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CFP: Workshop on Type-driven Development (TyDe '16)
by Wouter Swierstra 26 May '16

26 May '16

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Type-Driven Development (TyDe '16) A Workshop on Dependently Typed and Generic Programming 18 September, Nara, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The deadline of the inaugural edition of TyDe is approaching rapidly. Please submit full papers before June 10th and abstracts before June 24th. # Goals of the workshop The workshop on Type-Driven Development aims to show how static type information may be used effectively in the development of computer programs. The workshop, co-located with ICFP, unifies two workshops: the Workshop on Dependently Typed Programming and the Workshop on Generic Programming. These two research areas have a rich history and bridge both theory and practice. Novel techniques explored by both communities has gradually spread to more mainstream languages. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners in generic programming and dependently typed programming from around the world, and features papers capturing the state of the art in these important areas. We welcome all contributions, both theoretical and practical, on: - dependently typed programming; - generic programming; - design and implementation of programming languages, exploiting types in novel ways; - exploiting typed data, data dependent data, or type providers; - static and dynamic analyses of typed programs; - tools, IDEs, or testing tools exploiting type information; - pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of types used in the derivation, calculation, or construction of programs. # Program Committee - James Chapman, University of Strathclyde (co-chair) - Wouter Swierstra, University of Utrecht (co-chair) - David Christiansen, Indiana University - Pierre-Evariste Dagand, LIP6 - Richard Eisenberg, University of Pennsylvania - Catalin Hritcu, INRIA Paris - James McKinna, University of Edinburgh - Keiko Nakata, FireEye - Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge - Birgitte Pientka, McGill University - Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven - Makoto Takeyama, Kanagawa University - Nicolas Wu, University of Bristol - Brent Yorgey, Hendrix College # Proceedings and Copyright We plan to have formal proceedings, published by the ACM. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must grant ACM publication rights upon acceptance, but may retain copyright if they wish. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, and so forth). The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. # Submission details Submitted papers should fall into one of two categories: - Regular research papers (12 pages) - Extended abstracts (2 pages) Submission is handled through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tyde16 Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results. Extended abstracts should report work in progress that the authors would like to present at the workshop. We welcome submissions from PC members (with the exception of the two co-chairs), but these submissions will be held to a higher standard. All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (two-column, 9pt). Extended abstracts must be submitted with the label 'Extended abstract' clearly in the title. # Important Dates - Regular paper deadline: Friday, 10th June, 2016 - Extended abstract deadline: Friday, 24th June, 2016 - Author notification: Friday, 8th July, 2016 - Workshop: Sunday, 18th September, 2016 # Travel Support Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC program, see its web page.

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1st CfP: IFL 2016 (28th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)
by publicityifl＠gmail.com 24 May '16

24 May '16

Hello, Please, find below the first call for papers for IFL 2016. 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 2016 - Call for papers 28th SYMPOSIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES - IFL 2016 KU Leuven, Belgium In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN August 31 - September 2, 2016 https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/events/ifl2016/ 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 2016 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 2016 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. All participants of IFL 2016 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: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication 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 August 1: Submission deadline draft papers August 3: Notification of acceptance for presentation August 5: Early registration deadline August 12: Late registration deadline August 22: Submission deadline for pre-symposium proceedings August 31 - September 2: IFL Symposium December 1: Submission deadline for post-symposium proceedings January 31, 2017: Notification of acceptance for post-symposium proceedings March 15, 2017: 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: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2016 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 2016, please contact the PC chair at tom.schrijvers(a)cs.kuleuven.be. 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: Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium - Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France - Laura Castro, University of A Coru√±a, Spain - Jacques, Garrigue, Nagoya University, Japan - Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Zoltan Horvath, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary - Jan Martin Jansen, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands - Mauro Jaskelioff, CIFASIS/Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina - Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA - Wolfram Kahl, McMaster University, Canada - Pieter Koopman, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK - Nikolaos Papaspyrou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Atze van der Ploeg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Matija Pretnar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Tillmann Rendel, University of T√ºbingen, Germany - Christophe Scholliers, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University, UK - Melinda Toth, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary - Meng Wang, University of Kent, UK - Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK Venue The 28th IFL will be held in association with the Faculty of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium. Leuven is centrally located in Belgium and can be easily reached from Brussels Airport by train (~15 minutes). The venue in the Arenberg Castle park can be reached by foot, bus or taxi from the city center. See the website for more information on the venue.

