July 2017 - Haskell - Haskell.org

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 available
by Ben Gamari 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

=============================================== The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 8.2.1 =============================================== The GHC developers are very happy to announce the long-awaited 8.2.1 release of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Binary and source distributions can be found at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.1/ This is the second release in the 8.0 series. As such, the focus of this release is performance, stability, and consolidation. Consequently numerous cleanups can be seen throughout the compiler including, * Significant improvements in compiler performance * More robust support for levity polymorphism * Reliable DWARF debugging information * Improved runtime system performance on NUMA systems * Retooling of the cost-center profiler, including support for live streaming of profile data via the GHC event log * Interface file determinism * More robust treatment of join points, enabling significantly better code generation in many cases * Numerous improvements in robustness on Windows * and the resolution of over 500 other tickets In addition, there are a number of new features, * A new, more type-safe type reflection mechanism * The long-awaited Backpack module system * Deriving strategies to disambiguate between GHC's various instance deriving mechanisms * Unboxed sum types, for efficient unpacked representation of sum data types * Compact regions, allowing better control over garbage collection in the presence of large heaps containing many long-lived objects. * Colorful messages and caret diagnostics for more legible errors A more thorough list of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes, https://haskell.org/ghc/docs/8.2.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.2.1-notes.html There are a few changes in release-engineering that should be noted, * Binary distributions for 32-bit CentOS 6.7 have been dropped. Moreover, there are no dedicated CentOS 7.0 distributions as CentOS 7 can use can use Debian 8 binaries. If you would like us to continue to produce 32-bit CentOS 6.7 distributions please let us know. * GHC HQ now builds FreeBSD and OpenBSD distributions for amd64; this comes after many years of these distributions being faithfully provided by Karel Gardas and Pali Gabor Janos, who we should heartily thank for their contributions. GHC HQ building these distributions ourselves will allow us to more quickly ship distributions to users by eliminating the need for a long lag time between source release availability and having all binary distributions available. * There is a technology-preview of an AArch64 Linux binary distribution, as well as an ARM Linux build. AArch64 support is quite preliminary but should be stable in 8.4 thanks to further linker fixes by Moritz Angerman. ARM should be stable. * GHC now tries to use the gold and lld linkers by default. These linkers are significantly faster than the BFD linker implementation that most Linux distributions use by default. If gold or lld are not available GHC will use the system's default linker. GHC can be forced to use the default linker by passing --disable-ld-override to configure. This release has been the result of over a year of hard work by over 150 code contributors. Thanks to everyone who has helped in writing patches, testing, reporting bugs, and offering feedback over the last year. This release cycle was admittedly quite drawn out, significantly longer than expected or desired. While we are confident that the result is worth the wait, we have been steadily working on infrastructure which should help shrink future release cycles and give us better testing between releases. More details on this coming soon. As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ We supply binary builds in the native package format for many platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same place. Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later. Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language. GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating efficient code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces. GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below). On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC developers' home page http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ Supported Platforms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building Developers ~~~~~~~~~~ We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-tickets There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

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Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] Static analysis engineering at Facebook (Clang/OCaml)
by Don Stewart 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Link moved, apply here: https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LT8aAEAT On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Shannon Sequeira < shannonsequeira(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Don, the job link appears to be broken. > > Best, > Shannon Sequeira > > On 26 July 2017 at 13:11, Don Stewart <dons00(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> The Infer static analysis team at Facebook is hiring. We have a >> functional programming engineering role in London to work on the open >> source Clang/C++ frontend to Infer. >> >> Infer is a static analysis suite for C++, Java and Objective C used by >> thousands of engineers at Facebook and elsewhere to find bugs. >> >> The role is a "compiler" role - working on the Clang AST to OCaml, and >> intermediate phases of Infer to improve our C++ analysis capabilities. Good >> FP engineering skills (e.g. Haskell or OCaml) are desirable. >> >> You should have a working knowledge of C++ semantics, language or >> compiler design or experience in a range of C++ projects. >> >> Infer: >> >> http://fbinfer.com/ >> >> Apply via: >> >> https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LT8aA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post. >> > >

