February 2023 - Haskell

HCVS 2023 - Call for Papers (Extended deadline)
by Jose F. Morales 25 Feb '23

25 Feb '23

10th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) Co-located with ETAPS 2023 23rd April 2023 - Paris, France https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs23/ Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: Mar 8, 2023 (EXTENDED) - Paper notification: Mar 22, 2023 - Workshop: Apr 23, 2023 Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modeled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving problems presented as Horn clauses. This series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working in the two communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP), Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated Deduction (e.g., CADE, IJCAR), on the topic of Horn clause based analysis, verification, and synthesis. Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these communities in different times and from different perspectives and HCVS is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and integration of experiences. The workshop follows previous meetings: HCVS 2022 in Munich, Germany (ETAPS 2022), HCVS 2021, online (ETAPS 2021), HCVS 2020, online (ETAPS 2020), HCVS 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic (ETAPS 2019), HCVS 2018 in Oxford, UK (CAV, ICLP and IJCAR at FLoC 2018), HCVS 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden (CADE 2017), HCVS 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (ETAPS 2016), HCVS 2015 in San Francisco, CA, USA (CAV 2015), and HCVS 2014 in Vienna, Austria (VSL). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn clauses, constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas: - Analysis and verification of programs and systems of various kinds (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, higher-order, concurrent, transition systems, petri-nets, smart contracts) - Program synthesis - Program testing - Program transformation - Constraint solving - Type systems - Machine learning and automated reasoning - CHC encoding of analysis and verification problems - Resource analysis - Case studies and tools - Challenging problems We solicit regular papers describing theory and implementation of Horn-clause based analysis and tool descriptions. We also solicit extended abstracts describing work-in-progress, as well as presentations covering previously published results, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, and overviews of research projects that are of interest to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present the contribution. CHC Competition: HCVS 2023 will host the 6th competition on constraint Horn clauses (CHC-COMP https://chc-comp.github.io/ ), which will compare state-of-the-art tools for CHC solving for performance and effectiveness on a set of publicly available benchmarks. A report on CHC-COMP will be part of the workshop's proceedings. The report also contains tool descriptions of the participating solvers. Program Chairs: David Monniaux, VERIMAG, CNRS, Grenoble, France José F. Morales, IMDEA Software, Madrid, Spain Program Committee: Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft, USA Evelyne Contejean, LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, France Stefania Dumbrava, ENSIIE Paris-Evry, France Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Pierre-Loic Garoche, ENAC, France Dejan Jovanović, Amazon Web Services, USA Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK Jorge A. Navas, Certora, USA Philipp Rüemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Hiroshi Unno, University of Tsukuba, Japan Submission has to be done in one of the following formats: - Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography in EPTCS (http://www.eptcs.org/) format), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. - Tool papers (up to 4 pages in EPTCS format), including the papers written by the CHC-COMP participants, which can outline the theoretical framework, the architecture, the usage, and experiments of the tool. - Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe work in progress or aim to initiate discussions. - **Presentation-only papers**, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop. Such papers can be submitted in any format, and will not be included in the workshop post-proceedings. - Posters that are of interest to the workshop All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and will be selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee reports. Accepted regular papers and extended abstracts will be published electronically as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, see http://www.eptcs.org/ (provided that enough regular papers are accepted). The publication of a paper is not intended to preclude later publication. Full versions of extended abstracts published in EPTCS, or substantial revisions, may later be published elsewhere. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2023

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RA position in PL and Machine Learning at Bristol
by Meng Wang 24 Feb '23

24 Feb '23

Dear all, In case you know any PhD students / post-docs who are looking for a job, the Bristol Programming Languages Group<https://bristolpl.github.io/> is hiring a Senior Research Associate. The candidate will perform research under the supervision of Dr. Cristina David and Dr. Meng Wang . The group has a wide range of interests and a strong international reputation in areas such as program verification/analysis, program synthesis and repair, functional programming, type theory, and cryptography. More recently, we have focused on applying machine learning for program analysis and synthesis (candidates with machine learning experience are welcome). The group is well connected with leading research groups globally and its research is supported by major funding agencies and industrial giants, e.g. Huawei, Meta, Amazon, Github. The position is for 2 years, with the possibility of extension. The closing date is 19 March 2023. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=305015&jobTitle=Senior%2… For any queries, please contact Cristina David (cristina.david(a)bristol.ac.uk<mailto:cristina.david@bristol.ac.uk>), or Meng Wang (meng.wang(a)bristol.ac.uk<mailto:meng.wang@bristol.ac.uk>). Best wishes, Cristina & Meng

