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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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SPLASH 2020 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions
by hitesh sajnani 25 Jul '20

25 Jul '20

SPLASH 2020 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions ================================================== Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH will host a variety of workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. The following workshops will be *virtually* co-located with SPLASH 2020 and ECOOP 2020. * AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) * HATRA (Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants) * HILT (High Integrity Language Technologies) * LIVE (Live Programming) * LPOP (Logic and Practice of Programming) * META (Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection) * NSAD (Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains) * PLATEAU (PL + HCI) * REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) * TAPAS (Tools for Automatic Program Analysis) * VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) ------------------------------------------------- The AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and—more generally—on high-level programming paradigms which promote decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is intended to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/agere-2020 Deadline: *21st August AoE* HATRA (Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants) ------------------------------------------------------- Programming language designers seek to provide strong tools to help developers reason about their programs. The HATRA workshop focuses on methods for making languages that provide stronger safety properties more effective for programmers and software engineers. By bringing together programming languages, software engineering, security, and human-computer interaction researchers, we will explore interdisciplinary methods for creating languages that benefit their users. Our interest spans all approaches for reasoning assistants and safer programming languages. For example, the formal methods community seeks to enable developers to prove correctness properties of their code, and type system designers seek to exclude classes of undesirable behavior from programs. The security community creates tools to help developers achieve their security goals. We invite the SPLASH community to join us in identifying and establishing a research agenda for collaborative work in this space and discussion of early-stage approaches in this area. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/hatra-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* HILT (High Integrity Language Technologies) ------------------------------------------- High Integrity Language Technologies have been tackling the challenges of building efficient, safe, reliable software for decades. Critical software as a domain is quickly expanding beyond embedded real-time control applications to the increasing reliance on complex software for the basic functioning of businesses, governments, and society in general. HILT 2020 will focus on the growing importance of large-scale, highly parallel, distributed and/or cloud applications. Single-thread performance is reaching the limits of physics, and this has driven growth in parallel programming, massively distributed systems, and heterogeneous/ accelerated computing models. Once the domain of high-performance computing experts, parallel, distributed, and cloud computing are becoming fundamental technologies for all programmers. This workshop seeks to explore ways High Integrity Language Technologies can bring the capabilities of parallelism, distribution, and heterogeneity to a wider audience, without the associated increase in complexity. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/hilt-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* LIVE (Live Programming) ----------------------- Live programming gives the programmer immediate feedback on the behavior of a program as it is edited, replacing the edit-compile-debug cycle with a fluid programming experience. The most commonly used live programming environment is the spreadsheet, but there are many others. The study of live programming is now an established area of research. The LIVE workshop focuses on the human experience of programming and is a forum for early-stage work to receive constructive criticism. We accept short papers, web essays with embedded videos, and demo videos. Traditionally, the majority of LIVE submissions are demonstrations of novel programming systems; we encourage such demos to include a reflection about their place in the history of programming environments. LIVE additionally accepts and welcomes experience reports, literature reviews, and position papers. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/live-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* LPOP (Logic and Practice of Programming) ---------------------------------------- The goal of the workshop is to bring together the best people and best languages, tools, and ideas to help improve logic languages for the practice of programming and to improve the practice of programming with logic and declarative programming. We plan to organize the workshop around a number of “challenge problems”, including in particular expressing a set of system components and functionalities clearly and precisely using a chosen description language. We will have invited talks by Adnan Darwiche (UCLA), Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), and Peter Stuckey (U of Melbourne). There will be additional presentations and discussion panels on using well-known description methods and tools. We will aim to group presentations of description methods and tools by the kind of problems that they address, and to allow ample time to understand the strengths of the various approaches and how they might be combined. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/lpop-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* META (Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection) ------------------------------------------------- The changing hardware and software landscape along with the increased heterogeneity of systems make metaprogramming once more an important research topic to handle the associated complexity. Meta’20 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions, or software tools using them. The challenges which metaprogramming faces are manifold. They start with formal reasoning about reflective programs, continue with performance and tooling, and reach into the empirical field to understand how metaprogramming is used and how it affects software maintainability. While industry accepted metaprogramming on a wide scale with Ruby, Scala, JavaScript and others, academia still needs to bring it to the same level of convenience, tooling, and understanding as for direct programming styles. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to the design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as formal methods and empirical studies for such systems and languages. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/meta-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* NSAD (Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains) ---------------------------------------------- Abstract domains are a key notion in Abstract Interpretation theory and practice. They embed the semantic choices, data-structures and algorithmic aspects, and implementation decisions. The Abstract Interpretation framework provides constructive and systematic formal methods to design, compose, compare, study, prove, and apply abstract domains. Many abstract domains have been designed so far: numerical domains (intervals, congruences, polyhedra, polynomials, etc.), symbolic domains (shape domains, trees, etc.), but also domain operators (products, powersets, completions, etc.), and have been applied to several kinds of static analyses (safety, termination, probability, etc.) on a variety of systems (hardware, software, neural networks, etc.). The goal of NSAD workshop is to discuss work in progress, recent advances, novel ideas, experiences in the theory, practice, application, implementation, and experimentation related to abstract domains and/or their combination. This year’s edition in particular welcomes abstract domains related and/or applied to analyzing neural networks, dynamical and hybrid systems. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/nsad-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* PLATEAU (PL + HCI) ------------------ Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But programmer effectiveness depends on the usability of the languages and tools with which they develop software. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. Find more details of the PLATEAU workshop at the website: https://plateau-workshop.org/ Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/plateau-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) ---------------------------------------------------- Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design — so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) — have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2020 Deadline: *21st August AoE* (extended) TAPAS (Tools for Automatic Program Analysis) -------------------------------------------- In recent years, a wide range of static analysis tools have emerged, some of which are currently in industrial use or are well beyond the advanced prototype level. Many impressive practical results have been obtained, which allow complex properties to be proven or checked in a fully or semi-automatic way, even in the context of complex software developments. In parallel, the techniques to design and implement static analysis tools have improved significantly, and much effort is being put into engineering the tools. This workshop is intended to promote discussions and exchange experience between specialists in all areas of program analysis design and implementation, formal methods and static analysis tool users. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/tapas-2020 Deadline: *19th Aug AoE* VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) -------------------------------------------------- The concept of Virtual Machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual Machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/vmil-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* --------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Hitesh Sajnani, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine One Engineering System, Microsoft

