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LumiGuide is hiring
by Bas van Dijk 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Dear Haskellers, We're hiring a Haskell engineer to join our software engineering team. LumiGuide develops parking guidance systems for cars and bicycles. Our technology is based on optical detection techniques (Computer Vision). A nice example of one of our projects is the P-route Bicycle <https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/bicycle-parking-guidance-syst…> in Utrecht City. Functional Programming is used extensively at LumiGuide. Haskell, GHCJS and the Nix stack (Nix, NixOS, hydra and nixops) are some of the technologies we're using. I recently gave a talk <http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/pub/NlFpDay2016/WebHome/LumiGuide_FP-Dag-20…> at the Dutch Functional Programming Day that highlights some of the products and tools we're developing. We're looking for an experienced Haskell developer who wants to join our team full-time and will work from our office in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. As one of the first engineers you'll have a big impact on the culture and the technological direction of the company. If you're interested, please send a mail to bas(a)lumiguide.nl and tell me a bit about your experience (previous jobs, open source projects, things that you made that you're proud of, etc.). Best Regards, Bas van Dijk CTO LumiGuide

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Paul Hudak Memorial Symposium
by John Peterson 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

On behalf of the Yale Computer Science department, I'd like to announce a symposium in memory of Paul Hudak that will take place at Yale on April 29 and 30. Friday will feature technical presentations by Paul's colleagues and students, including John Hughes, Phil Wadler, Walid Taha, and Bob Keller. There will be a reception with Paul's family that evening. On Saturday, John Hughes and I will reprise our retrospective of Paul's career. Yale will be showing off their research after this presentation. Full details are here: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/paul-hudak-symposium/ Please register if you plan to attend. John

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[TFP 2016] extended deadline, april 25 2016, final call for papers
by Peter Achten 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

TFP 2016 has extended its deadline for draft papers by two weeks (now April 25). Although all draft papers accepted to TFP 2016 will be invited to submit to the post-symposium formal proceedings, authors are reminded that they are not obligated to do so; we welcome works in progress that may not be destined for the TFP proceedings. Thanks, David Van Horn ----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2016 =========== 17th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming June 8-10, 2016 University of Maryland, College Park Near Washington, DC http://tfp2016.org/ The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below). Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these articles for formal publication. TFP 2016 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2016 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 7nd. == INVITED SPEAKERS == TFP 2016 is pleased to announce keynote talks by the following two invited speakers: * Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia: "Static and Dynamic Type Checking: A Synopsis" * Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania: "Type- and Example-Driven Program Synthesis" == HISTORY == The TFP symposium is the heir of the successful series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in * Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2003; * Munich (Germany) in 2004; * Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005; * Nottingham (UK) in 2006; * New York (USA) in 2007; * Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008; * Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009; * Oklahoma (USA) in 2010; * Madrid (Spain) in 2011; * St. Andrews (UK) in 2012; * Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * and Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/) == SCOPE == The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles: leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles: on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles: descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles: summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to: Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing Functional programming in the cloud High performance functional computing Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs Dependently typed functional programming Validation and verification of functional programs Debugging and profiling for functional languages Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc. Interoperability with imperative programming languages Novel memory management techniques Program analysis and transformation techniques Empirical performance studies Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages (Embedded) domain specific languages New implementation strategies Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2016 program chair, David Van Horn. == BEST PAPER AWARDS == To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper accepted for the formal proceedings. TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes. == SPONSORS == TFP is financially supported by CyberPoint, Galois, Trail of Bits, and the University of Maryland Computer Science Department. == PAPER SUBMISSIONS == Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on a lightweight peer review process of extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (20 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which ALL authors are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. Papers must be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2016 Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: April 25, 2016 Notification: May 2, 2016 Registration: May 13, 2016 TFP Symposium: June 8-10, 2016 Student papers feedback: June 14, 2016 Submission for formal review: July 14, 2016 Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2016 Camera ready paper: October 14, 2016 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Amal Ahmed Northeastern University (US) Nada Amin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University (JP) Małgorzata Biernacka University of Wroclaw (PL) Laura Castro University of A Coruña (ES) Ravi Chugh University of Chicago (US) Silvia Ghilezan University of Novi Sad (SR) Clemens Grelck University of Amsterdam (NL) John Hughes Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Suresh Jagannathan Purdue University (US) Pieter Koopman Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Geoffrey Mainland Drexel University (US) Chris Martens University of California, Santa Cruz (US) Jay McCarthy University of Massachusetts, Lowell (US) Heather Miller École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) Manuel Serrano INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (FR) Scott Smith Johns Hopkins University (US) Éric Tanter University of Chile (CL) David Van Horn (Chair) University of Maryland (US) Niki Vazou University of California, San Diego (US) Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania (US)

