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Phd/PostDoc position on linear types and session types
by Peter Thiemann 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

The programming languages group at University of Freiburg, Germany, has an opening for a research assistant to work on a DFG-funded project to create a version of OCaml with linear types and session types to start on July 1, 2018. The project entails work on the theory and on an implementation with the weighting adjusted according to the candidate’s profile, which would ideally complement the current group members. The position can be filled with a PhD student or with a PostDoc and we welcome applications of either kind. I am looking for strong candidates with PL background, preferably with demonstrated experience in functional programming and types. Background with OCaml and/or proof assistants (Coq, Agda) is an additional bonus. JOB DETAILS AND APPLICATION The salary is according to the TV-L E13 scale of German public service. The university of Freiburg aims at increasing the number of female employees and thus especially welcomes applications of female candidates. Applications of disabled candidates will be given priority, depending on their suitability. Applications in PDF format or informal enquiries by email are welcome. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The starting date is negotiable. Check our research webpage http://proglang.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/research/ or the DBLP publication profile http://dblp.dagstuhl.de/pers/hd/t/Thiemann:Peter for more information. Best regards -Peter Thiemann

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PPDP 2018: Second Call for Papers
by David Sabel 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please circulate.) ====================================================================== PPDP 2018: Second Call for Papers ====================================================================== 20th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 3-5 September 2018 http://ppdp-lopstr-18.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/ppdp18.html (co-located with LOPSTR 2018 and WFLP 2018) http://ppdp-lopstr-18.cs.uni-frankfurt.de ====================================================================== Invited Talks (NEW!) ==================== - Philippa Gardner, Imperial College: Testing and Verification for JavaScript (joint with LOPSTR) - Jorge Navas, SRI International: Constrained Horn Clauses for Verification (joint with LOPSTR) - Chung-Chieh Shan, University of Indiana: Calculating Distributions Scope ===== The PPDP 2018 symposium brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint handling programming paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification. Submissions are invited on all topics related to declarative programming, from principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming. - Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management. - Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and effects; semantics. - Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing. - Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application; education. The PC chair will be happy to advise on the appropriateness of a topic. PPDP will be co-located with the 28th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2018). Submission Categories ===================== Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System Descriptions, and Experience Reports. Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style 2-column (including figures, but excluding bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability. Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must not exceed 5 pages **including references**. Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results. They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: insights gained from real-world projects using declarative programming comparison of declarative programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming in education real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a declarative language or for declarative programming in general novel use of declarative programming in the classroom programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or programming technique. Supplementary material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study any material beyond the respective page limit. Format of a submission ====================== For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the "Current ACM Master Template" which is available at <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. The most recent version at the time of writing is 1.48. You must use the LaTeX sigconf proceedings template as the conference organizers are unable to process final submissions in other formats. In case of problems with the templates, contact [ACM's TeX support team at Aptara](mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com). Authors should note [ACM's statement on author's rights](http://authors.acm.org/) which apply to final papers. Submitted papers should meet the requirements of [ACM's plagiarism policy](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). Requirements for publication ============================ At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present the work at the conference. The pc chair may retract a paper that is not presented. The pc chair may also retract a paper if complaints about the paper's correctness are raised which cannot be resolved by the final paper deadline. Important dates =============== - 23.04.2018 paper submission - 14.06.2018 rebuttal period (48 hours) - 25.06.2018 notification - 16.07.2018 final papers - 03.09.2018 conference starts

