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Call for Haskell.org committee self-nominations
by John Wiegley 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Dear Haskellers, It is time to put out the call for new volunteers to the haskell.org committee. We have one member due for retirement since this past October: Gershom Bazerman. The committee would like to thank him for his excellent service. To nominate yourself, please send an email to committee at haskell.org by March 4, 2016. The retiring members are eligible to re-nominate themselves. Please feel free to include any information about yourself that you think will help us to make a decision. Being a member of the committee does not necessarily require a significant amount of time, but committee members should aim to be responsive during discussions when the committee is called upon to make a decision. Strong leadership, communication, and judgement are very important characteristics for committee members. The role is about setting policy, providing direction/guidance for Haskell.org infrastructure, planning for the long term, and being fiscally responsible with the Haskell.org funds (and donations). As overseers for policy regarding the open source side of Haskell, committee members must also be able to set aside personal or business related bias and make decisions with the good of the open source Haskell community in mind. More details about the committee's roles and responsibilities are on https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to e-mail us at committee at haskell.org, or contact one of us individually. Thank you, -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2

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Call for Papers and Demos: Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design
by Michael Sperber 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

================================================================ 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Co-located with ICFP Nara, Japan, 24 September, 2016 http://functional-art.org/2016/ ================================================================ Call for Papers and Demos The ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (FARM) gathers together people who are harnessing functional techniques in the pursuit of creativity and expression. Functional Programming has emerged as a mainstream software development paradigm, and its artistic and creative use is booming. A growing number of software toolkits, frameworks and environments for art, music and design now employ functional programming languages and techniques. FARM is a forum for exploration and critical evaluation of these developments, for example to consider potential benefits of greater consistency, tersity, and closer mapping to a problem domain. FARM encourages submissions from across art, craft and design, including textiles, visual art, music, 3D sculpture, animation, GUIs, video games, 3D printing and architectural models, choreography, poetry, and even VLSI layouts, GPU configurations, or mechanical engineering designs. Theoretical foundations, language design, implementation issues, and applications in industry or the arts are all within the scope of the workshop. The language used need not be purely functional ("mostly functional" is fine), and may be manifested as a domain specific language or tool. Moreover, submissions focusing on questions or issues about the use of functional programming are within the scope. We welcome submissions from academic, professional, and independent programmers and artists. Submissions are invited in three categories: 1) Original papers We solicit original papers in the following categories: * original research * overview / state of the art * technology tutorial All submissions must propose an original contribution to the FARM theme. FARM 2016 is an interdisciplinary conference, so a wide range of approaches are encouraged. An original paper should have 5 to 12 pages, be in portable document format (PDF), using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines and use the ACM SIGPLAN template (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the FARM 2016 proceedings. See http://authors.acm.org/main.cfm for information on the options available to authors. Authors are encouraged to submit auxiliary material for publication along with their paper (source code, data, videos, images, etc.); authors retain all rights to the auxiliary material. 2) Demo proposals Demo proposals should describe a demonstration to be given at the FARM workshop and its context, connecting it with the themes of FARM. A demo could be in the form of a short (10-20 minute) tutorial, presentation of work-in-progress, an exhibition of some work, or even a performance. Demo proposals should be in plain text, HTML or Markdown format, and not exceed 2000 words. A demo proposal should be clearly marked as such, by prepending `Demo Proposal:` to the title. Demo proposals will be published on the FARM website. A summary of the demo performances will also be published as part of the conference proceedings, to be prepared by the program chair. 3) Calls for collaboration Calls for collaboration should describe a need for technology or expertise related to the FARM theme. Examples may include but are not restricted to: * art projects in need of realization * existing software or hardware that may benefit from functional programming * unfinished projects in need of inspiration Calls for collaboration should be in plain text, HTML or Markdown format, and not exceed 5000 words. A call for collaboration should be clearly marked as such, by prepending `Call for Collaboration:` to the title. Calls for collaboration will be published on the FARM website. If you have any questions about what type of contributions that might be suitable, or anything else regarding submission or the workshop itself, please contact the organizers at: farm-2016(a)functional-art.org All presentations at FARM 2016 will be recorded. Permission to publish the resulting video (in all probability on YouTube, along with the videos of ICFP itself and the other ICFP-colocated events) will be requested on-site. Key Dates: Submission deadline - June 24 Author Notification - 22 July Camera Ready - 15 August Workshop - September 24, 2016 Submit at : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=farm2016