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JTRES 2016 Call for Papers
by Andrea Rosa 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems JTRES 2016 Part of the Managed Languages & Runtimes Week 2016 29 August - 2 September 2016 Lugano, Switzerland http://jtres2016.compute.dtu.dk/ ====================================================================== Submission deadline: 12 June, 2016 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jtres2016 ====================================================================== Over 90% of all microprocessors are now used for real-time and embedded applications. Embedded devices are deployed on a broad diversity of distinct processor architectures and operating systems. The application software for many embedded devices is custom tailored if not written entirely from scratch. The size of typical embedded system software applications is growing exponentially from year to year, with many of today's embedded systems comprised of multiple millions of lines of code. For all of these reasons, the software portability, reuse, and modular composability benefits offered by Java are especially valuable to developers of embedded systems. Both embedded and general-purpose software frequently need to comply with real-time constraints. Higher-level programming languages and middleware are needed to robustly and productively design, implement, compose, integrate, validate, and enforce memory and real-time constraints along with conventional functional requirements for reusable software components. The Java programming language has become an attractive choice because of its safety, productivity, its relatively low maintenance costs, and the availability of well-trained developers. ::Goal:: Interest in real-time Java by both the academic research community and commercial industry has been motivated by the need to manage the complexity and costs associated with continually expanding embedded real-time software systems. The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers working on real-time and embedded Java to identify the challenging problems that still need to be solved in order to assure the success of real-time Java as a technology and to report results and experience gained by researchers. The Java ecosystem has outgrown the combination of Java as programming language and the JVM. For example, Android uses Java as source language and the Dalvik virtual machine for execution. Languages such as Scala are compiled to Java bytecode and executed on the JVM. JTRES welcomes submissions that apply such approaches to embedded and/or real-time systems. ::Submission Requirements:: Participants are expected to submit a paper of at most 10 pages (ACM Conference Format, i.e., two-columns, 10 point font). Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series via the ACM Digital Library and have to be presented by one author at the JTRES. LaTeX and Word templates can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Papers describing open source projects shall include a description how to obtain the source and how to run the experiments in the appendix. The source version for the published paper will be hosted at the JTRES web site. Papers should be submitted through EasyChair. Please use the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jtres2016 Selected papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of the TBD. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to: New real-time programming paradigms and language features Industrial experience and practitioner reports Open source solutions for real-time Java Real-time design patterns and programming idioms High-integrity and safety critical system support Java-based real-time operating systems and processors Extensions to the RTSJ and SCJ Real-time and embedded virtual machines and execution environments Memory management and real-time garbage collection Multiprocessor and distributed real-time Java Real-time solutions for Android Languages other than Java on real-time or embedded JVMs Benchmarks and Open Source applications using real-time Java ::Important Dates:: Paper Submission: 12 June, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: 20 July, 2016 Camera Ready Paper Due: 15 August, 2016 Workshop: 29 August - 2 September, 2016 ::Program Chair:: Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark ::Workshop Chair:: Walter Binder, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland ::Program Committee Members:: Ethan Blanton, Fiji Systems Inc Ana Cavalcanti, University of York Peter Dibble, RTSJ M. Teresa Higuera-Toledano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid James Hunt, Aicas Stephan Korsholm, Via University College Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego Doug Locke, LC Systems Services Kelvin Nilsen Wolfgang Puffitsch, Technical University of Denmark Anders Ravn, Aalborg University Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark Fridtjof Siebert, Aicas Andy Wellings, University of York Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo ------------ Andrea Rosà PhD student - Teaching assistant Faculty of Informatics - 2nd floor Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) Via G. Buffi 13 CH-6904 Lugano Switzerland (e) andrea.rosa(a)usi.ch<mailto:andrea.rosa@usi.ch> (p) +41 58 666 4455 ext. 2183 (w) http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/rosaa/

