February 2016 - Haskell

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

22 Mar '16

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

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ANNOUNCE: Applied Functional Programming (AFP) Summerschool 4-15 July 2016, Utrecht, Netherlands
by Atze Dijkstra 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

=========== AFP Summerschool 2016 =========== Applied Functional Programming (AFP) Summerschool July 4-15, 2016 Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands Summerschool & registration website: http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/science/applied-functional-progra… AFP website : http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/USCS contact : Uscs-afp(a)lists.science.uu.nl *** The 2016 edition of the Applied Functional Programming (AFP) Summerschool in Utrecht, Netherlands will be held from 4-15 July 2016. The summerschool teaches Haskell on both beginners and advanced levels via lectures and lab exercises. More info can be found via the references above, included here is a summary from the summerschool info: ``Typed functional programming languages allow for the development of robust, concise programs in a short amount of time. The key advantages are higher-order functions as an abstraction mechanism, and an advanced type system for safety and re usability. This course explores Haskell, a state-of-the-art functional programming language, together with some of its theoretical background, such as typed lambda calculi, referential transparency, Damas-Milner type inference, type level programming, and functional design patterns. We will combine this with applications of functional programming, concentrating on topics such as language processing, building graphical user interfaces, networking, databases, and programming for the web. The goal of the course is not just to teach the programming language and underlying theory, but also to learn about the Haskell community and to get hands-on experience by doing lab exercises or a Haskell project of your own.'' The summerschool is organised and given by the Software Technology group (http://www.uu.nl/en/research/software-systems/software-technology) within the Department of Information and Computing Sciences (http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and- computing-sciences), a group which in the departmental research evaluation over the past years was singled out by ``...the functional programming activities are known to be world leading in their domain.'' *** regards, - Atze - Atze Dijkstra, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. /|\ Utrecht University, PO Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands. / | \ Tel.: +31-30-2534118/1454 | WWW : http://www.cs.uu.nl/~atze . /--| \ Fax : +31-30-2513971 .... | Email: atze(a)uu.nl ............... / |___\

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Call for Participation: MSFP 2016
by Bob Atkey 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Sixth Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 8 April 2016, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands A satellite workshop of ETAPS 2016 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://msfp2016.bentnib.org/ **The early registration deadline for ETAPS is 1st March** The sixth workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. This year's MSFP will be held on Friday 8th April 2016, Co-located with ETAPS 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The programme will contain the following accepted papers: - Maciej Piróg. Eilenberg-Moore Monoids and Backtracking Monad Transformers. - Bartek Klin and Michał Szynwelski. SMT solving for functional programming over infinite structures. - Niccolò Veltri, Tarmo Uustalu and Denis Firsov. Variations on Noetherianness. - Danel Ahman and Tarmo Uustalu. Directed containers as categories. - Satoshi Matsuoka. Strong Typed Bohm Theorem and Functional Completeness on the Linear Lambda Calculus. Invited speakers TBC. Check the website for details. About the Workshop ================== The sixth workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming without temporal logic? Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006, affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS 2014. Program Committee: ================== Zena Ariola, University of Oregon Robert Atkey, University of Strathclyde (co-chair) Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology Chantal Keller, IUT d'Orsay Neelakantan Krishnaswami, University of Birmingham (co-chair) Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol

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PPDP 2016: First Call for Papers
by German Vidal 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

====================================================================== Call for papers 18th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2016 Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) -tentative- Edinburgh, UK, September 5-7, 2016 (co-located with LOPSTR and SAS) http://ppdp16.webs.upv.es/ ====================================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 9 MAY (abstracts) / 16 MAY (papers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPDP 2016 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Functional programming * Logic programming * Answer-set programming * Functional-logic programming * Declarative visual languages * Constraint Handling Rules * Parallel implementation and concurrency * Monads, type classes and dependent type systems * Declarative domain-specific languages * Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs * Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages * Language extensions for security and tabulation * Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity * Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems * Practical experiences and industrial application This year the conference will be co-located with the 26th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2016) and the 23rd Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2016). The conference will be held in Edinburgh, UK. Previous symposia were held at Siena (Italy), Canterbury (UK), Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia, http://sites.google.com/site/ppdpconf/ Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by Elsevier of 2017 (tentative). Important Dates Abstract submission: 9 May, 2016 Paper submission: 16 May, 2016 Notification: 20 June, 2016 Final version of papers: 17 July, 2016 Symposium: 5-7 September, 2016 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP 2016. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist the program committee in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices. Program Committee Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon, USA Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland Rafael Caballero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark, and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Michael Hanus, CAU Kiel, Germany Martin Hofmann, LMU Munchen, Germany Gerda Janssens, KU Leuven, Belgium Kazutaka Matsuda, Tohoku University, Japan Fred Mesnard, Universite de la Reunion, France Emilia Oikarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Alberto Pettorossi, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK Peter Thiemann, Universitat Freiburg, Germany Frank D. Valencia, CNRS-LIX Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, France, and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (Program Chair) Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA Program Chair German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Camino de Vera, S/N E-46022 Valencia, Spain Email: gvidal(a)dsic.upv.es Symposium Chair James Cheney Informatics Forum 5.29 Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science School of Informatics 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, Scotland, UK Email: jcheney(a)inf.ed.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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ANN: tasty-discover
by lwm 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

