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WPTE 2021 (FIRST Call For Papers)
by Keisuke Nakano 07 Feb '21

07 Feb '21

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE 2021: 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Held online on July 18, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Web site: https://www.ipl.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/wpte2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021 Submission deadline: May 10, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of WPTE is to bring together the researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area. The 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2021) is affiliated with FSCD 2021, https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ List of Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence, and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program transformations for program inversions and program synthesis. * Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and rewriting. Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the paper submission deadline an extended abstract of at most 10 pages is required to be submitted. The extended abstract may present original work or also work in progress. Based on the submissions the program committee will select the presentations for the workshop. All selected contributions will be included in the informal proceedings distributed to the workshop participants. One author of each accepted extended abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package. All submissions will be electronic via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021. Formal Proceedings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE post-proceedings of selected papers will be published in a JLAMP special issue. For this, full papers must be submitted until the post-proceedings deadline. The authors of selected contributions will have the opportunity (but no obligation) to submit a full paper for the formal post-proceedings. These must represent original work and should not be submitted to another conference at the same time. The submission deadline for these post-proceedings will be after the workshop in September 2021. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended abstracts: May 10, 2021 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2021 Final version for proceedings deadline: June 13, 2021 Workshop: July 18, 2021 Submission to post-proceedings: September 2021 Program Committees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keisuke Nakano, Tohoku University, Japan (Chair) Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. (co-Chair) Ștefan Ciobâcă, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași, Romania Makoto Hamana, Gunma University, Japan Akimasa Morihata, the University of Tokyo, Japan Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Koko Muroya, Kyoto University, Japan David Sabel, LMU, Germany Julia Sapiña, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Janis Voigtländer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to wpte2021 (at) easychair.org

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.10.4 released
by Ben Gamari 06 Feb '21

06 Feb '21

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.4. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ This is a small bug-fix release, fixing two bugs present in 8.10.3: * Fix a linker hang triggered by dynamic code loading on Windows (#19155) * Fix a crash caused by inappropriate garbage of heap-allocated data reachable from foreign exports (#19149) As always, feel free to report any issues you encounter via [gitlab.haskell.org](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new). Cheers, - Ben

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International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021) -Prague
by Emilia Marc 06 Feb '21

06 Feb '21

Call for papers ************************************************* International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021) Prague - Czech Republic, October 14-15, 2021 https://confscience.com/rtatm/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2021 All papers accepted in RTATM 2021 will be published in Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (Former ISI Proceedings) *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2021 *************************************************************************** The RTATM 2021 conference will be held in Conjunction with: International Conference on Applied Data Science and Intelligence (ADSI 2021) International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021) *************************************************************************** TOPICS: Authors are invited to submit their original papers to address the topics of the conference, including but not limited to: FUNDAMENTALS AND THEORIES - Modelling and Simulation Algorithms - Vehicular Wireless Medium Access Control - V2X communications - Routings and Protocols for Connected Vehicles - Mobility Models and Architectures - Distribution Strategies - Traffic Incident Management Systems - Bio-Inspired Approaches - Optimization and Collaboration - Automatic Control in Vehicular Networks - Energy-aware Connected Mobility - Programming Languages - Sustainable Transportation - Multimodal Transportation Networks and Systems - Systemsb Integration - Driver Behavior Models and Simulation - Human Factors and Travel Behaviour - Green Mobility - Regulations and Bylaws for Intelligent - Transportation and Mobility SMART TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS - Mobility Management - Connected Vehicles - VANETs - Predictive Logistics - Spatio-Temporal Event Tracking - Decision Support Systems - Emergency Management - Logistics and E-Commerce - Supply Chain Design and Execution - Supply Chain Management - Advanced Planning Systems - Fleet Management - Multi-Agent Systems - Machine Learning for Smart Logistics - Intelligent Infrastructures - Real-time Analysis of Comprehensive Supply Chain Data - Smart Synchronization of Logistics Processes - New Approaches for Cost Transparency - Big Data for Smart Logistics - Logistics 4.0 - Mobile Networks - Next-Generation Smart Logistics - Performance Management Approaches - Tests and Deployment - Software Defined Networks - Smart Freight Management - Smart Shipment Management - Smart Warehousing - Smart Inventory management DATA AND SERVICES - Real-Time transportation Data Acquisition - Event Detection and Monitoring - Data Warehouses for connected mobility - Data mining and Data analytics - Data Worthiness in Connected Vehicles - Data Trustworthiness for effective transportation and mobility - Road Traffic Data Analytics - Structured and Unstructured Data for Connected Mobility - Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) - Data Representation for Connected Mobility - Transportation Data Mining - Transportation and mobility Data Visualization - Cognitive and Context-aware Intelligence - Transportation Decision Support Systems - Mobility as a Service (MaaS) - Intelligent Transportation Services - Smart Mobility Services - Big Data and Vehicle Analytics - Massive Data Management - Collective and connected Intelligence - Next Generation Services - Driver Behaviour Analysis - Geo-Spatial Services - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Web and Mobile Services SAFETY, SECURITY, AND HAZARD MANAGEMENT - Security Issues in Vehicular Communications - Safety Applications of Connected Vehicles - Weather-related Safety solutions - V2V, V2I and I2V Road Safety Applications - Connected Mobility for Hazard Management - Risk Management - Road Traffic Crashes Analytics - Traffic Jam Prediction - Resource Allocation for Hazard Management - Trust and Privacy Issues in Logistics - Management of Exceptional Events - New approaches to Networking Security for Transportation Applications - Failure modes, human factors, software safety - Automated Failure Analysis - Performance and Human Error Analysis - Design and Reliability of Control Systems - Dispersion Modelling Software - Quantification of Risk *************************************************************************** OUTSTANDING PAPERS: Based on the peer review scores as well as the presentations at the conference, the authors of outstanding papers will be invited to extend their works for a potential publication in journals special issues with high impact factors. *************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtatm2021) All papers will be peer reviewed. Length of Full papers: 12-15 pages long (written in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format, 400 words per page) Length of Short papers: less than 12 pages For more information, please refer to the conference website: https://confscience.com/rtatm/ *************************************************************************** CONTACT For more information, please send an email to info-rtatm(a)confscience.com