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ARRAY 2016: Final call for papers
by Clemens Grelck 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ARRAY 2016 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming Santa Barbara, CA, USA June 14, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/array-2016/ FIRM DEADLINE: April 11, 2016 (anywhere on earth) *************************************************************************** ARRAY 2016 is part of PLDI 2016 37th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation June 13-17, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016/ *************************************************************************** About: Array-oriented programming is a powerful abstraction for compactly implementing numerically intensive algorithms. Many modern languages now provide some support for collective array operations, which are used by an increasing number of programmers (and non-programmers) for data analysis and scientific computing. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from many different communities, including language designers, library developers, compiler researchers and practitioners who are working on numeric, array-centric aspects of programming languages, libraries and methodologies from all domains: imperative or declarative, object-oriented or not, interpreted or compiled, strongly typed, weakly typed or untyped. *************************************************************************** Keynote speakers: We are proud to announce two distinguished keynote speakers: Bradford Chamberlain Principal Engineer at Cray Inc, Seattle, USA Chief designer of the Chapel high productivity language Morten Kromberg User Experience Director (CXO) at Dyalog Ltd, Bramley, UK Commercial provider of APL interpreters, tools and services *************************************************************************** Focus: The aim of the ARRAY workshop series is to foster the cross-pollination of concepts across domains, projects and research communities and to explore new directions, such as: + Expanding the scope of array programming to encompass a wider range of data types and computations, + Transparently utilizing parallel hardware (multi-core, SIMD, GPU, FPGA) by leveraging the implicitly parallel semantics of array operations, + Simplifying the embedding of array constructs within existing languages which weren't designed for numerical computing, + Connections between array abstractions and other models such as dataflow programming, stream programming, and data parallelism, + High-level compilation and optimization techniques for array-oriented programs, + Compilers, virtual machines and frameworks for array-oriented programming languages. *************************************************************************** Important Dates: Paper submissions: Fri, Apr 11, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Notification of authors: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 Camera-ready copies due: Fri, May 27, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Workshop date: Tue, Jun 14, 2016 *************************************************************************** Submissions: Manuscripts may fall into one of the following categories: + research papers on any topic related to the focus of the workshop + tool descriptions reporting on a tool relevant to the workshop area Submissions should be 4-8 pages for research papers 4-6 pages for tool descriptions. In the case of a tool description the workshop presentation should include a demo of the tool, and the submission should include a short appendix summarizing the tool demo. This appendix is for the information of the PC only, and will not be part of the published paper, nor does it count into the six page limit. Clearly mark your submission as either a research paper or a tool description in the paper's subtitle. Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must adhere to the standard SIGPLAN conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=array2016 As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *************************************************************************** Keynote by Bradford Chamberlain: Lessons Learned in Array Programming: from ZPL to Chapel In this talk, I'll start by providing a review of array programming in ZPL, an academic data-parallel programming language developed at the University of Washington during the 1990's. I'll describe the strengths and weaknesses of ZPL's support for array computation and describe how the lessons we learned in the ZPL project influenced Chapel's design and its support for arrays and data parallelism. In doing so, I'll provide a glimpse into some of Chapel's main research challenges and contributions, including user-defined distributions, parallel zippered iteration, and mapping to contemporary processor architectures. In doing so, I'll also attempt to characterize what I view as the key distinctions between successful languages developed in academia versus industry based on my experiences with both ZPL and Chapel. *************************************************************************** Keynote by Morten Kromberg: Notation for Parallel Thoughts Since the original APL\360 interpreter saw the light of day in 1966, a large part of the of primitive functions in APL (A Programming Language) implicitly map operations to all elements of array arguments (and arrays of numbers or characters are the only “types” available in the language). Over the decades, the parallelism at the core of the notation has been extended, to nested arrays in the 1980’s and arrays of objects in the 00’s. In this decade, arrays of futures have been added to provide users of APL with the ability to express asynchronous -– but deterministic -- algorithms. This talk will introduce the most important parallel constructs available in current Dyalog APL, which (despite the name) essentially remains an executable mathematical notation. *************************************************************************** Organizing Committee: Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam (Chair) David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *************************************************************************** Programme Committee: Robert Bernecky, Snake Island Research, Canada Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Laurie Hendren , McGill University, Canada Stephan Herhut, Google Inc, Denmark Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, Australia Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA *************************************************************************** Travel Funding: Since ARRAY 2006 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, presenters and authors of papers are eligible to apply for SIGPLAN PAC funding. *************************************************************************** -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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18th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2016 - 2nd call for papers
by German Vidal 07 Apr '16

