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Call for Papers: WFLP/WLP 2017
by mh＠informatik.uni-kiel.de 22 May '17

22 May '17

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS WFLP 2017 25th International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming 31st Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming part of Declare 2017 - Conference on Declarative Programming September 19-22, 2017, Wuerzburg, Germany http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/wflp2017/ ====================================================================== GENERAL WFLP 2017 is the combination of two workshops of a successful series of annual workshops on declarative programming. The international workshops on functional and logic programming aim at bringing together researchers interested in functional programming, logic programming, as well as their integration. The workshops on (constraint) logic programming serve as the scientific forum of the annual meeting of the Society of Logic Programming (GLP e.V.) and bring together researchers interested in logic programming, constraint programming, and related areas like databases, artificial intelligence, and operations research. In this year both workshops will be jointly organized and collocated with the 21st International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAP 2017) and the Summer School on Advanced Concepts for Databases and Logic Programming under the umbrella of the conference on Declarative Programming (Declare 2017) in order to promote the cross-fertilizing exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and students from the different communities interested in the foundations, applications, and combinations of high-level, declarative programming languages and related areas. The technical program of the workshop will include invited talks, presentations of refereed papers and demo presentations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Functional programming * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Deductive databases, data mining * Extensions of declarative languages, objects * Multi-paradigm declarative programming * Foundations, semantics, nonmonotonic reasoning, dynamics * Parallelism, concurrency * Program analysis, abstract interpretation * Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming * Specification, verification, declarative debugging * Knowledge representation, machine learning * Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms (e.g., agents, XML, Java) * Implementation of declarative languages * Advanced programming environments and tools * Software technique for declarative programming * Applications The primary focus is on new and original research results but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: June 24, 2017 Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2017 Camera-ready papers: August 1, 2017 Workshop: September 19-22, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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). Papers can be submitted as technical papers or system descriptions. Technical papers should consist of up to 15 pages, system descriptions should be no longer than 6 pages. Formatting should follow the LNCS guidelines. The details about the procedure to submit papers electronically are described on the conference website. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS All accepted papers will be published as a technical report. As for previous events, it is planned to publish selected papers as post-conference proceedings in the Springer LNCS series. Previous proceedings appeared as Springer LNCS volumes 8439 (WFLP 2013), 6816 (WFLP 2011), 6559 (WFLP 2010), 5979 (WFLP 2009), 5437 (WLP 2007), and 3392 (WLP 2004). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Slim Abdennadher German University in Cairo, Egypt Sergio Antoy Portland State University, USA Olaf Chitil University of Kent, UK Juergen Dix Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Moreno Falaschi Universita di Siena, Italy Michael Hanus University of Kiel, Germany (Chair) Sebastian Joosten University of Innsbruck, Austria Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University, Japan Herbert Kuchen University of Muenster, Germany Dietmar Seipel University of Wuerzburg, Germany Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany Hans Tompits Vienna University of Technology, Austria German Vidal Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Janis Voigtlaender University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Johannes Waldmann HTWK Leipzig, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT Michael Hanus University of Kiel, Germany Email: mh(a)informatik.uni-kiel.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Reminder: Call for Presentations: CUFP 2017, September 7-9, Oxford, UK
by Jasper Van der Jeugt 21 May '17