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Dev/tools/git/Haskell role in London
by Don Stewart 24 May '16

24 May '16

https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/haskell-devtoolsgit-role-at-standa… I have a new role at SCB this time in the "Modelling Infrastructure" team to work on our Haskell-based continuous integration and testing system on top of git. This is a London role. More details in the linked post.

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CFP: ACM MobiWac 2015 - November 13 - 17, 2016, Malta
by Robson De Grande 23 May '16

23 May '16

** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ================================================================== The 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2016) (in conjunction with the 19th ACM MSWiM) November 13 - 17, 2016 - Malta http://mobiwac-symposium.org/ ================================================================== The 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2016) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2016 (the 19th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) from November 13 to 17, 2016 in Malta. 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 Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Robson De Grande, University of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Committee Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Michele Albano, CISTER, Portugal Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Jalel Ben-othman, University of Paris 13, France Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Juan Carlos Cano, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium Andrés García Saavedra, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Roberto González, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Khaled Harras, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Paulo Pinto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Victor Ramos, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico Victor Rangel, National University of Mexico, Mexico Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Alicia Triviño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Manuel Urueña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Ltd, Australia 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, 2016 (11:59PM EST) - Submission Deadline: June 30, 2016 (11:59PM EST) - Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2016 (11:59PM EST) Papers are submitted via the EDAS system (https://edas.info/N22672) For any question or problems related to MobiWac 2015 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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Call for papers: 21th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2016), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 6-8 2016
by liyuanfang＠gmail.com 23 May '16

23 May '16

21th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2016) || November 6-8, Dubai, United Arab Emirates || http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/about-eas/academic-groups/computer-science/icecc… Overview --------------------- Over the past several years, we have seen a rapid rising emphasis on design, implement and manage complex computer systems to help us deal with an increasingly volatile, globalised complex world. These systems are critical for dealing with the Grand Challenge problems we are facing in the 21st century, including health care, urbanization, education, energy, finance, and job creation. The complex computer systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and processing large amount data. Performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns are the key issues. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of interest includes long-term research issues, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing complex systems, and commercially available tools. Scope and Topics --------------------- We invite contributions in what concerns the following areas (please keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list): * Requirement specification and analysis * Verification and validation * Security and privacy of complex systems * Model-driven development * Reverse engineering and refactoring * Architecture software * Big Data Management * Ambient intelligence, pervasive computing * Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks * Design by contract * Agile methods * Safety-critical & fault-tolerant architectures * Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems * Real-time, hybrid and embedded systems * Systems of systems * Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) * Tools and tool integration * Past reflections and future outlooks * Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Full Papers --------------------- Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Short Papers --------------------- Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Paper Submissions --------------------- Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE ormat. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages, and short papers should not exceed 4 pages, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately, without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance to the IEEE guidelines: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS’16 portal, hosted on Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf= ICECCS16 Conference proceeding --------------------- The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed). Important Dates --------------------- Abstract submission: 21st June 2016 Paper submission: 27th June 2016 Notification of acceptance: 8th Aug 2016 Camera ready copy due: 29th Aug 2016 Organizers --------------------- General Chair Prof. Ian Nabney, Aston University, UK Dr. Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, SG Program Chair Dr. Mounir Mokhtari, Institut MINES TELECOM, FR Dr. Hai Wang, Aston University, UK For enquiries, please contact H.WANG10(a)aston.ac.uk or mounir.mokhtari(a)mines-telecom.fr

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ANNOUNCE: testbench-0.1.0.0
by Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 22 May '16

22 May '16

I've just released a new library onto Hackage that aims to help you writing comparison-oriented benchmarks by: a) reducing the duplication found when using criterion directly b) let you test your benchmarked values/functions to ensure that they have the same result/satisfy a given predicate c) provide more comparison-oriented output I've written more about it here: https://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/test-your-benchmarks/ Or you could go straight to the Hackage page here: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/testbench -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic(a)gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 is available!
by Ben Gamari 22 May '16