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Static analysis engineering at Facebook (Clang/OCaml)
by Don Stewart 26 Jul '17

26 Jul '17

The Infer static analysis team at Facebook is hiring. We have a functional programming engineering role in London to work on the open source Clang/C++ frontend to Infer. Infer is a static analysis suite for C++, Java and Objective C used by thousands of engineers at Facebook and elsewhere to find bugs. The role is a "compiler" role - working on the Clang AST to OCaml, and intermediate phases of Infer to improve our C++ analysis capabilities. Good FP engineering skills (e.g. Haskell or OCaml) are desirable. You should have a working knowledge of C++ semantics, language or compiler design or experience in a range of C++ projects. Infer: http://fbinfer.com/ Apply via: https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000LT8aA

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PLMW@ICFP: CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS and PARTICIPATION (deadline July 31!)
by Neel Krishnaswami 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

[Apologies for the double-post; I had an incorrect URL in the first message.] CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS and PARTICIPATION (deadline July 31!) ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, Oxford, UK Co-located with ICFP'17 PLMW web page: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/PLMW-ICFP-2017 ### The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will provide technical sessions on cutting-edge research in programming languages, and mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. We will bring together leaders in programming language research from academia and industry to give talks on their research areas. The workshop will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community. So far, we have the following speakers and panelists confirmed for the workshop: - Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University) - Nada Amin (University of Cambridge) - Derek Dreyer (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) - Richard Eisenberg (Bryn Mawr College) - Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) - Chris Martens (North Caroline State University) - Conor McBride (Strathclyde University) - Sam Staton (Oxford) We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding ICFP, the International Conference on Functional Programming, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. ## Travel Scholarship Applications (Due 31 July) Please fill out [this form](https://goo.gl/forms/qDYTkvNndApNc91N2) by 31 July to apply for travel funding. These scholarships will provide funds towards airfare, hotel, and registration fees for attendance at both the workshop and ICFP, but are limited. We welcome students with alternative sources of travel funding to attend PLMW as well. Selected participants will be notified by 2 August and will need to pre-register and commit to attending the workshop by August 4. Applicants who apply after July 31 may be eligible to receive funding, if funds remain. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome. -- Neel Krishnaswami nk480(a)cl.cam.ac.uk

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PLMW@ICFP: CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS and PARTICIPATION (deadline July 31!)
by Neel Krishnaswami 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS and PARTICIPATION (deadline July 31!) ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, Oxford, UK Co-located with ICFP'17 PLMW web page: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/manageTrack/PLMW-ICFP-2017 ### The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will provide technical sessions on cutting-edge research in programming languages, and mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. We will bring together leaders in programming language research from academia and industry to give talks on their research areas. The workshop will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community. So far, we have the following speakers and panelists confirmed for the workshop: - Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University) - Nada Amin (University of Cambridge) - Derek Dreyer (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) - Richard Eisenberg (Bryn Mawr College) - Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) - Chris Martens (North Caroline State University) - Conor McBride (Strathclyde University) - Sam Staton (Oxford) We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding ICFP, the International Conference on Functional Programming, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. ## Travel Scholarship Applications (Due 31 July) Please fill out [this form](https://goo.gl/forms/qDYTkvNndApNc91N2) by 31 July to apply for travel funding. These scholarships will provide funds towards airfare, hotel, and registration fees for attendance at both the workshop and ICFP, but are limited. We welcome students with alternative sources of travel funding to attend PLMW as well. Selected participants will be notified by 2 August and will need to pre-register and commit to attending the workshop by August 4. Applicants who apply after July 31 may be eligible to receive funding, if funds remain. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome. -- Neel Krishnaswami nk480(a)cl.cam.ac.uk