21 May '17

Hello all, This is just a reminder that there are 3 weeks until the deadline for CUFP 2017 submissions. If you use haskell in the industry, please consider submitting a proposal. The CFP and the form for submitting presentations proposals can be found at: http://cufp.org/2017/call-for-presentations.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 2017 Call for Presentations > > Workshop for Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2017 > Sponsored by SIGPLAN > CUFP 2017 > Co-located with ICFP 2017 > Oxford, UK > September 7-9 > Talk Proposal Submission Deadline: 9 June 2017 > > The annual CUFP event is a place where people can see how others are > using functional programming to solve real world problems; where > practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users > can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where > one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional > programming to work. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Giving a CUFP Talk > > If you have experience using functional languages in a practical > setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the event. > We're looking for two kinds of talks: > > Retrospective reports are typically 25 minutes long. Now that CUFP has > run for more than a decade, we intend to invite past speakers to share > what they've learned after a decade spent as commercial users of > functional programming. We will favour experience reports that include > technical content. > > Technical talks are also 25 minutes long, and should focus on teaching > the audience something about a particular technique or methodology, from > the point of view of someone who has seen it play out in practice. These > talks could cover anything from techniques for building functional > concurrent applications, to managing dynamic reconfigurations, to design > recipes for using types effectively in large-scale applications. While > these talks will often be based on a particular language, they should be > accessible to a broad range of programmers. > > We strongly encourage submissions from people in communities that are > underrepresented in functional programming, including but not limited to > women; people of color; people in gender, sexual and romantic > minorities; people with disabilities; people residing in Asia, Africa, > or Latin America; and people who have never presented at a conference > before. We recognize that inclusion is an important part of our ission > to promote functional programming. So that CUFP can be a safe > environment in which participants openly exchange ideas, we abide by the > SIGPLAN Conference Anti-Harassment Policy: > > http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Anti-harassment > > If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do > so, please submit your presentation before 09 June 2017 via the CUFP > 2017 Presentation Submission Form: > > https://goo.gl/forms/KPloANxHHwdiaoVj2 > > You do not need to submit a paper, just a short proposal for your talk. > There will be a short scribe's report of the presentations and > discussions but not of the details of individual talks, as the meeting > is intended to be more of a discussion forum than a technical > interchange. > > Nevertheless, presentations will be recorded and presenters will be > expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. > > Note that we will need presenters to register for the CUFP workshop and > travel to Oxford at their own expense. There are some funds available to > would-be presenters who require assistance in this respect. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Program Committee > > Alex Lang (Tsuru Capital), co-chair > Rachel Reese (Mulberry Labs), co-chair > Garrett Smith (Guild AI) > Danielle Sucher (Jane Street) > Jasper Van der Jeugt (Fugue) > Yukitoshi Suzuki (Ziosoft) > Evelina Gabasova (University of Cambridge) > Brian Mitchell (Jet.com) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > More information > > For more information on CUFP, including videos of presentations from > previous years, take a look at the CUFP website at http://cufp.org. Note > that presenters, like other attendees, will need to register for the > event. Acceptance and rejection letters will be sent out by July 15th. > Guidance on giving a great CUFP talk > > Focus on the interesting bits: Think about what will distinguish your > talk, and what will engage the audience, and focus there. There are a > number of places to look for those interesting bits. > > Setting: FP is pretty well-established in some areas, including formal > verification, financial processing, and server-side web services. An > unusual setting can be a source of interest. If you're deploying > FP-based mobile UIs or building servers on oil rigs, then the challenges > of that scenario are worth focusing on. Did FP help or hinder in > adapting to the setting? > > Technology: The CUFP audience is hungry to learn about how FP techniques > work in practice. What design patterns have you applied, and to what > areas? Did you use functional reactive programming for user interfaces, > or DSLs for playing chess, or fault-tolerant actors for large-scale > geological data processing? Teach us something about the techniques you > used, and why we should consider using them ourselves. > > Getting things done: How did you deal with large-scale software > development in the absence of pre-existing support tools that are often > expected in larger commercial environments (IDEs, coverage tools, > debuggers, profilers) and without larger, proven bodies of libraries? > Did you hit any brick walls that required support from the community? > > Don't just be a cheerleader: It's easy to write a rah-rah talk about how > well FP worked for you, but CUFP is more interesting when the talks also > cover what doesn't work. Even when the results were all great, you > should spend more time on the challenges along the way than on the parts > that went smoothly.