07 Apr '16

====================================================================== Second call for papers 18th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2016 Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) Edinburgh, UK, September 5-7, 2016 (co-located with LOPSTR and SAS) http://ppdp16.webs.upv.es/ ====================================================================== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 9 MAY (abstracts) / 16 MAY (papers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPDP 2016 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Functional programming * Logic programming * Answer-set programming * Functional-logic programming * Declarative visual languages * Constraint Handling Rules * Parallel implementation and concurrency * Monads, type classes and dependent type systems * Declarative domain-specific languages * Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs * Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages * Language extensions for security and tabulation * Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity * Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems * Practical experiences and industrial application This year the conference will be co-located with the 26th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2016) and the 23rd Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2016). The conference will be held in Edinburgh, UK. Previous symposia were held at Siena (Italy), Canterbury (UK), Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia, http://sites.google.com/site/ppdpconf/ Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by Elsevier of 2017. Important Dates Abstract submission: 9 May, 2016 Paper submission: 16 May, 2016 Notification: 20 June, 2016 Final version of papers: 17 July, 2016 Symposium: 5-7 September, 2016 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP 2016. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist the program committee in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices. Program Committee Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon, USA Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland Rafael Caballero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Agostino Dovier, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark, and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Michael Hanus, CAU Kiel, Germany Martin Hofmann, LMU Munchen, Germany Gerda Janssens, KU Leuven, Belgium Kazutaka Matsuda, Tohoku University, Japan Fred Mesnard, Universite de la Reunion, France Emilia Oikarinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland Alberto Pettorossi, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK Peter Thiemann, Universitat Freiburg, Germany Frank D. Valencia, CNRS-LIX Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, France, and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (Program Chair) Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA Program Chair German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Camino de Vera, S/N E-46022 Valencia, Spain Email: gvidal(a)dsic.upv.es Organizing committee James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, Local Organizer) Moreno Falaschi (University of Siena, Italy) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts
by Graham Hutton 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

If you or one of your students recently completed a PhD in the area of functional programming, please submit the dissertation abstract for publication in JFP: simple process, no refereeing, deadline 30th April 2016. Best wishes, Graham ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 30th April 2016 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton <graham.hutton(a)nottingham.ac.uk> by 30th April 2016. o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 1000 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting in the abstract, but do get in touch if this causes significant problems) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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Call for papers for David Turner's Festschrift issue of JUCS
by Simon Peyton Jones 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Friends David Turner was one of the two people who changed my life by introducing me to functional programming (*). David designed and implemented a succession of functional languages, Sasl, KRC, and Miranda, that made lazy functional programming into a tool you could use to get work done. They all used SK-combinator reduction in their implementations, a technique of irresistibly simple beauty, invented by Curry and Feys, but refined and popularised by David. For David’s 70th birthday, the Journal of Universal Computer Science is running a special Festschrift issue on “Functional programming: past, present, and future” in David’s honour. The Call for Papers is attached. Here’s the timetable. · 1 July 2016: Paper submissions. · 1 September 2016: Author notification. · 1 October, 2016: Revised version due. · 15 October 2016: Final notification. · 30 October 2016: Camera Ready Copy. Do consider submitting a paper. Simon (*) Arthur Norman was the other.

