April 2017 - Haskell - Haskell.org

(Second Call for Participation) First School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems -- Probabilistic Programming
by Renato Neves 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

It is our greatest pleasure to announce the first edition of the School on Foundations of Programming and Software systems. The school is jointly funded by EATCS, ETAPS, ACM SIGLOG, and ACM SIGPLAN. The topic of the first edition is Probabilistic programming. It will take place in Braga, Portugal, May 29th - June 4th 2017. Probabilistic programming languages are used for modelling and analysis purposes across multiple areas of computer science, including machine learning, security, and quantitative biology. In particular, they provide a rigorous foundation for machine learning where they are used to describe probabilistic models and to perform inference in presence of uncertain information. Probabilistic programs are also used in cryptography and in privacy for modelling and quantifying security. The goal of the school is to introduce attendants to theoretical and practical aspects of programming languages, and will propose courses that cover the following topics: semantics, analysis, verification, applications to machine learning, privacy, and security. The school will have lectures by Andy Gordon, Catuscia Palamidessi, Christel Baier, Dexter Kozen, Frank Wood, Hongseok Yang, Javier Esparza, Michael Carbin, Peter Selinger, Prakash Panangaden, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, and Vitaly Shmatikov. For more information please check the school webpage http://probprogschool2017.di.uminho.pt/ If you have any queries feel free to contact the organisers. Best wishes, Luis Barbosa Gilles Barthe Joost-Pieter Katoen Renato Neves Alexandra Silva

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2nd call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming, 19-21 june 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury
by Peter Achten 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2017 =========== 18th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 19-21 June, 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/tfp17/index.html The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below). Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these articles for formal publication. TFP 2017 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2017 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on 22 June. The TFP symposium is the heir of the successful series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in * Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2003; * Munich (Germany) in 2004; * Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005; * Nottingham (UK) in 2006; * New York (USA) in 2007; * Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008; * Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009; * Oklahoma (USA) in 2010; * Madrid (Spain) in 2011; * St. Andrews (UK) in 2012; * Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015; * and Maryland (USA) in 2016. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/) == SCOPE == The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles: leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles: on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles: descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles: summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to: Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing Functional programming in the cloud High performance functional computing Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs Dependently typed functional programming Validation and verification of functional programs Debugging and profiling for functional languages Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc. Interoperability with imperative programming languages Novel memory management techniques Program analysis and transformation techniques Empirical performance studies Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages (Embedded) domain specific languages New implementation strategies Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2017 program chairs, Scott Owens and Meng Wang. == BEST PAPER AWARDS == To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper accepted for the formal proceedings. TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes. == PAPER SUBMISSIONS == Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on a lightweight peer review process of extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (20 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which ALL authors are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. Papers must be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp17 Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 == INVITED SPEAKERS == Conor McBride University of Strathclyde (UK) Cătălin Hriţcu INRIA Paris (FR) == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: 5 May, 2017 Notification: 12 May, 2017 Registration: 11 June, 2017 TFP Symposium: 19-21 June, 2017 Student papers feedback: 29 June, 2017 Submission for formal review: 2 August, 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 November, 2017 Camera ready paper: 2 December, 2017 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Co-Chairs Meng Wang University of Kent (UK) Scott Owens University of Kent (UK) PC Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge (UK) Nicolas Wu University of Bristol (UK) Laura Castro University of A Coruña (ES) Gabriel Scherer Northeastern University (US) Edwin Brady University of St Andrews (UK) Janis Voigtländer Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven (BE) Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology (US) Mauro Jaskelioff CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AG) Patricia Johann Appalachian State University (US) Bruno Oliveira The University of Hong Kong (HK) Rita Loogen Philipps-Universität Marburg (GE) David Van Horn University of Marylan (US) Soichiro Hidaka Hosei University (JP) Michał Pałka Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Sandrine Blazy University of Rennes 1 - IRISA (FR)

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Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (Oxford, Sep 9): Call for Papers and Demos
by Michael Sperber 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Oxford, UK, September, 9th 2017 Key Dates: Submission deadline June 1, 2017 Author Notification July 1, 2017 Camera Ready July 13, 2017 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. It is co-located with ICFP 2017, the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming. 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. FARM 2017 website : http://functional-art.org/2017/ Submissions 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 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 2017 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. Submission is via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=farm2017 Authors take note 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 your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Questions 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 organisers at: farm-2017(a)functional-art.org All presentations at FARM 2017 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.