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[TFPIE 2016] 1st call for papers
by Peter Achten 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2016) Call for papers https://wiki.science.ru.nl/tfpie/TFPIE2016 The 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2016, will be held on June 7, 2016 at the University of Maryland College Park in the USA. It is co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2016) which takes place from June 8 - 10. *** Goal *** The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2016 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website/wiki. Visitors to the TFPIE 2016 website/wiki will be able to add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up work. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015). *** Program Committee *** Stephen Chang at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, USA Marc Feeley at Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada Patricia Johann at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA Jay McCarthy at University of Massachusetts Lowell in Massachusetts, USA (Chair) Prabhakar Ragde at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada Brent Yorgey at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA *** Submission Guidelines *** TFPIE 2016 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - Tools supporting learning FP - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy *** Best Lectures *** In addition to papers, we request "best lecture" presentations. What is your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. *** Submission *** Papers and abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2016 It is expected at at least one author for each submitted paper will attend the workshop. *** Registration & Local Information *** Please see the TFP site for registration and local information: http://tfp2016.org/ *** Important Dates *** April 27, 2016: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts May 3, 2016: Notification of acceptance for presentation May 13, 2016: Registration for TFP/TFPIE closes June 7, 2016: Presentations in Maryland, USA July 7, 2016: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due. September 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance for proceedings September 22, 2016: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn.

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Call for Papers (UTP 2016)
by Huibiao Zhu 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Call for Papers UTP 2016 6th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming June 45, 2016, Reykjavík, Iceland, Co-located with iFM 2016 http://utp2016.ecnu.edu.cn Overview Interest in the fundamental problem of the combination of formal notations and theories of programming has grown consistently in recent years. The theories define, in various different ways, many common notions, such as abstraction, refinement, choice, termination, feasibility, locality, concurrency and communication. Despite these differences, such theories may be unified in a way which greatly facilitates their study and comparison. Moreover, such a unification offers a means of combining different languages describing various facets and artifacts of software development in a seamless, logically consistent way. Hoare and He's Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant such unification approaches. Based on their pioneering work, the aims of the UTP Symposium series are to reaffirm the significance of the ongoing UTP project and to stimulate efforts to advance. The Symposium provides a focus for the sharing of results by those already actively contributing, and raises awareness of the benefits of such unifying theoretical frameworks among the wider computer science and software engineering communities. To this end the Symposium welcomes contributions on all the themes that can be related to the Unifying Theories of Programming. Venue and Event UTP 2016 will be held at Reykjavík, Iceland on 4 - 5 June 2016, co-located with iFM 2016. Important Dates Abstracts due: 19 February, 2016 Papers due: 4 March, 2016 Author notification: 15 April, 2016 Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: 29 April, 2016 Symposium: 4-5 June, 2016 Invited Speakers Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) Title: Unifying Models and Laws for Concurrency and Distribution in Object-Oriented Programs Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) Title: A New Roadmap on Linking Theories of Programming Note: The summary of the two invited talks can be downloaded from the website. PC Chairs Jonathan Bowen (London South Bank University) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University) Programme Committee: Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom. Yifeng Chen, Peking University, China. Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Walter Guttmann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Austria. Jeremy Jacob, University of York, United Kingdom. Zhiming Liu, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. Marcel Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom. Georg Struth, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. Meng Sun, Peking University, China. Burkhart Wolff, University of Paris-Sud, France. Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Yongxin Zhao, East China Normal University, China. Frank Zeyda, Teesside University, United Kingdom. Submissions Papers may be up to 20 pages in length and should be prepared using LaTeX in Springer LNCS paper format. Submissions should be made through the UTP 2016 EasyChair site, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=utp2016 . Publication Symposium post-proceedings will appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in Computer Science, as in past editions of the Symposium. Previous UTP Symposia UTP 2016 is the 6th symposium in the UTP series. The past UTP symposia were successfully held in Durham ('06), Dublin ('08), Shanghai ('10), Paris ('12), Singapore ('14).