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CALCO 2023: Final Call for Papers
by Thorsten Wissmann 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2023 10th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science June 19-21, 2023 Bloomington, Indiana (USA) and online Co-located with MFPS XXXIX https://coalg.org/calco-mfps-2023/ ========================================================== Paper submission: March 8, 2023 (AoE) Author notification: Apr 28, 2023 (AoE) Final version due: May 19, 2023 ========================================================== Invited Speakers ---------------- - Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University (Joint with MFPS) - Assia Mahboubi, Inria (Joint with MFPS) - Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa - Elaine Pimentel, University College London - Jeremy Siek, Indiana University Special Sessions ---------------- “Category Theory in Machine Learning” Organised by Brendan Fong and Brandon Shapiro (Topos Institute), Fabio Zanasi (University College London) “Machine-checked proofs in mathematics and meta-mathematics” (joint with MFPS) Organised by Assia Mahboubi, Inria Scope ----- Algebraic and coalgebraic methods and tools are a mainstay of computer science. From data types to development techniques and specification formalisms, both theoreticians and practitioners have benefited from the large body of research proposed and implemented since the pioneering works of the 1960s. CALCO aims to bring together researchers with interests in both foundational and applicative uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science, traditional as well as emerging ones. CALCO is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science) and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Salzburg (Austria, 2021), London (UK, 2019), Ljubljana (Slovenia,2017), Nijmegen (the Netherlands, 2015), Warsaw (Poland, 2013), Winchester (UK, 2011), Udine (Italy, 2009), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Swansea (Wales, 2005). The 10th edition will be held in Bloomington, Indiana, co-located with MFPS XXXIX. It is planned as a physical, in-person event, with support for remote presence, both for speakers and for other participants who are unable or unwilling to travel. Submission Categories --------------------- CALCO invites papers relating to all aspects of algebraic and coalgebraic theory and applications, and distinguishes between four categories of submissions. 1. Regular papers that report * results on theoretical foundations * novel methods and techniques for software development * experiences with technology transfer to industry. 2. (Co)Algebraic Pearls papers that * present possibly known material in a novel and enlightening way. 3. Early ideas abstracts that lead to * presentations of work in progress * proposals for original venues of research. 4. Tool presentation papers that * report on the features and uses of algebraic/coalgebraic tools. Topics of Interests ------------------- All topics relating to algebraic and coalgebraic theory and applications are of interest for CALCO, and among them * Models and logics - Automata and languages - Graph transformations and term rewriting - Modal logics - Proof systems - Relational systems * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types - Re-engineering techniques (program transformations) - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Semantics of programming languages * Methodologies in software and systems engineering - Development processes - Method integration - Usage guidelines * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems - Concurrent, distributed, mobile, cyber-physical, and context-aware computational paradigms - Systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * System specification and verification - Formal testing and quality assurance - Generative programming and model-driven development - Integration of formal specification techniques - Model-driven development - Specification languages, methods, and environments * Tools supporting algebraic and coalgebraic methods for - Advances in automated verification - Model checking - Theorem proving - Testing * String diagrams and network theory - Theory of PROPs and operads - Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches - Automated reasoning with string diagrams - Applications of string diagrams * Quantum computing - Categorical semantics for quantum computing - Quantum calculi and programming languages - Foundational structures for quantum computing - Applications of quantum algebra Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- All submissions will be handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2023 The format for all submissions is specified by LIPIcs. Please use the latest version of the style: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Regular papers -------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Regular papers should be maximum 15 pages long, excluding references. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org) containing extended versions of selected papers, is planned. (Co)algebraic pearls -------------------- This is a recent submission category. Explaining a known idea in a new way may make as strong a contribution as inventing a new idea. We encourage the submission of pearls: elegant essays that illustrate an idea in a beautiful or didactically clever way, perhaps by developing an application. Pearls are typically short and concise and so should not be longer than regular papers in the format specified by LIPIcs. Authors who feel they need a bit more space should consult with the PC co-chairs. The accepted papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. Early ideas abstracts --------------------- Submissions should not exceed 2 pages in the format specified by LIPIcs. The volume of selected abstracts will be made available on arXiv and on the CALCO pages. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results by subsequent publication elsewhere. Tool papers ----------- Submissions should not exceed 5 pages in the format specified by LIPIcs. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission for download and evaluation. Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards --------------------------------------- This edition of CALCO will feature two awards: a Best Paper Award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a Best Presentation Award, elected by the participants. Programme Committee ------------------- * Carlos Gustavo Lopez Pombo (University of Buenos Aires) * Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) * Vincenzo Ciancia (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa) * Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) * Ionut Tutu (Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy) * Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham) * Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University) * Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University) * Thorsten Wißmann (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) * Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa) * Shin-Ya Katsumata (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) * Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam) * Peter Ölveczky (University of Oslo) * Michael Johnson (Macquarie University) * Nicolas Behr (CNRS Université Paris Cité) * Henning Urbat (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) * Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University) * Fernando Orejas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) * Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London) * Georgiana Caltais (University of Twente) * Sławomir Lasota (University of Warsaw) * Aleks Kissinger (University of Oxford) * Thomas Colcombet (CNRS, IRIF, Université de Paris) * Sandra Kiefer (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) * Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) * Natasha Alechina (Utrecht University) * Sara Kalvala (University of Warwick) Chairs ------ * Paolo Baldan (University of Padua) * Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute, Berkeley) Organiser --------- * Larry Moss (local) (Indiana University)