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9 PhD positions at Chalmers for web security and secure programing of IoT devices
by Alejandro Russo 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Dear all, We are starting two big projects on security at Chalmers. Both of them apply programming languages technology to solve security problems. One of them is based on Haskell. Details below. Best, /Alejandro ** Apologies for multiple copies ** The Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chalmers University of Technology is hiring: 4 PhD students in web application security 5 PhD students in secure programming of IoT devices * Important dates: April 27- Deadline for first round of selection (we encourage all candidates to apply early, especially those who need visa for visiting Sweden) May 21 - Deadline for second round of selection June 1, 4 or 5 - Tentative dates for interviews * Expected starting date: preferably around September 2018. For details, including employment conditions and how to apply, see: <http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Page…> <http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Page…> 4 PhD students in web application security ------------------------------------------ The PhD students will join an ambitios framework project: WebSec: Securing Web-driven Systems, conducted jointly with Uppsala University. WebSec sets out to develop a principled security platform for the web. WebSec will break away from temporary patches and short-term mitigations and tackle the challenge of web security at scale. WebSec will result in: -Comprehensive framework for detection, mitigation, and prevention of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, encompassing (i) Crawling 2.0 and advanced string constraint solving for XSS detection, (ii) flexible Content Security Policy (CSP) for XSS mitigation, and (iii) a server-side template framework separating data from code for XSS prevention. -JavaScript program analysis platform for monitoring and symbolically executing JavaScript, the web's main programming language. -Principled framework for system-wide security, enabling confinement, tainting, and information-flow control mechanisms across web component boundaries, building on our work on JSFlow http://www.jsflow.net/ -Mechanisms for confinement and compartmentalization on the web, including extensions to the recently proposed COWL W3C standard (https://www.w3.org/TR/COWL/) and the multi-app web framework Hails (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hails) -Framework for privacy on the web, addressing user tracking while enabling privacy-preserving web analytics. The PhD students will join a high-profile group of researchers on software security. Software is often the root cause of vulnerabilities in modern computing systems. By focusing on securing the software, we target principled security mechanisms that provide robust protection against large classes of attacks. We have a track record of successful projects with top international partners in academia and industry, including a European project WebSand on web application sandboxing: https://www.websand.eu/ Promotional video of Chalmers research on securing web applications: https://vimeo.com/82206652 5 PhD students in secure programming of IoT devices --------------------------------------------------- The PhD positions are within the recently granted project Octopi: Secure Programming for the Internet of Things (IoT). Octopi is dedicated to contribute and further research on (i) utilizing high-level languages to program constraint devices, (ii) finding suitable programming models for IoT, and (iii) developing security mechanisms to obtain system-wide guarantees. The programming language of the project is Haskell (https://www.haskell.org/) Applicants work is expected to range from establishing new theoretical foundations to building mature prototypes. Octopi presents many research tracks dedicated to tackle ambitious challenges: - Programming model This track focuses on developing programming models which capture the common coding patterns (and architecture) of IoT applications. - Compilation and runtime Programs written in high-level languages often run in tandem with fat runtime responsible to provide valuable services (e.g., safe memory management). Having such runtime in constraint IoT devices is simply not possible. This task explores mechanisms to predict resource consumption behavior of programs so that certain runtime services are not needed, thus reducing their size. - Locality of data In data-driven IoT systems, users must be able to express and control easily is the choice of whether to migrate data to functions or functions to data. This task focus on finding ways to provide such control without giving up the benefits of programming in a high-level language. - Hardware support This task is aimed at the end points of IoT system. It plans on creating a processor aimed specifically at executing functional languages directly and efficiently. This entails both creating an efficient graph reduction engine as well as built-in support for garbage collection. - Penetration testing High-level languages prevent developers from introducing a wide class of security-related bugs that plague low-level ones. Nevertheless, programs written in a high-level language interacts, via bindings, with the underlying OS. The binding code is responsible to bridge the semantic gap across both languages, which constitutes a door for security bugs. This task plans to provide a smart fuzzing tool to test such binding code for vulnerabilities. PhD students will join high-profile groups of researchers on security and functional programming with a rich network of collaborators and visibility across several research communities. Octopi's faculty members have a strong tradition in successfully applying the functional programming Haskell to different domains: protection of privacy of data (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lio) testing (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck) SAT-solving and theorem proving (https://github.com/nick8325/equinox) and digital signal processing (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/feldspar-language)

