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Invitation to the 2nd European Forum for the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon-20)
by Yazan Mualla 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

INVITATION FOR PAPERS AND TALKS The 2nd European Forum for the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon-20) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with: * the 11th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2020); * the 9th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models, Methodologies and Applications (ABMTRANS-20); * the 4th International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-20). April 6-9, 2020, Warsaw, Poland. http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:EuSarlCon20 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Description =========== The 2020 European SarlCon is the SARL user meeting that is organized in Europe in order to provide a place where SARL users and developers could exchange their experiences. It will be held on April 6-9, 2020, at Warsaw, Poland. That is the last day of the ANT-2020 conference, the ABMTRANS-20 and the SARL-20 workshops. Submissions directly for the EuSarlCon should take the form of an abstract (< 1000 words), and are to be submitted before February 10, 2020, through EasyChair. ABMTRANS-20 and SARL-20 are providing an alternative for publishing longer papers. Important Dates =============== * Paper or talk submission: January 31, 2020; * Acceptance notification: February 10, 2020; * Forum: April 6-9, 2020. Submission ========== You are invited to submit the abstract in PDF format on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eusarlcon2020) not exceeding 1000 words in length. General Chair ============= Stéphane GALLAND (UBFC, France) <stephane.galland(a)utbm.fr> Program Chairs ============== Yazan MUALLA (UBFC, France) Igor TCHAPPI HAMAN (UBFC, France) Registration ============ You must be registered to the ANT20 conference, which provides the access to its facilities. The EuSarlCon forum is considered as a specific type of tutorial. In order to assist to EuSarlCon20, you must apply to a tutorial registration of the ANT20 conference.

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ANNOUNCE: mmsyn7ukr -- a A program and a library that can be used as a simple basic interface to some SoX functionality or for producing the approximately Ukrainian speech with your own recorded voice
by olexandr543＠yahoo.com 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

Hello, There is a new program -- mmsyn7ukr. | | | | mmsyn7ukr: A simple basic interface to some SoX functionality or the app... Install via `cabal install mmsyn7ukr`. | | | It can be used as a simple basic interface to some SoX functionality or for producing the approximately Ukrainian speech with your own recorded voice. The program starts with Caution to be responsible for usage and to use it personally. Then the program guides you through the creating and using your Ukrainian \"voice\". Please, use it carefully. After the execution the program if terminated naturally without interruption removes (cleans) all the created sound files in the current directory for security reasons. If it terminates by interruption or in general it is a good practice to remove the current directory sound files manually. Best regards,Oleksandr Zhabenko.

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Final CFP: JFP Special Issue on Gradual Typing
by Amal Ahmed 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Reminder: Intent to Submit Deadline is TODAY, December 18 (see below for link). ---- JFP Special Issue on Gradual Typing Submission deadline: 15 January 2020 Expected publication date: February 2021 SCOPE The field of gradual typing has grown exponentially over the past decade, both in terms of research and industrial adoption. Gradual typing, the idea of adding/strengthening types in existing programs, demands work on design, theory, implementation, and usability. As such, the field deserves a special journal issue with reflective papers. TOPICS Thus far, three major themes have emerged in the field of gradual typing: (1) researchers have explored numerous dimensions of the design space of gradually typed languages; (2) from this exploration, theoreticians have (re-)opened questions regarding semantics and metatheory; and (3) implementors have been grappling with the seemingly high overhead of sound gradual typing. The special issue welcomes contributions on these themes as well as ones that go beyond, for instance, usability and usefulness of gradual types. We invite authors from across the spectrum of gradual typing. Papers will be reviewed as regular JFP submissions, and acceptance in the special issue will be based on both JFP's quality standards and relevance to the theme. Beyond academics, we especially also welcome working programmers who may wish to consider authoring experience reports, which will be held to appropriate standards laid out for Practice and Experience papers. The special issue also welcomes high-quality survey papers that would benefit a wide audience. NOTIFICATION OF INTENT Authors MUST notify the special-issue editors of their intent to submit by December 18, 2019. The notification of intent should be submitted by filling out the following web form which asks for data needed to identify suitable reviewers: https://forms.gle/dutqyXJSF5WMuuCRA <https://forms.gle/dutqyXJSF5WMuuCRA> SUBMISSIONS Full-length, archival-quality submissions are solicited on all aspects of gradual typing. Submissions should be sent through the JFP Manuscript Central system. Choose “Gradual Typing” as the paper type, so that it gets assigned to the special issue. Submissions that are based on previously-published conference or workshop papers must clearly describe the relationship with the initial publication, and must differ sufficiently that the author can assign copyright to Cambridge University Press. Prospective authors are welcome to discuss such submissions with the editors to ensure compliance with this policy. For detailed instructions regarding layout and submission, please see the JFP advice to authors <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/i…> and instructions for contributors <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/i…>. SPECIAL-ISSUE EDITORS Amal Ahmed (amal(a)ccs.neu.edu <mailto:amal@ccs.neu.edu>) Jens Palsberg (palsberg(a)cs.ucla.edu <mailto:palsberg@cs.ucla.edu>) IMPORTANT DATES 18 December 2019: Notification-of-intent deadline 15 January 2020: Submission deadline 21 April 2020: First round of reviews 19 August 2020: Revision deadline 17 November 2020: Second round of reviews, if applicable 13 January 2021: Final accepted versions due Link to CFP: https://www.cambridge.org/core/news/jfp-special-issue-on-gradual-typing <https://www.cambridge.org/core/news/jfp-special-issue-on-gradual-typing>