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SEIT 2023 CfPs: The 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT)
by Ali BENZERBADJ 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP The 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada July 24-26, 2023 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-23/ **************************************************************************** The goal of the SEIT 2023 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2023 - Paper Submission Due: March 14, 2023 - Acceptance Notification: May 8, 2023 - Final Manuscript Due: June 1, 2023 Publication ------------ All SEIT 2023 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted 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/. 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. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. Conference Main Topics (A detailed list can be found at: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-23/#callforPapers) ================= - 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: -------------- General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Wayne Groszko, Dalhousie University, Canada Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Isam Janajreh, Khalifa University, UAE Publicity Chairs Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France 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-23/#programCommittees

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Call for papers, TASE 2023, Bristol, UK, 4-6 July 2023
by Huibiao Zhu 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

TASE 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** The 17th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2023) July 4-6, Bristol, UK https://bristolpl.github.io/tase2023/ ****************************************************************** * Abstract submission (not mandatory, but preferred): February 3, 2023 * Paper Submission: February 24, 2023 * Author Notification: April 10, 2023 * Camera-ready versions: May 1, 2023 * Conference date: July 4-6, 2023 -------- OVERVIEW -------- The 17th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2023) will be held in Bristol, UK on July 4-6, 2023. Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to the various aspects of software engineering, for instance, software dependability in trusted computing, interaction with physical components in cyber physical systems, quality assurance in AI systems, distribution in cloud computing applications, security and privacy in general. Hence, new concepts and methodologies are required to enhance the development of software engineering from theoretical aspects. TASE 2023 aims to provide a forum for people from academia and industry to communicate their latest results on innovative advances in software engineering. TASE 2023 is the 17th in the TASE series. The past TASE symposia were successfully held in Shanghai ('07), Nanjing ('08), Tianjin ('09), Taipei ('10), Xi'an ('11), Beijing ('12), Birmingham ('13), Changsha ('14), Nanjing ('15), Shanghai (’16), Nice ('17), Guangzhou ('18), Guilin (’19), Hangzhou (’20), Shanghai (’21), Cluj (’22). ------ TOPICS ------ Authors are invited to submit high quality technical papers describing original and unpublished work in all theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Abstract interpretation * Algebraic and co-algebraic specifications * AI for formal methods * Component-based software engineering * Cyber-physical systems * Deductive verification * Distributed and concurrent systems * Domain Engineering * Embedded and real-time systems * Feature-oriented software * Formal methods, verification and testing for AI systems * Formal verification and program semantics * Fundamental theories and techniques for trustworthy AI systems * Integration of formal methods * Language design * Model checking and theorem proving * Model-driven engineering * Object-oriented systems * Probability in software engineering * Program analysis * Program logics and calculi * Requirements engineering * Reverse engineering and software maintenance * Run-time verification and monitoring * Semantic web and web services * Service-oriented and cloud computing * Software processes and workflows * Software architectures and design * Software testing and quality assurance * Software safety, security and reliability * Specification and verification * Type systems and behavioral typing * Tools exploiting theoretical results --------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS --------------- Stefan Kiefer – University of Oxford Naijun Zhan – Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Peter Schrammel – CTO of Diffblue, AI for Code, Oxford ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography) for long papers and 6 pages (excluding bibliography) for short papers in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the TASE 2023 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase23 Selected papers will be invited after the symposium to submit an extended version to a special issue at Science of Computer Programming. --------------- HONORARY CHAIR Ian Nabney – University of Bristol, UK ------------- GENERAL CHAIR Meng Wang – Univeristy of Bristol, UK ----------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Cristina David – University of Bristol, UK Meng Sun – Peking University, China ---------------- PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Guoqiang Li -- Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Guillaume Dupont -- Toulouse INP – ENSEEIHT, France ---------------- LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Samantha Frohlich – University of Bristol, UK ------------------ WEB CHAIR Roly Perera – University of Bristol, UK ------------------ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Ileana Ober -- Université Paul Sabatier, France Min Zhang -- East China Normal University, China ------------------ PUBLICATION CHAIR Neeraj Singh -- Toulouse INP – ENSEEIHT, France ------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernhard K. Aichernig, Graz University of Technology Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT Toshiaki Aoki, JAIST Guangdong Bai, The University of Queensland Richard Banach, University of Manchester Luís Soares Barbosa, University of Minho Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University Martin Brain, City, University of London Liqian Chen, National University of Defense Technology Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore Lucas Cordeiro, University of Manchester Andreeea Costea, National University of Singapore Florin Craciun, Cluj University Cristina David, University of Bristol (PC Co-chair) Flavio Ferrarotti, Software Competence Centre Hagenberg Simon Foster, University of York Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke Robvan Glabbeek, Data61 - CSIRO Matthias Güdemann, University of Applied Sciences, Munich Fei He, Tsinghua University Thai Son Hoang, University of Southampton Zoltán Horváth, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Zhe Hou, Griffith University Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics Andreas Katis, KBR Inc. at NASA Ames Research Center Olga Kouchnarenko, University of Franche-Comté Pascal Kesseli, Diffblue, UK Regine Laleau, Paris Est Creteil University Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Frederic Mallet, Universite Nice Sophia-Antipolis Kazutaka Matsuda, Tohoku University Diego Marmsoler, University of Exeter Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, LORIA Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo Dominic Orchard, University of Kent Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg Geguang Pu, East China Normal University Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Shengchao Qin, Teesside University Quang Loc Le, University College London Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University Meng Sun, Peking University (PC Co-chair) Cong Tian, Xidian University Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University Naijun Zhan, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiyue Zhang, xiyue.zhang(a)cs.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford Yongwang Zhao, zhaoyw(a)zju.edu.cn, Zhejiang University Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University Xue-Yang Zhu, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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MobiSPC 2023 CFPs: The 20th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing, MobiSPC
by Ali BENZERBADJ 18 Feb '23

18 Feb '23

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 20th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada July 24-26, 2023 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-23/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC- solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2023 will provide a leading-edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the-art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2023 - Paper Submission Due: March 14, 2023 - Acceptance Notification: May 8, 2023 - Final Manuscript Due: June 1, 2023 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2023 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 special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 7.104), 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: 5.594), by Elsevier ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and…) - International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (IF: 3.030) (Pending), Elsevier ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks) MobiSPC 2023 will be held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-23/) MobiSPC 2023 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chair Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Ansar Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops' Chair Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Tracks Chairs Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Uneb Gazger, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Camille Kamga, The City College of New York, USA Faouzi Kammoun, ESPRIT, Tunisia Hamid Mcheick, UQAC, Canada Wendy Osborn, University of Lethbridge, Canada Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Rahim Rahmani, Stockholm University, Sweden Qussai Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan International Journals Chair Atta Badii, Reading University, UK Publicity Chairs Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria Sohail Jabbar, The University of Faisalabad, Pakistan Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines Jake Speiran, Acadia University, Canada Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-23/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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HCVS 2023 - Last Call for Papers
by Jose F. Morales 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

