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Utrecht Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming
by Swierstra, W.S. (Wouter) 13 May '19

13 May '19

# Call for Participation SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Utrecht, the Netherlands, 27-31 August 2018 http://www.afp.school ## ABOUT The Advanced Functional Programming summer school has been running for more than ten years. We aim to educate aspiring Haskell programmers beyond the basic material covered by many textbooks. The lectures will cover several more advanced topics regarding the theory and practice of Haskell programming, including topics such as: * lambda calculus; * monads and monad transformers; * lazy evaluation; * generalized algebraic data types; * type families and type-level programming; * concurrency and parallelism. The summer school consists of a mix of lectures, labs, and a busy social program. ## LECTURERS Utrecht staff: * Gabriele Keller * Trevor McDonell * Alejandro Serrano Mena * Wouter Swierstra ## PREREQUISITES We expect students to have a basic familiarity with Haskell already. You should be able to write recursive functions over algebraic data types, such as lists and trees. There is a great deal of material readily available that covers this material. If you've already started learning Haskell and are looking to take your functional programming skills to the next level, this is the course for you. ## DATES Soft registration deadline: 1 August, 2019 School: 26-30 August ## COSTS 1700 euro - Housing and registration 1500 euro - Registration only We offer a 1000 discount for students and staff members affiliated with a university. ## SCHOLARSHIPS If you're struggling to finance your trip to Utrecht, please let us know. We have a limited number of scholarships or discounts available for students that would not be able to attend otherwise, especially for women and under-represented minorities. ## FURTHER INFORMATION Further information, including instructions on how to register, is available on our website: http://www.afp.school

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EUSPN 2019 CfP in Coimbra, Portugal, November 4-7 2019 (Conference with ISI Special Issues)
by Davidekova Monika 13 May '19

13 May '19

CfP ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2019) Date: November 4-7, 2019 Location: Coimbra, Portugal Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-19/ ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of EUSPN and related areas. Important Dates: -------------------- - Workshop Proposals: May 30, 2019 - Paper Submission Due: Jun 17, 2019 - Author Notification: August 6, 2019 - Final Manuscript Due: September 6, 2019 Publication ------------- All EUSPN 2019 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. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) EUSPN 2019 will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-19/) Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-19/call-for-papers.html EUSPN 2019 will be held in the city of Coimbra. Coimbra is a historical city and a municipality in Portugal. Among the many archaeological structures dating back to the Roman era, when Coimbra was the settlement of Aeminium, are its well-preserved aqueduct and cryptoporticus. Similarly, buildings from the period when Coimbra was the capital of Portugal (from 1131 to 1255) still remain. During the late Middle Ages, with its decline as the political centre of the Kingdom of Portugal, Coimbra began to evolve into a major cultural centre. This was in large part helped by the establishment of the University of Coimbra in 1290, the oldest academic institution in the Portuguese-speaking world. Apart from attracting many European and international students, the university is visited by many tourists for its monuments and history. Its historical buildings were classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2013: "Coimbra offers an outstanding example of an integrated university city with a specific urban typology as well as its own ceremonial and cultural traditions that have been kept alive through the ages." Its atmospheric, beautiful historic core cascades down a hillside in a lovely setting on the east bank of the Rio Mondego: it's a multicoloured collage of buildings spanning nearly a millennium. The conference take place in the environment of technology startups and laboratories within the installations of Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN). IPN is created in 1991 through a University of Coimbra initiative, Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN)2 is a private non-profit organization which promotes innovation and the transfer of technology, establishing the connection between the scientific and technological environment and the production sector. IPN mission is to leverage a strong university - enterprise relationship for the promotion of innovation, rigor, quality and entrepreneurship in private and public sector organizations by acting in three complementary areas: Research and technological development, consultancy and specialized services; Incubation and acceleration of businesses and ideas; Highly specialized training and promotion of science and technology. In the year of 2010, the Instituto Pedro Nunes incubator3 has been awarded as the Best Science-based Incubator in the world. Conference Tracks ============ - Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks - Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Big Data and Big Data Science - Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing - Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies - Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems - Internet of Things - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications - Security, Privacy, and Trust - Semantic Web Technologies Committees ======== General Chair Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Program Chairs Stephane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Local Arrangements Chairs Adelio Manuel Rodrigues Gaspar, University of Coimbra, Portugal Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal Workshops Chairs Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Publicity Chair Monika Davidekova, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Program Vice Chairs Sajid Anwar, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom Kechar Bouabdellah, University Of Oran 1 Ahmed Benbella, Algeria Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Stephane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies, Tunis Yannis Korkontzelos, Edge Hill University, UK Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Evangelos Pournaras, ETH, Switzerland Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zhang, Macquarie University, Australia Advisory Committee Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-19/organizing-commitee.html9