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PEPM2020 Call for Participation
by Casper Bach Poulsen 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on PARTIAL EVALUATION AND PROGRAM MANIPULATION (PEPM 2020) https://popl20.sigplan.org/home/pepm-2020 New Orleans, USA, Monday January 20th, 2020 (co-located with POPL 2020) Registration ------------ http://popl20.sigplan.org/attending/registration Early registration deadline: **Wednesday 18th Dec 2019** Preliminary Schedule -------------------- 09:00-10:00: Keynote 1: Network Verification: Past, Present, and Future (Nate Foster) 10:30-12:30: Dependently-Typed Multi-Stage Programming Revisited (invited talk) (Atsushi Igarashi) High-Fidelity Metaprogramming with Separator Syntax Trees (Rodin Aarssen, Tijs van der Storm) Module Generation without Regret (Yuhi Sato, Yukiyoshi Kameyama, Takahisa Watanabe) GOOL: A Generic Object-Oriented Language (Jacques Carette, Brooks MacLachlan, Spencer Smith) 14:00-15:05: Keynote 2: Reasoning about Progress of Concurrent Objects (Xinyu Feng) 15:35-17:45: Frex: Free extensions for normalisation by evaluation (invited talk) (Ohad Kammar) Symbolic Bisimulation for Open and Parameterized System (Zechen Hou, Eric Madelaine) Acumen: A Domain-Specific Language for Cyber-Physical Systems (invited talk) (Walid Taha) An approach to generating text-based IDEs with syntax completion from syntax specification (Isao Sasano) Find the full schedule, abstracts of the talks, and links to papers on the PEPM2020 website: https://popl20.sigplan.org/home/pepm-2020 Looking forward to seeing you at PEPM2020, PEPM2020 chairs and PC *** Programme committee ------------------- * Andreas Abel (Chalmers U.) * Guillaume Allais (U. Strathclyde) * Nada Amin (Harvard U.) * Casper Bach Poulsen (co-chair) (TU Delft) * Patrick Bahr (Copenhagen U.) * Aggelos Biboudis (EPFL) * Olivier Danvy (National U. Singapore) * Álvaro García-Pérez (IMDEA) * Jeremy Gibbons (Oxford U.) * Robert Glück (Copenhagen U.) * Torsten Grust (U. Tubingen) * Zhenjiang Hu (co-chair) (Peking U./NII) * Hideya Iwasaki (U. Electro-Communications) * Oleg Kiselyov (Tohoku U.) * Hedehiko Masuhara (Tokyo I. Technology) * Keisuke Nakano (Tohoku U.) * Bruno Oliveira (U. Hong Kong) * Jens Palsberg (UCLA) * João Saraiva (Minho U.) * Tom Schrijvers (KU Leuven) * Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku U.) * Walid Taha (Halmstad U.) * Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial C. London)