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RV 2017 - 1st Call for Participation
by Klaus Havelund 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RV’17 - RUNTIME VERIFICATION 2017 The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 13-16 2017, Seattle, WA, USA http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk Affiliated Event: RV-CuBES - An International Workshop on Competitions, Usability, Benchmarks, Evaluation, and Standardisation for Runtime Verification Tools === OVERVIEW === Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include: specification languages monitor construction techniques program instrumentation logging, recording, and replay combination of static and dynamic analysis specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems runtime checking of privacy and security policies statistical model checking metrics and statistical information gathering program/system execution visualization fault localization, containment, recovery and repair integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. === INVITED TALKS === Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA: “The Design and Applications for a Tracing Plane for Distributed Systems” Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg, Microsoft, USA: “Windows Driver Verification Platform” Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany: “Learning Input Languages for Runtime Verification” === TUTORIALS === Ankush Desai and Shaz Qadeer, UC Berkeley and Microsoft Research, USA: “P : Modular and Safe Asynchronous Programming” Madhusudan Parthasarathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: “Machine-learning State Properties” Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta: “Foundations For Runtime Monitoring” === ACCEPTED PAPERS === === Regular Papers Bernhard K. Aichernig and Martin Tappler. “Probabilistic Black-Box Reachability Checking” Minjun Seo and Roman Lysecky. “Hierarchical Non-Intrusive In-Situ Requirements Monitoring for Embedded Systems” David Basin, Srđan Krstić and Dmitriy Traytel. “Almost Event-Rate Independent Monitoring of Metric Dynamic Logic” Kostyantyn Vorobyov, Nikolai Kosmatov, Julien Signoles and Arvid Jakobsson. “Runtime Detection of Temporal Memory Errors” Katarína Kejstová, Petr Ročkai and Jiri Barnat. “From Model Checking to Runtime Verification and Back” Zachary Benavides, Rajiv Gupta and Xiangyu Zhang. “Annotation Guided Collection of Context-Sensitive Parallel Execution Profiles” Oliviero Riganelli, Daniela Micucci, Leonardo Mariani and Yliès Falcone. “Verifying Policy Enforcers” Ankush Desai, Tommaso Dreossi and Sanjit A. Seshia. “Combining Model Checking and Runtime Verification for Safe Robotics” Vidhya Tekken Valapil, Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai, Sandeep Kulkarni, Eric Torng and Murat Demirbas. “Monitoring Partially Synchronous Distributed Systems using SMT Solvers” Chaoqiang Deng and Kedar Namjoshi. “Witnessing Network Transformations” Teng Zhang, John Wiegley, Insup Lee and Oleg Sokolsky. “Monitoring Time Intervals” Bjorn Andersson, Sagar Chaki and Dionisio De Niz. “Combining Symbolic Runtime Enforcers for Cyber-Physical Systems” Babak Yadegari and Saumya Debray. “Control Dependencies in Interpretive Systems” Himanshu Chauhan and Vijay Garg. “Space Efficient Breadth-First and Level Traversals of Consistent Global States of Parallel Programs” Giuseppe Bombara and Calin Belta. “Signal Clustering using Temporal Logics” Susmit Jha, Ashish Tiwari, Sanjit A. Seshia, Natarajan Shankar and Tuhin Sahai. “TeLEx: Passive STL Learning Using Only Positive Examples” Florian-Michael Adolf, Peter Faymonville, Bernd Finkbeiner, Sebastian Schirmer and Christoph Torens. “Stream Runtime Monitoring on UAVs” Bernd Finkbeiner, Christopher Hahn, Marvin Stenger and Leander Tentrup. “Monitoring Hyperproperties” === Tool Papers Hassan Salehe Matar and Serdar Tasiran. “EmbedSanitizer: Runtime Race Detection Tool for 32-bit Embedded ARM” Prashanth Nayak, Mike Hibler, David Johnson and Eric Eide. “A Wingman for Virtual Appliances” Shuo Chen. “SVAuth – A Single-Sign-On Integration Solution with Runtime Verification” Raphael Khoury, Sebastien Gaboury and Sylvain Hallé. “Event Stream Processing with Multiple Threads” Daisuke Ishii and Alexandre Goldsztejn. “HySIA: Tool for Simulating and Monitoring Hybrid Automata Based on Interval Analysis” === Short Papers Kim Völlinger. “Verifying the Output of a Distributed Algorithm using Certification” Chafik Meniar, Florence Opalvens and Sylvain Hallé. “Runtime Verification of User Interface Guidelines in Mobile Devices” Aaron Paulos, Partha Pal, Shane Clark, Kyle Usbeck and Patrick Hurley. “Trusted Mission Operation – Concept and Implementation” Jun Inoue and Yoriyuki Yamagata. “Operational Semantics of Process Monitors” === VENUE === The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification will be held in the Sheraton Seattle Hotelsituated in downtown Seattle. The venue is within walking distance of the famous Pike Place Market, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Aquarium, and the Historic Seattle Waterfront. The weather in September still permits many open-air opportunities to shop, eat, and even sail in the Elliott Bay. Exceptionally well organized, Seattle’s public transport connects the conference venue with the Seattle Center, which is the home of popular attractions like the Space Needle, EMP Museum, and Chihuly Garden and Glass. === REGISTRATION === Registration is now available using the web-based registration form, with online payment on a secure website. Please use one form per attendee. Early registration means on or before August 13, 2017. Late registration means after August 13, 2017. Different possibilities of registration are available: Tutorial Day Only (13th September): 210 USD Conference including tutorial day and RV-CuBES (13-16th September) Full Registration Early: 680 USD, Late (after 13 August): 780 USD Student Registration Early: 480 USD, Late (after 13 August): 580 USD === CHAIRS AND ORGANIZERS === General Chair Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Program Chairs Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research, USA Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Finance Chair Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA Publicity Chair Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Local Organisation Chairs Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA RV-CuBES, PC chairs Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA === SPONSORS === Microsoft Springer --- end --