10th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) Co-located with ETAPS 2023 23rd April 2023 - Paris, France https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs23/ Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: Feb 22, 2023 - Paper notification: Mar 22, 2023 - Workshop: Apr 23, 2023 Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modeled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving problems presented as Horn clauses. This series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working in the two communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP), Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated Deduction (e.g., CADE, IJCAR), on the topic of Horn clause based analysis, verification, and synthesis. Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these communities in different times and from different perspectives and HCVS is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and integration of experiences. The workshop follows previous meetings: HCVS 2022 in Munich, Germany (ETAPS 2022), HCVS 2021, online (ETAPS 2021), HCVS 2020, online (ETAPS 2020), HCVS 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic (ETAPS 2019), HCVS 2018 in Oxford, UK (CAV, ICLP and IJCAR at FLoC 2018), HCVS 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden (CADE 2017), HCVS 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (ETAPS 2016), HCVS 2015 in San Francisco, CA, USA (CAV 2015), and HCVS 2014 in Vienna, Austria (VSL). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn clauses, constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas: - Analysis and verification of programs and systems of various kinds (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, higher-order, concurrent, transition systems, petri-nets, smart contracts) - Program synthesis - Program testing - Program transformation - Constraint solving - Type systems - Machine learning and automated reasoning - CHC encoding of analysis and verification problems - Resource analysis - Case studies and tools - Challenging problems We solicit regular papers describing theory and implementation of Horn-clause based analysis and tool descriptions. We also solicit extended abstracts describing work-in-progress, as well as presentations covering previously published results, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, and overviews of research projects that are of interest to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present the contribution. CHC Competition: HCVS 2023 will host the 6th competition on constraint Horn clauses (CHC-COMP https://chc-comp.github.io/ ), which will compare state-of-the-art tools for CHC solving for performance and effectiveness on a set of publicly available benchmarks. A report on CHC-COMP will be part of the workshop's proceedings. The report also contains tool descriptions of the participating solvers. Program Chairs: David Monniaux, VERIMAG, CNRS, Grenoble, France José F. Morales, IMDEA Software, Madrid, Spain Program Committee: Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft, USA Evelyne Contejean, LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, France Stefania Dumbrava, ENSIIE Paris-Evry, France Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Pierre-Loic Garoche, ENAC, France Dejan Jovanović, Amazon Web Services, USA Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK Jorge A. Navas, Certora, USA Philipp Rüemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Hiroshi Unno, University of Tsukuba, Japan Submission has to be done in one of the following formats: - Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography in EPTCS (http://www.eptcs.org/) format), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. - Tool papers (up to 4 pages in EPTCS format), including the papers written by the CHC-COMP participants, which can outline the theoretical framework, the architecture, the usage, and experiments of the tool. - Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe work in progress or aim to initiate discussions. - **Presentation-only papers**, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop. Such papers can be submitted in any format, and will not be included in the workshop post-proceedings. - Posters that are of interest to the workshop All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and will be selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee reports. Accepted regular papers and extended abstracts will be published electronically as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, see http://www.eptcs.org/ (provided that enough regular papers are accepted). The publication of a paper is not intended to preclude later publication. Full versions of extended abstracts published in EPTCS, or substantial revisions, may later be published elsewhere. Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2023

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ICFP 2023 Artifact Evaluation Committee: call for nominations
by Quentin Stiévenart 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Dear all, We are looking for motivated people to be members of the ICFP 2023 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). Students, researchers and people from the industry or the free software community are all welcome. The artifact evaluation process aims to improve the quality and reproducibility of research artifacts for ICFP papers. In case you want to nominate someone else (students, colleagues, etc.), please send them the nomination form. Nomination form: https://forms.gle/RDomoHLv39RnjBUC6 For more information, see the AEC webpage: https://icfp23.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2023-artifact-evaluation The primary responsibility of committee members is to review the artifacts submitted corresponding to the already conditionally accepted papers in the main research track. In particular, run the associated tool or benchmark, check whether the results in the paper can be reproduced, and inspect the tool and the data. We expect evaluation of one artifact to take about a full day. Each committee member will receive 2 to 3 artifacts to review. All of the AEC work will be done remotely/online. The AEC will work in June, with the review work happening between June 5th and June 29th. Come join us in improving the quality of research in our field! Best, the Artifact Evaluation chairs: Jannis Limperg and Quentin Stiévenart