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10 PhD studentships in Nottingham
by Graham Hutton 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Dear all, The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is seeking applications for 10 fully-funded international PhD studentships: https://tinyurl.com/10-phds-2020 Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming Laboratory (https://tinyurl.com/fp-notts) are strongly encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor as soon as possible (the application deadline is 17th January): Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus. Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathemZZatical logic, corecursive structures, proof assistants, category theory, epistemic logic. Graham Hutton - not taking on any new students this year, but you may find these notes useful: https://tinyurl.com/scbkxkr Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, domain- specific languages, generalised notions of computation. These positions are only open to international applicants. An advert for UK/EU applicants will be posted in January 2020. Best wishes, Graham +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded International PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK https://tinyurl.com/10-phds-2020 Applications are invited for 10 fully-funded international PhD studentships in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2020. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School’s research groups: Agents Lab; Computational Optimisation and Learning Lab; Computer Vision Lab; Functional Programming; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab; Data Driven Algorithms, Systems and Design and Uncertainty in Data and Decision Making The studentships are for three and a half years and include a stipend of £15,009 per year and tuition fees. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. Successful applicants are expected to apply for an International VC Scholarship. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Kathleen.Fennemore(a)nottingham.ac.uk. To apply, please submit the following items by email to: Marc.Williams(a)nottingham.ac.uk: (1) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree class(es), and results of all University examinations; (2) an example of your technical writing, such as a project report or dissertation; (3) contact details for two academic referees. (4) a research proposal – max 2 x sides A4 You may also include a covering letter but this is optional. Closing date for applications: Friday 17 January 2020. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 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 contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Call for Participation: BOB 2020 (February 28, Berlin)
by Stefan Wehr 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

================================================================================ BOB 2020 Conference “What happens if we simply use what’s best?” February 28, 2020, Berlin http://bobkonf.de/2020/ Program: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/program.html Registration: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/registration.html ================================================================================ BOB is the conference for developers, architects and decision-makers to explore technologies beyond the mainstream in software development, and to find the best tools available to software developers today. Our goal is for all participants of BOB to return home with new insights that enable them to improve their own software development experiences. The program features 14 talks and 8 tutorials on current topics: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/program.html The subject range of talks includes functional programming, formal methods, architecture documentation, functional-reactive programming, and language design. The tutorials feature introductions to Idris, Haskell, F#, TLA+, ReasonML, and probabilistic programming. Heather Miller will give the keynote talk. Registration is open online: http://bobkonf.de/2020/en/registration.html NOTE: The early-bird rates expire on February 19, 2020! BOB cooperates with racketfest and :clojureD on the day before/after BOB: https://racketfest.com/ https://clojured.de/

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First ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award
by Tarmo Uustalu 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

First ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award ================================= The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software Association has established a Doctoral Dissertation Award to promote and recognize outstanding dissertations in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences (ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS). Doctoral dissertations are evaluated with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the quality of writing. The award winner will receive a monetary prize and will be recognized at the ETAPS Banquet. Eligibility ----------- Eligible for the award is any PhD student whose doctoral dissertation is in the scope of the ETAPS conferences and who completed their doctoral degree at a European academic institution in the period from January 1st, 2019 to December 31st, 2019. Nominations ----------- Award candidates should be nominated by their supervisor. Members of the Award Committee are not allowed to nominate their own PhD students for the award. Nominations consist of a single PDF file (extension .pdf) containing: * name and email address of the candidate * a short curriculum vitae of the candidate * name and email address of the supervisor * an endorsement letter from the supervisor * the final version of the doctoral dissertation * institution and department that has awarded the doctorate * a document certifying that the doctoral degree was successfully completed within the eligibility period * a report from at least one examiner of the dissertation who is not affiliated with the candidate's institution All documents must be written in English. Nominations are welcome regardless of whether results that are part of the dissertation have been published at ETAPS. Nominations should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=etapsdda2020 The deadline for nominations is January 19th, 2020. Award Committee --------------- Caterina Urban (chair) Amal Ahmed (representing ESOP) Dirk Beyer (representing TACAS) Andrew Pitts (representing FoSSaCS) Perdita Stevens (representing FASE) Marieke Huisman

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NL-FP Day 2020: 28th Netherlands Functional Programming Day, Amsterdam, January 10, 2020
by Clemens Grelck 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

