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SPLASH 2017: 1st Combined Call for Workshop Contributions
by SPLASH Publicity 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

/***************************************************************************/ ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'17) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sunday 22nd October - Friday 27th October, 2017 http://2017.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /***************************************************************************/ FIRST COMBINED CALL FOR WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS: SPLASH'17 will host the following 19 workshops: AGERE! - Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control CHESE - Coding and Human aspects of Educational Software Engineering CoCoS - Comprehension of Complex Systems DSLDI - Domain-Specific Languages Design and Implementation Escaped - Escaped from the Lab FOSD - Feature Oriented Software Development NJR - National Java Resource LIVE - Live Programming Meta! - Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection NOOL - New Object-Oriented Languages OCAP - Object-Capability Languages, Systems, and Applications PLATEAU - Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools PX/17.2 - Programming Experience PARSING - Parsing @ SLE REBLS - Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems SAVR - Software for Augmented and Virtual Reality SEPS - Software Engineering for Parallel Systems VMIL - Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages WODA - Workshop on Dynamic Analysis /***************************************************************************/ ## AGERE! 2017 - The 7th International Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control The AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and – more generally – high-level programming paradigms promoting a mindset of decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/agere-2017 Submission: August 7, 2017 ## CHESE 2017 - The 3rd International Workshop on Coding and Human aspects of Educational Software Engineering Two of the backbones of software engineering are programming and testing. Both of these require many hours of practice to acquire mastery. To encourage students to put in these hours of practice, educators often employ the element of tools and games. The 3rd International CHESE 2017 (Coding and Human aspects of Educational Software Engineering) focuses on technologies that assist in the education process of software engineering, specifically coding and testing. We look at how the technologies are built, how they are evaluated, and how communities can be built around their use. Some of topics that we are interested in are the relationship between testing and gaming, analysis and visualization of student data, the challenges of sharing and re-using such data, and the influence of different programming languages. The aim of the workshop is not only to act as a forum for the exchange of ideas, but also as a vehicle to stimulate, deepen, and widen partnership between the software engineering and education fields on an international scale. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/chese-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## CoCoS 2017 - Workshop on Comprehension of Complex Systems The sheer complexity and emergent behaviors of large scale systems make it impossible for people to completely understand them without the aid of specific tools. This is especially the case as systems are increasingly developed using advanced composition technologies such as aspect-orientation and dynamic script languages. Those modularity technologies enable the creation and application of powerful abstractions, which yields significant benefits in terms of reuse and separation of concerns. But those same abstractions, in languages, middleware, and models, also hide important system properties. This compounds the problem of comprehending run-time behavior in terms of original design concepts that have been abstracted away (for example debugging AO programs, or diagnosing violations of performance service-level agreements). Wider adoption of advanced modularity technologies depends on tools to assist developers in understanding the run-time behavior of complex composed systems. This workshop aims to create a dialog on the problem of program comprehension and its relation to modularity in this wider context. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/cocos-2017 Submission: August 20, 2017 ## DSLDI 2017 - The 5th International Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/dsldi-2017 Submission: August 7, 2017 ## Escaped 2017 - Escaped from the Lab Workshop What are some of the practices for taking new ideas and converting them into products? Even large organizations have a difficult time sustaining the innovation process. The all-to-common story: One part of the organization over-commits (promises the earth, moon, and stars), and another part of the organization is forced to deliver. The extravagant promise of the Powerpoint presentation is converted into the trail of tears of the Gantt chart. The grandiose project was originally supposed to be feasible. There were some small technology trials that proved out the basic ideas for low-volume transaction rates and simplified user interfaces. The product was supposed to be delivered in record time because of high rates of software reuse. So what went wrong? This workshop will explore the intersection of modern software technology and tools, high reliability and performance requirements, large organizations, and conflicts in the software development process. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/escaped-2017 Submission: September 7, 2017 ## FOSD 2017 - Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development Feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is a paradigm for the construction and customization of software systems. The key idea of FOSD is to decompose a family of software systems into units of functionality called features, with the goal of reusing software artifacts among family members. Features capture the similarities and differences among systems in the family, and a particular software system can be produced by selecting or composing its corresponding features. A feature is a unit of functionality that satisfies a requirement, represents a design decision, or provides a configuration option. A challenge in FOSD is that a feature may not map cleanly to an isolated module of code. Rather, its implementation may crosscut many components and artifacts of the software system. Furthermore, the decomposition of a software system into its features gives rise to a combinatorial explosion of possible feature combinations and interactions. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/fosd-2017 Submission: August 15, 2017 ## LIVE 2017 - Workshop on Live Programming Live programming systems abandon the traditional edit-compile-run cycle in favor of fluid user experiences that encourages powerful new ways of "thinking to code" and enables programmers to see and understand their program executions. Programming today requires much mental effort with broken stuttering feedback loops: programmers carefully plan their abstractions, simulating program execution in their heads; the computer is merely a receptacle for the resulting code with a means of executing that code. Live programming aims to create a tighter more fluid feedback loop between the programmer and computer, allowing the computer to augment more of the programming process by, for example, allowing programmers to progressively mine abstractions from concrete examples and providing continuous feedback about how their code will execute. Meanwhile, under the radar of the PL community at-large, a nascent community has formed around the related idea of "live coding" - live audiovisual performances which use computers and algorithms as instruments and include live audiences in their programming experiences. This workshop focuses on exploring notions and degrees of live programming as they relate to development, creative activities, learning, and performance. We are interested in methodologies, tools, demos, infrastructures, language designs, and questions that stimulate interest and understanding in live programming. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/live-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## META 2017 - Workshop on Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection The Meta'17 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions, or software tools. With the changing hardware and software landscape, and increased heterogeneity of systems, metaprogramming becomes an important research topic to handle the associate complexity once more. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as empirical studies on and typing for such systems and languages. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/meta-2017 Submission: August 7, 2017 ## NJR 2017 - Workshop on Towards a National Java Resource This workshop is the second in a series of workshops with the goal to work towards the establishment of a National Java Resource (NJR). Our vision is a collection of 10,000 Java projects, each of which builds and runs, and for which popular tools succeed and have cached outputs. NJR will lower the barrier to implementation of new tools, speed up research, and ultimately help advance research frontiers. In particular, NJR will enable tools that take advantage of Big Code in such areas as code synthesis, error repair, and program understanding. What do researchers need from NJR to make progress on their tools? A common road block is that existing collections of Java code are either small, without ability to build and run, or both. The main goals of the workshops are to discuss the list of tools that researchers commonly use as building blocks for their own tools, debate what features of the National Java Resource that researchers would like to see, and see how an early prototype of the National Java Resource works. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/njr-2017 Submission: TBC ## NOOL 2017 - The -2th Workshop on New Object-Oriented Languages NOOL-17 brings together users and implementors of new(ish) object-oriented systems. Through presentations, discussions and demos, NOOL-17 will provide a forum for sharing experience and knowledge among experts and novices alike. We invite submissions in the following areas: Theory: Including object oriented programming, semantic models and methodology. Languages: New languages, extensions to conventional languages, and existing languages. Implementation: Including architectural support, compilation and interpretation. Tools and Environments: Including livecoding, user interfaces and utilities. Applications: Commercial, educational, and other applications that exploit OO programming. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/nool-2017 Submission: September 1, 2017 ## OCAP 2017 - Workshop on Object-Capability Languages, Systems, and Applications The OCAP workshop seeks to bring together those interested in object-capability languages, systems, and applications. Object-capabilities offer a distinct approach to building robust, distributed systems that pose many interesting research and practical challenges. The workshop is designed to explore the latest developments in the theory and practice of the object- capability approach, and provide a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration. Researchers working on object-capability and related methods, models, languages, and tools, as well as practitioners developing real-world systems and applications are welcome. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/ocap-2017 Submission: August 15, 2017 ## PLATEAU 2017 - 8th International Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But programmer efficiency depends on the usability of the languages and tools with which they develop software. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/plateau-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## PX/17.2 2017 - The 3rd Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions—they need exploratory programming. The Programming Experience (PX) Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it's exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly ("liveness"); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/px-17-2 Submission: August 8, 2017 ## Parsing@SLE 2017 - The 5th Annual Workshop on Parsing Programming Languages Parsing@SLE 2017 is the fifth annual workshop on parsing programming languages. The intended participants are the authors of parser generation tools and parsers for programming languages and other software languages. For the purpose of this workshop "parsing" is a computation that takes a sequence of characters as input and produces a syntax tree or graph as output. This possibly includes tokenization using regular expressions, deriving trees using context-free grammars, and mapping to abstract syntax trees. The goal is to bring together today's experts in the field of parsing, in order to explore open questions and possibly forge new collaborations. The topics may include algorithms, implementation and generation techniques, syntax and semantics of meta formalisms (BNF), etc. We expect to attract participants that have been or are developing theory, techniques and tools in the broad area of parsing. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/parsing-2017 Submission: September 1, 2017 ## REBLS 2017 - The 4th Workshop on Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design — so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) — have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/rebls-2017 Submission: August 1, 2017 ## SAVR 2017 - Workshop on Software for Augmented and Virtual Reality Even conservative forecasters predict the imminent wave of Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality applications to extend far beyond gaming. Education, health care, analytics, marketing—immersive environments are poised to provide productivity gains in multiple sectors, eventually replacing conventional interfaces with gestures, gaze and natural language processing. The Software Engineering and Programming Language communities have only just begun to fully engage within this new paradigm. The Software for Augmented and Virtual Reality (SAVR) workshop will be designed to help bridge this gap. Participants will submit a position paper outlining the SE/PL challenges they have either encountered or anticipate in this space. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/savr-2017 Submission: August 8, 2017 ## SEPS 2017 - The 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems This workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners dealing with compelling challenges of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms. The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires more insight into development processes, and necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and re-engineering sequential legacy applications. We aim to advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis; testing and debugging; profiling and tuning. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/seps-2017 Submission: August 8, 2017 ## VMIL 2017 - Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages The VMIL workshop is a forum for research in virtual machines and intermediate languages. It is dedicated to identifying programming mechanisms and constructs that are currently realized as code transformations or implemented in libraries but should rather be supported at VM level. Candidates for such mechanisms and constructs include modularity mechanisms (aspects, context-dependent layers), concurrency (threads and locking, actors, capsules, processes, software transactional memory), transactions, development tools (profilers, runtime verification), etc. Topics of interest include the investigation of which such mechanisms are worthwhile candidates for integration with the run-time environment, how said mechanisms can be elegantly (and reusably) expressed at the intermediate language level (e.g., in bytecode), how their implementations can be optimized, and how virtual machine architectures might be shaped to facilitate such implementation efforts. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/vmil-2017 Submission: August 14, 2017 ## WODA 2017 - The International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis The International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA) is the place where researchers interested in dynamic analysis and related topics can meet and discuss current research, issues, and trends in the field. WODA exists since 2003 and has been co-located with several different SE/PL conferences in the past, including ICSE, ISSTA, ASPLOS, and SPLASH. Dynamic analysis is widely used in software development to understand various run-time properties of a program. Dynamic analysis includes both offline techniques, which operate on some captured representation of the program's behavior (e.g., a trace), and run-time techniques, which analyze the program on-the-fly as the system is executing. Though inherently incomplete, dynamic analyses are typically more precise than their static counterparts, and show promise in aiding the understanding, development, and maintenance of robust and reliable large-scale systems. Moreover, dynamic analyses can generate quantitative data that is useful for statistical inferences regarding the program's behavior. Starting from these motivations, the goal of WODA is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in all areas of dynamic analysis to discuss new perspectives and observations, share results and ongoing work, and establish collaborations. WODA serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection of (some or all of) compilers, programming languages, architecture, software engineering, systems, high-performance computing, performance engineering, machine learning and data mining as tools to enable software and system behavior analysis. Web: http://2017.splashcon.org/track/woda-2017 Submission: August 15, 2017 ## Information Conference: Sunday 22nd October - Friday 27th October, 2017 Contact: info(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2017.splashcon.org Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ## Organization: SPLASH General Chair: * Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) OOPSLA Papers Chair: * Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University) Onward! Papers Co-Chairs: * Emina Torlak (University of Washington) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Onward! Essays Chair: * Robert Biddle (Carleton University) DLS PC Chair: * Davide Ancona (University of Genova) SLE General Chair: * Benoit Combemale (University of Rennes) GPCE General Chair: * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) Scala General Chair: * Heather Miller (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) PLoP Program Chair: * Takashi Iba (Keio University) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) SPLASH-E Chair: * Joe Gibbs Politz (University of California, San Diego) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia) * Karim Ali (Unviersity of Alberta) * Avik Chaudhuri (Facebook) Artifacts Co-Chairs: * Michael Bond (Ohio State University) * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Craig Anslow (Victoria University of Wellington) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Posters Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (Logicblox) * Jennifer Sartor (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: * Daco Harkes (TU Delft) * Giovanni Viviani (University of British Columbia) PLMW Co-Chairs: * Lori Pollock (University of Delaware) * Barbara Ryder (Virginia Tech) Video Co-Chairs: * Michael Hilton (Oregon State University) * David Darais (University of Maryland) Publications Co-Chairs: * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Sponsorship Co-Chairs: * Jurgen Vinju (Purdue University) * Tony Hosking (Australian National University, Data61, and Purdue University) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: * Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) Local Arrangements Chair: * Peter Smith (ACL) /***************************************************************************/