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CFP: WPTE 2017 Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation
by David Sabel 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

======================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation WPTE 2017 affiliated with FSCD 2017 8 September, 2017, Oxford, UK http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17 ======================================================================================== Aims and Scope ============== The aim of WPTE is to bring together the researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally-based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area. The previous WPTE were held in Vienna 2014, in Warsaw 2015, and in Porto 2016. Topics of interest in the scope of this workshop include: * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for reasoning about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program transformations for program inversions and program synthesis. * Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and Rewriting. The programming languages of interest include pure, deterministic, impure, nondeterministic, concurrent, parallel languages, and may employ programming paradigms such as functional, logical, typed, imperative, object-oriented, and higher-order. Invited Speaker =============== Joachim Breitner(University of Pennsylvania, USA) Paper Submissions ================= For the paper submission deadline an extended abstract of at most 10 pages is required to be submitted. The extended abstract may present original work or also work in progress. However, for the formal post-proceedings (see below) full papers must be submitted to the post-proceedings deadline. Based on the submissions the program committee will select the presentations for the workshop. All selected contributions will be included in the informal proceedings distributed to the workshop participants. One author of each accepted extended abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package (http://style.eptcs.org/) Formal Post-Proceedings ======================= The WPTE post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/) The authors of all presented contributions will have the opportunity (but no obligation) to submit a full paper for the formal post-proceedings. These full-papers must represent original work and should not be submitted to another conference at the same time. Full-papers should not exceed 15 pages. The submission deadline for these post-proceedings will be after the workshop in October 2017. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline (extended abstracts): July 14th, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: August 4th, 2017 * Deadline for participant proceedings: August 11th, 2017 * Workshop: September 8th, 2017 * Submission deadline for post proceedings (full-papers): October, 2017 (exact date to be announced) Weblinks ======== * EasyChair Submission Website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2017 * Homepage of WPTE 2017 http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/WPTE17/ * FSCD 2017 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/fscd2017/ Program Committee ================= Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Martin Avanzini (University of Innsbruck) Yuki Chiba (JAIST) Horatiu Cirstea (LORIA, Université de Lorraine) -- chair Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politècnica de València) Maribel Fernandez (KCL) Delia Kesner (Université Paris-Diderot) Sergueï Lenglet (Université de Lorraine) Elena Machkasova (University of Minnesota, Morris) William Mansky (Princeton University) Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) David Sabel (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) -- chair Masahiko Sakai (Graduate School of Infomation Science, Nagoya University) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Janis Voigtländer (University of Nijmegen) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig) Fer-Jan de Vries (University of Leicester)

