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2nd Call for Papers - TFPIE 2014
by Peter Achten 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

All, Please find below the call for papers for the 3rd International Workshop on Trends In Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2014. Apologies in advance for multiple copies you may receive. Best regards, James Caldwell Call for Papers ___________________________________________________________________________________ *3rd International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2014)* May 25, 2014 Utrecht University Soesterberg, The Netherlands (http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~jlc/tfpie14/ <http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/%7Ejlc/tfpie14/>) The 3rd International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2014, will be co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2014) <http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/TFP2014/> at Soesterberg, at the "Kontakt der Kontinenten" <http://www.kontaktderkontinenten.nl/conferentiehotel/home.aspx?lang=en-US> hotel in the Netherlands on Sunday, May 25th. TFP will follow from May 26-28. 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 2014 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 2014 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 journalElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) <http://published.eptcs.org/>. Articles not selected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012) and in Provo Utah, USA (2013). *Program Committee* James Caldwell, (Program Chair) University of Wyoming Peter Achten, Radboud University, Nijmgen Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews, St Andrews Jurriaan Hage, Universiteit Utrecht Philip Holzenspies, University of Twente Daniel R. Licata, Wesleyan University Marco T Morazan, Seton Hall University Christian Skalka, University of Vermont David Van Horn, Northeastern University *Submission Guidelines* There will be two types of presentations at TFPIE 2014. Regular papers and "best lecture" presentations. The best lecture talks are intended to allow for presentations or short lectures of purely pedagogical material. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2014 *Papers* TFPIE 2014 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * FP and beginning CS students * FP and Computational Thinking * FP and Artificial Intelligence * FP in Robotics * FP and Music * Advanced FP for undergraduates * FP in graduate education * Engaging students in research using FP * FP in Programming Languages * FP in the high school curriculum * FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics * FP and Philosophy * * *Best Lectures* In addition to papers, this year we are requesting "best lecture" presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. *Important Dates* * 1 February 2014: TFPIE submissions open on easychair. * 7 April 2014: TFP and TFPIE registration opens * 21 April 2014: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts * 27 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for presentation * 25 May 2014: Presentations in Soesterberg, Netherlands * 29 June 2014: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due. * 16 August 2014: Notification of acceptance for proceedings * 8 September 2014: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full paper; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn. At least one author from each accepted presentation must attend the workshop.

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GPCE 2104 - Call for Papers
by Matthew Flatt 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2014) September 15-16, 2014 Västerås, Sweden (collocated with ASE 2014 and SLE 2014) http://www.gpce.org http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference http://twitter.com/GPCECONF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of papers: May 30, 2014 * Paper notification: July 7, 2014 SCOPE Generative and component approaches and domain-specific abstractions are revolutionizing software development just as automation and componentization revolutionized manufacturing. Raising the level of abstraction in software specification has been a fundamental goal of the computing community for several decades. Key technologies for automating program development and lifting the abstraction level closer to the problem domain are *Generative Programming* for program synthesis, *Domain-Specific Languages* (DSLs) for compact problem-oriented programming notations, and corresponding *Implementation Technologies* aiming at modularity, correctness, reuse, and evolution. As the field matures *Applications* and *Empirical Results* are of increasing importance. The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. SUBMISSIONS We seek research papers of up to 10 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls, see http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm) reporting original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental research that contribute to scientific knowledge in the areas listed below (the PC chair can advise on appropriateness). 4-page short papers and tool demonstrations are also accepted (see website). TOPICS GPCE seeks contributions on all topics related to generative software and its properties. As technology is maturing, this year, we are particularly looking for empirical evaluations in this context. Key topics include (but are certainly not limited too): * Generative software Domain-specific languages Product lines Metaprogramming Program synthesis Implementation techniques and tool support * Properties of generative software Correctness of generators and generated code Reuse and evolution Modularity, separation of concerns, understandability, and maintainability Performance engineering, nonfunctional properties Application areas and engineering practice * Empirical evaluations of all topics above A more detailed list of topics can be found on the website. Examples of key challenges in the field are * Synthesizing code from declarative specifications * Supporting extensible languages and language embedding * Ensuring correctness and other nonfunctional properties of generated code; proving generators correct * Improving error reporting with domain-specific error messages * Reasoning about generators; handling variability-induced complexity in product lines * Providing efficient interpreters and execution languages * Human factors in developing and maintaining generators Note on empirical evaluations: GPCE is committed to the empirical evaluation of generative software. Publishing empirical papers at programming-language venues can be challenging. We understand the frustration of authors when, for example, reviews simply recommend repeating entire experiments with human subjects with slight deviations in execution. To alleviate such problems, we have recruited forto program committee experts who routinely work with empirical methods, and we will actively seek external reviews where appropriate. During submissions, authors can optionally indicate that a paper contains substantial empirical work, and we will endeavor have to the paper reviewed by experts familiar with the empirical research methods that are used in the paper. The program-committee discussions will reflect on both technical contributions and research methods. Policy: Incremental improvements over previously published work should have been evaluated through systematic, comparative, empirical, or experimental evaluation. Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy (http://www.sigplan.org/republicationpolicy.htm) Please contact the program chair if you have any questions about how this policy applies to your paper (chairs(a)gpce.org) ORGANIZATION Chairs (chairs(a)gpce.org) General Chair: Ulrik Pagh Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, DK) Program Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, US) Publicity Chair: Sebastian Erdweg (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) Local Organizer: Ivica Crnkovic (Mälardalen University, SE) Program Committee Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, JP) Emilie Balland (INRIA, FR) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews, UK) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, SE and KU Leuven, BE) Ewen Denney (SGT / NASA, US) Sebastian Erdweg (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) Martin Erwig (Oregon State University, US) Alessandro Garcia (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, BR) Anirüddhā Gokhālé (Vanderbilt University, US) Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, US) Stefan Hanenberg (Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE) Jaakko Järvi (Texas A&M University, US) Jean-Marc Jézéquel (IRISA-University of Rennes, FR) Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University, US) Nathaniel Nystrom (University of Lugano, CH) Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (Hong Kong University, HK) Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University, US) Márcio Ribeiro (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, BR) Tiark Rompf (Oracle Labs and EPFL, CH) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Norbert Siegmund (Universität Passau, DE) Christian Skalka (University of Vermont, US) Scott Smith (Johns Hopkins University, US) Éric Tanter (Universidad de Chile, CL) Emina Torlak (University of California Berkeley, US) Laurence Tratt (King's College, UK)