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[ANNOUNCE] Openings for Haskell developers at Standard Chartered
by Atze Dijkstra 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hi all, I am happy to let you know that there are various job openings for FP developers as well as a Project Manager at the Strats team at Standard Chartered. For further info please see the below - http://www.atzedijkstra.net/haskell/developer-job-openings-with-the-strats-… - http://www.atzedijkstra.net/standard-chartered/job-opening-for-project-mana… <http://hauptwerk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/four-openings-for-haskell-developer…> kind regards, Atze Dijkstra Standard Chartered

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CFP: ACM MobiWac 2017, Miami Beach, USA
by Robson De Grande 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ================================================================== The 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2017) November 21 - 25, 2017 - Miami Beach, USA http://mobiwac-symposium.org/ ================================================================== IMPORTANT: Submission deadline: June 30th 2017 ================================================================== NOTE: The best papers accepted in MOBIWac'17 will be selected for a fast track in Elsevier Computer Communications Journal. ================================================================== The 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2017) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2017 (the 20th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) from November 21 to 25, 2017 in Miami Beach, USA. The MOBIWAC series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. To keep up with the technological developments, we also open up new areas such as mobile cloud computing starting from this year. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: - Mobile Cloud Computing - Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols - Wireless/Mobile Web Access - Wireless Internet and All-IP integration - Next Generation Wireless systems - Mobile Broadband Wireless Access - Pervasive Communication and Computing - Ubiquitous and mobile access - Wireless Applications and testbeds - Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff - Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC / network layer management - Channels and resource allocation algorithms - Energy and power management algorithms - Mobility Models - Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios - Context-aware services and applications - Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures - Interactive applications - Mobile database management - Wireless Multimedia Protocols - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Mobile Info-services - Social mobile networks - Social mobile applications - Data analysis for mobile and wireless networks - SDN solutions in mobile and wireless networks - QoS management - Mobility Control and Management - Localization and tracking - Mobile/Vehicular environment access - Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Security,Trust management and Privacy issues - Fault Tolerance solutions - Wireless Systems' Design - Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems - Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Ángel Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Chairs Robson De Grande, University of Ottawa, Canada Amir Darehshoorzadeh, CISCO, Canada Posters/Demo Chair Graciela Román Alonso, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Publicity Chairs Khalil El-Khatib, UOIT, Canada Mirela. A. M. Notare, Sao Jose Municipal University, Brazil ========================= Paper Submission, Publication, and Important Dates: 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 Symposium. The symposium will have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. Paper length must be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a publication fee. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. - Paper registration due: June 30, 2017 (11:59PM EST) - Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017 (11:59PM EST) - Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2017 (11:59PM EST) Papers are submitted via the EDAS system (https://edas.info/N23669) For any question or problems related to MobiWac 2017 submissions, please contact the PC Chairs. FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please see the conference website (http://mobiwac-symposium.org)

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1st CfP: IFL 2017 (29th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)
by publicityifl＠gmail.com 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

