. The submissions should be clearly marked in the text as "Poster Paper" or "Demonstration Paper", and must not exceed 2 pages double column, including figures and tables. Poster-only submissions consist of a 1-page poster, in pdf file, with a format decided by the authors. Slides-only submissions consist of a presentation slide deck (e.g., ppt, odp, or pdf slides), with 5-10 slides. At least one author of each accepted demo or presentation is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will appear in the ICPE 2017 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism as well as to the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions. Submit your contributions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpe2017. Please select "ICPE 2017 Demo and Poster track” during the submission process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIR * Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Please feel free to contact the posters and demonstration chair if you have any questions regarding this track. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICPE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Walter Binder, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland * Vittorio Cortellessa, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Research Program Chairs * Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Industry Program Chairs * Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Tutorials Chair * Valeria Cardellini, Università di Roma Torvergata, Italy Workshops Chairs * Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria * Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Posters and Demos Chair * Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Awards Chairs * Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic * Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Local Organization Chair * Antinisca Di Marco, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Publicity Chairs * Andrea Rosà, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland * Diego Perez, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Finance Chair * André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart Publication and Registration Chair * Davide Arcelli, Università dell'Aquila, Italy Web Site Chair * Cathy Sandifer, SPEC, USA ------------ Andrea Rosà PhD student - Teaching assistant Faculty of Informatics - 2nd floor Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) Via G. Buffi 13 CH-6904 Lugano Switzerland (e) andrea.rosa(a)usi.ch<mailto:andrea.rosa@usi.ch> (p) +41 58 666 4455 ext. 2183 (w) http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/rosaa/

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