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FNC 2021: Call for Workshop Proposals (The 16th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications)
by Muhammad ADNAN 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

******** Call for Workshops Proposals ******** The 16th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-21/#workshop_call August 9-12, 2021 Leuven, Belgium Important Dates =========== - Workshop Proposal Due: February 21, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2021 The FNC 2021 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of FNC 2021 and its related areas. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the FNC 2021 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in FNC 2021 Website. Proposal Format =========== - Title of the workshop - Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) - Draft Call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members Workshops' Chair ============== Dr. Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium ( muhammad.adnan(a)uhasselt.be) -- Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Navorser - Senior Researcher Instituut voor Mobiliteit (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be\imob Universiteit Hasselt - Campus Diepenbeek Wetenschapspark 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Kantoor WETP5-0.10

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[CFP] International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021)
by Mayssa HEMDANI 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Call for papers ************************************************* International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021) Prague- Czech Republic, October 14-15, 2021 https://confscience.com/irsh/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2021 All papers accepted in IRSH 2021 will be published in Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (Former ISI Proceedings) *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2021 *************************************************************************** The IRSH 2021 conference will be held in Conjunction with: International Conference on Applied Data Science and Intelligence (ADSI 2021) International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021) *************************************************************************** TOPICS: Authors are invited to submit their original papers to address the topics of the conference, including but not limited to: FUNDAMENTALS AND THEORIES - Interoperability and Data Integration - Confidentiality and Data Security - Data protection - Data Sharing - Security, Privacy, and Trust - Emergent healthcare standards - Emergent healthcare architectures - ICT, Ageing and Disability - Physiological and behavioural modelling - Pandemic and disease modeling - Usability and user experience of medical devices - Human behaviour - Clinical investigation regulatory frameworks - Integrated healthcare approaches - eHealth data standards and interoperability (e.g. HL7/FHIR) - Databases and data warehousing - Big Data and Open Data for healthcare - Design and Development of Methodologies for Healthcare - Emergent Communication Technologies - Real-time interaction theories - Emergent Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living - User Interface Design for healthcare - Sustainability - New approaches for accuracy and effectiveness - Data mining and bioinformatics - Enhanced living environments - Analysis and evaluation of healthcare systems INTELLIGENT HEALTHCARE - Pattern recognition and Machine - Learning for healthcare - Cognitive Informatics - Big Data in Healthcare - Wellbeing Informatics - Data Mining and Data Analytics - Data Visualization - Smart environments - Smart Ambient Assisted Living - Intelligent healthcare solutions - Agent-based solutions for healthcare - Collaboration systems - Intelligent Electronic Health Records - Internet of Things for healthcare - Cyber-Physical Systems for healthcare - Ambient Computing and Reasoning - Context Awareness - Smart devices for eldercare - Autonomy and active ageing - Emergent technologies for intelligent Computer Vision - Service production and delivery - Gamification - Multi-modal interaction - Computer-aided detection and diagnosis - Crowdsourcing for smarted healthcare SERVICES, SYSTEMS, AND INFRASTRUCTURES - Emergent healthcare services - Pervasive health systems and services - Remote healthcare management - Emergent healthcare infrastructure - Industry Revolution 4.0 for healthcare - eHealth - Electronic health records - Assistive technologies - Disease surveillance and patient monitoring systems - Prevention and detection systems - Home monitoring - Healthcare management