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EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School, last call
by David Baelde 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School Last call for participation : ** Pre-registration closes on April 13th. ** Please pre-register now (it takes 1 mn), ** validate and pay later. ** Full program announced. ===================================================================== When: May 7-11, 2018 Where: Centre Paul-Langevin in Aussois, France Web: https://projects.lsv.fr/epit18/ ===================================================================== EPIT (École de Printemps en Informatique Théorique) is a long series of Spring schools in theoretical computer science, initiated by Maurice Nivat in 1973. Since then, it has covered various fields of computer science, and has been a key event where young researchers meet. The theme of the 2018 school is software verification. The need for software verification in our information society has been recognized as early as in the ’70s and it is an ever-more-important concern today. Over the past decades, it has driven exciting research in various fields of theoretical computer science such as logic, automata, type systems, algorithms and complexity. Recently, verification techniques have seen rapid development and industrial adoptions, notably following the SMT revolution. The school will cover several fundamental aspects of software verification through four lectures (6h each): – SMT solvers, by Pascal Fontaine (LORIA) – Program verification with F*, by Cătălin Hriţcu (Inria Paris) – Bounded model-checking, by Gennaro Parlato (Uni. of Southampton) – Concurrent program logics, by Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI Kaiserslautern) and four research talks (1h each): – SMT, String and Security, by Philipp Rümmer (Uppsala University) – Verification of invariants for convergent replicated data types, by Gustavo Petri (Université Paris Diderot) – Traces, interpolants, and automata : Ultimate Automizer's approach to software verification, by Matthias Heizmann (University of Freiburg) – F* and security, by Antoine Delignat-Lavaud (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Please find more information, e.g. regarding the venue and registration, on our website: <https://projects.lsv.fr/epit18/>. Pre-register immediately, and spread the word! — The organizers, David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris) Constantin Enea (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot)

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TFPIE 2018: First Call for Papers
by Heather Miller 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

====================================================================== TFPIE 2018: First Call for Papers ====================================================================== Trends in Functional Programming in Education Gothenburg, Sweden, 14 June 2018 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/heather/tfpie2018/ (co-located with TFP 2018) http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~myreen/tfp2018/ ====================================================================== The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2018 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit revised versions of their articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Scope ===== TFPIE 2018 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. 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 link below. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2018 Important dates =============== - Submission deadline: May 15th, Anywhere on Earth. - Notification: May 21st - Workshop: June 14th - Submission for formal review: August 17th - Notification of full article: October 5th - Camera ready: November 2nd -- Heather Miller EPFL, Scala Center Executive Director, Research Scientist http://people.epfl.ch/heather.miller +41 21 693 64 83 +41 78 625 20 23

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[Haskell, FP] Anduril Industries is Hiring
by Travis Whitaker 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Anduril Industries (https://www.anduril.com) is hiring. TL;DR: Come write Haskell, Rust, and Nix (and some C++ when necessary) to make autonomous robots and drones go! We're a team of software and hardware engineers from various backgrounds (game development, computer graphics, financial technology, government intelligence, biotechnology) working to improve the state of defense technology. Our strategy involves focusing on product development instead of traditional governmental processes. By funding product development ourselves instead of relying on government funds, we're able to create more focused products faster and with significantly fewer resources. By leveraging hardware and techniques that have only recently become feasible to deploy at scale (e.g. GPGPU computing), we can significantly advance the state of the defense technology market. We're searching for generally competent, mathematically inclined software engineers, and we're especially interested in those with experience in computer vision (first principles techniques and machine learning), sensor fusion, detection and tracking, and statistical parameter estimation. Our team is increasingly applying functional programming and related technologies; we run Haskell and Rust code in production and use Nix to achieve reproducible build environments and keep deployment, CI, and cross-compilation sane. If you like functional programming, interfacing with hardware, and solving problems in detection, tracking, and autonomous vehicle control (land and air), drop me a line at travis(a)anduril.com

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ThEdu'18: Second Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations
by Achim D. Brucker 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