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ETAPS 2021 1st joint call for papers
by Tarmo Uustalu 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2021 Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 27 March-1 April 2021 http://www.etaps.org/2021 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2021 is the twenty-fourth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (29 March-1 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair: Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs: Esther Guerra, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Mariëlle Stoelinga, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs: Stefan Kiefer, Univ. of Oxford, UK, and Christine Tasson, IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot, France) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs: Jan Friso Groote, Techn. Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark) TACAS '21 will host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 15 October 2020 23:59 AoE (=GMT-12) * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS and, for selected papers, TACAS): 7 December 00:01 AoE - 9 December 23:59 AoE * Notification: 23 December 2020 * Camera-ready versions due: 22 January 2021 -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- The four main conferences of ETAPS 2021 solicit contributions of the following types. All page limits are given **excluding bibliography**. * ESOP: regular research papers of max 25 pp * FASE: regular research papers and empirical evaluation papers of max 18 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp + mandatory appendix of max 6 pp, * FoSSaCS: regular research papers of max 18 pp * TACAS: regular research papers, case study papers and regular tool papers of max 16 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp For definitions of the different paper types and specific instructions, where they are present, see the webpages of the individual conferences. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and have presentations during the conference. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's LNCS and be submitted electronically in pdf through the Easychair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. FASE will use double-blind reviewing. Authors are asked to omit their names and institutions; refer to own prior work in the third person; not to include acknowledgements that might identify them. Regular tool paper and tool demonstration paper submissions to TACAS must be accompanied by an artifact. The artifact will be evaluated and the outcome will be taken into account in the acceptance decision of the paper. ESOP and FoSSaCS will use an author rebuttal phase. TACAS will have rebuttal for selected papers. -- PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's LNCS series. The proceedings volumes will appear in gold open access, so the published versions of all papers will be available for everyone to download from the publisher's website freely, from the date of online publication, perpetually. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (27-28 March) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. -- CITY AND HOST INSTITUTION -- Luxembourg is the capital of the small European nation of the same name. Built amid deep gorges cut by the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers, it is famed for its ruins of medieval fortifications. The vast Bock Casemates tunnel network encompasses a dungeon, prison and the Archaeological Crypt, considered the city's birthplace. Along ramparts above, the Chemin de la Corniche promenade offers dramatic viewpoints. ETAPS 2021 is organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), Université du Luxembourg. -- ORGANIZERS -- General chair: Peter Y. A. Ryan (SnT & Université du Luxembourg) Workshops chair: Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Organization chair: Peter Roenne (SnT Luxembourg) Event manager: Magali Martin (SnT Luxembourg) -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2021 at uni.lu .