<div dir="ltr">Hello, Please, find below the first call for papers for IFL 2017. 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 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== 29th SYMPOSIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES ======================================================================== University of Bristol, UK In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN Wednesday 30 August - Friday 1 September, 2017 <a href="http://iflconference.org/">http://iflconference.org/</a> 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 2017 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. Peer-review ----------- Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2017 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. All participants of IFL 2017 are invited to submit either a draft paper or an extended abstract describing work to be presented at the symposium. At no time may work submitted to IFL be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy: <a href="http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication">http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication</a> The submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make sure they are within the scope of IFL, and will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. Submissions appearing in the draft proceedings are not peer-reviewed publications. Hence, publications that appear only in the draft proceedings are not subject to the ACM SIGPLAN republication policy. After the symposium, authors 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 review process. From the revised submissions, the program committee will select papers for the formal proceedings considering their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The formal proceedings will appear in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library. Important dates --------------- Mon 31 July 2017 : Submission deadline draft papers Wed 2 August 2017 : Notification of acceptance for presentation Fri 4 August 2017 : Early registration deadline Fri 11 August 2017 : Late registration deadline Mon 21 August 2017 : Submission deadline for pre-symposium proceedings Wed 30 August 2017 - Fri 1 September 2017 : IFL Symposium Mon 4 December 2017 : Submission deadline for post-symposium proceedings Wed 31 January 2018 : Notification of acceptance for post-symposium proceedings Mon 12 March 2018 : Camera-ready version for post-symposium proceedings Submission details ------------------ Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers or extended abstracts to be published in the draft proceedings and to present them at the symposium. All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the new ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: <a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template">http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a> For the pre-symposium proceedings we adopt a 'weak' page limit of 12 pages. For the post-symposium proceedings the page limit of 12 pages is firm. Authors submit through EasyChair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2017">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2017</a> Topics ------ IFL welcomes submissions describing practical and theoretical work as well as submissions describing applications and tools in the context of functional programming. If you are not sure whether your work is appropriate for IFL 2017, please contact the PC chair at <a href="mailto:nicolas.wu@bristol.ac.uk">nicolas.wu(a)bristol.ac.uk</a>. Topics of interest 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 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. Programme committee ------------------- Chair: Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol, UK - Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan - Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France - Carlos Camarao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil - Stephen Dolan, University of Cambridge, UK - Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, Netherlands - Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Benjamin Lerner, Brown University, USA - Bas Lijnse, Radboud University, Netherlands - Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA - Miguel Pagano, Universidad Nacional de C√≥rdoba, Argentina - Tomas Petricek, Alan Turing Institute, UK - Maciej Pir√≥g, University of Wroc≈Çaw, Poland - Exequiel Rivas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina - Neil Sculthorpe, Nottingham Trent University, UK - Melinda T√≥th, E√∂tv√∂s Lor√°nd University, Hungary - Phil Trinder, Glasgow University, UK - Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay - Meng Wang, University of Kent, UK Venue ----- The IFL 2017 will be held in association with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK. Bristol is located in South West England, and can be easily reached from Bristol Airport. See the website for more information on the venue. </div>  <a style='display: block; margin: 32px 0 40px 0; padding: 10px; font-size: 1em; text-align: center; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid gray; ' href='https://goo.gl/2ksdRv'>powered by GSM. Free mail merge and email marketing software for Gmail.</a>

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[ANN] Budapest Haskell Hackathon 2017, 29-30th July 2017
by Daniel Berecz 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

Hi everybody, Sorry for the previous message! I'm happy to announce that our local user group will hold a Haskell Hackathon in Budapest this year (this will be the second)! We will hold it from the 29th to the 30th of July (Saturday & Sunday). You can find out more on the following link: https://wiki.haskell.org/Budapest_Hackathon_2017 We will reguraly update the site with new information. If you decide to come, please fill out the following Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/QjTNdXTD1aEOMEQU2 If you have a project, demo, or talk that you want to bring to the event please contact us, and we can talk about the details. You can find our contact info the events wiki site, or you can just contact me directly. The event will be open to people of all experience levels, from beginners to gurus. The only requisite is that you’re interested in the Haskell language, and want to hang out with us, and have a good time! Greetings from Daniel, and the other BP-HUG organizers.

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Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce that our local user group will hold a Haskell Hackathon in Budapest this year (this will be the second)! We will hold it from the 29th to the 30th of July (Saturday & Sunday). You can find out more on the following link: https://wiki.haskell.org/Budapest_Hackathon_2017 We will reguraly update the site with new information. If you decide to come, please fill out the following Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/QjTNdXTD1aEOMEQU2 If you have a project, demo, or talk
by Daniel Berecz 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce that our local user group will hold a Haskell Hackathon in Budapest this year (this will be the second)! We will hold it from the 29th to the 30th of July (Saturday & Sunday). You can find out more on the following link: https://wiki.haskell.org/Budapest_Hackathon_2017 We will reguraly update the site with new information. If you decide to come, please fill out the following Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/QjTNdXTD1aEOMEQU2 If you have a project, demo, or talk that you want to bring to the event please contact us, and we can talk about the details. You can find our contact info the events wiki site, or you can just contact me directly. The event will be open to people of all experience levels, from beginners to gurus. The only requisite is that you’re interested in the Haskell language, and want to hang out with us, and have a good time! Greetings from Daniel, and the other BP-HUG organizers.