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[Call for Contributions] Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2017 edition (32nd edition)
by Mihai Maruseac 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Dear all, We would like to collect contributions for the 32nd edition (10000th edition) of the ============================================================ Haskell Communities & Activities Report http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Communities_and_Activities_Report Submission deadline: 30 April 2017 (please send your contributions to hcar at haskell.org, in plain text or LaTeX format, both are equally accepted) ============================================================ This is the short story: * If you are working on any project that is in some way related to Haskell, please write a short entry and submit it. Even if the project is very small or unfinished or you think it is not important enough --- please reconsider and submit an entry anyway! * If you are interested in an existing project related to Haskell that has not previously been mentioned in the HCAR, please tell us, so that we can contact the project leaders and ask them to submit an entry. * If you are working on a project that is looking for contributors, please write a short entry and submit it, mentioning that your are looking for contributors. * Feel free to pass on this call for contributions to others that might be interested. More detailed information: The Haskell Communities & Activities Report is a bi-annual overview of the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the last, and possibly the upcoming six months. If you have only recently been exposed to Haskell, it might be a good idea to browse the previous edition --- you will find interesting projects described as well as several starting points and links that may provide answers to many questions. Contributions will be collected until the submission deadline. They will then be compiled into a coherent report that is published online as soon as it is ready. As always, this is a great opportunity to update your webpages, make new releases, announce or even start new projects, or to talk about developments you want every Haskeller to know about! Looking forward to your contributions, Mihai Maruseac FAQ: Q: What format should I write in? A: The usual format is a LaTeX source file, adhering to the template that is available at: http://haskell.org/communities/05-2017/template.tex There is also a LaTeX style file at http://haskell.org/communities/05-2017/hcar.sty that you can use to preview your entry. If you do not know LaTeX or don't want to use it or don't have time to translate your entry into it, then please use plain text, it is better to have an entry in plain-text which we will translate than not have it at all. If you modify an old entry that you have written for an earlier edition of the report, you should soon receive your old entry as a template (provided we have your valid email address). Please modify that template, rather than using your own version of the old entry as a template. Q: Can I include Haskell code? A: Yes. Please use lhs2tex syntax (http://www.andres-loeh.de/lhs2tex/) The report is compiled in mode polycode.fmt. Q: Can I include images? A: Yes, you are even encouraged to do so. Please use .jpg or .png format, then. PNG is preferred for simplicity. Q: Should I send files in .zip archives or similar? A: No, plain file attachments are the way. Q: How much should I write? A: Authors are asked to limit entries to about one column of text. A general introduction is helpful. Apart from that, you should focus on recent or upcoming developments. Pointers to online content can be given for more comprehensive or "historic" overviews of a project. Images do not count towards the length limit, so you may want to use this opportunity to pep up entries. There is no minimum length of an entry! The report aims for being as complete as possible, so please consider writing an entry, even if it is only a few lines long. Q: Which topics are relevant? A: All topics which are related to Haskell in some way are relevant. We usually had reports from users of Haskell (private, academic, or commercial), from authors or contributors to projects related to Haskell, from people working on the Haskell language, libraries, on language extensions or variants. We also like reports about distributions of Haskell software, Haskell infrastructure, books and tutorials on Haskell. Reports on past and upcoming events related to Haskell are also relevant. Finally, there might be new topics we do not even think about. As a rule of thumb: if in doubt, then it probably is relevant and has a place in the HCAR. You can also simply ask us. Q: Is unfinished work relevant? Are ideas for projects relevant? A: Yes! You can use the HCAR to talk about projects you are currently working on. You can use it to look for other developers that might help you. You can use HCAR to ask for more contributors to your project, it is a good way to gain visibility and traction. Q: If I do not update my entry, but want to keep it in the report, what should I do? A: Tell us that there are no changes. The old entry will typically be reused in this case, but it might be dropped if it is older than a year, to give more room and more attention to projects that change a lot. Do not resend complete entries if you have not changed them. Q: Will I get confirmation if I send an entry? How do I know whether my email has even reached its destination, and not ended up in a spam folder? A: Prior to publication of the final report, we will send a draft to all contributors, for possible corrections. So if you do not hear from us within two weeks after the deadline, it is safer to send another mail and check whether your first one was received. -- Mihai Maruseac (MM) "If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can solve: find it." -- George Polya

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The Racket Summer School of Semantics and Languages
by Robby Findler 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

The Racket Summer School of Semantics and Languages Last Call Imagine yourself confronted with a Mystery Programming Language and charged with the task of figuring out its semantics. What would you do? What if you have a formal executable semantics and want to build a production language for it? If these questions intrigue you, attend the Racket Summer School: http://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/ This is not your run-of-the-mill summer school. We will do our best to make it exciting, entertaining, and useful to a broad spectrum of attendees, both academic and industrial. P.S. As soon as you get accepted, we will send you your first problem set. Get ready.

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