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CfP: Erlang Workshop 2019 [Deadline extended]
by Erlang Workshop 10 May '19

10 May '19

Hi everyone, We have decided to extend the paper submission deadline for the 18th ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop. New final dates are as follows, there will not be any further extensions Submissions due: Sun, May 19, 2019 [extended] Author notification: Fri June 14, 2019 [extended] Final submission for the publisher: Sun June 30, 2019 [unchanged] Workshop date: Sun August 18, 2019 [unchanged] Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. Technical, practice, and application papers related to Erlang, BEAM, Elixir, Scala/Akka, CloudHaskell, Lisp Flavoured Erlang, OCaml, and functional programming are welcome and encouraged. *LAST CALL FOR PAPERS* Eighteenth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop https://icfp19.sigplan.org/home/erlang-2019 Berlin, Germany, 18 August 2019 Satellite event of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2019) 18 - 23 August, 2019 The Erlang Workshop aims to bring together the open source, academic, and industrial communities of Erlang, to discuss technologies and languages related to Erlang. The Erlang model of concurrent programming has been widely emulated, for example by Akka in Scala, and even new programming languages were designed atop of the Erlang VM, such as Elixir. Therefore we would like to broaden the scope of the workshop to include systems like those mentioned above. The workshop will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang, Erlang-like languages, functional programming, distribution, concurrency etc. We invite two types of submissions. 1. Technical papers describing language extensions, critical discussions of the status quo, formal semantics of language constructs, program analysis and transformation, virtual machine extensions and compilation techniques, implementations and interfaces of Erlang in/with other languages, and new tools (profilers, tracers, debuggers, testing frameworks, etc.). Submission related to Erlang, Elixir, Scala/Akka, CloudHaskell, Lisp Flavoured Erlang, OCaml, and functional programming are welcome and encouraged. The maximum length for technical papers is restricted to 12 pages, but short papers (max. 6 pages) are welcomed as well. 2. Practice and application papers describing uses of Erlang in the "real-world", Erlang libraries for specific tasks, experiences from using Erlang in specific application domains, reusable programming idioms and elegant new ways of using Erlang to approach or solve a particular problem. The maximum length for the practice and application papers is restricted to 12 pages, but short papers (max. 6 pages) are welcomed as well. *Workshop Co-Chairs* Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta Viktória Fördős, Cisco Systems, Sweden *Program Committee* (Note: the Workshop Co-Chairs are also committee members) Annette Bieniusa, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Christopher S. Meiklejohn, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Clara Benac Earle, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Claudio Antares Mezzina, IMT Lucca, Italy Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Felix Mulder, Klarna AB, Sweden Francesco Cesarini, Erlang Solutions Ltd, UK Julien Lange, University of Kent, UK Kenji Rikitake, KRPEO, Japan Melinda Tóth, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Natalia Chechina, Bournemouth University, UK Rumyana Neykova, Brunel University, UK Scott Lystig Fritchie, Wallaroo, USA Thomas Arts, Quviq AB, Sweden Torben Hoffmann, Alert Logic, Denmark *Important Dates* Submissions due: Sun, May 19, 2019 Author notification: Fri June 14, 2019 Final submission for the publisher: Sun June 30, 2019 Workshop date: Sun August 18, 2019 *Instructions to authors* Papers must be submitted online via HotCRP (via the "Erlang2019" event). The submission page is https://erlang19.hotcrp.com Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. Paper submissions will be considered for poster submission in the case they are not accepted as full papers. *Venue & Registration Details* For registration, please see the ICFP 2019 web site at: http://icfp19.sigplan.org/ *Related Links* ICFP 2019 web site: http://icfp19.sigplan.org/ Past ACM SIGPLAN Erlang workshops: http://www.erlang.org/workshop/ Open Source Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/ HotCRP submission site: https://erlang19.hotcrp.com Author Information for SIGPLAN Conferences: http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm Attendee Information for SIGPLAN Events: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/CodeOfConduct/

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SPLASH 2019 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions
by Aggelos Biboudis 10 May '19

