January 2020 - Haskell

SEIT-2020 CfPs: The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (August 9-12, 2020, Leuven, Belgium)
by Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda I72 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Call for Papers The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-20) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-20/ IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop Proposals Due: February 20, 2020 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2020 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2020 - Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2020 About SEIT 2020 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the façade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the façade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. SEIT 2020 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com<http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<http://www.sciencedirect.com/>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com<http://www.engineeringvillage.com/>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex<http://www.ei.org/compendex>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication in journals special issues. Conference Main Tracks - Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications - Energy Efficiency - Energy Policy - Environmental - Green Sustainability - Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines - Power Systems - Renewable Energies - Sensing & Monitoring - Smart Systems Committees Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chairs Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesús Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops' Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Publicity Chairs Mustafa Gül, University of Alberta, Canada Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Advisory Committee Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-20/#programCommittees ________________________________ [Politechnika Łódzka / Lodz University of Technology]<https://www.p.lodz.pl> Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę, prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2020
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

PACMPL Volume 4, Issue ICFP 2020 Call for Papers accepted papers to be invited for presentation at The 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming Jersey City, USA http://icfp20.sigplan.org/ ### Important dates Submissions due: 3 March 2020 (Tuesday) Anywhere on Earth https://icfp20.hotcrp.com Author response: 21 April (Tuesday) - 24 Apri (Friday) 14:00 UTC Notification: 8 May (Friday) Final copy due: 1 July (Wednesday) Conference: 18 August (Sunday) - 23 August (Friday) ### About PACMPL Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL <https://pacmpl.acm.org/>) is a Gold Open Access journal publishing research on all aspects of programming languages, from design to implementation and from mathematical formalisms to empirical studies. Each issue of the journal is devoted to a particular subject area within programming languages and will be announced through publicized Calls for Papers, like this one. ### Scope [PACMPL](https://pacmpl.acm.org/) issue ICFP 2020 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to features, and from abstraction to application. The scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages with objects, concurrency, or parallelism. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Language Design: concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; macros; pattern matching; type systems; type inference; dependent types; session types; gradual typing; refinement types; interoperability; domain-specific languages; imperative programming; object-oriented programming; logic programming; probabilistic programming; reactive programming; generic programming; bidirectional programming. * Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection and memory management; runtime systems; multi-threading; exploiting parallel hardware; interfaces to foreign functions, services, components, or low-level machine resources. * Software-Development Techniques: algorithms and data structures; design patterns; specification; verification; validation; proof assistants; debugging; testing; tracing; profiling; build systems; program synthesis. * Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; program equivalence; rewriting; type theory; logic; category theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; names and binding; program verification. * Analysis and Transformation: control flow; data flow; abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program calculation. * Applications: symbolic computing; formal-methods tools; artificial intelligence; systems programming; distributed systems and web programming; hardware design; databases; XML processing; scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces; graphics and multimedia; GPU programming; scripting; system administration; security. * Education: teaching introductory programming; parallel programming; mathematical proof; algebra. Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical content should be accessible to a broad audience. PACMPL issue ICFP 2020 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories — Functional Pearls and Experience Reports — that must be marked as such when submitted and that need not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at the end of this call. Please contact the principal editor if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions **Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is **Tuesday, March 3, 2020**, Anywhere on Earth (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth>). This deadline will be strictly enforced. **Formatting**: Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Small" template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from <https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions>. For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from <http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format>. There is a limit of **25 pages for a full paper or Functional Pearl** and **12 pages for an Experience Report**; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. Supplementary material can and should be **separately** submitted (see below). See also PACMPL's Information and Guidelines for Authors at <https://pacmpl.acm.org/authors.cfm>. **Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at <https://icfp20.hotcrp.com/> Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. **Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 14:00 UTC on **Tuesday, April 21, 2020**, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Material**: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should **not** be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a **separate** PDF document or tarball. Supplementary material should be uploaded **at submission time**, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository. Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). **Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at <https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors>. **Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at <http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication>. ### Review Process This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for PACMPL issue ICFP 2020. We anticipate that there will be a need to clarify and expand on this process, and we will maintain a list of frequently asked questions and answers on the conference website to address common concerns. **PACMPL issue ICFP 2020 will employ a two-stage review process.** The first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on initial reviews through the author response period mentioned previously. At the review meeting, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on **May 8, 2020**. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set of mandatory revisions. After four weeks (June 5, 2020), the authors will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that the mandatory revisions can be addressed within four weeks and hence that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the second phase. The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be grounds for the paper’s rejection. **PACMPL issue ICFP 2020 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.** To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: 1. **author names and institutions must be omitted**, and 2. **references to authors' own related work should be in the third person** (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. ### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers * As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must adhere to the new ACM Small format. The page limit for the final versions of papers will be increased by two pages to help authors respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions: **27 pages plus bibliography for a regular paper or Functional Pearl, 14 pages plus bibliography for an Experience Report**. * Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of the three ACM licensing options: open access on payment of a fee (**recommended**, and SIGPLAN can cover the cost as described next); copyright transfer to ACM; or retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights. Further information about ACM author rights is available from <http://authors.acm.org>. * PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal. It will be archived in ACM’s Digital Library, but no membership or fee is required for access. Gold Open Access has been made possible by generous funding through ACM SIGPLAN, which will cover all open access costs in the event authors cannot. Authors who can cover the costs may do so by paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). PACMPL, SIGPLAN, and ACM Headquarters are committed to exploring routes to making Gold Open Access publication both affordable and sustainable. * ACM offers authors a range of copyright options, one of which is Creative Commons CC-BY