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Last call for presentations: CUFP 2017, September 7-9, Oxford, UK
by Jasper Van der Jeugt 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

The deadline for CUFP presentations is this friday, the 9th of June. This CFP and the form for submitting presentations proposals can be found at: http://cufp.org/2017/call-for-presentations.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2017 Call for Presentations Workshop for Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2017 Sponsored by SIGPLAN CUFP 2017 Co-located with ICFP 2017 Oxford, UK September 7-9 Talk Proposal Submission Deadline: 9 June 2017 The annual CUFP event is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming to work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giving a CUFP Talk If you have experience using functional languages in a practical setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the event. We're looking for two kinds of talks: Retrospective reports are typically 25 minutes long. Now that CUFP has run for more than a decade, we intend to invite past speakers to share what they’ve learned after a decade spent as commercial users of functional programming. We will favour experience reports that include technical content. Technical talks are also 25 minutes long, and should focus on teaching the audience something about a particular technique or methodology, from the point of view of someone who has seen it play out in practice. These talks could cover anything from techniques for building functional concurrent applications, to managing dynamic reconfigurations, to design recipes for using types effectively in large-scale applications. While these talks will often be based on a particular language, they should be accessible to a broad range of programmers. We strongly encourage submissions from people in communities that are underrepresented in functional programming, including but not limited to women; people of color; people in gender, sexual and romantic minorities; people with disabilities; people residing in Asia, Africa, or Latin America; and people who have never presented at a conference before. We recognize that inclusion is an important part of our ission to promote functional programming. So that CUFP can be a safe environment in which participants openly exchange ideas, we abide by the SIGPLAN Conference Anti-Harassment Policy: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Anti-harassment If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do so, please submit your presentation before 09 June 2017 via the CUFP 2017 Presentation Submission Form: https://goo.gl/forms/KPloANxHHwdiaoVj2 You do not need to submit a paper, just a short proposal for your talk. There will be a short scribe's report of the presentations and discussions but not of the details of individual talks, as the meeting is intended to be more of a discussion forum than a technical interchange. Nevertheless, presentations will be recorded and presenters will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. Note that we will need presenters to register for the CUFP workshop and travel to Oxford at their own expense. There are some funds available to would-be presenters who require assistance in this respect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Alex Lang (Tsuru Capital), co-chair Rachel Reese (Mulberry Labs), co-chair Garrett Smith (Guild AI) Danielle Sucher (Jane Street) Jasper Van der Jeugt (Fugue) Yukitoshi Suzuki (Ziosoft) Evelina Gabasova (University of Cambridge) Brian Mitchell (Jet.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More information For more information on CUFP, including videos of presentations from previous years, take a look at the CUFP website at http://cufp.org. Note that presenters, like other attendees, will need to register for the event. Acceptance and rejection letters will be sent out by July 15th. Guidance on giving a great CUFP talk Focus on the interesting bits: Think about what will distinguish your talk, and what will engage the audience, and focus there. There are a number of places to look for those interesting bits. Setting: FP is pretty well-established in some areas, including formal verification, financial processing, and server-side web services. An unusual setting can be a source of interest. If you're deploying FP-based mobile UIs or building servers on oil rigs, then the challenges of that scenario are worth focusing on. Did FP help or hinder in adapting to the setting? Technology: The CUFP audience is hungry to learn about how FP techniques work in practice. What design patterns have you applied, and to what areas? Did you use functional reactive programming for user interfaces, or DSLs for playing chess, or fault-tolerant actors for large-scale geological data processing? Teach us something about the techniques you used, and why we should consider using them ourselves. Getting things done: How did you deal with large-scale software development in the absence of pre-existing support tools that are often expected in larger commercial environments (IDEs, coverage tools, debuggers, profilers) and without larger, proven bodies of libraries? Did you hit any brick walls that required support from the community? Don't just be a cheerleader: It's easy to write a rah-rah talk about how well FP worked for you, but CUFP is more interesting when the talks also cover what doesn't work. Even when the results were all great, you should spend more time on the challenges along the way than on the parts that went smoothly.