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PPDP 2017: ** REVISED PAPER DEADLINE 26 May **
by Brigitte Pientka 16 May '17

16 May '17

======================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 19th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2017 Namur, Belgium, October 9-11, 2017 (co-located with LOPSTR'17) http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/ppdp2017 <http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/ppdp2017> ======================================================== REVISED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 26 May ======================================================== PPDP 2017 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint programming paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ** Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming. ** Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection; memory management. ** Foundations: type systems; type classes; dependent types; logical frameworks; monads; resource analysis; cost models; continuations; control; state; effects; semantics. ** Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing. ** Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application; education. This year the conference will be co-located with the 27th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017). IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: 26 May 2017 Paper Rebuttal: 10 July 2017 Notification: 20 July 2017 Final Version: 15 Aug 2017 SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System Descriptions, and Experience Reports. Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style 2-column (including figures and bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submissions of research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability. Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must not exceed 6 pages. Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results. They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: * insights gained from real-world projects using declarative programming * comparison of declarative programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming in education * real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a declarative language or for declarative programming in general * novel use of declarative programming in the classroom * programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or programming technique. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions must be formatted using ACM style files (latest release December 2016) using the instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> To prepare your submission using LaTex: * Download acmart.zip from https://www.ctan.org/pkg/acmart <https://www.ctan.org/pkg/acmart> * Unzip acmart.zip * Run latex acmart.ins to produce an acmart.cls file * Run pdflatex sample-sigconf.tex to check that your installation works correctly * Write your paper using sample-sigconf.tex as a template Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit within the page limit, executables of systems, code of case studies, benchmarks used to evaluate a given system, etc., should be made available, via a reference to a website or in an appendix of the paper. Reviewers will be encouraged to consider this additional material, but are not obliged to. Submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; considering the additional material should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission. At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. Papers must be submitted via easychair. The submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2017> PROCEEDING Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. PROGRAM CHAIR Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) Nadia Amin (EPFL) Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon) Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Torino) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politècnica de València) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) Thom Frühwirth (University of Ulm) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) Neel Krishnaswami (University of Cambridge) Michaël Leuschel (Universität Düsseldorf) Yanhong Annie Liu (Stony Brook University) Andres Loeh (Well-Typed) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Paraiba / fortiss) Naoki Nishida (Nagoya University) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) (PC Chair) Ulrich Schoepp (Ludwig Maximilian University) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University) Bernardo Toninho (Imperial College London) LOCAL ORGANIZER (joint with LOPSTR): Wim Vanhoof (University of Namur) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP Special Sessions: DS-RT 2017 - Rome, Italy, October 18-20, 2017
by Robson De Grande 15 May '17