publication; this is the option recommended by the PACMPL editorial board. A reasoned argument in favour of this option can be found in the article [Why CC-BY?](https://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/) published by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. * We intend that the papers will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity via the OpenTOC mechanism. * ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. Downloads through Author-Izer links are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of an ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit <http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service> to learn how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL. * The official publication date is the date the papers are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to *two weeks prior* to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. * At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present that paper at the conference. The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. In extraordinary circumstances, at the discretion of the principal editor, alternative presentation methods may be approved for specific papers. The canonical example is where all authors are denied visas to the ICFP host country, in which case a nonauthor may be deputized to present, or various electronic substitutes may be considered. We list these options in the interest of transparency, but please keep in mind that, most years, no exceptions are granted. This option is not meant, e.g., to excuse cases where authors find themselves double-booked with other meetings (so, at the time of submitting a paper, please do keep the days of the conference reserved on at least one author’s calendar). ### Artifact Evaluation Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be reviewed by an Artifact Evaluation Committee, separate from the paper Review Committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available upon publication of the papers, for example, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in the ACM guidelines for artifact badging. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance. ### Special categories of papers In addition to research papers, PACMPL issue ICFP solicits two kinds of papers that do not require original research contributions: Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports, which are limited to half the length of a full paper. Authors submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines. #### Functional Pearls A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to: * a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea * an instructive example of program calculation or proof * a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure * an interesting application of functional programming techniques * a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational pearls. Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria. In particular, a pearl is not required to report original research, but, it should be concise, instructive, and entertaining. A pearl is likely to be rejected if its readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing. A submission that is intended to be treated as a pearl must be marked as such on the submission web page, and should contain the words "Functional Pearl" somewhere in its title or subtitle. These steps will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation criteria. Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however, for the purpose of computing the conference's acceptance rate. #### Experience Reports The purpose of an Experience Report is to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence that functional programming really works -- or to describe what obstacles prevent it from working. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: * insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming * comparison of functional programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when using functional programming in a real-world project * curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in education * real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a functional language or for functional programming in general An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal PACMPL issue ICFP paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to evaluate it. * Both in the papers and in any citations, the title of each accepted Experience Report must end with the words "(Experience Report)" in parentheses. The acceptance rate for Experience Reports will be computed and reported separately from the rate for ordinary papers. * Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long, excluding bibliography. * Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the conference, but depending on the number of Experience Reports and regular papers accepted, authors of Experience reports may be asked to give shorter talks. * Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our community to accumulate a body of evidence about the efficacy of functional programming, an acceptable Experience Report need not add to the body of knowledge of the functional-programming community by presenting novel results or conclusions. It is sufficient if the Report states a clear thesis and provides supporting evidence. The thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it need not be novel. The review committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on whether they judge the evidence to be convincing. Anecdotal evidence will be acceptable provided it is well argued and the author explains what efforts were made to gather as much evidence as possible. Typically, more convincing evidence is obtained from papers which show how functional programming was used than from papers which only say that functional programming was used. The most convincing evidence often includes comparisons of situations before and after the introduction or discontinuation of functional programming. Evidence drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient, but more weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of groups of people. An Experience Report should be short and to the point: it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results — the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team more productive. If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, it may be better to submit it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. The principal editor will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Ben Lippmeier (UNSW, Australia) Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organiser: Igor Lukanin (Kontur, Russia) Publicity and Web Chair: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Workshops Co-Chair: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland, USA) Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Conference Manager: Annabel Satin (P.C.K.) ### PACMPL Volume 4, Issue ICFP 2020 Principal Editor: Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Review Committee: Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University, Sweden) Nada Amin (Harvard University, USA) Edwin Brady (University of St. Andrews, UK) William E. Byrd (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) David Darais (University of Vermont) Richard A. Eisenberg (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Matthew Fluet (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Makoto Hamana (Gunma University, Japan) Fritz Henglein (Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) and Deon Digital, Denmark) Jan Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Robbert Krebbers (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Neel Krishnaswami (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University, USA) Magnus O. Myreen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku University, Japan) Frank Piessens (KU Leuven, Belgium) Nadia Polikarpova (University of California San Diego, USA) Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research, USA) Jerome Simeon (Clause, France) KC Sivaramakrishnan (IIT Madras, India) External Review Committee: Danel Ahman (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Patrick Bahr (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jean-Philippe Bernardy (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Sandrine Blazy (Univ Rennes-IRISA, France) Benjamin Canou (OCamlPro, France) Giuseppe Castagna (CNRS - Université de Paris, France) Jesper Cockx (TU Delft, Netherlands) Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Leonardo De Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) Sebastian Erdweg (JGU Mainz, Germany) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Troels Henriksen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Gabriele Keller (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Delia Kesner (IRIF, France / University of Paris Diderot, France) Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University, United States) Jan Midtgaard (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Andrey Mokhov (Jane Street, USA) J. Garrett Morris (University of Kansas, USA) Stefan Muller (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Cyrus Omar (University of Chicago, USA) Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK) Ivan Perez (NIA / NASA Formal Methods) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente (Independent Consultant, Sinusoidal Engineering) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University, USA) Christine Rizkallah (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, USA) Guido Salvaneschi (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Tom Schrijvers (KU Leuven, Belgium) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University, USA) Vincent St-Amour (Northwestern University, USA) Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa, USA) Nicolas Tabareau (Inria, France) Ross Tate (Cornell University, USA) Dimitrios Vytiniotis (DeepMind, UK) John Wiegley (DFINITY, USA) Beta Ziliani (FAMAF, UNC and CONICET, Argentina)