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Call for Participation: ICFP 2017
by Lindsey Kuper 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

[ Early registration ends 4 August. ] ===================================================================== Call for Participation ICFP 2017 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events September 3 - September 9, 2017 Oxford, UK http://icfp17.sigplan.org/ ===================================================================== ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. A full week dedicated to functional programming: ICFP, 2 co-hosted conferences, 1 co-hosted symposium, workshops, tutorials, programming contest results, student research competition, and mentoring workshop * Overview and affiliated events: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/home * Program: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/program/program-icfp-2017 * Accepted papers: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-papers * Registration is available via: https://regmaster4.com/2017conf/ICFP17/register.php Early registration is due 4 August, 2016. * Programming contest, 4-7 August, 2016: http://2017.icfpcontest.org * Student Research Competition: http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-Student-Research-Competition * Follow @icfp_conference on twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference There are several events affiliated with ICFP: Sunday, September 3 Workshop on Higher-order Programming with Effects Workshop on Type-Driven Development Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop ICFP Tutorials Monday, September 4 – Wednesday, September 6 ICFP FSCD - Days 1-3 Thursday, September 7 Haskell Symposium – Day 1 ML Family Workshop Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing Commercial Users of Functional Programming – Day 1 FSCD - Day 4 Friday, September 8 Haskell Symposium – Day 2 OCaml Workshop Erlang Workshop Commercial Users of Functional Programming – Day 2 Saturday, September 9 Commercial Users of Functional Programming – Day 3 Haskell Implementors Workshop Functional Art, Music, Modeling and Design Conference Organizers: General Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK) Program Chair: Mark Jones (Portland State University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Ryan R. Newton (Indiana University, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Ryan Trinkle (Obsidian Systems LLC, USA) PLMW Co-Chair: Neelakantan R. Krishnawami (University of Cambridge, UK) PLMW Co-Chair: Dan Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) PLMW Co-Chair: Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Programming Contest Organiser: Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity and Web Chair: Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Student Volunteer Co-Captain: Yosuke Fukuda (Kyoto University, Japan) Student Volunteer Co-Captain: Yuki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan) Student Volunteer Co-Captain: Jakub Zalewski (University of Edinburgh, UK) Video Chair: Jose Calderon (Galois, Inc., USA) Workshops Co-Chair: Andres Löh (Well-Typed LLP, UK) Workshops Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Sponsors and industrial partners: Platinum partners Ahrefs Jane Street Capital Gold partners Bloomberg X Silver partners Galois Oracle Bronze partners Obsidian Systems Portland State University Well-Typed

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Deadline extension: WPTE 2017 Fourth International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation
by David Sabel 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '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 21th, 2017 (Extended!) * 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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2nd CfP: IFL 2017 (29th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)
by publicityifl＠gmail.com 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