(Apologies for duplicates) 2nd Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ************************************************************************** ThEdu'18 Theorem proving components for Educational software 18 July 2018 http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu18 ************************************************************************** affiliated to IJCAR 2018 July 14-17, 2018 Oxford, United Kingdom http://www.ijcar2018.org/ (part of FLoC 2018) ************************************************************************** THedu'18 Scope: Computer Theorem Proving is becoming a paradigm as well as a technological base for a new generation of educational software in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The workshop brings together experts in automated deduction with experts in education in order to further clarify the shape of the new software generation and to discuss existing systems. Invited Talk Julien Narboux, University of Strasbourg, France Important Dates * Extended Abstracts: 15th April 2018 * Author Notification: 15th May 2018 * Workshop Day: 18 July 2018 Topics of interest include: * methods of automated deduction applied to checking students' input; * methods of automated deduction applied to prove post-conditions for particular problem solutions; * combinations of deduction and computation enabling systems to propose next steps; * automated provers specific for dynamic geometry systems; * proof and proving in mathematics education. Submission We welcome submission of extended abstracts and demonstration proposals presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All accepted extended abstracts and demonstrations will be presented at the workshop. The extended abstracts will be made available online. Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be submitted via easychair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu18 formatted according to http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be approximately 5 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration proposal is expected to attend THedu'18 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration. Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Roman Hašek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria (co-chair) Pavel Pech, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) Vanda Santos, CISUC, Portugal Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Burkhart Wolff, University Paris-Sud, France Proceedings The extended abstracts and system descriptions will be available in ThEdu'18 Web-page. After presentation at the conference, selected authors will be invited to submit a substantially revised version, extended to 14--20 pages, for publication by the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking

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2nd CfP: IFL 2018 (30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)
by Jurriaan Hage 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Hello, Please, find below the second call for papers for IFL 2018. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL --- ================================================================================ IFL 2018 30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA September 5th-7th, 2018 http://iflconference.org ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2018 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialization - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - metaprogramming - generic programming - automatic program generation - array processing - concurrent/parallel programming - concurrent/parallel program execution - embedded systems - web applications - (embedded) domain specific languages - security - novel memory management techniques - run-time profiling performance measurements - debugging and tracing - virtual/abstract machine architectures - validation, verification of functional programs - tools and programming techniques - (industrial) applications ### Keynote Speakers * Adam Chlipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL * Arjun Guha, University of Massachusetts Amherst ### Submissions and peer-review Differently from previous editions of IFL, IFL 2018 solicits two kinds of submissions: * Regular papers (12 pages including references) * Draft papers for presentations ('weak' limit between 8 and 15 pages) Regular papers will undergo a rigorous review by the program committee, and will be evaluated according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity. A set of regular papers will be conditionally accepted for publication. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions. Regular papers not accepted for publication will be considered as draft papers, at the request of the author. Draft papers will be screened to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL, and will be accepted for presentation or rejected accordingly. Prior to the symposium: Authors of conditionally accepted papers and accepted presentations will submit a pre-proceedings version of their work that will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. The draft proceedings does not constitute a formal publication. We require that at least one of the authors present the work at IFL 2018. After the symposium: Authors of conditionally accepted papers will submit a revised versions of their paper for the formal post-proceedings. The program committee will assess whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. Our interest is to ultimately accept all conditionally accepted papers. If you are an author of a conditionally accepted paper, please make sure that you address all the concerns of the reviewers. Authors of accepted presentations will be given the opportunity to incorporate the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be invited to submit a revised full article for the formal post-proceedings. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected. ### Publication The formal proceedings will appear in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library. At no time may work submitted to IFL be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication ### Important dates Submission of regular papers: May 25, 2018 Submission of draft papers: July 17, 2018 Regular and draft papers notification: July 20, 2018 Deadline for early registration: August 8, 2018 Submission of pre-proceedings version: August 29, 2018 IFL Symposium: September 5-7, 2018 Submission of papers for post-proceedings: November 7, 2018 Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2018 Camera-ready version: February 10, 2019 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Authors submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2018 ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Organization and Program committee Chairs: Jay McCarthy & Matteo Cimini, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Program Committee: * Arthur Chargueraud, Inria, FR * Ben Delaware, Purdue University, USA * Christos Dimoulas, Northwestern University, USA * David Darais, University of Vermont, USA * Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK * Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA * Heather Miller, EPFL & Northeastern University, CH & USA * Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK * Keiko Nakata, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, DE * Laura Castro, University of A Coruna, ESP * Magnus Myreen, Chalmers University of Technology, SWE * Natalia Chechina, Bournemouth University, UK * Peter Achten, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL * Peter-Michael Osera, Grinnell College, USA * Richard Eisenberg, Bryn Mawr College, USA * Trevor McDonell, University of New South Wales, AUS * Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, JAP ### Venue The 30th IFL is organized by the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The City of Lowell is located at the heart of the Merrimack Valley just 30 miles northwest of Boston. Lowell can be easily reached by train or taxi. See the website for more information on the venue. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organizers for their work, which is reused here. A part of IFL 2018 format and CFP language that describes conditionally accepted papers has been adapted from call-for-papers of OOPSLA conferences.