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ETAPS 2016 call for participation
by Tarmo Uustalu 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2016 19th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2-8 April 2016 http://www.etaps.org/2016 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- The European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2016 is already the nineteenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (4-7 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures * POST: Principles of Security and Trust * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems -- INVITED TALKS -- Unifying speakers: Andrew D Gordon (MSR Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, UK) Rupak Majumdar (MPI Kaiserslautern, Germany) ESOP invited speaker: Cristina Lopes (University of California at Irvine, USA) FASE invited speaker: Oscar Nierrstrasz (Universität Bern, Switzerland) POST invited speaker: Vitaly Shmatikov (Cornell Tech, USA) -- TUTORIALS Peter Ryan (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- See the accepted paper lists and the programme of the main conferences at the conference website. http://www.etaps.org/2016/programme -- SATELLITE EVENTS (2-3 and 8 April) -- 22 satellite workshops will take place before or after ETAPS 2016. CASSTING, CMCS, DICE, GaLoP, GaM, QAPL, WRLA (2-3 April) RAC, VerifyThis, VPT, VSSE (2 April) FESCA, FMSPLE, HCVS, HotSpot, SENSATION, SynCop (3 April) BX, CREST, MSFP, PLACES, TermGraph (8 April) -- REGISTRATION -- Early registration is until Tuesday, 1 March 2016 (23:59 GMT+1). Normal-rate registration is until Thursday, 31 March 2016 (23:59 GMT+1). http://www.etaps.org/2016/registration -- ACCOMMODATION -- We request that participants arrange their accommodation on their own. See our recommendations on the conference website. -- HOST CITY -- Eindhoven is located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. It is the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands. The city is well known for modern art, design and technology. The main airport of the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. All major airlines fly to Schiphol, and Schiphol has a direct and very frequent train connection to Eindhoven. Eindhoven also has a small international airport, Eindhoven Airport, with direct connections to more than thirty destinations in Europe. -- ORGANIZERS -- General chair: Jan Friso Groote Workshop chairs: Erik de Vink and Julien Schmaltz Publicity chair: Anton Wijs --- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2016 is hosted by Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at j.f.groote(a)tue.nl, a.j.wijs(a)tue.nl.

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ANN: remote-json, a JSON RPC library, released
by Andrew Gill 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Announcing a new Haskell JSON RPC library, remote-json, that uses the remote monad to bundle remote procedure calls, amortizing the cost of remote execution. There are thee bundling strategies provided: * weak (calls done one at a time), * strong (calls bundled until a reply is needed, where possible), and * applicative (an applicative functor is sent to the remote JSON RPC server). Example of use: say :: Text -> RPC () say msg = notification "say" (List [String msg]) temperature :: RPC Int temperature = method "temperature" None main :: IO () main = do let s = strongSession $ clientSendAPI "http://www.wibble.com/wobble" t <- send s $ do say "Hello, " say "World!" temperature print t Blog: * http://ku-fpg.github.io/2016/02/09/remote-json/ <http://ku-fpg.github.io/2016/02/09/remote-json/> Hackage: * http://hackage.haskell.org/package/remote-json <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/remote-json> * http://hackage.haskell.org/package/remote-json-client <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/remote-json-client> * http://hackage.haskell.org/package/remote-json-server <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/remote-json-server> Github: * https://github.com/ku-fpg/remote-json <https://github.com/ku-fpg/remote-json> Andy Gill & Justin Dawson

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Postdoctoral position in Functional, Constraint and/or Logic Programming
by Tom Schrijvers 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Prof. Tom Schrijvers invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the area of functional, constraint and logic programming. The position revolves around domain-specific languages (DSLs) embedded in Haskell for constraint programming. It is part of the EU project GRACeFUL whose overarching theme is tools for collective decision making. Responsibilities You will work closely with prof. Schrijvers and his PhD students at KU Leuven, as well as with the GRACeFUL project partners across Europe, in order to conduct research activities for the GRACeFUL project. For more details: https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/53613023 -- prof. dr. ir. Tom Schrijvers Research Professor KU Leuven Department of Computer Science Celestijnenlaan 200A 3001 Leuven Belgium Phone: +32 16 327 830 http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~tom.schrijvers/