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ANNOUNCE: Applied Functional Programming (AFP) Summerschool 7-18 July 2014, Utrecht, Netherlands
by Atze Dijkstra 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

=========== AFP Summerschool 2014 =========== Applied Functional Programming (AFP) Summerschool July 7-18, 2014 Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands Summerschool & registration website: http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/science/applied-functional-progra… AFP website with edition 2013 info : http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/USCS contact : Uscs-afp(a)lists.science.uu.nl *** The 2014 edition of the Applied Functional Programming (AFP) Summerschool in Utrecht, Netherlands will be held from 7-18 July 2014. The summerschool teaches Haskell on both beginners and advanced levels via lectures and lab exercises. More info can be found via the references above, included here is an excerpt from the summerschool website: ``Typed functional programming in Haskell allows for the development of compact programs in minimal time and with maximal guarantees about robustness and correctness. The course introduces Haskell as well as its theoretical underpinnings such as typed lambda calculus, and Damas-Milner type inference. There is ample opportunity to put this all in practice during lab sessions. Typed functional programming languages allow for the development of robust, concise programs in a short amount of time. The key advantages are higher-order functions as an abstraction mechanism, and an advanced type system for safety and reusability. This course introduces Haskell, a state-of-the-art functional programming language, together with some of its theoretical background, such as typed lambda calculi, referential transparency, Damas-Milner type inference, type level programming, and functional design patterns. We will combine this with applications of functional programming, concentrating on topics such as language processing, building graphical user interfaces, networking, databases, and programming for the web. The goal of the course is not just to teach the programming language and underlying theory, but also to learn about the Haskell community and to get hands-on experience by doing lab exercises or a Haskell project of your own.'' *** regards, - Atze - Atze Dijkstra, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. /|\ Utrecht University, PO Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands. / | \ Tel.: +31-30-2534118/1454 | WWW : http://www.cs.uu.nl/~atze . /--| \ Fax : +31-30-2513971 .... | Email: atze(a)uu.nl ............... / |___\

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5th Answer Set Programming Competition 2014 - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
by Francesco Calimeri 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