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SEIT 2023 CfPs: The 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT)
by Ali BENZERBADJ 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

The 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada July 24-26, 2023 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-23/ **************************************************************************** The goal of the SEIT 2023 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2023 - Paper Submission Due: March 14, 2023 - Acceptance Notification: May 8, 2023 - Final Manuscript Due: June 1, 2023 Publication ------------ All SEIT 2023 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted 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/. 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. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. Conference Main Topics (A detailed list can be found at: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-23/#callforPapers) ================= - 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: -------------- General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Wayne Groszko, Dalhousie University, Canada Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Isam Janajreh, Khalifa University, UAE Publicity Chairs Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France 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-23/#programCommitteestcc

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ICFP 2023: Last Call for Papers
by ICFP Publicity 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

PACMPL Volume 7, Issue ICFP 2023 Call for Papers Accepted papers to be invited for presentation at The 28th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming Seattle, USA http://icfp23.sigplan.org/ ### Important dates (All dates are in 2023 at 11.59pm anywhere on earth.) Submission deadline: 1 March 2023 (Wednesday) (https://icfp23.hotcrp.com) Author response: 1 May (Monday)--4 May (Thursday) Round 1 notification: 18 May (Thursday) Round 2 notification: 29 June (Thursday) Camera-ready deadline: 20 July (Thursday) Conference: 4 September (Monday)--9 September (Saturday) ### 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 publicised Calls for Papers, like this one. ### Scope [PACMPL](https://pacmpl.acm.org/) issue ICFP 2023 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; modularity; components and composition; metaprogramming; macros; pattern matching; type systems; type inference; dependent types; effect types; gradual types; refinement types; session 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 optimisation; 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; computational effects; continuations; control; state; 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; scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces; graphics and multimedia; GPU programming; scripting; system administration; security. * Education: teaching introductory 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 2023 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. Submissions from underrepresented groups are encouraged. Authors who require financial support to attend the conference can apply for PAC funding (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC/) The General Chair and PC Chair may not submit papers. PC members (other than the PC Chair) may submit papers. However, SIGPLAN guidelines dictate that they be held to a higher standard: a PC paper can be accepted if after the discussion it has at least one strongly-supportive review and no detractors. Each PC member may be listed as a coauthor on a maximum of three submissions. Please contact the Programme Chair if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions *Deadline*: The deadline for submissions is **Wednesday, March 1, 2023**, Anywhere on Earth (<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>). 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>. 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 and an optional clearly marked appendix 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. See also PACMPL's Information and Guidelines for Authors at <https://pacmpl.acm.org/authors.cfm>. *Submission*: Submissions will be accepted at <https://icfp23.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 12pm UTC on *Monday, May 1, 2023*, to read reviews and respond to them. *Appendix and Supplementary Material*: Authors have the option to include a clearly marked appendix and/or to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at such an appendix or supplementary material. Supplementary material may be uploaded as a separate PDF document or tarball. Any supplementary material **must** 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 anonymised and non-anonymised supplementary material. Anonymised supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymised supplementary material (which must be submitted separately) 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>. *ORCID*: ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher: https://orcid.org/. ACM now require an ORCID iD for every author of a paper, not just the corresponding author. So, the author who is filling out the permission form should make sure they have the ORCID iDs for all of their coauthors before filling out the form. Any authors who do not yet have an ORCID iD can go to https://orcid.org/register to have one assigned. ### 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 2023. **New this year**: ICFP 2023 will have an Associate Chair who will help the PC Chair monitor reviews, solicit external expert reviews for submissions when there is not enough expertise on the committee, and facilitate reviewer discussions. *PACMPL issue ICFP 2023 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. As a result of the review process, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on **May 18, 2023**. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions. By June 15, 2023, the authors may 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 feasibly be addressed within three weeks. 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 2023 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 anonymised). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their papers 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 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, 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. The other options are copyright transfer to ACM or retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights. * PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal, and authors are encouraged to publish their work under a CC-BY license. Gold Open Access guarantees permanent free online access to the definitive version in the ACM Digital Library, and the recommended CC-BY option also allows anyone to copy and distribute the work with attribution. 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 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. * Authors of each accepted submission are invited to attend and be available for the presentation of that paper at the conference. The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. ### 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-specialised 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 describe the experience of using functional programming in practice, whether in industrial application, tool development, programming education, or any other area. 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 understand the application 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 describes an illuminating experience with functional programming, or provide evidence for a clear thesis about the use of functional programming. The experience or 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 paper to illuminate some aspect of the use of functional programming. 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, papers that show how functional programming was used are more convincing than papers that say only that functional programming was used. It can be especially effective to present comparisons of the situations before and after the experience described in the paper, but other kinds of evidence would also make sense, depending on context. Experience 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. For an industrial project, it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked and why; for a pedagogy paper, it might make a claim about the suitability of a particular teaching style or educational exercise. Either way, it should produce evidence to substantiate the claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarise 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 experience and its implementation, but the paper should characterise it and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own circumstances. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects; specifics about the experience are more valuable than generalities about functional programming. 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 Program Chair will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### ICFP Organisers General Chair: Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Programme Chair: Sam Lindley (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Publicity Chair: Ilya Sergey (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Accessibility Co-Chairs: Vadim Zaliva (University of Cambridge, UK) and Calvin Beck (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Artifact Evaluation Chair: Jannis Limpberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Diversity Chair: Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research, USA) Industrial Relations Co-Chairs: Atze Dijkstra (Standard Chartered Bank, England) and Mathieu Bosepflug (Tweag I/O, France) Programming Contest Co-Organisers: Alperen Keles (University of Maryland, USA) and Aymeric Fromherz (Inria, France) Student Research Competition Chair: Daniel Hillerström (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Video Chair: Apoorv Ingle (Iowa, USA) Workshops Co-Chairs: Arther Azevedo de Amorim (Boston University, USA) and Yannick Forster (Inria, France) ### PACMPL Volume 7, Issue ICFP 2023 Associate Editor: Sam Lindley (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Review Committee: Aggelos Biboudis, Oracle, Switzerland Alan Jeffrey, Roblox, USA Amos Robinson, Unaffiliated, Australia Andreea Costea, National University of Singapore, Singapore Andrew Hirsch, University of Buffalo, USA Andy Gill, Cerebrus Systems, USA Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT, USA Arnaud Spiwack, Tweag, France Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania, USA Beta Ziliani, FAMAF, UNC and Manas.Tech, Argentina Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University, South Korea Delia Kesner, Université de Paris, France Dylan McDermott, Reykjavik University, Iceland Éric Tanter, University of Chile, Chile Gabriel Radanne, Inria, France Gerwin Klein, Proofcraft & UNSW Sydney, Australia Hannah Gommerstadt, Vasser College, USA James Chapman, Input Output, Scotland James McKinna, Heriot-Watt, Scotland Jan Midtgaard, Tarides, Denmark Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, England Jonathan Brachthäuser, University of Tübingen, Germany Jonathan Sterling, Aarhus University, Denmark José Pedro Magalhães, Standard Chartered Bank, England Josh Berdine, Meta UK, England Kathrin Stark, Heriot-Watt, Scotland Laura Bocchi, Kent, England Lennart Augustsson, Epic Games, Sweden Liang-Ting Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taiwan Lionel Parreaux, HKUST, Hong Kong Marcos Viera, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA Michael D. Adams, National University of Singapore, Singapore Michael Greenberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Niki Vazou, IMDEA, Spain Oliver Bračevac, Purdue University, USA Patrik Jansson, CSE, Chalmers and UGOT, Sweden, Sweden Paul Downen, UMass Lowell, USA Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg, Germany Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, USA Satnam Singh, Groq, USA Sean Moss, Oxford, England Sebastian Erdweg, JGU Mainz, Germany Shin-ya Katsumata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, Scotland Sonia Marin, University of Birmingham, England Stephen Dolan, Jane Street, England Susmit Sarkar, University of St Andrews, Scotland Tahina Ramananandro, Microsoft, USA Takeshi Tsukada, Chiba University, Japan Talia Ringer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China

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