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CFP SBLP 2016: 20th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages *** Deadline for Abstracts Approaching***
by Andre Rauber Du Bois 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] *** Deadline for Abstracts Approaching*** ======================================================= The Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages is a well-established symposium which provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in the fundamental principles and innovations in the design and implementation of programming languages and systems. SBLP 2016 will be held in Maringá, in the Southern region of Brazil, and will be the 20th edition of the symposium. SBLP is part of the 7th edition of CBSoft, the Brazilian Congress on Software: Theory and Practice. More information is available at http://cbsoft.org/sblp2016/xx-brazilian-symposium-on-programming-languages. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 8th 2016 Paper submission: April 15th 2016 Author notification: May 27th 2016 Camera ready deadline: June 10th 2016 Symposium dates: September 22nd and 23rd Authors are invited to submit original research on any relevant topic which can be either in the form of regular or short papers. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Program generation and transformation, including domain-specific languages, and model-driven development in the context of programming languages. - Programming paradigms and styles, including functional, object-oriented, aspect-oriented, scripting languages, real-time, service-oriented, multithreaded, parallel, and distributed programming. - Formal semantics and theoretical foundations, including denotational, operational, algebraic, and categorical. - Program analysis and verification, including type systems, static analysis, and abstract interpretation. - Programming language design and implementation, including new programming models, programming language environments, compilation, and interpretation techniques. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of its originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the symposium. Contributions should be written in Portuguese or English. Papers should fall into one of two different categories: regular papers, which can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS format, or short papers, with up to 6 pages in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. We encourage the submission of short papers reporting partial results of on-going master dissertations or doctoral theses. Accepted papers written in English will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), by Springer. Both regular and short papers must be prepared using the LNCS format, available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2016. As in previous editions, after the conference, authors of selected regular papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in a journal special issue. Since 2009, selected papers of each SBPL edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. PROGRAM CHAIRS Fernando Castor, Federal University of Pernambuco Yu David Liu, State University of New York, Binghamton PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luis Barbosa, University of Minho Mariza Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Roberto Bigonha, Federal University of Minas Gerais Andre Rauber Du Bois, Federal University of Pelotas Christiano Braga, Fluminense Federal University Carlos Camarão, Federal University of Minas Gerais Francisco Carvalho-Junior, Federal University of Ceara Fernando Castor, Federal University of Pernambuco Marcelo D'Amorim, Federal University of Pernambuco João Paulo Fernandes, University of Beira Interior João Ferreira, Teesside University Lucilia Figueiredo, Federal University of Ouro Preto Ismael Figueroa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso Alex Garcia, IME Rodrigo Geraldo, Federal University of Ouro Preto Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rafael Lins, Federal University of Pernambuco Yu David Liu, State University of New York at Binghamton Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University Marcelo Maia, Federal University of Uberlândia Manuel-A. Martins, University of Aveiro Fabio Mascarenhas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Sérgio Medeiros, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alvaro Moreira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Martin Musicante, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Bruno Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong Zachary Palmer, Swarthmore College Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la República Fernando Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais Gustavo Pinto, Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Para Louis-Noel Pouchet, University of California Zongyan Qiu, Peking University Sandro Rigo, State University of Campinas Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio João Saraiva, University of Minho Doaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Simon Thompson, University of Kent Varmo Vene, University of Tartu

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Managed Languages Conference: PPPJ 2016 Call for Papers
by Andrea Rosa 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