15 May '17

Dear Colleagues and Researchers, Apologies, if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. ********** CALL FOR PAPER ********** DS-RT 2017, the 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulations and Real Time Applications, is running four special sessions this year: - Distributed Simulations of Distributed Systems - Agent-based Modeling and Simulation - Simulation of Urban Traffic Management and ITS - Augmented and Virtual Reality for Real-Time Applications Those special sessions cover important areas of the field of distributed simulations and real time applications, and many papers were accepted in previous editions of DS-RT on the same topics. See below for more detailed descriptions of those special sessions. ***** PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW ***** Submitted manuscripts must be in standard IEEE two-column format that is used for IEEE conference proceedings and must not exceed "8 pages" (2-page extension allowed), including figures, tables and references. Standard IEEE templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at: - http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html A submission may present preliminary results, propose new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on important topics related to the considered special session. Papers will be selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical discussions at the special session and influencing future research. 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 and the special session. At least one author of accepted papers must attend the conference and present its contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE Press. ***** IMPORTANT DATES ***** Full paper submission deadline: May 26th, 2017 Paper acceptance notification: June 26th, 2017 ***** FOR MORE INFORMATION ***** For questions about the paper submission and review process, please contact the session organisers - find all relevant information on the corresponding web pages below. ***** DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIAL SESSIONS ***** * Special Session on Distributed Simulations of Distributed Systems Distributed simulation (DS) is a valuable tool for understanding and evaluating distributed systems. The current computing trend sees businesses and individuals moving toward a more centralized infrastructure, namely the cloud. On the one hand, as the computing infrastructure at data centers is highly complex and distributed, DS becomes essential for diagnosing and gaining insights of the system. On the other hand, the scale and nature of interaction between different components in the cloud present new challenges and push DS's state of the art. Another computing trend that has potential to drive DS is internet-of-things. Such complex systems consist of a large number of autonomous, heterogeneous devices communicating with one another in non-uniform manner. DS is valuable not only for discerning system properties but also for predicting the devices' emergent behavior. Finally, users in online social networks make up large distributed systems. Insights of user interaction and the network's collective behavior --- the study of which fits well into the realm of DS --- bring significant value to both the society and the business of social network providers. This special session seeks to bring together experts and practitioners in the domain of DS to discuss new opportunities and challenges for DS. We welcome research papers on both theoretical and empirical issues. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2017/dsimdsys_2017.htm * Special Session on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation This special session focuses on general aspects and special properties for agent-based modeling and simulations that allows them to be applied on several scientific domains, such as sociology, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, and economy. The session is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners, so they can present the current status of their work and discuss the challenges they face in developing solutions and applications for agent-based simulations. Consequently, the design of these simulations aims not only to social contexts but also to more technical domains, which involves highly complex interactive systems. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2017/abms_2017.htm * Special Session on Simulation of Urban Traffic Management and ITS This special session focuses on simulation tools and real-time simulation applications used in and for evaluation, management, and design of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), as well as Smart Cities. Such simulations are expected to offer prediction and on-the-flow feedback for the better decision-making, bringing up means for both the implementation of more complex traffic management systems and end-user applications. Off-line and real-time analyses of data collected from infrastructured systems (e.g. real-time traffic information), mobile, distributed technologies (e.g. communication devices), and socially-build systems (e.g. social networks applications) are of great interest for shaping and influencing how ITS solutions are designed. Thus, we are particularly interested in how these data and technologies can be incorporated in domain-related models and simulations. We aim to bring together experts from both industry and academia to discuss the challenges related to modelling and simulation for ITS. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2017/soiits_2017.htm Best Regards, DS-RT 2017 Special Session Chairs

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<Programming> 2018: Call for Papers
by Sylvia Grewe 12 May '17

12 May '17

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <Programming> 2018 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Mon 9 - Thu 12 April 2018 Nice, France http://2018.programming-conference.org/ In 2017, we started a new conference and journal focused on everything to do with programming, including the experience of programming, called <Programming> for short. The first edition of <Programming> was a great success (see http://twitter.com/programmingconf for testimonies). Paper submissions and publications are handled by the journal. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** <Programming> 2018 accept scholarly papers including essays that advance the knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: August 1 2017 (Research Papers Second Submission Deadline) December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline) We accept submissions covering several areas of expertise. These areas include, but are not limited to: • General-purpose programming • Distributed systems programming • Parallel and multi-core programming • Graphics and GPU programming • Security programming • User interface programming • Database programming • Visual and live programming • Data mining and machine learning programming • Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers • Modularity and separation of concerns • Model-based development • Metaprogramming and reflection • Testing and debugging • Program verification • Programming education • Programming environments • Social coding ******************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************** Research paper submissions: August 1 2017 (Research Papers Second Submission Deadline) December 1 2017 (Research Papers Third Submission Deadline) Research paper first notification (for second submission deadline): October 1 2017 Research paper final notification (for second submission deadline): November 7 2017 Research paper first notification (for third submission deadline): February 1 2018 Research paper final notification (for third submission deadline): March 7 2018 All important dates can also be found at http://programming-journal.org/timeline/ ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Manuel Serrano, INRIA France Local Organizing Chair: Tamara Rezk, INRIA France Organizing Committee: Stefan Marr (workshops), Johannes Kepler University Linz Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Sylvia Grewe (publicity), Technische Universität Darmstadt Germany Program Committee: Guido Salvaneschi (program chair), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Alberto Bacchelli, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK Patrick Eugster, TU Darmstadt, Germany and Purdue University, United States Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, UK Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, United States Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & IBM Research, California Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Yossi Gil, Isreal Institute of Technology Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Phlipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Matthew Hammer, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), Germany Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, University of Cambridge, UK Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, United States Mario Südholt, IMT Atlantique, Inria, France Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, United States Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ******************************************************** <Programming> 2018 is kindly supported by: INRIA France AOSA ********************************************************