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ICFP 2016 Second Call for Papers
by Lindsey Kuper 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

ICFP 2016 The 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming http://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2016 Second Call for Papers Important dates --------------- Submissions due: Wednesday, March 16 2016, 15:00 (UTC) https://icfp2016.hotcrp.com (now open) Author response: Monday, 2 May, 2016, 15:00 (UTC) - Thursday, 5 May, 2016, 15:00 (UTC) Notification: Friday, 20 May, 2016 Final copy due: TBA Early registration: TBA Conference: Monday, 19 September - Wednesday, 21 September, 2016 (note updated conference dates) Scope ----- ICFP 2016 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to features, and from abstraction to application. The scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages with objects, concurrency, or parallelism. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Language Design: concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; type systems; interoperability; domain-specific languages; and relations to imperative, object-oriented, or logic programming. - Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection and memory management; multi-threading; exploiting parallel hardware; interfaces to foreign functions, services, components, or low-level machine resources. - Software-Development Techniques: algorithms and data structures; design patterns; specification; verification; validation; proof assistants; debugging; testing; tracing; profiling. - Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; rewriting; type theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; program verification; dependent types. - Analysis and Transformation: control-flow; data-flow; abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program calculation. - Applications: symbolic computing; formal-methods tools; artificial intelligence; systems programming; distributed-systems and web programming; hardware design; databases; XML processing; scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces; multimedia and 3D graphics programming; scripting; system administration; security. - Education: teaching introductory programming; parallel programming; mathematical proof; algebra. - Functional Pearls: elegant, instructive, and fun essays on functional programming. - Experience Reports: short papers that provide evidence that functional programming really works or describe obstacles that have kept it from working. If you are concerned about the appropriateness of some topic, do not hesitate to contact the program chair. Abbreviated instructions for authors ------------------------------------ - By Wednesday, March 16 2016, 15:00 (UTC), submit a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for an Experience Report), in standard SIGPLAN conference format, including figures but ***excluding bibliography***. The deadlines will be strictly enforced and papers exceeding the page limits will be summarily rejected. ***ICFP 2016 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.*** To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: 1. ***author names and institutions must be omitted***, and 2. ***references to authors' own related work should be in the third person*** (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. We have put together a document answering frequently asked questions that should address many common concerns: http://conf.researchr.org/track/icfp-2016/icfp-2016-papers#Submission-and-R… (last updated February 8, 2016). - Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. The material should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL. This supplementary material may or may not be anonymized; if not anonymized, it will only be revealed to reviewers after they have submitted their review of your paper and learned your identity. - Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication - Authors of resubmitted (but previously rejected) papers have the option to attach an annotated copy of the reviews of their previous submission(s), explaining how they have addressed these previous reviews in the present submission. If a reviewer identifies him/herself as a reviewer of this previous submission and wishes to see how his/her comments have been addressed, the program chair will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her previous review. Otherwise, no reviewer will read the annotated copies of the previous reviews. Overall, a submission will be evaluated according to its relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. It should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical content should be accessible to a broad audience. Functional Pearls and Experience Reports are separate categories of papers that need not report original research results and must be marked as such at the time of submission. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given below. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from at least one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. Formatting: 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/ Submission: Submissions will be accepted at https://icfp2016.hotcrp.com. Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. Author response: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 15:00 UTC on Monday, 2 May, 2016, to read reviews and respond to them. ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. Downloads through Author-Izer links are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking the definitive version of ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After your article has been published and assigned to your ACM Author Profile page, please visit http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service to learn how to create your links for free downloads from the ACM DL. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Special categories of papers ---------------------------- In addition to research papers, ICFP solicits two kinds of papers that do not require original research contributions: Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports, which are limited to six pages. Authors submitting such papers may wish to consider the following advice. Functional Pearls ================= A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to: - a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea - an instructive example of program calculation or proof - a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure - an interesting application of functional programming techniques - a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational pearls. Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria. In particular, a pearl is not required to report original research, but, it should be concise, instructive, and entertaining. Your pearl is likely to be rejected if your readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing. A submission you wish to have treated as a pearl must be marked as such on the submission web page, and should contain the words ``Functional Pearl'' somewhere in its title or subtitle. These steps will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation criteria. Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however, for the purpose of computing the conference's acceptance rate. Experience Reports ================== The purpose of an Experience Report is to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence that functional programming really works ? or to describe what obstacles prevent it from working. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: - insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming - comparison of functional programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum - project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when using functional programming in a real-world project - curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in education - real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a functional language or for functional programming in general An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal ICFP paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to evaluate it. - Both in the proceedings and in any citations, the title of each accepted Experience Report must begin with the words ``Experience Report'' followed by a colon. The acceptance rate for Experience Reports will be computed and reported separately from the rate for ordinary papers. - An Experience Report is at most six pages long. Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the conference, but depending on the number of Experience Reports and regular papers accepted, authors of Experience reports may be asked to give shorter talks. - Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our community to accumulate a body of evidence about the efficacy of functional programming, an acceptable Experience Report need not add to the body of knowledge of the functional-programming community by presenting novel results or conclusions. It is sufficient if the Report states a clear thesis and provides supporting evidence. The thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it need not be novel. The program committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on whether they judge the evidence to be convincing. Anecdotal evidence will be acceptable provided it is well argued and the author explains what efforts were made to gather as much evidence as possible. Typically, more convincing evidence is obtained from papers which show how functional programming was used than from papers which only say that functional programming was used. The most convincing evidence often includes comparisons of situations before and after the introduction or discontinuation of functional programming. Evidence drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient, but more weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of groups of people. An Experience Report should be short and to the point: make a claim about how well functional programming worked on your project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate your claim. If functional programming worked for you in the same ways it has worked for others, you need only to summarize the results?the main part of your paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of your project and its implementation, but please characterize your project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree your experience is relevant to their own projects. Be especially careful to highlight any unusual aspects of your project. Also keep in mind that specifics about your project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that your team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made your team more productive. If your paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if your experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, you may be better off submitting it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. If you are unsure in which category to submit, the program chair will be happy to help you decide. Organizers ---------- General Co-Chairs: Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University) Gabriele Keller (University of New South Wales) Program Chair: Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) Program Committee: Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology) Joshua Dunfield (University of British Columbia, Canada) Matthew Fluet (Rochester Institute of Technology) Nate Foster (Cornell University) Dan Grossman (University of Washington, USA) Jurriaan Hage (Utrecht University) Roman Leshchinskiy (Standard Chartered Bank) Keisuke Nakano (The University of Electro-Communications) Aleksandar Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) Scott Owens (University of Kent) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Amr Sabry (Indiana University) Tom Schrijvers (KU Leuven) Olin Shivers (Northeastern University) Walid Taha (Halmstad University) Dimitrios Vytiniotis (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) David Walker (Princeton University) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) External Review Committee: See http://conf.researchr.org/committee/icfp-2016/icfp-2016-papers-external-rev….