10 May '19

SPLASH 2019 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 co-located with SPLASH 2019. * AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) * AI-SEPS (AI-Inspired and Empirical Methods for Software Engineering on Parallel Computing Systems) * DSM (Domain-Specific Modeling) * IC (Incremental Computing) * LIVE (Live Programming) * META (Metaprogramming) * NJR (Normalized Java Resource) * REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) * STOKED (Spatio-Temporal platforms for Observations and Knowledge of Earth Data) * VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) *The submission deadline for all workshops is Fri 2 Aug 2019 (AoE).* AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) ------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/agere-2019 The AGERE! workshop focuses 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. AGERE covers 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. AI-SEPS (AI-Inspired and Empirical Methods for SE on Parallel Computing Systems) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/seps-2019 The AI-SEPS workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners addressing the challenges and issues of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms and HPC systems. Emerging artificial intelligence technologies are promising approaches to tackle these issues, as well as approaches that use traditional empirical and experimental methods. The workshop title reflects a change from the previous editions, with emphasis placed on the trend of AI-inspired software engineering techniques for performance. We aim to advance the state of the art in all aspects of techniques on software engineering and parallel computing systems such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis; performance analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. DSM (Domain-Specific Modeling) ------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/dsm-2019 Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems and software development faster and easier. In DSM, the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive themselves as working directly with domain concepts. Some possible topics for submission to the workshop include: experience reports, creation of metamodel-based languages, novel approaches for code generation from domain-specific models, language evolution, metamodeling frameworks and languages, and tool support for DSMs. IC (Incremental Computing) ----------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/ic-2019 The second Workshop on Incremental Computing (IC) will provide a space where PL enthusiasts and researchers can discuss incremental computing problems and solutions. A good talk at IC probably consists of one or more of the following: explain an existing language or framework for incremental computing; outline an incremental computing domain in detail, highlighting challenges; outline a new incremental computing problem, or problem domain; or, propose a new language or framework for incremental computing. This list is not exhaustive, but merely suggestive. LIVE (Live Programming) ----------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/live-2019 The LIVE workshop invites submissions of ideas for improving programming via liveness. 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 a [re-]established area of research. This year we would like to reflect on what has been achieved, what has been learnt, and what remains to be done, growing up from a nascent community into a discipline that can build on previous work. We especially welcome reflection upon prior work, including proposals to integrate, generalize, or theoretically frame them. We will do this whilst maintaining the shared spirit of LIVE, encouraging a focus on the human experience of programming. The LIVE workshop is a forum for early-stage work to receive constructive criticism. We accept short papers, web essays with embedded videos, and demo videos. META (Metaprogramming) ---------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/meta-2019 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. This 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. NJR (Normalized Java Resource) ------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/njr-2019 Software researchers increasingly take advantage of large software repositories when they design new tools. How do we make such repositories maximally useful for research? In particular, how do we make them more searchable, make interaction scriptable, and ensure that we can run both static and dynamic analyses? Additionally, how do we make the results from tools reproducible, how do we label programs with ground truth, and how do we measure whether a repository is representative of real-world applications? NJR 2019 will be the third workshop in a series that addresses these questions. The goal is for researchers in academia and industry to share new ideas, demonstrate recent tools, and discuss directions for research and development. REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages and Systems) ------------------------------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2019 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. STOKED (Spatio-Temporal platforms for Observations and Knowledge of Earth Data) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/stoked-2019 Global coverage and temporal resolutions of earth observation imagery data is increasing at an unprecedented rate, generating trillions of new pixels of data daily. The challenge with this "big data" is finding practical ways to extract knowledge and deliver it to end users at scale, both due to the complex nature and the sheer volume of information. Detailed, standardized geographic information is required to enable a new era of spatial temporal analytics—enabling insights to understand, monitor, and manage the earth’s resources in a sustainable manner. This can be accomplished through massive aggregation of data from remote sensors coupled with novel approaches to preparing, analyzing, and interacting with data. Modern spatio-temporal platforms will soon be using 3D visual interactive maps with close to real-time deep learning algorithms. In addition to system infrastructure and UI/UX challenges, we also need to address the normalization problems of data, particularly with data generated from multiple sensors. Use cases in climate change and emergency response in "extreme events" would see immediate benefit from this kind of platform. STOKED will provide an opportunity for researchers and stakeholders from this broad spectrum of applications and domains to start to design future platforms from an interdisciplinary perspective. VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) -------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/vmil-2019 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.