systems - ICT-based therapeutic systems - ICT-based rehabilitation technologies - Wearable health informatics - Emergent technologies for data analytics - Ambient Assisted Leaving (AAL) - Decision Support Systems - Emergent Technologies for Remote AAL Monitoring - Emergent Technologies and Accessibility - 5G for healthcare - Healthcare supply chain and logistics - Wireless Body Networks - Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine - Mobile Systems - Software Defined infrastructures - Patient empowerment systems - Smart technology for remote patient visits - Biosensors - Medical devices APPLICATIONS - eHealth applications - Application of health informatics in clinical cases - Mobile technologies for healthcare applications - Software Systems in healthcare - Social networking and healthcare - Case Studies - Personalization and patient experience - AR and VR applications - Patient billing - Accounting systems - Personnel and payroll - Materials management - Voice recognition systems - Asset management solutions - Disease management - Feedback integration - Clinical software - Crowd-computing applications - Future directions - Drone-based solutions - Software Defined Networks for healthcare *************************************************************************** OUTSTANDING PAPERS: Based on the peer review scores as well as the presentations at the conference, the authors of outstanding papers will be invited to extend their works for a potential publication in journals special issues with high impact factors. *************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irsh2021) All papers will be peer reviewed. Length of Full papers: 12-15 pages long (written in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format, 400 words per page) Length of Short papers: less than 12 pages For more information, please refer to the conference website: https://confscience.com/irsh/ *************************************************************************** CONTACT For more information, please send an email to info-irsh(a)confscience.com

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.1 released
by Ben Gamari 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.0.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/ In addition to numerous bug fixes, GHC 9.0.1 will bring a number of new features: * A first cut of the new LinearTypes language extension [2], allowing use of linear function syntax and linear record fields. * A new bignum library, ghc-bignum, improving portability and allowing GHC to be more easily used with integer libraries other than GMP. * Improvements in code generation, resulting in considerable runtime performance improvements in some programs. * Improvements in pattern-match checking, allowing more precise detection of redundant cases and reduced compilation time. * Implementation of the "simplified subsumption" proposal [3] simplifying the type system and paving the way for QuickLook impredicativity in GHC 9.2. * Implementation of the QualifiedDo extension [4], allowing more convenient overloading of `do` syntax. * An experimental new IO manager implementation for Windows platforms, both improving performance and fixing many of the quirks with the old manager built on POSIX-emulation. * Improvements in compilation time. And many more. See the release notes [5] for a full accounting of the changes in this release. As always, feel free to report any issues you encounter via gitlab.haskell.org. Cheers, - Ben [1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/migration/9.0#ghc-prim-07 [2]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0111-l… [3]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0287-s… [4]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0216-q… [5]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.h…

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Re: [Haskell] Haskell.org nomination results
by Emily Pillmore 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Welcome aboard, Ida :) On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:14 AM, Ryan Trinkle < ryan(a)trinkle.org > wrote: > > > > Great to meet you, Ida! > > > On 2/3/21 9:57 AM, Alexandre ... wrote: > > >> Hello people, >> >> >> I'm here to announce the results for the Haskell. org ( http://haskell.org/ >> ) committee. >> >> >> The final results are: >> >> >> >> >> * Ida 5 >> * Ryan 5 >> * Tikhon 5 >> >> >> >> >> >> With no votes to anyone else. Ryan and Tikhon are renominated and Ida is a >> new member. Welcome aboard, Ida. >> >> >> Alexandre. >> > >

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The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by Orven Llantos 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