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Build Automation and Programming Languages workshop (20 June 2020, collocated with PLDI 2020 in London)
by Georgy Lukyanov 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

Build Automation and Programming Languages workshop (20 June 2020, collocated with PLDI 2020 in London) pldi20.sigplan.org/home/bapl-2020 Call for participation ====================== Software building is an unloved but unavoidable part of the software engineering process, which requires reliable and incremental automation to deliver reproducible results rapidly and continuously. Build systems and programming languages have historically been mostly evolving independently of each other; indeed, build systems are often extra-linguistic (a prototypical example being Make), which makes them generally applicable but also unaware of the accurate dependencies induced by programs in a particular language. Language-specific build systems can use the knowledge of syntax and semantics to guarantee reliable builds and are gaining popularity but typically provide only rudimentary support for polyglot programming. The goal of this workshop is to bring together build automation experts and language designers and implementers to explore the interaction of build automation and programming languages in systems for incremental analysis, building, testing, packaging, and deployment of software. It is time for build automation and programming languages to start evolving together, because language design affects the “buildability” of programs in a significant way and, conversely, build automation can benefit from the (static) semantics of languages to deliver faster and more reliable builds. The scope of the workshop includes: * Interaction between programming language design and build system design * Build systems, both general-purpose and language-specific * IDEs, particularly incremental program analysis * Feedback-directed optimisation, where program building and analysis are interlinked * Incremental computation DSLs, aimed at incrementalising general computation * Computational complexity of build systems * Software package-management systems We solicit the submission of extended abstracts (2 to 4 pages) in the standard ACM SIGPLAN format. The extended abstracts of accepted contributions will be provided as preprints on the workshop web page, but there will be no formal proceedings. We also encourage workshop attendees to present a poster about their work at the PLDI poster session.