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Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (Sep 9, Oxford): Call for Papers and Performances
by Michael Sperber 11 May '17

11 May '17

Of course, Haskell submissions are very welcome at the FARM! 5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Oxford, UK, September, 9th 2017 Call for Papers and Performances Key Dates: Paper submission deadline June 1, 2017 Performance submission deadline June 18, 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. Call for Performances: FARM also hosts a traditional evening of performances. For this year’s event, FARM 2017 is seeking proposals for live performances which employ functional programming techniques, in whole or in part. We would like to support a diverse range of performing arts, including music, dance, video animation, and performance art. We encourage both risk-taking proposals which push forward the state of the art and refined presentations of highly-developed practice. In either case, please support your submission with a clear description of your performance including how your performance employs functional programming and a discussion of influences and prior art as appropriate. 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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Second call for talk proposals: Higher-Order Programming with Effects, HOPE 2017
by François Pottier 10 May '17

10 May '17

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS HOPE 2017 The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects September 3, 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom (the day before ICFP 2017) http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The HOPE workshop series are intended to bring together researchers interested in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. They are informal, consisting of invited talks, contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. They are dedicated to John Reynolds, whose work is an inspiration to us all. The 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects will take place on Sunday, September 3, 2017, that is, the day before ICFP 2017, in Oxford, United Kingdom. # Goals of the Workshop A recurring theme in many papers at ICFP, and in the research of many ICFP attendees, is the interaction of higher-order programming with various kinds of effects: storage effects, I/O, control effects, concurrency, etc. While effects are of critical importance in many applications, they also make code harder to build, maintain, and reason about. Higher-order languages (both functional and object-oriented) provide a variety of abstraction mechanisms to help "tame" or "encapsulate" effects (e.g. monads, ADTs, ownership types, typestate, first-class events, transactions, Hoare Type Theory, session types, substructural and region-based type systems), and a number of different semantic models and verification technologies have been developed in order to codify and exploit the benefits of this encapsulation (e.g. bisimulations, step-indexed Kripke logical relations, higher-order separation logic, game semantics, various modal logics). But there remain many open problems, and the field is highly active. The goal of the HOPE workshop is to bring researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and perspectives together to exchange new and exciting ideas concerning the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. We want HOPE to be as informal and interactive as possible. The program will thus involve a combination of invited talks, contributed talks about work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. There will be no published proceedings, but participants will be invited to submit working documents, talk slides, etc., to be made available online. # Call for Talk Proposals We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format. However, we will accept longer proposals or submissions to other conferences, under the understanding that PC members are only expected to read the first two pages of such longer submissions. When submitting talk proposals, authors should specify how long a talk the speaker wishes to give. By default, contributed talks will be 30 minutes long, but proposals for shorter or longer talks will also be considered. Speakers may also submit supplementary material (e.g. a full paper, talk slides) if they desire, which PC members are free (but not expected) to read. We are interested in talks on all topics related to the interaction of higher-order programming and computational effects. Talks about work in progress are particularly encouraged. If you have any questions about the relevance of a particular topic, please contact the PC chairs, François Pottier (francois.pottier(a)inria.fr) and Aleks Nanevski (aleks.nanevski(a)imdea.org) # Important Dates * Deadline for talk proposals: June 1st, 2017 (Thursday) * Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2017 (Saturday) * Workshop: September 3, 2017 (Sunday) # Submission Link The submission website is https://icfp-hope17.hotcrp.com/ . # Workshop Organization Program Co-Chairs: François Pottier (Inria Paris) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) Program Committee: Edwin Brady University of St Andrews Pierre-Évariste Dagand LIP6/CNRS Atsushi Igarashi Kyoto University Robbert Krebbers Delft University of Technology Vivek Nigam Federal University of Paraíba Matija Pretnar University of Ljubljana Azalea Raad Imperial College London Aseem Rastogi Microsoft Research Filip Sieczkowski University of Wrocław Niki Vazou University of Maryland