Hi folks, happy to announce a first iteration of a test discovery and runner tool for the tasty framework. https://github.com/lwm/tasty-discover It's a small program based on a fork of hspec-discover and some tasty-th magic, which: * discovers all test modules under your test suite `hs-source-dirs` * parses the files for test names with the prefix `prop_` and `case_` * generates the boilerplate and runs the tests It has potential to be a flexible test discover for many test libraries. Best, Luke

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ARRAY 2016 Call for Papers
by Clemens Grelck 19 Feb '16

19 Feb '16

*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ARRAY 2016 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming Santa Barbara, CA, USA June 14, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/array-2016/ part of PLDI 2016 37th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation June 13-17, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016/ *************************************************************************** Focus and Description: Array-oriented programming is a powerful abstraction for compactly implementing numerically intensive algorithms. Many modern languages now provide some support for collective array operations, which are used by an increasing number of programmers (and non-programmers) for data analysis and scientific computing. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from many different communities, including language designers, library developers, compiler researchers and practitioners who are working on numeric, array-centric aspects of programming languages, libraries and methodologies from all domains: imperative or declarative, object-oriented or not, interpreted or compiled, strongly typed, weakly typed or untyped. The aim of this workshop is to foster the cross-pollination of concepts across domains, projects and research communities and to explore new directions, such as: + Expanding the scope of array programming to encompass a wider range of data types and computations, + Transparently utilizing parallel hardware (multi-core, SIMD, GPU, FPGA) by leveraging the implicitly parallel semantics of array operations, + Simplifying the embedding of array constructs within existing languages which weren't designed for numerical computing, + Connections between array abstractions and other models such as dataflow programming, stream programming, and data parallelism, + High-level compilation and optimization techniques for array-oriented programs, + Compilers, virtual machines and frameworks for array-oriented programming languages. *************************************************************************** Important Dates: Paper submissions: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Notification of authors: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 Camera-ready copies due: Fri, May 27, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Workshop date: Tue, Jun 14, 2016 *************************************************************************** Submissions: Manuscripts may fall into one of the following categories: + research papers on any topic related to the focus of the workshop + tool descriptions reporting on a tool relevant to the workshop area Submissions should be 4-8 pages for research papers 4-6 pages for tool descriptions. In the case of a tool description the workshop presentation should include a demo of the tool, and the submission should include a short appendix summarizing the tool demo. This appendix is for the information of the PC only, and will not be part of the published paper, nor does it count into the six page limit. Clearly mark your submission as either a research paper or a tool description in the paper's subtitle. Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must adhere to the standard SIGPLAN conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=array2016 As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *************************************************************************** Organizing Committee: Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam (Chair) David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *************************************************************************** Programme Committee: Robert Bernecky, Snake Island Research, Canada Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Laurie Hendren , McGill University, Canada Stephan Herhut, Google Inc, Denmark Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, Australia Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA *************************************************************************** Travel Funding: Since ARRAY 2006 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, presenters and authors of papers are eligible to apply for SIGPLAN PAC funding. *************************************************************************** -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[ICGT2016] CFP: Int.Conf. Graph Transformation, Vienna, July 2016
by Rachid Echahed 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================================================== Call for Papers ICGT 2016 9th International Conference on Graph Transformation www.graph-transformation.org Held as Part of STAF 2016 http://staf2016.conf.tuwien.ac.at/ July 5-6, 2016, Vienna, Austria ========================================================================== Important Dates: Abstract submission: 15 February 2016 Full paper submission: 29 February 2016 Notification of acceptance: 07 April 2016 Final version due: 21 April 2016 Conference: 5-6 July 2016 ========================================================================== Graphs are used almost everywhere when representing or modelling structures and systems, not only in applied and theoretical computer science, but also in, e.g., natural and engineering sciences. Graph transformation and graph grammars are the fundamental modelling paradigms for describing, formalizing, and analyzing graphs that change over time when modelling, e.g., dynamic data structures, systems, or models. The International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT) series aims to bring together researchers from different areas in this context and to provide a forum for presenting new results, discussing novel ideas and sharing experience. In order to foster a lively exchange of perspectives on the subject of the conference, the programme committee of the ninth edition of ICGT encourages all kinds of contributions related to graph transformation. Topics of interest include, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO the following subjects: - General models of graph