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Final Call for Tutorials, Discussions, and Social Events: ICFP 2020
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

FINAL CALL FOR TUTORIAL, DISCUSSION, AND SOCIAL EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming August 23 - 28, 2020 Virtual https://icfp20.sigplan.org/ The 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held virtually on August 23-28, 2020. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. Proposals are invited for tutorials, lasting approximately 3 hours each, to be presented during ICFP and its co-located workshops and other events. These tutorials are the successor to the CUFP tutorials from previous years, but we also welcome tutorials whose primary audience is researchers rather than practitioners. Tutorials may focus either on a concrete technology or on a theoretical or mathematical tool. Ideally, tutorials will have a concrete result, such as "Learn to do X with Y" rather than "Learn language Y". To increase social interaction on the first ICFP virtual conference, this year we invite proposals for social events on topics of broader interest to the PL community. Such events can be panels and discussions (in the lines of the successful #ShutDownPL event), focused discussions (e.g., problem identifications, retrospective analysis, technical demos), social activities (e.g., treasure hunt, bingo, problem solving, artistic challenges). The typical duration of such events ranges from 30 minutes to one hour, but can be of any length. Tutorials may occur before or after ICFP, co-located with the associated workshops, on August 23 or August 27-28. Social events may be scheduled throughout the week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: July 17th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: July 22nd, 2020 Prospective organizers of tutorials are invited to submit a completed tutorial proposal form in plain text format to the ICFP 2020 workshop co-chairs (Jennifer Hackett and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2020(a)googlegroups.com by July 17th, 2020. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by July 22nd, 2020. The proposal form is available at: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2020-files/icfp20-panel-form.txt http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2020-files/icfp20-tutorials-form.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the ICFP 2020 organizing committee. Tutorials Co-Chair: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham) Tutorials Co-Chair: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland) General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any queries should be addressed to the tutorial co-chairs (Jennifer Hackett and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2020(a)googlegroups.com

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PhD / Postdoc position (Uni Amsterdam) in programming language technology for adaptive cyber-physical systems
by Clemens Grelck 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

At the Parallel Computing Systems (PCS) group at the Informatics Institute (IvI) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) we are looking for a PhD candidate or postdoctoral researcher in the area of programming language technology, compilation and run-time systems for adaptively morphing cyber-physical systems. The successful candidate will conduct research in the context of the EU-funded Horizon-2020 project ADMORPH, coordinated by the University of Amsterdam. He or she will work under the supervision of Dr Clemens Grelck and Dr Andy Pimentel and is expected to address the programming language technology dimension of ADMORPH. We are developing a domain-specific language (DSL) that will combine functional dependencies with extra-functional requirements, expectations and strategies regarding fault-tolerance, timing, security, quality-of-service, etc. Our goal in the ADMORPH project is to refine the DSL to address robustness against hardware failure and cyber attack. More information on the planned research as well as on the formalities of the position can be found at the official vacancy site: https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/07/20-420-researcher-in-progra… Closing date: July 29, 2020. For informal inquiries, please contact: Dr Clemens Grelck <c.grelck(a)uva.nl>. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 Associate Professor 1098XH Amsterdam Programme Director MSc Software Engineering Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Systems and Networking Lab F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Parallel Computing Systems Group Office C3.109 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Second call for draft papers for IFL 2020 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)
by Jurriaan Hage 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