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2nd CFP: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA 2020) - Beijing, China, July 8-11, 2020
by songfu1983＠shanghaitech.edu.cn 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

We apology for possible cross posting, and appreciate your support and distribution.? ======================================== SETTA 2020: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications Peking University, Beijing, China, July 8-11, 2020 Submission deadline: April 16th, 2020 Conference website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2020/ Colocated with LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020 ======================================== ************************ INVITED SPEAKERS ************************ - Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam - Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University (joint with LICS and ICALP) - Andreas Zeller, Helmholtz Center for Information Security ************************ ABOUT SETTA 2020 ************************ The Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA) 2020 will be held in Beijing, China on July 8-11, 2020. SETTA 2020 will be hosted at Peking University, in co-location with LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020. Formal methods emerged as an important area in computer science and software engineering about half a century ago. An international community is formed researching, developing and teaching formal theories, techniques and tools for software modeling, specification, design and verification. However, the impact of formal methods on the quality improvement of software systems in practice is lagging behind. This is for instance reflected by the challenges in applying formal techniques and tools to engineering large-scale systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), Enterprise Systems, Cloud-Based Systems, and so forth. The purpose of the SETTA symposium is to bring international researchers together to exchange research results and ideas on bridging the gap between formal methods and software engineering. The interaction with the Chinese computer science and software engineering community is a central focus point. The aim is to show research interests and results from different groups so as to initiate interest-driven research collaboration. The SETTA symposium is aiming at academic excellence and its objective is to become a flagship conference on formal software engineering in China. To achieve these goals and contribute to the sustainability of the formal methods research, it is important for the symposium to attract young researchers into the community. Thus, this symposium encourages in particular the participation of young researchers and students. This year, SETTA welcomes submissions to the following two tracks: Journal First Papers and Research Papers. All submissions must be in the PDF format. Papers should be written in English. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers for both tracks must be presented at the conference. ************************ LIST OF TOPICS ************************ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Requirements specification and analysis - Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation - Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures - Scalable approaches to formal system analysis - Formal approaches to simulation, run-time verification, and testing - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems - Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance - Parallel and multicore programming - Embedded, real-time, hybrid, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems - Mixed-critical applications and systems - Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing - Safety, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance - Dependability of smart software and systems - Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods - Applications and industrial experience reports - Software tools to assist the construction or analysis of software systems ************************ RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK ************************ Research papers will be published in the SETTA 2020 proceedings as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2020>. ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Abstract & paper submission: April 16, 2020 (AoE) Notification to authors: May 18, 2020 (AoE) Camera-ready versions: May 25, 2020 (AoE) Conference date: July 8-11, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected to contribute to the development of formal methods and applications thereof in software engineering. This is done by either substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating the need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing technologies, especially when addressing new application domains. Submissions can take the form of either regular or short papers. Regular papers should not exceed 16 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. ------------------------ Special Session ------------------------ This year, we will also organise a special session on Artificial Intelligence Meets Formal Methods (AI+FM), in order to provide a platform for experts of both AI and FM, from both the academia and the industry, to discuss important research problems across these two areas, for example, how to apply AI to improve the performance of FM methods and how to apply FM to improve the robustness, safety and security of AI systems. Extended abstracts of the accepted papers in this session will be published in the conference proceedings (a volume in Springer's LNCS series). Full versions of a few accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special theme of the journal Formal Aspects of Computing (to be confirmed). ************************ JOURNAL FIRST PAPERS TRACK ************************ The journal first papers track of SETTA 2020 is implemented in partnership with the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). Accepted papers to this track will be presented and discussed at the conference SETTA 2020. Papers should be submitted electronically through the journal's submission web page <https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst>. ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper submission: March 27, 2020 (AoE) Tentative acceptance decision: May 18, 2020 Acceptance decision: June 30, 2020 Conference date (paper presentations): July 8-11, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ To submit to this track, authors have to make a journal submission to the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and select the type of submission to be for the SETTA 2020 special issue. It is recommended that submitted papers follow the submission guidelines of JCST <https://www.springer.com/journal/11390/submission-guidelines> and do not exceed 15 pages including references. All submissions must be done electronically through JCST's e-submission system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst, with manuscript type: "Special Section on Software Systems 2020". In the cover letter, please indicate that the submission is intended to the special theme on "Dependable Software Engineering". ************************ COMMITTEES ************************ General Chair: - Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: - Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg - Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Local Organisation Chair: - Meng Sun, Peking University Publicity Chair: - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University Web Chair: - Chengchao Huang, Institute of Intelligent Software Program Committee Members: - Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology - Lei Bu, Nanjing University - Milan Ceska, Brno University of Technology - Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore University of Technology and Design - Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK-ICT Irst - Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University - Wei Dong, National University of Defense Technology - Hongfei Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology - Nan Guan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Dimitar P. Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool - Nils Jansen, Radboud University - Yu Jiang, Tsinghua University - Sebastian Junges, RWTH Aachen - Zhiming Liu, Southwest University - Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University - Sebastian Moedersheim, Technical University of Denmark - Jean Francois Monin, Université Grenoble Alpes - Mohammad Mousavi, University of Leicester - Dave Parker, University of Birmingham - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University - Mickael Randour, FNRS & Université de Mons - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University - Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin - Jun Sun, Singapore Management University - Meng Sun, Peking University - Cong Tian, Xidian University - Andrea Turrini, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University - Chenyi Zhang, Jinan University ************************ VENUE ************************ The conference will be held in Peking University, China. ************************ CONTACT ************************ All questions about submissions should be emailed to setta2020@easy*chair.org (remove *). ?