PPPJ '16 13th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools August 29 - September 2, 2016 Lugano, Switzerland http://manlang16.inf.usi.ch/pppj In-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, SIGAPP and SPEC RG PPPJ '16 is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of managed languages and their runtime systems, including virtual machines, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. Managed languages and runtime systems of interest include, but are not limited to, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, C#, F#, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, R, Java VM, Dalvik VM and Android Runtime (ART), LLVM, .NET CLR, RPython. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: June 2, 2016 Submission deadline: June 6, 2016 Author notification: July 11, 2016 Camera-ready papers deadline: July 25, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Virtual machines - Runtime systems (JVM, Dalvik VM and Android Runtime (ART), LLVM, .NET CLR, RPython, etc.) - VM design and optimization - VMs for mobile and embedded devices - Real-time VMs - Isolation and resource control Languages - Managed languages (Java, Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby C#, F#, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, R, etc.) - Domain-specific languages - Language design and calculi - Compilers - Language interoperability - Parallelism and concurrency - Modular and aspect-oriented programming - Model-driven development - Frameworks and applications - Teaching Techniques and tools - Static and dynamic program analysis - Testing - Verification - Monitoring and debugging - Security and information flow - Workload characterization and performance evaluation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS PPPJ '16 accepts three types of paper submissions: - Regular research paper: up to 12 pages - Work-in-progress paper: up to 6 pages - Industry and tool paper: up to 6 pages The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Research papers will be judged on their relevance, novelty, technical rigor, and contribution to the state-of-the-art. For work-in-progress research papers, more emphasis will be placed on novelty and the potential of the new idea than on technical rigor and experimental results. Industry and tool papers will be judged on their relevance, usefulness, and results. Suitability for demonstration and availability will also be considered for tool papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION PPPJ '16 will be part of the MANAGED LANGUAGES & RUNTIMES WEEK 2016, a premier forum for presenting and discussing innovations and breakthroughs in the area of programming languages and runtime systems. Managed Languages & Runtimes Week '16 features three international academic and industry venues for the first time: - PPPJ '16 - 13th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools. - JTRES '16 - 14th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems - A workshop for researchers working on real-time and embedded Java with the goal of identifying the challenging problems that still need to be solved in order to assure the success of real-time Java as a technology and reporting results and experience. - VMM '16 - 3rd Virtual Machine Meetup - A venue for discussing the latest research and developments in the area of managed language execution. Managed Languages & Runtimes Week '16 will be hosted by the Faculty of Informatics of University of Lugano (USI) from August 29 to September 2, 2016. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Walter Binder - University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland Program Committee Chair: Petr Tůma - Charles University, Czech Republic Organizing Chair: Yudi Zheng - University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland Publicity Chair: Andrea Rosà - University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland Web Chair: Giacomo Toffetti Carughi - University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Wonsun Ahn - University of Pittsburgh, USA Lorenzo Bettini - University of Turin, Italy Irene Finocchi - University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Michael Franz - University of California Irvine, USA David Gregg - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland David Grove - IBM Research, USA Apala Guha - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India Görel Hedin - Lund University, Sweden Nigel Horspool - University of Victoria, Canada Andreas Krall - Vienna University of Technology, Austria Prasad Kulkarni - University of Kansas, USA Doug Lea - State University of New York at Oswego, USA Ondrej Lhotak - University of Waterloo, Canada Du Li - Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Anders Møller - University of Aarhus, Denmark Hanspeter Mössenböck - Johannes Kepler Universität, Austria Rei Odaira - IBM Research Austin, USA Jeremy Singer - University of Glasgow, Scotland Eli Tilevich - Virginia Tech, USA Laurence Tratt - King's College London, England Petr Tuma - Charles University, Czech Republic Christian Wimmer - Oracle Labs, USA Jianjun Zhao - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACTS For additional information on PPPJ ’16 do not hesitate to contact the PC Chair <petr.tuma(a)d3s.mff.cuni.cz<mailto:petr.tuma@d3s.mff.cuni.cz>> or visit the website http://manlang16.inf.usi.ch/pppj. ------------ Andrea Rosà PhD student - Teaching assistant Faculty of Informatics - 2nd floor Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) Via G. Buffi 13 CH-6904 Lugano Switzerland (e) andrea.rosa(a)usi.ch<mailto:andrea.rosa@usi.ch> (p) +41 58 666 4455 ext. 2183 (w) http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/rosaa/

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