22 May '16

=============================================== The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 8.0.1 =============================================== The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of the first new super-major version of our Haskell compiler in six years, GHC 8.0.1. This release features dozens of exciting developments including, * A more refined interface for implicit call-stacks, allowing libraries to provide more helpful runtime error messages to users * The introduction of the DuplicateRecordFields language extension, allowing multiple record types to declare fields of the same name * Significant improvements in error message readability and content, including facilities for libraries to provide custom error messages, more aggressive warnings for fragile rewrite rules, and more helpful errors for missing imports * A rewritten and substantially more thorough pattern match checker, providing more precise exhaustiveness checking in GADT pattern matches * More reliable debugging information including experimental backtrace support, allowing better integration with traditional debugging tools * Support for desugaring do-notation to use Applicative combinators, allowing the intuitive do notation to be used in settings which previously required the direct use of Applicative combinators * The introduction of Strict and StrictData language extensions, allowing modules to be compiled with strict-by-default evaluation of bindings * Great improvements in portability, including more reliable linking on Windows, a new PPC64 code generator, support for the AIX operating system, unregisterised m68k support, and significant stabilization on ARM targets * A greatly improved user's guide, with beautiful and modern PDF and HTML output * Introduction of type application syntax, reducing the need for proxies * More complete support for pattern synonyms, including record pattern synonyms and the ability to export patterns "bundled" with a type, as you would a data constructor * Support for injective type families and recursive superclass relationships * An improved generics representation leveraging GHC's support for type-level literals * The TypeInType extension, which unifies types and kinds, allowing GHC to reason about kind equality and enabling promotion of more constructs to the type level * ...and more! A more thorough list of the changes included in this release can be found in the release notes, https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.0.1-notes.… As always, we have collected various points of interest for users of previous GHC releases on the GHC 8.0 migration page, https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/8.0 Please let us know if you encounter anything missing or unclear on this page. This release is the culmination of nearly eighteen months of effort by over one hundred contributors. We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed code, bug reports, and feedback over the past year. It's only because of their efforts that GHC continues to evolve. How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Both the source tarball and binary distributions for a wide variety of platforms are available at, http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standardized lazy functional programming language. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating efficient code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces. GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. Supported Platforms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, can be found on the GHC wiki http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building Developers ~~~~~~~~~~ We welcome new contributors. Instructions on getting started with hacking on GHC are available from GHC's developer site, http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Community Resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are mailing lists for GHC users, develpoers, and monitoring bug tracker activity; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-tickets There are several other Haskell and GHC-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo Some GHC developers hang out on the #ghc and #haskell of the Freenode IRC network, too: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

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DSLDI 2016: Call for Talk Proposals
by Eric Walkingshaw 19 May '16