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[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released
by Ben Gamari 25 Jan '20

25 Jan '20

Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of GHC 8.10.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-rc1/ GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including: * The new UnliftedNewtypes extension allowing newtypes around unlifted types. * The new StandaloneKindSignatures extension allows users to give top-level kind signatures to type, type family, and class declarations. * A new warning, -Wderiving-defaults, to draw attention to ambiguous deriving clauses * A number of improvements in code generation, including changes * A new GHCi command, :instances, for listing the class instances available for a type. * An upgraded Windows toolchain lifting the MAX_PATH limitation * A new, low-latency garbage collector. * Improved support profiling, including support for sending profiler samples to the eventlog, allowing correlation between the profile and other program events This is the first and likely final release candidate. For a variety of reasons, it comes a few weeks later than the original schedule of release late December. However, besides a few core libraries book-keeping issues this candidate is believed to be in good condition for the final release. As such, the final 8.10.1 release will likely come in two weeks. Note that at the moment we still require that macOS Catalina users exempt the binary distribution from the notarization requirement by running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before running `make install`. In addition, we are still looking for any Alpine Linux to help diagnose the correctness issues in the Alpine binary distribution [1]. If you use Alpine any you can offer here would be greatly appreciated. Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any other issues. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17508 [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418

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10 PhD studentships in Nottingham for Home/EU applicants
by Graham Hutton 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Dear all, The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is seeking applications for 10 fully-funded PhD studentships for Home/EU students: https://tinyurl.com/ten-phds-2020 Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming Laboratory (https://tinyurl.com/fp-notts) are strongly encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor as soon as possible (the application deadline is 6th March): Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus. Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathematical logic, corecursive structures, proof assistants, category theory, epistemic logic. Graham Hutton - not taking on any new students this year, but you may find these notes useful: https://tinyurl.com/scbkxkr Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, domain- specific languages, generalised notions of computation. These positions are only open to Home/EU applicants. An advert for international students was posted earlier and is now closed. Best wishes, Graham +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded International PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK https://tinyurl.com/ten-phds-2020 Applications are invited for 10 fully-funded PhD studentships for Home/EU students in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2020. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School’s research groups: Agents Lab; Computational Optimisation and Learning Lab; Computer Vision Lab; Functional Programming; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab; Data Driven Algorithms, Systems and Design and Uncertainty in Data and Decision Making The studentships are for three and a half years and include a stipend of £15,009 per year and tuition fees. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. Eligible successful applicants are expected to apply for a EU VC Scholarship. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Kathleen.Fennemore(a)nottingham.ac.uk. To apply, please submit the following items by email to: Marc.Williams(a)nottingham.ac.uk: (1) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree class(es), and results of all University examinations; (2) an example of your technical writing, such as a project report or dissertation; (3) contact details for two academic referees. (4) a research proposal – max 2 x sides A4 You may also include a covering letter but this is optional. Closing date for applications: Friday 6 March 2020. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Haskell.org Committee Nomination Results
by Emily Pillmore 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Hello Everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the results for the Haskell.org ( http://haskell.org/ ) committee nominations are in, and voting has completed. The following tally is the final result: Jaspe Van der Jeugt: 6 Alexandre Garcia de Oliveira: 5 April Gonçalves: 2 Rebecca Skinner: 5 With no votes for anyone else. This means that Jasper's renomination was successful, and we get to welcome 2 new faces to the Haskell.org ( http://haskell.org/ ) ; congratulations Rebecca and Alexandre! Thanks, Emily