-- Apologies for cross-posting. -- The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing August 9-12, 2021, Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-21 Important Dates Workshop Proposal: February 21, 2021 Submission Deadline March 19, 2021 Author Notification: May 17, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 Mobile system and Pervasive computing have evolved into an active area of research and development, due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2021 solicits papers that focus on the theory, system, practice and challenge of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computer, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technology enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2021 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the-art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The topics include but are not limited to: Component-based IoT - Cloud support for the IoT - Composition of IoT services and components - Distribution and binding models for IoT applications - Experiences applying component-based design to IoT systems - Interoperability of IoT services and components - Modelling, development and simulation support for the IoT - Modular hardware/software co-design - Modular or component based FPGA development - Novel component models for the IoT - Privacy of modular IoT systems - Security of modular IoT systems Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Agents and Intelligent Computing - Big data - Cyber Physical Social Systems - Mobile Applications - Mobile Crowd-sourcing and Human-in-the-Loop Design - Mobile Services and Platforms - Mobile Sensor Based Personal Informatics - Mobile Web - Near Field Communication - New Mobile Sensing Hardware - Robotic Sensor Networking - Vehicular Social Networks - Wearable Augmented Reality Systems Internet of Things (IoT) - Data Mining on IoT systems - Edge Computing solutions for IoT - IoT applied to Cultural Heritage - IoT for e-health - IoT platforms for Data analytics on pervasive and mobile environments - IoT tools and applications - Network Design and Architecture - Sensor networks, Remote Diagnosis and Development Mobile Cloud Computing - Advertisement - Computing Performance Evaluation - Contest Based Sensing - Data and Storage Architecture - Data Storage Management for Mobile Cloud Computing Service Provider and Users - Games - Multimedia Services - Privacy Protection - Quality of Experiences and (QoE) Studies - Security - Service Models - Service Platform - Software Development Platform and Enabled New Applications - Virtualization and Programmable Infrastructure Mobile Data Management - Context-aware Computing for Intelligent Mobile Services - Data Management for Emerging Smart Urban Systems - Data management for Next-Gen Mobile and Ad-Hoc Networks - Data Management for the Internet of Things (IoT) - Data Management in the Mobile Cloud - Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments - Data stream processing in mobile/sensor network - Mobile Activity Recognition - Mobile Data Analytics - Mobile Data and User/Behavioural Understanding - Mobile Location-Based Social Networks - Mobile Situation Inference - Query Processing for moving objects/users - Recommendations for Mobile Users - Semantic Data Management for Mobile Devices/Applications - Transactions and workflows in mobile environments Mobile Social Networking - MSN Advertising, Business to Business (B2B) Marketing - MSN Algorithms for Social Search - MSN Analytics - MSN Architecture - MSN Brand Management (social brand strategic development and product management) - MSN Data Mining and Machine Learning - MSN Infrastructure Support - MSN Marketing (digital, direct and mobile marketing) - MSN Privacy in Data Collection and Management - Trust and Reputations in MSN Pervasive Computing - Adaptive, Autonomic and Context-Aware Computing - Architectures, Protocols, and Technologies for Pervasive Communications - Cognitive Computing in Pervasive Systems - Context Modelling and Reasoning - Data Management for Pervasive Computing - Energy-Efficient and Green Pervasive Computing - Innovative Pervasive Computing Applications - Machine Learning for Activity Recognition - Middleware for Pervasive Services and Applications - Mobile/Wearable Computing Systems and Services in Pervasive Computing - Multimodal Sensing and Context for Pervasive Applications - Opportunistic Networking and Sensing in Pervasive Systems - Participatory and Social Sensing - Pervasive Computing Aspects of Social Networks - Positioning and Tracking Technologies - Programming Paradigms for Pervasive Systems - Sensors and RFID in Pervasive Systems - Smart Devices and Intelligent Environments - Social and Economic Models for Pervasive Systems - Software Evolution and Maintenance in Pervasive Systems - Trust, Security and Privacy Issues in Pervasive Systems - User Interface, Interaction, and Persuasion - Virtual Immersive Communications Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chair Danny Hughes, KU Leuven, Belgium Program Chairs Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Ansar Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chair Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Tracks Chairs Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Uneb Gazger, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Camille Kamga, The City College of New York, USA Yongrui (Louie) Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Hamid Mcheick, UQAC, Canada Wendy Osborn, University of Lethbridge, Canada Rahim Rahmani, Stockholm University, Sweden Qussai Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan International Journals Chair Atta Badii, Reading University, UK Publicity Chairs El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui, EIGSI-Casablanca, Morocco Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines Advisory Committee Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Steering Committee Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada (Chair and MobiSPC Founder) -- Orven E. Llantos, PhD Associate Professor School of Computer Studies MSU-IIT -- ---*DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE* The Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology <http://www.iit.edu.ph/> (MSU-IIT) makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, with respect to the MSU-IIT e-mail resources it provides. 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Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2021
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