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Haskell in Leipzig 2017: 1st call for papers
by Wolfgang Jeltsch 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Event: Haskell in Leipzig 2017 Time: October 26–28, 2017 Place: HTWK Leipzig, Germany Homepage: https://hal2017.softbase.org/ About ===== Haskell is a modern functional programming language that allows rapid development of robust and correct software. It is renowned for its expressive type system, its unique approaches to concurrency and parallelism, and its excellent refactoring capabilities. Haskell is both the playing field of cutting-edge programming language research and a reliable base for commercial software development. The workshop series Haskell in Leipzig (HaL), now in its 12th year, brings together Haskell developers, Haskell researchers, Haskell enthusiasts, and Haskell beginners to listen to talks, take part in tutorials, join in interesting conversations, and hack together. To support the latter, HaL will include a one-day hackathon this year. The workshop will have a focus on functional reactive programming (FRP) this time, while continuing to be open to all aspects of Haskell. As in the previous year, the workshop will be in English. Contributions ============= Everything related to Haskell is on topic, whether it is about current research, practical applications, interesting ideas off the beaten track, education, or art, and topics may extend to functional programming in general and its connections to other programming paradigms. Contributions can take the form of * talks (about 30 minutes), * tutorials (about 90 minutes), * demonstrations, artistic performances, or other extraordinary things. Please submit an abstract that describes the content and form of your presentation, the intended audience, and required previous knowledge. We recommend a length of 2 pages, so that the program committee and the audience get a good idea of your contribution, but this is not a hard requirement. Please submit your abstract as a PDF document at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hal2017 until Friday, August 4, 2017. You will be notified by Friday, August 25, 2017. Hacking Projects ================ Projects for the hackathon can be presented during the workshop. A prior submission is not needed for this. Program Committee ================= * Edward Amsden, Plow Technologies, USA * Heinrich Apfelmus, Germany * Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, The Netherlands * Petra Hofstedt, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany * Wolfgang Jeltsch, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (chair) * Andres Löh, Well-Typed LLP, Germany * Keiko Nakata, SAP SE, Germany * Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK * Ertuğrul Söylemez, Intelego GmbH, Germany * Henning Thielemann, Germany * Niki Vazou, University of Maryland, USA * Johannes Waldmann, HTWK Leipzig, Germany Questions ========= If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Wolfgang Jeltsch at wolfgang-it(a)jeltsch.info.

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GPCE 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers (16th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences)
by Cyrus Omar 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2017) October 23-24, 2017 Vancouver, Canada (co-located with SPLASH 2017) http://www.gpce.org/ http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 25, 2017 * Submission of papers: July 2, 2017 * Paper notification: August 17, 2017 Submission site: https://gpce17.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a programming languages conference focusing on techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection citeria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER SUBMISSION GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format “acmart”, sub-format “sigplan” and 10 point font. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair. ORGANIZATION Chairs (chairs(a)gpce.org) General Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, US) Program Chair: Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft, Netherlands) Publicity Chair: Cyrus Omar (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Program Committee Nada Amin (EPFL, Switzerland) Casper Bach Poulsen (TU Delft, Netherlands) Sandrine Blazy (University of Rennes 1, France) Eugene Burmako (Twitter, US) Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Camil Demetrescu (Sapienza University Rome, Italy) Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Matthew Hammer (University of Colorado, Boulder, US) Jaakko Järvi (University of Bergen, Norway) Lennart Kats (Amazon Web Services) Sarah Nadi (University of Alberta, Canada) Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Cyrus Omar (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Markus Püschel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Márcio Ribeiro (Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil) Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, US) Ina Schaefer (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) Sandro Schulze (TU Hamburg, Germany) Tony Sloane (Macquarie University, Australia) Vincent St-Amour (Northwestern University, US) Thomas Thüm (TU Braunschweig, Germany) Markus Völter (itemis/independent) Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh, UK) Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University, US) Adam Welc (Huawei, US) Tijs van der Storm (CWI, Netherlands)

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ANNOUNCE: streaming-conduit
by Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

I've recently found myself really enjoying using Michael Thompson's [streaming] library for, well, streaming data. However, a lot of packages that I want to use already use conduit for all their streaming needs. As such, I've just written the [streaming-conduit] library to convert between the two (rather than just switching this project to conduit entirely as I couldn't find a simple way to just stream data from a PostgreSQL database). I make no guarantees at this stage of performance, and it's quite possible that - especially for the asStream and asConduit functions - that they may not interoperate cleanly with monadic operations. [streaming]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/streaming [streaming-conduit]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/streaming-conduit -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic(a)gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

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