<div dir="ltr">Hello, Please, find below the second call for papers for IFL 2017. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL --- IFL 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== 29th SYMPOSIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES ======================================================================== University of Bristol, UK In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN Wednesday 30 August - Friday 1 September, 2017 <a href="http://iflconference.org/" target="_blank">http://iflconference.org/</a> Scope ----- The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2017 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Peer-review ----------- Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2017 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. All participants of IFL 2017 are invited to submit either a draft paper or an extended abstract describing work to be presented at the symposium. At no time may work submitted to IFL be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy: <a href="http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication" target="_blank">http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication</a> The submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make sure they are within the scope of IFL, and will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. Submissions appearing in the draft proceedings are not peer-reviewed publications. Hence, publications that appear only in the draft proceedings are not subject to the ACM SIGPLAN republication policy. After the symposium, authors will be given the opportunity to incorporate the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be invited to submit a revised full article for the formal review process. From the revised submissions, the program committee will select papers for the formal proceedings considering their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The formal proceedings will appear in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library. Important dates --------------- Mon 31 July 2017 : Submission deadline draft papers Wed 2 August 2017 : Notification of acceptance for presentation Fri 4 August 2017 : Early registration deadline Fri 11 August 2017 : Late registration deadline Mon 21 August 2017 : Submission deadline for pre-symposium proceedings Wed 30 August 2017 - Fri 1 September 2017 : IFL Symposium Mon 4 December 2017 : Submission deadline for post-symposium proceedings Wed 31 January 2018 : Notification of acceptance for post-symposium proceedings Mon 12 March 2018 : Camera-ready version for post-symposium proceedings Submission details ------------------ Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers or extended abstracts to be published in the draft proceedings and to present them at the symposium. All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the new ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: <a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" target="_blank">http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a> For the pre-symposium proceedings we adopt a 'weak' page limit of 12 pages. For the post-symposium proceedings the page limit of 12 pages is firm. Authors submit through EasyChair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2017</a> Topics ------ IFL welcomes submissions describing practical and theoretical work as well as submissions describing applications and tools in the context of functional programming. If you are not sure whether your work is appropriate for IFL 2017, please contact the PC chair at <a href="mailto:nicolas.wu@bristol.ac.uk" target="_blank">nicolas.wu(a)bristol.ac.uk</a>. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialization - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - metaprogramming - generic programming - automatic program generation - array processing - concurrent/parallel programming - concurrent/parallel program execution - embedded systems - web applications - (embedded) domain specific languages - security - novel memory management techniques - run-time profiling performance measurements - debugging and tracing - virtual/abstract machine architectures - validation, verification of functional programs - tools and programming techniques - (industrial) applications Peter Landin Prize ------------------ The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. Programme committee ------------------- Chair: Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol, UK - Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan - Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France - Carlos Camarao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil - Stephen Dolan, University of Cambridge, UK - Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, Netherlands - Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Benjamin Lerner, Brown University, USA - Bas Lijnse, Radboud University, Netherlands - Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA - Miguel Pagano, Universidad Nacional de C√≥rdoba, Argentina - Tomas Petricek, Alan Turing Institute, UK - Maciej Pir√≥g, University of Wroclaw, Poland - Exequiel Rivas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina - Neil Sculthorpe, Nottingham Trent University, UK - Melinda Toth, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary - Phil Trinder, Glasgow University, UK - Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay - Meng Wang, University of Kent, UK Venue ----- The IFL 2017 will be held in association with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK. Bristol is located in South West England, and can be easily reached from Bristol Airport. See the website for more information on the venue.</div>  <a style='display: block; margin: 32px 0 40px 0; padding: 10px; font-size: 1em; text-align: center; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid gray; ' href='https://goo.gl/2ksdRv'>powered by GSM. Free mail merge and email marketing software for Gmail.</a>

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Call for Participation: Higher-Order Programming with Effects, HOPE 2017
by François Pottier 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

One-liner: the list of accepted talks for HOPE 2017 is now online! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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#event-overview ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. # Important Dates * Workshop: September 3, 2017 (Sunday) # Accepted Talks http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/hope-2017-papers#event-overview # 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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