[apologies for any cross-posting] ======================================================================== ================================================================== 5th Answer Set Programming Competition 2014 Call for Participant Systems Aalto University, University of Calabria, University of Genova Spring/Summer 2014 https://www.mat.unical.it/aspcomp2014 aspcomp2014(a)mat.unical.it ================================================================== Special edition of the ASP competition series -system track- part of the Olympic Games of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014 == Important Dates == * March 1st, 2014: Participant registration opens * March 31st, 2014: The competition starts * July 2014: Awards are presented at FLoC (22nd) and at ICLP (19th-22nd) ======================================================================== Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established paradigm of declarative programming with close relationship to other declarative modeling paradigms and languages, such as SAT Modulo Theories, Constraint Handling Rules, FO(.), PDDL, CASC, and many others. The ASP Competition is usually a biannual event for evaluating declarative knowledge representation systems on hard and demanding AI problems. Past ASP Competition editions were held at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in 2007, the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2009, the University of Calabria (Italy) in 2011 and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 2013. As anticipated during the 2013 presentation, in order to join the Vienna Summer of Logic, which is expected to be the largest event in the history of logic, ASP competition departs, this year, from the "usual" timeline, and the 5th ASP Competition will be run in the first half of 2014, jointly at Aalto University (Finland), University of Calabria (Italy) and University of Genova (Italy). The event is affiliated with the 30th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). Another reason for having an event just one year after the 4th ASP Competition is the fact that the new ASP-Core-2 language standard has been introduced in 2013, but, unfortunately, it was not fully supported by most participant to the 2013 edition, and/or submitters did not succeed at supporting the new language features in a completely satisfactory way, due to limited time resources. Thus, an "early" event can be an opportunity to push the usage of the new standard, and draw a more complete picture about the approaches that can efficiently solve problems with various features. == Call for Participant Systems == Participants of the Answer Set Programming Competition will compete on a selected collection of benchmark problems, taken from a variety of benchmark problem domains as well as real-world applications. These include, but are not limited to: * Classic and application-oriented graph problems * Scheduling, Timetabling, and other resource allocation problems * Sequential and Temporal Planning * Combinatorial Optimization problems * Deductive Database tasks on large data-sets * Puzzles and Combinatorics * Ontology reasoning * Automated Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Constraint Programming problems * Other AI problems The competition consists of a System Track (as called in past competitions), which compares dedicated solvers on ASP benchmarks. Participants compete with solving systems for the ASP-Core language. Some more details are given in the following: - The benchmark domains are taken from past editions. - Systems of the 2013 edition will be considered. (Developers will have the chance of submitting up-to-date versions of their solvers.) - Submissions of new solvers are encouraged. The competition will not be limited to sub-tracks based on "complexity" of problems (as in past events), but rather will take into consideration language features: sub-tracks will range from a basic language, to (by adding features such as aggregates and choice rules) to the ASP-Core-2 language. The aim is to clearly indicate what (combinations of) techniques work for a particular (set of) feature(s), and also widening the participation to teams that cannot (yet) support the full standard. The final sub-track design will depend on the availability of benchmarks as well as systems. Participants are encouraged to inform us about any limitations or requirements of their systems so that we can take them into account in the sub-track design. We welcome the submission of parallel and portfolio systems making use of multiple cores or multiple algorithms for solving the given instances. These solvers will have dedicated tracks, assuming a sufficient number of submissions in each track. Of course, we also welcome the submission of any kind of solvers, e.g., SAT solvers, SMT solvers, CP systems, FOL theorem provers, Description Logics reasoners, Planning reasoners, or any other that can be adapted/applied to the evaluation of logic programs encoded in ASP-Core-2. == Important Dates == * March 1st, 2014: Participant registration opens * March 31st, 2014: The competition starts * July 2014: Awards are presented at FLoC (22nd) and at ICLP (19th-22nd) For further information and submission instructions please visit the competition web site https://www.mat.unical.it/aspcomp2014 or contact us by email: aspcomp2014(a)mat.unical.it

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ANNOUNCE: fpnla - A library for NLA operations
by Mauro Blanco 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi. Today we are releasing fpnla <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fpnla>, which defines a framework for linear algebra operations of BLAS and LAPACK. As its main features it allows: - Definition of multiple representations of vectors and matrices. - Arbitrary combination of strategies and structure representations. - Type-safe manipulation of context information associated to each strategy. - Definition of specialized strategies for a given representation. And also fpnla-examples <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fpnla-examples>, which contains many example implementations of the operations defined in fpnla using various data structures, algorithms and parallelism libraries. Regards. -- Mauro Blanco