=================================================================== NL-FP Day 2020 28th Netherlands Functional Programming Day Friday, January 10, 2020 University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands FINAL CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS CALL FOR PARTICIPATION https://sites.google.com/view/nl-fp-day-2020/home sponsored by University of Amsterdam Informatics Institute =================================================================== The Netherlands Functional Programming Day is an annual gathering of researchers, students, and practitioners sharing a common interest in functional programming. The day features talks that cover the latest advances in research, teaching and applications in the area of functional programming and (implementation of) functional languages. Coffee and lunch breaks provide ample opportunity for networking with your colleagues and meeting new people. Experts and newcomers to the field are equally welcome. Colleagues from neighboring countries are more than welcome to attend; the language of the FP Day is English. Talk proposals: --------------- The FP Day consists of a number of contributed talks. Work in progress talks are just as welcome as talks about mature work recently presented at international conferences. Please, upload your talk proposals via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlfp2020 including a short abstract for the FP Day programme. *Deadline: December 16, 2019* Registration: ------------- Participation is free of charge, but registration is required: https://forms.gle/rA7XaqH7nCVUouk18 *Deadline: December 20, 2019* Dinner: ------- As usual, the NL-FP Day ends with a dinner in a near-by restaurant. The dinner is optional and at your own cost. Location: --------- We meet in the historic Doelenzaal of the Amsterdam University Library (Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam) right in the heart of Amsterdam. The street address is Singel 425. This is a 20-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal. Alternatively, you can take tram lines #2 to Nieuw Sloten, #11 to Surinameplein or #12 to Amstelstation and alight at tram stop Koningsplein. Look back from where the tram came and you see the Amsterdam University Library right in front of you. Organiser: ---------- Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, c.grelck(a)uva.nl -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 Associate Professor 1098XH Amsterdam Programme Director Software Engineering Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 System and Network Engineering Lab F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.109 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-alpha2 released
by Ben Gamari 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release in the GHC 8.10 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-alpha2/ GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including: * The new UnliftedNewtypes extension allowing newtypes around unlifted types. * The new StandaloneKindSignatures extension allows users to give top-level kind signatures to type, type family, and class declarations. * A new warning, -Wderiving-defaults, to draw attention to ambiguous deriving clauses * A number of improvements in code generation, including changes * A new GHCi command, :instances, for listing the class instances available for a type. * An upgraded Windows toolchain lifting the MAX_PATH limitation * A new, low-latency garbage collector. * Improved support profiling, including support for sending profiler samples to the eventlog, allowing correlation between the profile and other program events This release is the second alpha of the 8.10 pre-release cycle. The release will be a release candidate in roughly three weeks. If all goes well the final release will be cut roughly two weeks after the candidate, in mid-January. This being an alpha release, there are a few issues that are still outstanding: * The new Alpine Linux binary distribution is not present due to an apparent correctness issue [1]; any help Alpine users can offer here would be greatly appreciated. * We have yet to sort out compliance with Apple's notarization requirements [2] which will be likely be necessary for users of macOS Catalina. However, until this has been sorted out Catalina users can exempt the current macOS binary distribution from the notarization requirement themselves by running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before running `make install`. * There is one remaining non-regression correctness issue which we plan to fix for the final 8.10.1 but that is not fixed in this release. Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any other issues. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17508 [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418

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Request for Nominations to the GHC Steering Committee
by Joachim Breitner 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Dear Haskell community, the GHC Steering committee is seeking nominations for one new member. The committee scrutinizes, nitpicks, improves, weights and eventually accepts or rejects proposals that extend or change the language supported by GHC and other (public-facing) aspects of GHC. Our processes are described at https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals which is also the GitHub repository where proposals are proposed. We are looking for a member who has the ability * to understand such language extension proposals, * to find holes and missing corner cases in the specifications, * foresee the interaction with other language features and specifications, * comment constructively and improve the proposals, * judge the cost/benefit ratio and * finally come to a justifiable conclusion. We look for committee members who have some of these properties: * have substantial experience in writing Haskell applications or libraries, which they can use to inform judgements about the utility or otherwise of proposed features, * have made active contributions to the Haskell community, for some time, * have expertise in language design and implementation, in either Haskell or related languages, which they can share with us. The committee’s work requires a small, but non-trivial amount of time, especially when you are assigned a proposal for shepherding. We estimate the workload to be around 2 hours per week, and our process works best if members usually respond to technical emails within 1-2 weeks (within days is even better). Please keep that in mind if your email inbox is already overflowing. The GHC developers themselves are already well represented already. We seek Haskell _users_ more than GHC hackers. There is no shortage of people who are eager to get fancy new features into the language, both in the committee and the wider community. But each new feature imposes a cost, to implement, to learn, (particularly) through its unexpected interaction with other features. We need to strike a balance, one that encourages innovation (as GHC always has) while still making Haskell attractive for real-world production use and for teaching. We therefore explicitly invite “conservative” members of the community to join the committee. To make a nomination, please send an email to me (as the committee secretary) at mail(a)joachim-breitner.de until January 2nd. I will distribute the nominations among the committee, and we will keep the nominations and our deliberations private. We explicitly encourage self-nominations. You can nominate others, but please obtain their explicit consent to do so. (We don’t want to choose someone who turns out to be unable to serve.) On behalf of the committee, Joachim Breitner -- Joachim Breitner mail(a)joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/

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