PACMPL Volume 5, Issue ICFP 2021 Call for Papers Accepted papers to be invited for presentation at The 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming To Be Held Virtualy http://icfp21.sigplan.org/ ### Important dates Submissions due: 2 March 2021 (Tuesday) Anywhere on Earth https://icfp21.hotcrp.com Author response: 20 April (Tuesday) - 23 April (Friday) 17:00 UTC Notification: 7 May (Friday) Final copy due: 30 June (Wednesday) Conference: 22 August (Sunday) - 27 August (Friday) ### About PACMPL Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL <https://pacmpl.acm.org/>) is a Gold Open Access journal publishing research on all aspects of programming languages, from design to implementation and from mathematical formalisms to empirical studies. Each issue of the journal is devoted to a particular subject area within programming languages and will be announced through publicized Calls for Papers, like this one. ### Scope [PACMPL](https://pacmpl.acm.org/) issue ICFP 2021 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; macros; pattern matching; type systems; type inference; dependent types; session types; gradual typing; refinement types; interoperability; domain-specific languages; imperative programming; object-oriented programming; logic programming; probabilistic programming; reactive programming; generic programming; bidirectional programming. * Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection and memory management; runtime systems; 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; build systems; program synthesis. * Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; program equivalence; rewriting; type theory; logic; category theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; names and binding; program verification. * 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; graphics and multimedia; GPU programming; scripting; system administration; security. * Education: teaching introductory programming; parallel programming; mathematical proof; algebra. Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission 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. PACMPL issue ICFP 2021 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories — Functional Pearls and Experience Reports — that must be marked as such when submitted and that need not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at the end of this call. Please contact the associate editor if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions **Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is **Tuesday, March 2, 2021**, Anywhere on Earth (<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>). This deadline will be strictly enforced. **Formatting**: Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Small" template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from <https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions>. There is a limit of **25 pages for a full paper or Functional Pearl** and **12 pages for an Experience Report**; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. Supplementary material can and should be **separately** submitted (see below). See also PACMPL's Information and Guidelines for Authors at <https://pacmpl.acm.org/authors.cfm>. **Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at <https://icfp21.hotcrp.com/> Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. **Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 17:00 UTC on **Tuesday, April 20, 2021**, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Material**: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should **not** be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a **separate** PDF document or tarball. Supplementary material should be uploaded **at submission time**, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository. Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). **Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at <https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors>. **Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at <http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication>. ### Review Process This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for PACMPL issue ICFP 2021. We anticipate that there will be a need to clarify and expand on this process, and we will maintain a list of frequently asked questions and answers on the PACMPL issue website to address common concerns. **PACMPL issue ICFP 2021 will employ a two-stage review process.** The first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on initial reviews through the author response period mentioned previously. As a result of the review process, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on **May 7, 2021**. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions. After four weeks (June 4, 2021), the authors will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that the mandatory revisions can be addressed within four weeks and hence that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the second phase. The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be grounds for the paper’s rejection. **PACMPL issue ICFP 2021 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 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. ### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers * As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must adhere to the new ACM Small format. The page limit for the final versions of papers will be increased by two pages to help authors respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions: **27 pages plus bibliography for a regular paper or Functional Pearl, 14 pages plus bibliography for an Experience Report**. * Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of the three ACM licensing options: open access on payment of a fee (**recommended**, and SIGPLAN can cover the cost as described next); copyright transfer to ACM; or retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights. Further information about ACM author rights is available from <http://authors.acm.org>. * PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal, and authors are encouraged to publish their work under a CC-BY license. Gold Open Access guarantees permanent free online access to the definitive version in the ACM Digital Library, and the recommended CC-BY option also allows anyone to copy and distribute the work with attribution. Gold Open Access has been made possible by generous funding through ACM SIGPLAN, which will cover all open access costs in the event authors cannot. Authors who can cover the costs may do so by paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). PACMPL, SIGPLAN, and ACM Headquarters are committed to exploring routes to making Gold Open Access publication both affordable and sustainable. * ACM offers authors a range of copyright options, one of which is Creative