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Invititation to provide feedback on RISC-V ISA Formal Specs
by Rishiyur Nikhil 09 May '19

09 May '19

The RISC-V Foundation (riscv.org) has a task group to develop a Formal Spec for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture. The group has been pursuing several approaches: - 3 are written in Haskell - 1 is in SAIL, a DSL with dependent types, intended for ISA specs - 1 is in Kami, a DSL in Coq Most of them are complete enough to boot Linux, i.e., they are not for toy subsets of the ISA. They are expected and intended to become the "official" ISA spec for RISC-V, and to be used in anger, for compliance testing, formal verification of compilers, hardware designs, etc. We would love to get community feedback on these approaches. The following link provides an overview, and links to individual web sites (all on GitHub) for the 5 approaches, and information on how to provide feedback: https://github.com/riscv/ISA_Formal_Spec_Public_Review Thanks very much in advance! Rishiyur Nikhil, Chair, ISA Formal Spec Technical Group

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Announce: Haskell Platform 8.6.5
by Gershom B 08 May '19

08 May '19

On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of Haskell Platform 8.6.5 Now available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ This includes GHC 8.6.5, cabal-install 2.4.1.0, and stack 1.9.3. It is an incremental release over 8.6.3 intended mainly to make available bugfixes for windows in subsequent revisions in the 8.6 series and otherwise leave everything the same. These windows fixes are important, and it is recommended all windows users upgrade to 8.6.5 whether through the platform installer or some other mechanism. For detail on these changes and fixes see https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190305-ghc-8.6.4-released.html https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190423-ghc-8.6.5-released.html As with the 8.6.3 release, we are only providing core builds. Further, in 8.6.3 we moved from generic linux installers to recommending users install ghc through ghcup. As discussed in the last announcement, we have now moved to recommending os x users also use ghcup rather than a dedicated binary installer. For more details, please see the 8.6.3 announcement at https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2018-December/130371.html Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom

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Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts
by Graham Hutton 08 May '19

08 May '19

Dear all, If you or one of your students recently completed a PhD in the area of functional programming, please submit the dissertation abstract for publication in JFP: simple process, no refereeing, open access, deadline 31st May 2019. Please share! Best wishes, Graham Hutton ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 31st May 2019 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, twice per year the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton <graham.hutton(a)nottingham.ac.uk> by 31st May 2019: o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 350 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting; if your original abstract exceeds the word limit, please submit an abridged version within the limit) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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[TFPIE'19] Final call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming in Education 2019, 11 June 2019, Vancouver, BC, CA
by Peter Achten 08 May '19

08 May '19

TFPIE 2019 Call for papers http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hage0101/tfpie2019/index.html (June 11th, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, co-located with TFP 2019) TFPIE 2019 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: FP and beginning CS students FP and Computational Thinking FP and Artificial Intelligence FP in Robotics FP and Music Advanced FP for undergraduates FP in graduate education Engaging students in research using FP FP in Programming Languages FP in the high school curriculum FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics FP and Philosophy The pedagogy of teaching FP FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. Best Lectures - more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. The length of the presentation should be comparable to that of a paper. On top of the lecture itself, the presentation can also provide commentary on the lecture. Submissions Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2019 After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles that will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Dates Submission deadline: May 14th 2019, Anywhere on Earth. Notification: May 20th Workshop: June 11th Submission for formal review: August 18th 2019, Anywhere on Earth Notification of full article: October 6th Camera ready: November 1st Program Committee Alex Gerdes - University of Gothenburg / Chalmers Jurriaan Hage (Chair) - Utrecht University Pieter Koopman - Radboud University, the Netherlands Elena Machkasova - University of Minnesota, Morris, USA Heather Miller - Carnegie Mellon University and EPFL Lausanne Prabhakar Ragde - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Simon Thompson - University of Kent, UK Sharon Tuttle - Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA Note: information on TFP is available at https://www.tfp2019.org/index.html

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[TFP'19] final call for papers (deadline extension): Trends in Functional Programming 2019, 12-14 June 2019, Vancouver, BC, CA
by Peter Achten 08 May '19