transformation (e.g., high-level, adhesive, node, edge, and hyperedge replacement systems) - Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems - Graph theoretical properties of graph languages - Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages - Logical aspects of graph transformation - Computational models based on graph transformation - Structuring and modularization concepts for graph transformation systems - Hierarchical graphs and decompositions of graphs - Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation - Modelling and analysis of dynamic data structures - Term graph rewriting - Graph transformation and Petri nets - Ontologies and ontology evolution - Graph databases - Modelling and realizing software architectures, refactoring, evolution, workflows, business processes, access control, security policies, service-oriented applications, semantic web, ... - Natural language processing, natural computing, bioinformatics, quantum computing, ubiquitous computing, visual computing, image generation, natural and engineering sciences, ... - Model-driven development and model transformation based on graph transformation - Model checking, program verification, simulation and animation - Syntax, semantics and implementation of programming languages, domain-specific languages, and visual languages - Graph transformation languages and tool support - Efficient algorithms (pattern matching, graph traversal etc.) The 9th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2016) will be held in Vienna, Austria, as a STAF event (http://staf2016.conf.tuwien.ac.at/) The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS (http://www.eatcs.org/) EASST (http://www.easst.org/) and IFIP (http://www.ifip.org/) WG 1.3. Program Committee ----------------- Rachid Echahed (Co-Chair, CNRS and University of Grenoble Alpes, France) Mark Minas (Co-Chair, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany) Gábor Bergmann (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Paolo Bottoni (Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Italy) Andrea Corradini (Università di Pisa, Italy) Juan de Lara (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) Frank Drewes (Umeå University, Sweden) Claudia Ermel (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) Annegret Habel (Universität Oldenburg, Germany) Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK) Berthold Hoffmann (Universität Bremen, Germany) Dirk Janssens (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium) Barbara König (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Christian Krause (SAP Innovation Centre Potsdam, Germany) Sabine Kuske (Universität Bremen, Germany) Leen Lambers (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany) Yngve Lamo (Bergen University College, Norway) Tihamér Levendovszky (Vanderbilt University, USA) Mohamed Mosbah (LaBRI , Université de Bordeaux, France) Fernando Orejas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Italy) Detlef Plump (University of York, UK) Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Leila Ribeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Andy Schürr (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Martin Strecker (Université de Toulouse, France) Gabriele Taentzer (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) Matthias Tichy (University of Ulm, Germany) Pieter Van Gorp (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Hans Vangheluwe (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium) Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Albert Zündorf (Kassel University, Germany) Paper Submission ---------------- Papers are solicited in three categories: * Research papers (limited to 16 pages in Springer LNCS format) describe innovative contributions and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version may be included in a clearly marked appendix. * Case studies (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format) describe applications of graph transformations in any application domain. * Tool presentation papers (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format) demonstrate the main features and functionality of graph-based tools. A tool presentation paper may have an appendix with a detailed demo description (up to 5 pages), which will be reviewed but not included in the proceedings. Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt2016. Submitted papers must use Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs) Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. The page limits are strict and include references. Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs) series. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: 15 February 2016 Full paper submission: 29 February 2016 Notification of acceptance: 07 April 2016 Final version due: 21 April 2016 Conference: 5-6 July 2016 Further Information ------------------- Web page: http://www.graph-transformation.org https://sites.google.com/site/icgt2016/ Contact: icgt2016(a)gmail.com

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Call for Haskell.org committee self-nominations
by John Wiegley 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Dear Haskellers, It is time to put out the call for new volunteers to the haskell.org committee. We have one member due for retirement since this past October: Gershom Bazerman. The committee would like to thank him for his excellent service. To nominate yourself, please send an email to committee at haskell.org by March 4, 2016. The retiring members are eligible to re-nominate themselves. Please feel free to include any information about yourself that you think will help us to make a decision. Being a member of the committee does not necessarily require a significant amount of time, but committee members should aim to be responsive during discussions when the committee is called upon to make a decision. Strong leadership, communication, and judgement are very important characteristics for committee members. The role is about setting policy, providing direction/guidance for Haskell.org infrastructure, planning for the long term, and being fiscally responsible with the Haskell.org funds (and donations). As overseers for policy regarding the open source side of Haskell, committee members must also be able to set aside personal or business related bias and make decisions with the good of the open source Haskell community in mind. More details about the committee's roles and responsibilities are on https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to e-mail us at committee at haskell.org, or contact one of us individually. Thank you, -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2