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Call for PhD students: Logical Methods in Computer Science (Vienna, Austria)
by Igor Konnov 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

(* Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email *) Funded Doctoral Positions in Computer Science [http://logic-cs.at/phd/] TU Wien, TU Graz, and JKU Linz are seeking exceptionally talented and motivated students for their joint doctoral program LogiCS. The LogiCS doctoral college focuses on interdisciplinary research topics covering (i) computational logic, and applications of logic to (ii) databases and artificial intelligence as well as to (iii) computer-aided verification. THE PROGRAM LogiCS is a doctoral college focusing on logic and its applications in computer science. Successful applicants will work with and be supervised by leading researchers in the fields of computational logic, databases and knowledge representation, and computer-aided verification. FACULTY MEMBERS M. Baaz A. Biere R. Bloem A. Ciabattoni U. Egly T. Eiter C. Fermueller R. Grosu A. Leitsch M. Ortiz R. Pichler S. Szeider H. Tompits H. Veith G. Weissenbacher The LogiCS faculty comprises 15 renowned researchers with strong records in research, teaching and advising, complemented by 12 associated members who further strengthen the research and teaching activities of the college. Details are provided on http://logic-cs.at/faculty/ POSITIONS AND FUNDING We are looking for 1 doctoral students per faculty member, where 30% of the positions are reserved for highly qualified female candidates. The doctoral positions are funded for a period of 3 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (details: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/forschungsfoerderung/personalkostensaetze/) The funding can be extended for one additional year contingent on a placement at one of our international partner institutions. CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS At the moment we are particularly looking for people in the following areas: * Automated reasoning and symbolic computation * Formal Verification of hybrid systems * Model Checking HOW TO APPLY Detailed information about the application process is available on the LogiCS web-page http://logic-cs.at/phd/ The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent diploma or master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Candidates with comparable achievements will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. Next application Deadline: March 1, 2016. LOGIC IN AUSTRIA Austria has a highly active and successful logic in computer science community. Recent activities include: vsl2014.at Vienna Summer of Logic, the Largest Conference in the History of Logic www.arise.or.at Austrian Research Network in Rigorous Systems Engineering vcla.at Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms kgs.logic.at International Kurt Goedel Society HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE The Austrian cities Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps and surrounded by beautiful nature, provide an exceptionally high quality of life, with a vibrant cultural scene, numerous cultural events, world-famous historical sites, a large international community, a varied cuisine and famous coffee houses. For further information please contact: info(a)logic-cs.at

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ANNOUNCE: hoppy, qtah
by Bryan Gardiner 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Are you sick and tired of the ease with which Haskell code flows onto the page? Even the thrill of binding to a C library losing its lustre? Look no further! I present to you a tool restoring the good old days of pointer arithmetic, manual memory management, and hours lost to the debugger: Hoppy is a new C++ FFI generator for Haskell. It takes Haskell code that describes a C++ API, and generates C++ and Haskell code to allow the two languages to interact. It supports a good subset of C++, including functions, classes, variables, enums and bitflags, operator overloading, constness, and simple templates. Adding a function takes only a few lines of code, and you normally don't need to write C++ yourself. For example, a definition for std::string is: c_string :: Class c_string = addReqIncludes [includeStd "string"] $ classAddFeatures [Assignable, Comparable, Copyable, Equatable] $ makeClass (ident1 "std" "string") (Just $ toExtName "StdString") [] [ mkCtor "new" [] , mkCtor "newFromCString" [TPtr $ TConst TChar] ] [ mkConstMethod' "at" "at" [TInt] $ TRef TChar , mkConstMethod' "at" "get" [TInt] TChar , mkConstMethod "c_str" [] $ TPtr $ TConst TChar , mkConstMethod "size" [] TSize , mkConstMethod OpAdd [TObj c_string] $ TObj c_string ] Now, writing a FFI generator isn't much fun unless you have a project to use it with. So I am pleased to also announce Qtah, a fresh set of Qt 4/5 bindings. These include portions of QtCore, QtGui, and QtWidgets, and are on the whole wildly incomplete, but are usable for basic tasks so far, and I am working on extending coverage. (On qtHaskell/hsQt: I started Qtah before qtHaskell began being updated in 2015 and I missed when that happened. My hope is that Qtah requires less code and effort to maintain; at least, qtHaskell contains a lot of generated code and I haven't seen where it came from, so please correct me if the generator is in fact available somewhere. Hoppy also doesn't (currently) do many of the fancy things that qtHaskell does, like overloading and garbage collection.) Both Hoppy and Qtah are young, and I am very interested in discussing how to make them most useful for the community. Because of questions such as this[1], their APIs (including those of generated bindings) should be considered experimental at this time. I will be uploading Hoppy to Hackage shortly. Becuase Qtah includes a shared library, I haven't figured out how to get that on Hackage yet, so you'll have to clone the repo yourself. http://khumba.net/projects/hoppy http://khumba.net/projects/qtah Happy hacking! Bryan Gardiner [1] https://gitlab.com/khumba/hoppy/issues/3

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