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[FNC-2020] Call for workshop proposals: Conference on Future Networks and Communications. Leuven, Belgium (August 9-12, 2020)
by Wim Ectors 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 15th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications Leuven, Belgium August 9-12, 2020 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-20/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help to achieve a major promise of emerging technologies such as ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. The scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2020 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2020 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2020 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2020 Publication ------------ All FNC 2020 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index ( http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the following special issues: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.901), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), ( http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - International Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 4.371), by Elsevier ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and…) FNC 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-20/) FNC 2020 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometers (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals in Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the faÃ§ade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. The facade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chair Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Program Chairs Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chair Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium International Journals Chair Atta Badii, Reading University, UK Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Mohammed Erritali, University Sultane Moulay Slimane, Morocco Advisory Committee Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-20/#programCommittees Sent via Mail Merge <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mail-merge-with-attachmen/nifmcbj…>

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[ANN] 2nd Call for Participation: BOB 2020 (February 28, Berlin, early-bird until Jan 20)
by Stefan Wehr 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

================================================================================ BOB 2020 Conference “What happens if we simply use what’s best?” February 28, 2020, Berlin http://bobkonf.de/2020/ Program: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/program.html Registration: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/registration.html ================================================================================ BOB is the conference for developers, architects and decision-makers to explore technologies beyond the mainstream in software development, and to find the best tools available to software developers today. Our goal is for all participants of BOB to return home with new insights that enable them to improve their own software development experiences. The program features 14 talks and 8 tutorials on current topics: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/program.html The subject range of talks includes functional programming, formal methods, architecture documentation, functional-reactive programming, and language design. The tutorials feature introductions to Idris, Haskell, F#, TLA+, ReasonML, and probabilistic programming. Heather Miller will give the keynote talk. Registration is open online: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/registration.html NOTE: The early-bird rates expire on January 20, 2020! BOB cooperates with the Racketfest conference on the day before BOB: https://racketfest.com/ BOB cooperates with the :clojureD conference on the day after BOB: https://clojured.de/

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Invitation to the 2nd European Forum for the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon-20)
by Yazan Mualla 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

INVITATION FOR PAPERS AND TALKS The 2nd European Forum for the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon-20) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with: * the 11th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2020); * the 9th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models, Methodologies and Applications (ABMTRANS-20); * the 4th International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-20). April 6-9, 2020, Warsaw, Poland. http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:EuSarlCon20 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Description =========== The 2020 European SarlCon is the SARL user meeting that is organized in Europe in order to provide a place where SARL users and developers could exchange their experiences. It will be held on April 6-9, 2020, at Warsaw, Poland. That is the last day of the ANT-2020 conference, the ABMTRANS-20 and the SARL-20 workshops. Submissions directly for the EuSarlCon should take the form of an abstract (< 1000 words), and are to be submitted before February 10, 2020, through EasyChair. ABMTRANS-20 and SARL-20 are providing an alternative for publishing longer papers. Important Dates =============== * Paper or talk submission: January 31, 2020; * Acceptance notification: February 10, 2020; * Forum: April 6-9, 2020. Submission ========== You are invited to submit the abstract in PDF format on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eusarlcon2020) not exceeding 1000 words in length. General Chair ============= Stéphane GALLAND (UBFC, France) <stephane.galland(a)utbm.fr> Program Chairs ============== Yazan MUALLA (UBFC, France) Igor TCHAPPI HAMAN (UBFC, France) Registration ============ You must be registered to the ANT20 conference, which provides the access to its facilities. The EuSarlCon forum is considered as a specific type of tutorial. In order to assist to EuSarlCon20, you must apply to a tutorial registration of the ANT20 conference.

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