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CFP: IEEE DS-RT 2018 (October 15-17, 2018 - Madrid, Spain)
by Robson De Grande 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers - DS-RT 2018 22nd IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications http://ds-rt.com/ October 15-17, 2018 - Madrid, Spain *IEEE/ACM Pending Upon Approval ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Submission deadline: May 20th, 2018 *** The Symposium *** The 2018 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2018) promises to be a grand affair and will take place in Madrid, Spain. DS-RT 2018 serves as a platform for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2018 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real-time applications, such as collaborative virtual environments, pervasive and ubiquitous application scenarios, motor-, controller-, sensor- and actuator systems. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2018 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. *** Call for Papers *** DS-RT provides an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, research students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real-time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is enlivened. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: Paradigms, Methodology, Algorithms and Software Architectures for Large Scale Distributed and Real-Time Simulations (e.g. Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Multi-Agent Based Distributed Simulation, HLA/RTI, Web, Grid and cloud-based Simulation, hardware-software co-design for extreme-scale simulations) Paradigms, Modelling, Architecture and Environments for Large Scale Real-time Systems and Concurrent Systems with hard and soft Real-Time Constraints Non-functional Properties of Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Systems (e.g. Dependability, Availability, Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, Security, Trustworthiness, QoS) Theoretical Foundations of Large-Scale Real-Time and Simulation Models (e.g. Event Systems, Causality, Space-Time Models, Notions of Time, Discrete and Continuous Systems, Simulator Coordination) Advances in Modelling and Simulation Studies and Technologies (Reuse of Models, New Modelling Languages, Agent-based M&S, Spatial M&S, Cognitive Modelling, Neural Network Models, Artificial Intelligence in Simulation, Discrete Events, Continuous Simulation, Service-oriented Computing and Simulation, Web-based Modelling and Simulation, Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems, etc.) Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Architectures and Applications that involve Simulations and/or adhere to Real-Time Constraints Languages and Tools, Development Environments, Data Interfaces, Network Protocols and Model Repositories that address Very Large Simulations Data Management and Distribution Issues, Interest Management, Semantic Modelling, Multi-resolution Modelling, Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms Simulation Studies at Large and Very Large Scale (e.g. Industrial, Commercial, Ecological and Environmental, Societal, Power and Energy) Environmental and Emerging Simulation Challenges (e.g. Growth of Human Population, Climate Change, CO2, Health Care, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Water and Energy Supply, Human Mobility, Traffic Modelling, World Stock Markets, Food Supply Chains, Megacities, Smart Cities, Smart Networks, Disaster Planning, etc.) Performance and Validation of Large-Scale and Distributed Simulations (e.g., benchmarking and analytical results, empirical studies DIS, HLA/RTI studies) Visual Interactive Simulation Environments (e.g., Generic Animation, Visual Interactive Modelling, Interactive Computer Based Training and Learning, Scientific Visualization, High-End Computer Graphics) Simulation-based Virtual Environments and Mixed Reality Systems (e.g. Interactive Virtual Reality, Human Communication through Immersive Environments) Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Reality, Shared Interaction Spaces, Telepresence Systems and Shared Workspaces, 3D Video and Acoustic Reconstruction, Shared Object Manipulation Design Issues, Interaction Designs, Human Computer Interaction Issues raised by Large Scale DS-RT Systems Serious Gaming and Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) applications, architectures and scalability issues Technologies for Living Labs (e.g. Mirror World Simulation, Interoperability, Large Scale Multi-Sensor Networks, Global Wireless Communication, Multi-Stakeholder Understanding and Innovation) Innovative Styles of Interactions with Large Scale DS-RT Systems (e.g. Implicit, Situative and Attentive Interaction, Tangible Interaction, Embedded Interaction, etc.) Media Convergence (e.g. New Technologies, Media Theory, Real-Time considerations of Multi-Modality, etc.) *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: July 1st, 2018 Camera Ready version due: July 31st, 2018 Symposium presentation: October 15-17, 2018 *** Submission *** High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE-CS press. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the Journal of Simulation. General information regarding submission can be found at http://ds-rt.com/2018/. Questions from authors may be directed to the Program Co-Chairs. IMPORTANT: CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR OF ACCEPTED PAPERS IS MANDATORY *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*** General Chair José Luis Risco Martín, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Program Co-Chairs Eva Besada, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Posters Chair Peppino Fazio, University of Calabria, Italy Demo Chair Amilcare F. Santamaria, University of Calabria, Italy Special Sessions Chair Robson De Grande, Brock University, Canada Publicity Chair Lucas Potter, Old Dominion University, VA, USA Finance Chair Guillermo Botella, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