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Call for Papers and Demos: Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design
by Michael Sperber 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

================================================================ 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Co-located with ICFP Nara, Japan, 24 September, 2016 http://functional-art.org/2016/ ================================================================ Call for Papers and Demos The ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (FARM) gathers together people who are harnessing functional techniques in the pursuit of creativity and expression. Functional Programming has emerged as a mainstream software development paradigm, and its artistic and creative use is booming. A growing number of software toolkits, frameworks and environments for art, music and design now employ functional programming languages and techniques. FARM is a forum for exploration and critical evaluation of these developments, for example to consider potential benefits of greater consistency, tersity, and closer mapping to a problem domain. FARM encourages submissions from across art, craft and design, including textiles, visual art, music, 3D sculpture, animation, GUIs, video games, 3D printing and architectural models, choreography, poetry, and even VLSI layouts, GPU configurations, or mechanical engineering designs. Theoretical foundations, language design, implementation issues, and applications in industry or the arts are all within the scope of the workshop. The language used need not be purely functional ("mostly functional" is fine), and may be manifested as a domain specific language or tool. Moreover, submissions focusing on questions or issues about the use of functional programming are within the scope. We welcome submissions from academic, professional, and independent programmers and artists. Submissions are invited in three categories: 1) Original papers We solicit original papers in the following categories: * original research * overview / state of the art * technology tutorial All submissions must propose an original contribution to the FARM theme. FARM 2016 is an interdisciplinary conference, so a wide range of approaches are encouraged. An original paper should have 5 to 12 pages, be in portable document format (PDF), using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines and use the ACM SIGPLAN template (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the FARM 2016 proceedings. See http://authors.acm.org/main.cfm for information on the options available to authors. Authors are encouraged to submit auxiliary material for publication along with their paper (source code, data, videos, images, etc.); authors retain all rights to the auxiliary material. 2) Demo proposals Demo proposals should describe a demonstration to be given at the FARM workshop and its context, connecting it with the themes of FARM. A demo could be in the form of a short (10-20 minute) tutorial, presentation of work-in-progress, an exhibition of some work, or even a performance. Demo proposals should be in plain text, HTML or Markdown format, and not exceed 2000 words. A demo proposal should be clearly marked as such, by prepending `Demo Proposal:` to the title. Demo proposals will be published on the FARM website. A summary of the demo performances will also be published as part of the conference proceedings, to be prepared by the program chair. 3) Calls for collaboration Calls for collaboration should describe a need for technology or expertise related to the FARM theme. Examples may include but are not restricted to: * art projects in need of realization * existing software or hardware that may benefit from functional programming * unfinished projects in need of inspiration Calls for collaboration should be in plain text, HTML or Markdown format, and not exceed 5000 words. A call for collaboration should be clearly marked as such, by prepending `Call for Collaboration:` to the title. Calls for collaboration will be published on the FARM website. If you have any questions about what type of contributions that might be suitable, or anything else regarding submission or the workshop itself, please contact the organizers at: farm-2016(a)functional-art.org All presentations at FARM 2016 will be recorded. Permission to publish the resulting video (in all probability on YouTube, along with the videos of ICFP itself and the other ICFP-colocated events) will be requested on-site. Key Dates: Submission deadline - June 24 Author Notification - 22 July Camera Ready - 15 August Workshop - September 24, 2016 Submit at : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=farm2016

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[TFPIE 2016] 1st call for papers
by Peter Achten 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2016) Call for papers https://wiki.science.ru.nl/tfpie/TFPIE2016 The 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2016, will be held on June 7, 2016 at the University of Maryland College Park in the USA. It is co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2016) which takes place from June 8 - 10. *** Goal *** The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2016 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website/wiki. Visitors to the TFPIE 2016 website/wiki will be able to add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up work. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015). *** Program Committee *** Stephen Chang at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, USA Marc Feeley at Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada Patricia Johann at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA Jay McCarthy at University of Massachusetts Lowell in Massachusetts, USA (Chair) Prabhakar Ragde at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada Brent Yorgey at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA *** Submission Guidelines *** TFPIE 2016 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - Tools supporting learning FP - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy *** Best Lectures *** In addition to papers, we request "best lecture" presentations. What is your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. *** Submission *** Papers and abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2016 It is expected at at least one author for each submitted paper will attend the workshop. *** Registration & Local Information *** Please see the TFP site for registration and local information: http://tfp2016.org/ *** Important Dates *** April 27, 2016: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts May 3, 2016: Notification of acceptance for presentation May 13, 2016: Registration for TFP/TFPIE closes June 7, 2016: Presentations in Maryland, USA July 7, 2016: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due. September 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance for proceedings September 22, 2016: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn.

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