19 May '16

********************************************************************* CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS DSLDI 2016 Fourth Workshop on Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation October 31, 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands Co-located with SPLASH http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsldi2016 https://twitter.com/wsdsldi ********************************************************************* Deadline for talk proposals: August 1, 2016 *** Workshop Goal *** Well-designed and implemented domain-specific languages (DSLs) can achieve both usability and performance benefits over general-purpose programming languages. By raising the level of abstraction and exploiting domain knowledge, DSLs can make programming more accessible, increase programmer productivity, and support domain-specific optimizations. The goal of the DSLDI workshop is 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. An additional goal of this year's workshop is to encourage discussion about the usability of DSLs, and to establish connections with researchers in related areas, such as end-user software engineering, who have studied human factors of programming languages and tools. *** Workshop Format *** DSLDI is a single-day workshop and will consist of moderated audience discussions structured around a series of talks. The role of the talks is to facilitate interesting and substantive discussion. Therefore, we welcome and encourage talks that express strong opinions, describe open problems, propose new research directions, and report on early research in progress. Proposed talks should be on topics within DSLDI's area of interest, which include but are not limited to: * solicitation and representation of domain knowledge * DSL design principles and processes * DSL implementation techniques and language workbenches * domain-specific optimizations * human factors of DSLs * tool support for DSL users * community and educational support for DSL users * applications of DSLs to existing and emerging domains * studies of usability, performance, or other benefits of DSLs * experience reports of DSLs deployed in practice *** Call for Submissions *** We solicit talk proposals in the form of short abstracts (max. 2 pages). A good talk proposal describes an interesting position, open problem, demonstration, or early achievement. The submissions will be reviewed on relevance and clarity, and used to plan the mostly interactive sessions of the workshop day. Publication of accepted abstracts and slides on the website is voluntary. * Deadline for talk proposals: August 1, 2016 * Notification: September 5, 2016 * Workshop: October 31, 2016 * Submission website: https://dsldi16.hotcrp.com/ *** Workshop Organization *** Organizers: * Eric Walkingshaw (Oregon State University) * Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Program committee: * Iman Avazpour (Deakin University) * Christopher Bogart (Carnegie Mellon University) * Andy Gill (University of Kansas) * Sylvia Grewe (TU Darmstadt) * Kate Howland (University of Sussex) * Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs) * Darya Kurilova (Carnegie Mellon University) * Ralf Lämmel (University of Koblenz-Landau) * Tanja Mayerhofer (Vienna University of Technology) * Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) * Sarah Mount (King's College London) * Justin Pombrio (Brown University) * Tillmann Rendel (University of Tübingen) * Tiark Rompf (Purdue & Oracle Labs) * Sonja Schimmler (Bundeswehr University Munich) * Markus Völter (itemis) * Peng Wu (Huawei America Lab)

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ANNOUNCE: Sifflet 2.3.0 - recursion learning aid / visual programming language
by gdweber＠iue.edu 19 May '16

19 May '16

Sifflet 2.3.0 is now available on Hackage. This release brings Sifflet up to date, so it compiles with GHC 7.10.3, newer versions of depended-on libraries, and builds in a cabal sandbox. Sifflet is the visual, functional programming language and support system for students learning about recursion. Sifflet programmers define functions by drawing diagrams, and the Sifflet interpreter uses the diagrams to show how function calls are evaluated. The Sifflet library (formerly sifflet-lib package) is reintegrated into, and deprecated in favor of, the sifflet package. A test suite is added. Personal Note ------------- It's been about 18 months since I've been able to work on this project or do any serious Haskell development. A lot has changed in the Haskell world -- a lot of catching up to do! It feels good getting back to Haskell again. About Sifflet ------------- Sifflet is a visual, functional programming language intended as an aid for learning about recursion. * A picture explains Sifflet better than words: please see the screenshot showing how to evaluate 3!: http://pages.iu.edu/~gdweber/software/sifflet/home.html * Features: - Visual editor. - Visual tracer/debugger which shows how recursive and other function calls are evaluated. To support active learning and avoid screen clutter, Sifflet displays only as much of the computation as the user requests. - Carefully crafted tutorial with 44 pictures, about 26 pages if printed. - Number, string, and list data types. - Small collection of primitive functions. - Runnable examples of compound functions. - Sifflet functions can be exported to Scheme, Python 3, and Haskell. References ---------- * Download: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sifflet * Home page: http://pages.iu.edu/~gdweber/software/sifflet/home.html * Sifflet Tutorial: http://pages.iu.edu/~gdweber/software/sifflet/doc/tutorial.html * Change log: http://pages.iu.edu/~gdweber/software/sifflet/ChangeLog.html -- Gregory D. Weber, Ph. D. http://pages.iu.edu/~gdweber/ Associate Professor of Informatics Tel (765) 973-8420 Indiana University East FAX (765) 973-8550

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CFP (Approaching Deadline): IEEE DS-RT 2016 - Special Session tracks
by Robson De Grande 19 May '16