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Announce: Haskell Platform 8.0.2-a builds for Windows 10 Creators Update
by Gershom B 10 May '17

10 May '17

As many people know, the recent Windows 10 Creators Update broke the latest GHC 8.0.2 release. [1] We're happy to announce that there are now new 8.0.2-a builds on the Haskell Platform website that include the patch prepared by GHC HQ, and the hashes have been updated appropriately as well: https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html Note that this is not a new HP release in any official sense, nor are these new HP builds. These are the existing installers with the replacement of one file. Accordingly, they have new file names and hashes. However, all else remains the same. Similarly, no builds for other platforms have been updated. If you are not using Windows 10, this doesn't affect you in any way. And if you are, you probably already ran into this. Apologies for about a week of tardiness in getting this out, which is entirely due to my frazzledness. Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom [1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2017-April/014131.html

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2nd CfP&P - Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (Oxford, Sep 9)
by Mark Santolucito 09 May '17

09 May '17

5th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Oxford, UK, September, 9th 2017 Call for Papers and Performances Key Dates: Paper submission deadline June 1, 2017 Performance submission deadline June 18, 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. Call for Performances: FARM also hosts a traditional evening of performances. For this year’s event, FARM 2017 is seeking proposals for live performances which employ functional programming techniques, in whole or in part. We would like to support a diverse range of performing arts, including music, dance, video animation, and performance art. We encourage both risk-taking proposals which push forward the state of the art and refined presentations of highly-developed practice. In either case, please support your submission with a clear description of your performance including how your performance employs functional programming and a discussion of influences and prior art as appropriate. 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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PhD student position in the Functional Programming group at Chalmers
by Mary Sheeran 08 May '17

08 May '17

PhD student position in Functional Heterogeneous Systems Supervisors: Mary Sheeran and Koen Claessen Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers ms(a)chalmers.se koen(a)chalmers.se Heterogeneous systems with many types of computational units (multicores, GPUs, FPGAs ,sensors, actuators) are hard to program. The typical approach is to use a hodge podge of different programming languages, which makes it difficult to guarantee global properties like functional correctness and security. This project will develop methods of programming heterogeneous systems using a single functional program, but multiple domain specific languages that generate code for the different computational units, as well as the necessary linking code and protocols. A key point is the use of Haskell's expressive type system to separate nodes based on their roles, capabilities and locations. We will develop methods of verifying the resulting systems using both property-based testing and formal methods. Further Information: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~ms/HeterogeneousSystems.html Deadline May 31 2017 Apply electronically here: http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=5052 The project is one of seven being advertised at Chalmers as part of the Wallenberg project in Autonomous Systems and Software. Choose project C7 to apply for this project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are looking for an accomplished functional programmer to work as a PhD student in the Functional Programming group at Chalmers. Experience in developing embedded domain specific languages in Haskell is an advantage but not required. We will provide a stimulating research environment, with lots of interesting colleagues and visitors. We can assure you that Gothenburg is a great place to live too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A PhD student position is salaried employment. It is limited to five years and includes 20 per cent departmental duties, mostly teaching. The starting salary is around 30,000SEK a month before tax. The position is intended to start in autumn 2017 or soon afterwards. Students of all nationalities are welcome to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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