Hello, Please, find below the second call for draft papers for IFL 2020. 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 2020 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages venue: online 2nd - 4th September 2020 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ================================================================================ ### 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 2020 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. Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialisation - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - meta-programming - 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 ### Post-symposium peer-review Following IFL tradition, IFL 2020 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. Before the symposium authors submit draft papers. These draft papers will be screened by the program chair to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL. The draft papers will be made available to all participants at the symposium. Each draft paper is presented by one of the authors at the symposium. After the symposium every presenter is invited to submit a full paper, incorporating feedback from discussions at the symposium. Work submitted to IFL may not be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected for the formal proceedings. We plan to publish these proceedings in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library, as in previous years. ### Important dates Submission deadline of draft papers: 17 August 2020 Notification of acceptance for presentation: 19 August 2020 Registration deadline: 31 August 2020 IFL Symposium: 2-4 September 2020 Submission of papers for proceedings: 7 December 2020 Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2021 Camera-ready version: 15 March 2021 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honoured 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 Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, United Kingdom (chair) Martin Erwig, Oregon State University,United States Daniel Horpacsi, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Neil Mitchell, Facebook, UK Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, United States Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University, Netherlands Colin Runciman, University of York, United Kingdom Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Jurrien Stutterheim, Standard Chartered, Singapore Josef Svenningsson, Facebook, UK Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg, Germany Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay Janis Voigtlander, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ### Virtual symposium Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year IFL 2020 will be an online event, consisting of paper presentations, discussions and virtual social gatherings. Registered participants can take part from anywhere in the world. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organisers for their work, which is reused here.

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Awardees of the VCLA International Student Awards for Outstanding Master and Undergraduate Theses in Logic and Computer Science - 2020
by Mihaela Rozman 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (VCLA) has the pleasure to announce the recipients of the VCLA International Student Awards for Outstanding Master and Undergraduate Theses in Logic and Computer Science. The highly successful fifth edition of the VCLA International Student Awards was concluded in July 2020. The awardees of the 2020 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards are: ***OUTSTANDING MASTER THESIS AWARD*** Karolina Okrasa (Poland Warsaw University of Technology) Thesis: Complexity of variants of graph homomorphism problem in selected graph classes Under the supervision of Paweł Rzążewski http://www.vcla.at/2020/07/fifth-edition-of-the-vcla-international-student-… ***OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD*** Antonin Callard (France ENS Paris-Saclay) Thesis: Topological analysis of represented spaces and computable maps, cb0 spaces and non-countably-based spaces Under the supervision of Mathieu Hoyrup http://www.vcla.at/2020/07/fifth-edition-of-the-vcla-international-student-… ============= AWARDS ============= The annually awarded VCLA Awards are dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aim to carry on his commitment to promoting young talent and promising researchers in these areas. The awardees receive: • Outstanding Master Thesis Award: 1200 EUR • Outstanding Undergraduate Research (Bachelor) Award: 800 EUR • The awardees will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony (TBA due to COVID -19) =================== (SELF-)NOMINATIONS =================== The nominated theses had to be awarded between 15 November 2018 and 31 December 2019. The 2021 call will be issued in January 2021, for theses awarded between 15 November 2019 and 31 December 2020: http://www.vcla.at/vcla-awards =================== FORMER AWARDEES =================== *Martín Muñoz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): Descriptive Complexity for Counting Complexity Classes *Alexej Rotar (TU München): The Satisfiability Problem for Fragments of PCTL *Tomáš Lamser (Masaryk University): Algorithmic Analysis of Patrolling Games *Jeremy Liang An Kong (Imperial College London): MCMAS-Dynamic: Symbolic Model Checking Linear Dynamic Logic *Felix Dörre (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Verification of Random Number Generators *Valeria Vignudelli (University of Bologna): The Discriminating Power of Higher-Order Languages: A Process Algebraic Approach *Maximilian Schleich (Oxford University): Learning Regression Models over Factorised Joins *Pablo Muñoz (University of Chile): New Complexity Bounds for Evaluating CRPQs with Path Comparisons *Kuldeep S. Meel (Rice University): Sampling Techniques for Boolean Satisfiability *Luke Schaeffer (University of Waterloo): Deciding Properties of Automatic Sequences *Sophie Spirkl (University of Bonn): Boolean Circuit Optimization =========================== VCLA AWARD COMMITTEE 2020 =========================== *Shqiponja Ahmetaj *Ezio Bartocci *Ekaterina Fokina *Robert Ganian, co-chair *Benjamin Kiesl *Martin Lackner *Bjoern Lellmann *Anna Lukina *Laura Nenzi *Johannes Oetsch *Magdalena Ortiz, chair *Revantha Ramanayake, co-chair *Zeynep G. Saribatur *Mantas Simkus *Sebastian Skritek *Friedrich Slivovsky *Max Tschaikowski *Johannes P. Wallner