Commons CC-BY publication; this is the option recommended by the PACMPL editorial board. A reasoned argument in favour of this option can be found in the article [Why CC-BY?](https://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/) published by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. * 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 to the definitive version of an ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit <http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service> to learn how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL. * The official publication date is the date the papers are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to *two weeks prior* to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. * Authors of each accepted submission are invited to attend and be available for the presentation of that paper at the conference. The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. ### Artifact Evaluation Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be reviewed by an Artifact Evaluation Committee, separate from the paper Review Committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available upon publication of the papers, for example, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in the ACM guidelines for artifact badging. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance. ### Special categories of papers In addition to research papers, PACMPL issue 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 half the length of a full paper. Authors submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines. #### 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. A pearl is likely to be rejected if its 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 that is intended to be 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 PACMPL issue ICFP paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to evaluate it. * Both in the papers and in any citations, the title of each accepted Experience Report must end with the words "(Experience Report)" in parentheses. The acceptance rate for Experience Reports will be computed and reported separately from the rate for ordinary papers. * Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long, excluding bibliography. * Each Experience Report accepted to the PACMPL issue 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 the PACMPL issue, but it need not be novel. The review 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: it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results; the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team more productive. If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, it may be better to submit it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. The associate editor will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, South Korea) Accessibility Co-Chairs: Lindsey Kuper (UC Santa Cruz, USA), Kathrin Stark (Princeton University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Gabriel Scherer (INRIA Saclay, France), Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Industrial Relations Co-Chairs: Alan Jeffrey (Roblox, USA), Simon Marlow (Facebook, England) Programming Contest Co-Organisers: Alex Lang, Jasper Van der Jeugt (Fugue, Switzerland) Publicity and Web Chair: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Anders Miltner (University of Texas, USA) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Lily Bryant (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jaemin Hong (KAIST, South Korea), Hanneli Tavante (McGill University, Canada) Video Co-Chairs: Leif Andersen (Northeastern University, USA), Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University, USA) Workshops Co-Chairs: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland, USA), Zoe Paraskevopoulou (Princeton University, USA) ### PACMPL Volume 5, Issue ICFP 2021 Associate Editor: Ronald Garcia, (University of British Columbia, Canada) Review Committee: Zena Ariola (University of Oregon, USA) Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Matteo Cimini (UMass Lowell, USA) Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Harley Eades (University of Augusta, USA) Andrew Gordon (Microsoft Research & University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Benjamin Greenman (Brown University, USA) Arjun Guha (Northeastern University, USA) Jurriaan Hage (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Favonia (University of Minnesota, USA) Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue University, USA) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University, USA) Ralf Jung (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Heriot-Watt, Scotland) Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland, USA) Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku University, Japan) Akimasa Morihata (Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan) Stefan Muller (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Max New (Wesleyan University, USA) Rishiyur Nikhil (Bluespec , USA) Cyrus Omar (University of Michigan, USA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University, USA) Christine Rizkallah (University of New South Wales, Australia) Taro Sekiyama (National Institute for Informatics, Japan) Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University, Japan) Amin Timany (Aarhus University, Denmark) Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University, USA) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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ETAPS Test of Time Award 2021, call for nominations
by Tarmo Uustalu 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

ETAPS Test of Time Award The ETAPS Test of Time Award recognizes outstanding papers published more than 10 years in the past in one of the constituent conferences of ETAPS. The Award recognises the impact of excellent research results that have been published at ETAPS. See https://www.etaps.org/about/test-of-time-award Nominations Nominations for the 2021 ETAPS Test of Time Award are solicited from the ETAPS community. A nomination should include the title and publication details of the nominated paper, explain the influence it has had since publication, and why it merits the award. It should be phrased in terms that are understandable by the members of the award committee and suitable for use in the award citation, and should be endorsed by at least 2 people other than the person submitting the nomination. Self-nominations are not allowed. Nominations should be sent by Monday 15 February to the chair of the award committee, Don Sannella <dts(a)inf.ed.ac.uk>. Award committee The 2021 award committee consists of Rance Cleaveland, Ugo Dal Lago, Marieke Huisman, Peter Ryan, Don Sannella (chair), Gabriele Taentzer and Peter Thiemann.

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