08 May '19

-------------------------------- F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S -------------------------------- ====== TFP 2019 ====== 20th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 12-14 June, 2019 Vancouver, BC, CA https://www.tfp2019.org/index.html == Important Dates == Sumbission Deadline for Draft Papers Thursday, May 16, 2019 ** extended deadline ** Notification for Draft Papers Tuesday, May 21, 2019 ** extended deadline ** TFPIE Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Symposium Wednesday, June 12, 2019 – Friday, June 14, 2019 Notification of Student Paper Feedback Friday June 21, 2019 Submission Deadline for revised Draft Papers (post-symposium formal review) Thursday, August 1, 2019 Notification for post-symposium submissions Thursday, October 24, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (both pre- and post-symposium) Friday, November 29, 2019 The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below at scope). Please be aware that TFP uses two distinct rounds of submissions (see below at submission details). TFP 2019 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2019 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 11. == Scope == The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles: Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles: On what new trends should or should not be Project Articles: Descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles: What lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles: Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to: Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing Functional programming in the cloud High performance functional computing Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs Dependently typed functional programming Validation and verification of functional programs Debugging and profiling for functional languages Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc. Interoperability with imperative programming languages Novel memory management techniques Program analysis and transformation techniques Empirical performance studies Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages (Embedded) domain specific languages New implementation strategies Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2019 program chairs, William J. Bowman and Ron Garcia. == Best Paper Awards == To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper accepted for the formal proceedings. TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes. == Instructions to Author == Papers must be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2019 Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions formally reviewed either before or after the Symposium. == Pre-symposium formal review == Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be submitted before an early deadline and receive their reviews and notification of acceptance for both presentation and publication before the symposium. A paper that has been rejected in this process may still be accepted for presentation at the symposium, but will not be considered for the post-symposium formal review. == Post-symposium formal review == Papers submitted for post-symposium review (draft papers) will receive minimal reviews and notification of acceptance for presentation at the symposium. Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback received at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these articles for formal publication. == Paper categories == There are two types of submission, each of which can be submitted either for pre-symposium or post-symposium review: Extended abstracts. Extended abstracts are 4 to 10 pages in length. Full papers. Full papers are up to 20 pages in length. Each submission also belongs to a category: research position project evaluation overview paper Each submission should clearly indicate to which category it belongs. Additionally, a draft paper submission—of either type (extended abstract or full paper) and any category—can be considered a student paper. A student paper is one for which primary authors are research students and the majority of the work described was carried out by the students. The submission should indicate that it is a student paper. Student papers will receive additional feedback from the PC shortly after the symposium has taken place and before the post-symposium submission deadline. Feedback is only provided for accepted student papers, i.e., papers submitted for presentation and post-symposium formal review that are accepted for presentation. If a student paper is rejected for presentation, then it receives no further feedback and cannot be submitted for post-symposium review. == Format == Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site (http://www.springer.com/lncs) == Program Committee == Program Co-chairs William J. Bowman University of British Columbia Ronald Garcia University of British Columbia Matteo Cimini University of Massachusetts Lowell Ryan Culpepper Czech Technical Institute Joshua Dunfield Queen's University Sam Lindley University of Edinburgh Assia Mahboubi INRIA Nantes Christine Rizkallah University of New South Wales Satnam Singh Google AI Marco T. Morazán Seton Hall University John Hughes Chalmers University and Quviq Nicolas Wu University of Bristol Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven Scott Smith Johns Hopkins University Stephanie Balzer Carnegie Mellon University Viktória Zsók Eötvös Loránd University

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PLMW at ICFP: Call for Scholarship Applications (due 17 May)
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 07 May '19

07 May '19

ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop Co-located with ICFP'19 PLMW web page: https://icfp19.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-ICFP-2019 The purpose of the programming languages mentoring workshop (PLMW) is to encourage senior undergraduate and early career (first or second year) to pursue careers in programming language research. We are specifically interested in attracting groups who have traditionally not had the opportunity to participate in research in functional programming. This workshop will be a combination of learning about the work being done in several areas of programming language research and mentoring with respect to helping students prepare for graduate school and the rest of their career. We will bring together leaders in programming language research from academia and industry to give talks on the kind of research typically performed after obtaining a Ph.D. The workshop will engage students, specifically interested in programming language research, in a process of imagining how they might contribute to the world. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding ICFP, the International Conference on Functional Programming, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make ICFP conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. ## Travel Scholarship Applications (Due 17 May) Please fill out this form by 17 May to apply for travel funding. https://forms.gle/QEvBateG7PRywB336 See the PLMW web page for additional details. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome.

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