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Midlands Graduate School 2014 - register now!
by Graham Hutton 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Begin forwarded message: The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science is a collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. It was established in 1999. The MGS has two main goals: to provide PhD students with a sound basis for research in the mathematical and practical foundations of computing and to give PhD students the opportunity to make contact with established researchers in the field and their peers who are at a similar stage in their research careers. This year, the MGS is at the University of Nottingham. It will start on 22 April and finish on 26 April. Core Courses Course Title Acronym Lecturer Affiliation Category Theory<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/cat.html> CAT Roy Crole<http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/rcrole/> Leicester Denotational Semantics<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/mgs2014-sem.html> DEN Achim Jung<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/> Birmingham Typed Lambda Calculus<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/lam.html> LAM Paul Blain Levy<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/> Birmingham Advanced Courses Course Title Acronym Lecturer Affiliation Concurrency, Causality, Reversibility<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/ccr.html> CCR Irek Ulidowski<http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/iu3/> Leicester Theory of Randomised Search Heuristic<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/heu.html>s HEU Dirk Sudholt<http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/D.Sudholt/>, Per Kristian Lehre<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pkl/>,Pietro S. Oliveto<http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Oliveto/index.html>, Christine Zarges<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~zargesc/> Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield Homotopy Type Theory<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/hot.html> HOT Thorsten Altenkirch<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/> Nottingham Infinite Data Structures<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/inf.html> INF Venanzio Capretta<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~vxc/> Nottingham Logical relations and parametricity<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/par.html> PAR Uday Reddy<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~udr> Birmingham Higher-Order Functional Reactive Programming<http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/rea.html> REA Neelakantan Krishnaswami<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~krishnan> Birmingham + an invited lecture course on Dependently Typed Programming by Conor McBride. The fee is £440, this includes on campus accommodation with breakfast, lunches, coffees and a workshop dinner! More information is available on http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/ from where you also find a link to the registration page<http://store.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid…> page. The registration deadline is Friday, 21 March. Please register as soon as possible since there is a limited number of spaces which are allocated on a 1st come 1st serve base. Hope to see you in Nottingham, Thorsten P.S. Please forward to other people who may be interested. -- Prof Graham Hutton Functional Programming Lab School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh 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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TFP 2014 - 2nd call for papers
by Peter Achten 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

--------------------------------- 2ND C A L L F O R P A P E R S --------------------------------- ======== TFP 2014 =========== 15th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming May 26-28, 2014 Utrecht University Soesterberg, The Netherlands http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/TFP2014/WebHome *** Submission for TFP 2014 is now open: please direct your browser to *** http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/TFP2014/PaperSubmission 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), described in draft papers submitted prior to the symposium. A formal post-symposium refereeing process then selects a subset of the articles presented at the symposium and submitted for formal publication. Selected revised papers will be published as a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. TFP 2014 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. The other is the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE). TFPIE will take place on May 25th. Its website is located at http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~jlc/tfpie14/ 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, in Munich (Germany) in 2004, in Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005, in Nottingham (UK) in 2006, in New York (USA) in 2007, in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008, in Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009, in Oklahoma (USA) in 2010, in Madrid (Spain) in 2011, St. Andrews (UK) in 2012 and Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. INVITED SPEAKERS TFP is pleased to announce talks by the following two invited speakers: John Hughes of Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden, is well-known as author of Why Functional Programming Matters, and as one of the designers of QuickCheck (together with Koen Claessen); the paper on QuickCheck won the ICFP Most Influential Paper Award in 2010. Currently he divides his time between his professorship and Quviq, a company that performs property-based testing of software with a tool implemented in Erlang. Dr. Geoffrey Mainland received his PhD from Harvard University where he was advised by Greg Morrisett and Matt Welsh. After a two year postdoc with the Programming Principles and Tools group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, he is now an assistant professor at Drexel University. His research focuses on high-level programming language and runtime support for non-general purpose computation. 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 submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Topics suitable for the symposium include: 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 Using functional techniques to reason about imperative/object-oriented programs Debugging 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 2014 program chair, Jurriaan Hage at J.Hage(a)uu.nl. 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 NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), Well-Typed and Erlang Solutions. 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 (16 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate whether the main author or authors are research students. In the case of a FULL STUDENT paper, the draft paper will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of draft papers: March 17, 2014 Notification: March 24, 2014 Registration: April 7, 2014 TFP Symposium: May 26-28, 2014 Student papers feedback: June 9th, 2014 Submission for formal review: July 1st, 2014 Notification of acceptance: September 8th, 2014 Camera ready paper: October 8th, 2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen Emil Axelsson Chalmers Lucilia Camarao de Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Laura Castro University of A Coruna Frank Huch Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology Jurriaan Hage (chair) University of Utrecht Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba Andrew Kennedy Microsoft Research Tamas Kozsik Eotvos Lorand University Ben Lippmeier University of New South Wales Luc Maranget INRIA Jay McCarthy (co-chair) Brigham Young University Marco T. Morazan Seton Hall University Ricardo Pena Universidad Complutense de Madrid Alexey Rodriguez LiquidM Sven-Bodo Scholz Heriot-Watt University Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia Antipolis Simon Thompson University of Kent Tarmo Uustalu Inst of Cybernetics David Van Horn University of Maryland Janis Voigtlaender University of Bonn