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Call for Participation: ICFP 2020
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

===================================================================== Call for Participation ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events August 23 - August 28, 2020 Online http://icfp20.sigplan.org/ Early Registration until August 8! The ICFP Programming Contest starts on July 17! ===================================================================== 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. This year, the conference will be a virtual event. All activities will take place online. The ICFP Programming competition will be July 17th through 20th, 2020! The main conference will take place from August 24-26, 2020 during two time bands. The first band will be 9AM-5:30PM New York, and will include both technical and social activities. The second band will repeat (with some variation) the technical program and social activities 12 hours later, 9AM-5:30PM Beijing, the following day. We’re excited to announce our two invited speakers for 2020: Evan Czaplicki, covering the Elm programming language and hard lessons learned on driving adoption of new programming languages; and Audrey Tang, Haskeller and Taiwan’s Digital Minister, on how software developers can contribute to fighting the pandemic. ICFP has officially accepted 37 exciting papers, and (as a fresh experiment this year) there will also be presentations of 8 papers accepted recently to the Journal of Functional Programming. Co-located symposia and workshops will take place the day before and two days immediately after the main conference. Registration is now open. The early registration deadline is August 8th, 2020. Registration is not free, but is significantly lower than usual. Students who are ACM or SIGPLAN members may register for FREE before the early deadline. https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php New this year: Attendees will be able to sign-up for the ICFP Mentoring Program (either to be a mentor, receive mentorship or both). * Overview and affiliated events: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/home * Accepted papers: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-papers#event-overview * JFP Talks: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-jfp-talks#event-overview * Registration is available via: https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php Early registration ends 8 August, 2020. * Programming contest: https://icfpcontest2020.github.io/ The Programming Contest begins July 17th! * Student Research Competition: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-Student-Research-Competition * Follow us on Twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference This year, there are 10 events co-located with ICFP: * Erlang Workshop (8/23) * Haskell Implementors' Workshop (8/28) * Haskell Symposium (8/27-8/28) * Higher-Order Programming with Effects (8/23) * miniKanren Workshop (8/27) * ML Family Workshop (8/27) * OCaml Workshop (8/28) * Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (8/23) * Scheme Workshop (8/28) * Type-Driven Development (8/23) ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Ghost Locomotion, Australia) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organizer: 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: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Video Chair: Leif Andersen (Northeastern University, USA) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Hanneli Tavante (McGill University, Canada) Victor Lanvin (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot, France)

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WFLP 2020: 2nd CFP and Extended Deadlines
by Michael Hanus 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