19 May '16

Dear Colleagues and Researchers, Apologies, if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. ********** CALL FOR PAPER ********** 20th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications http://ds-rt.com/2016 September 21 - 23, 2016, London, UK *IEEE/ACM Pending Upon Approval DS-RT 2016 is running four special sessions this year: - Simulation of Urban Traffic Management and ITS - Distributed Simulations of Distributed Systems - Augmented and Virtual Reality for Real-Time Applications - Agent-based Modeling and Simulation Those special sessions cover prominent areas of the field of distributed simulations and real time applications, and many papers were accepted in previous editions of DS-RT on the same topics. See below for more detailed descriptions of those special sessions. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue on "Data-driven and Large-scale Distributed Simulation" in Journal of Simulation (published by Palgrave Macmillan, SCI indexed) ***** PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW ***** Submitted manuscripts must be in standard IEEE two-column format that is used for IEEE conference proceedings and must not exceed "8 pages" (2-page extension allowed), including figures, tables and references. Standard IEEE templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at: - http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html A submission may present preliminary results, propose new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on important topics related to the considered special session. Papers will be selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical discussions at the special session and influencing future research. 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 and the special session. At least one author of accepted papers must attend the conference and present its contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE Press. ***** IMPORTANT DATES ***** Full paper submission deadline: May 30th, 2016 Paper acceptance notification: June 30th, 2016 ***** FOR MORE INFORMATION ***** For questions about the paper submission and review process, please contact the session organisers - find all relevant information on the corresponding web pages below. ***** DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIAL SESSIONS ***** * Special Session on Simulation of Urban Traffic Management and ITS This special session focuses on simulation tools and real-time simulation applications used in and for evaluation, management, and design of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), as well as Smart Cities. Such simulations are expected to offer prediction and on-the-flow feedback for the better decision-making, bringing up means for both the implementation of more complex traffic management systems and end-user applications. Off-line and real-time analyses of data collected from infrastructured systems (e.g. real-time traffic information), mobile, distributed technologies (e.g. communication devices), and socially-build systems (e.g. social networks applications) are of great interest for shaping and influencing how ITS solutions are designed. Thus, we are particularly interested in how these data and technologies can be incorporated in domain-related models and simulations. We aim to bring together experts from both industry and academia to discuss the challenges related to modelling and simulation for ITS. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/soiits_2016.htm * Special Session on Distributed Simulations of Distributed Systems Distributed simulation (DS) is a valuable tool for understanding and evaluating distributed systems. The current computing trend sees businesses and individuals moving toward a more centralized infrastructure, namely the cloud. On the one hand, as the computing infrastructure at data centers is highly complex and distributed, DS becomes essential for diagnosing and gaining insights of the system. On the other hand, the scale and nature of interaction between different components in the cloud present new challenges and push DS's state of the art. Another computing trend that has potential to drive DS is internet-of-things. Such complex systems consist of a large number of autonomous, heterogeneous devices communicating with one another in non-uniform manner. DS is valuable not only for discerning system properties but also for predicting the devices' emergent behavior. Finally, users in online social networks make up large distributed systems. Insights of user interaction and the network's collective behavior --- the study of which fits well into the realm of DS --- bring significant value to both the society and the business of social network providers. This special session seeks to bring together experts and practitioners in the domain of DS to discuss new opportunities and challenges for DS. We welcome research papers on both theoretical and empirical issues. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/dsimdsys_2016.htm * Special Session on Augmented and Virtual Reality for Real-Time Applications Virtual Reality (VR) allows users to be immersed in and interact with a fully virtual computer generated environment. On the other hand, Augmented Reality (AR) technologies add digital information on top of the physical reality, allowing users to gain more knowledge about their environment. VR and AR can become valuable tools for understanding, visualizing or evaluating real-time applications, such as simulations. Both technologies offer tremendous possibilities in terms of visualization, interaction and collaboration and become widely available with the development of new affordable devices and toolkits. This special sessions aims at bringing together industrial experts and researchers from academia to present their results and discuss the challenges related to the use of VR and AR technologies dedicated to real-time applications. We welcome research papers on both theoretical and empirical issues. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/avrrta_2016.htm * Special Session on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation This special session focuses on general aspects and special properties for agent-based modeling and simulations that allows them to be applied on several scientific domains, such as sociology, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, and economy. The session is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners, so they can present the current status of their work and discuss the challenges they face in developing solutions and applications for agent-based simulations. Consequently, the design of these simulations aims not only to social contexts but also to more technical domains, which involves highly complex interactive systems. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/abms_2016.htm Best Regards, DS-RT 2016 Special Session Chairs

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