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Mathematically Structured Functional Programming 2018: Final Call for Papers
by Robert Atkey 31 Mar '18

31 Mar '18

Seventh Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Sunday 8th July 2018, Oxford, UK A satellite workshop of FSCD 2018 http://msfp2018.bentnib.org/ ** New this time: additional talk proposal category ** ** Deadline: 5th April (abstract), 12th April (paper) ** The seventh workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming without temporal logic? Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006, affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS 2014. The sixth MSFP Workshop was held in April 2016, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, just after ETAPS 2016. Important Dates: ================ Abstract deadline: 5th April (Thursday) Paper deadline: 12th April (Thursday) Notification: 17th May (Thursday) Final version: 14th June (Thursday) Workshop: 8th July (Sunday) Invited Speakers: ================= - Tamara von Glehn, University of Cambridge, UK - Didier Remy, INRIA, France Program Committee: ================== Andreas Abel - Chalmers, Sweden Danel Ahman - INRIA Paris, France Robert Atkey - University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair) Jeremy Gibbons - University of Oxford, UK Jennifer Hackett - University of Nottingham, UK Mauro Jaskelioff - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Shin-ya Katsumata - National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sam Lindley - University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) Clare Martin - Oxford Brookes University, UK Shin-Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan Valeria de Paiva - Nuance Communications, US Alexandra Silva - University College London, UK Submission: =========== Submissions are welcomed on, but by no means restricted to, topics such as: structured effectful computation structured recursion structured corecursion structured tree and graph operations structured syntax with variable binding structured datatype-genericity structured search structured representations of functions structured quantum computation structure directed optimizations structured types structure derived from programs and data Please contact the programme chairs Robert Atkey and Sam Lindley if you have any questions about the scope of the workshop. (New this time) We accept two categories of submission: full papers of no more than 15 pages that will appear in the proceedings, and extended abstracts of no more than 2 pages which we will post on the website, but which do not constitute formal publications and will not appear in the proceedings. References and appendices are not included in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers. Full papers (not two page talk abstracts) must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers and talks must be presented at the workshop by at least one of the authors. The proceedings will be published under the auspices of EPTCS with a Creative Commons license. We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2018.

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