Due to multiple requests, the deadlines are extended so that you can still submit papers (also work-in-progress papers)! =================================================== WFLP 2020: 2nd Call for Papers (Deadline Extension) =================================================== 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming ## Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the workshop will be organized by ## ## the University of Bologna, but it will be held entirely on-line. ## Bologna, Italy, September 7th, 2020 (part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020; co-located with PPDP, LOPSTR, Microservices) Important Dates Paper Registration: July, 13th <== extended Submission: July, 20th <== extended Notification of Authors: August, 03rd Camera-ready Papers: August, 24th Conference & Workshops: September 7th, 2020 WFLP 2020 The international Workshop on Functional and (constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP) aims at bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners interested in functional programming, logic programming, and their integration. WFLP has a reputation for being a lively and friendly forum, and it is open for presenting and discussing work in progress, technical contributions, experience reports, experiments, reviews, and system descriptions. The 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2020) will be organized by the University of Bologna, Italy, as part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020 and it will be held entirely on-line due to the coronavirus pandemic. Previous WFLP editions were WFLP 2019 (Cottbus, Germany), WFLP 2018 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), WFLP 2017 (Würzburg, Germany), WFLP 2016 (Leipzig, Germany), WFLP 2014 (Wittenberg, Germany), WFLP 2013 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2012 (Nagoya, Japan), WFLP 2011 (Odense, Denmark), WFLP 2010 (Madrid, Spain), WFLP 2009 (Brasilia, Brazil), WFLP 2008 (Siena, Italy), WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain), WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg, Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany). Topics The topics of interest cover all aspects of functional and logic programming. They include (but are not limited to): * Functional programming * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Deductive databases, data mining * Extensions of declarative languages, objects * Multi-paradigm declarative programming * Foundations, semantics, non-monotonic reasoning, dynamics * Parallelism, concurrency * Program analysis, abstract interpretation * Program and model manipulation * Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming * Specification, * Verification * Debugging * Testing * Knowledge representation, machine learning * Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms * Implementation of declarative languages * Advanced programming environments and tools * Software techniques for declarative programming * Applications The primary focus is on new and original research results, but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and experience reports are also welcome. Papers must be written and presented in English. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submission Guidelines Submission is via Easychair submission website for WFLP 2020: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wflp2020 Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: + Regular research paper + Work-in-progress report + System description Regular research papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been formally published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with formal proceedings. They will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. For work-in-progress reports and system descriptions, less formal rules apply, and presentation-only submissions (talk and discussion, but no paper in the formal proceedings) are possible. Please contact the PC chair with any questions. All submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. However, all submissions (especially work-in-progress reports and system descriptions) may be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Proceedings All papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published in informal proceedings publicly available at the Computing Research Repository. According to the program committee reviews, submissions can be directly accepted for publication in the formal post-conference proceedings. The formal post-conference proceedings will be published in both electronic and paper formats by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, all authors accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the conference. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Therefore, all accepted papers will be published in open-access, and the authors can also decide to publish their work in the Springer LNCS formal proceedings. Program Committee Sergio Antoy (Portland State University, USA) Demis Ballis (University of Udine, Italy) Moreno Falaschi (Università di Siena, Italy) Michael Hanus (University of Kiel, Germany) (Co-Chair) Herbert Kuchen (University of Muenster, Germany) Dale Miller (INRIA and LIX/Ècole Polytechnique) Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) (Co-Chair) Konstantinos Sagonas (Uppsala University, Sweden) Enrico Tassi (INRIA, France) Janis Voigtländer (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig, Germany) Organizing Committee Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) (Co-Chair) --

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Haskell, Then and Now. Got Questions? Ask them here!
by Philip Wadler 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

IOHK Cardano Virtual Summit continues. Today's sessions include: *16.00 (UK time) Fri 3 Jul* *Haskell, then and now: What is the future for **functional programming languages?* Prof Simon Peyton-Jones, Prof John Hughes, Prof Philip Wadler, Dr Kevin Hammond, Dr Duncan Coutts. You can submit questions via Reddit <https://www.reddit.com/r/cardano/comments/hkf5ki/got_questions_for_the_summ…>. Register for the summit here <https://cardanosummit.iohk.io/>. You can log in with your registered username and password here <https://www.ubivent.com/start/cardanovirtualsummit>. See you there! Go well, -- P . \ Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, . /\ School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh . / \ and Senior Research Fellow, IOHK . http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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