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8 Funded PhD Positions at St Andrews
by Kevin Hammond 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

[Please forward to suitable candidates. Thanks! Kevin.] We have eight funded research scholarships available under the University of St Andrews Seventh Century scheme. These are open to students from any country, and pay fees as well as maintenance. The deadline for applications is March 31st 2014, but it's good to apply earlier. We have an active group of about ten academic academics, postdoctoral research fellows and postgraduate students working on a variety of topics. We'd welcome applicants who are interested in any aspect of functional programming and related areas, including: Parallel Functional programming; Heterogeneous multicores (including CPU/GPU combinations); Refactoring; Patterns of computation; Machine-Learning; Compilation; Real-time functional programming (e.g. in Hume); Semantics of Programming Languages; Functional cloud computing; Functional Programming and Security; Dependent Types; Effects and other extra-functional properties; Relaxed memory consistency; Multicore programming; Formal concurrency models; Concurrency verification; Application of functional ideas to other paradigms, including C and C++. We work with various functional languages including Haskell, Erlang, idris, OCAML, Hume and F#. We have excellent links with both academic and industry, and are coordinating the EU Framework 7 ParaPhrase project, which involves 13 partners from 8 European countries: http://www.paraphrase-ict.eu Please contact me to discuss possible project ideas. Applications should be made through: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/prospective-pg/research-degrees When applying, please indicate that you would like to apply for 7th Century Funding. Best Wishes, Kevin -------- Kevin Hammond, Professor of Computer Science, University of St Andrews T: +44-1334 463241 F: +44-1334-463278 W: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~kh In accordance with University policy on electronic mail, this email reflects the opinions of the individual concerned, may contain confidential or copyright information that should not be copied or distributed without permission, may be of a private or personal nature unless explicitly indicated otherwise, and should not under any circumstances be taken as an official statement of University policy or procedure (see http://www.st-and.ac.uk) The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532

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[ANN] yocto-0.1.2
by Alvaro J. Genial 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Howdy, I'd like to present a minimal JSON encoding/decoding library: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yocto-0.1.2 >From the README: Yocto is exceedingly simple: it only exports one type, Value (which can represent any JSON-encoded data) in addition to Read and Show instances for it--which, respectively, take care of decoding and encoding values automatically. It's worth mentioning that Yocto handles numbers as Rationals rather than Doubles, which makes it faithful to the JSON standard and lets it handle rational numbers of arbitrary magnitude and precision. The name is a play on metric unit prefixes: AttoJson is a tiny JSON library, and Yocto is even smaller. (The entire implementation fits in fewer than 80 lines x 80 columns.) [It is meant primarily for interactive use and one-offs, which is how I'm handwaving hijacking Read and Show.] Anyway, I hope you find it useful; the code lives here: https://github.com/ajg/yocto Alvaro http://alva.ro

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UTP Symposium: extended submission deadline
by Jeremy Gibbons 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

*** revised submission deadline *** ********************************************************************** 5th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming co-located with FM2014 May 12 - 13, 2014 Singapore http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014/index.html ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 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. 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 2014 EasyChair site; instructions are athttp://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/UTP2014 PUBLICATION Symposium post-proceedings will appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in Computer Science, as in past editions of the Symposium. (To be confirmed.) DATES (revised) Full paper due: February 21, 2014 Notification: April 4, 2014 Camera-ready for pre-proceedings: April 25, 2014 Symposium: May 12-13, 2014 CHAIR David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology) ORGANISATION CHAIR Jin Song DONG (National University of Singapore) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Bernhard K. Aichernig (Graz University of Technology) Hugh Anderson (National University of Singapore) Jonathan P. Bowen (Birmingham City University) Ana Cavalcanti (University of York) Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin) Leo Freitas (Newcastle University) Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford) Lindsay Groves (Victoria University of Wellington) Walter Guttmann (University of Canterbury) Ian Hayes (University of Queensland) Jeremy Jacob (University of York) Zhiming Liu (Birmingham City University) David Naumann, chair (Stevens Institute of Technology) Marcel Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University) Georg Struth (University of Sheffield) Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Meng Sun (Peking University) Burkhart Wolff (University of Paris-Sud) Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University) JOINT EVENT FM 2014, the 19th International Symposium on Formal Methods http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pat/FM2014/

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