The 2004 Scheme Workshop will be held with ICFP this September in Snowbird, Utah. Plans for this one-day event include presentations of technical and experience papers as well as panel discussions. It should be a useful and fun day for anyone with an interest in Scheme or functional programming languages. Please take a moment to read the "call for papers" appended below and consider submitting a paper. The submission deadline is June 9, 2004. See you in Utah, -Oscar Waddell workshop chair ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 2004 Scheme Workshop http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme2004 Snowbird, Utah, USA 22 September 2004 The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2004. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/icfp04/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Submission deadline June 9, 2004 Author notification July 23, 2004 Final paper due August 23, 2004 Workshop September 22, 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Purpose The 2004 Scheme Workshop is a forum for discussing experience with and future development of the Scheme programming language. The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, implementation, theory, and application of Scheme. We encourage everyone interested in Scheme to participate. The workshop has been accepted by the ICFP'04 workshop committee; formal approval by the SIGPLAN executive committee is pending. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope We invite submissions for both technical and experience papers. Topics of interest for Technical Papers include (but are not limited to): * Design Language critiques and extensions, concurrency and distribution, components and composition, language embedding, object systems, exception handling, syntactic abstraction, module systems and libraries, multiparadigm programming, scripting. * Implementation Compilers, interpreters, runtime systems, virtual machines, resource management, program analysis and transformation, partial evaluation, compile-time and run-time optimization, foreign function and operating system interfaces, embedded systems. * Development tools Profilers, tracers, debuggers, program development environments, program understanding tools, performance and conformance test suites. * Theory Formal semantics, correctness of analyses and transformations, lambda calculus, continuations. Topics of interest for Experience Papers include (but are not limited to): * Applications Domain-specific languages, graphical user interfaces, web programming, network applications, multimedia programming, systems programming, symbolic computing, large systems, use of Scheme as a scripting language. * Practice and experience Experience with Scheme in education and industry. * Scheme pearls Elegant, instructive uses of Scheme. Following the model of ICFP 2004, experience papers need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead report practical experience that will be useful to others, re-usable programming idioms, or elegant new ways of approaching a problem. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other practitioners can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a program! System Demonstrations. Authors of both technical and experience papers are invited to describe, in an appendix, proposals for system demonstrations to be given during the workshop. Panel Discussions. We also invite proposals for panel discussions on topics of interest to the Scheme community. Authors of accepted proposals will give a brief presentation on the topic and then moderate the discussion that follows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission guidelines Authors should submit a 100-200 word abstract and a full paper to the program chair via e-mail by the end of Wednesday, June 9, Universal Coordinated Time. (The end of the day UTC corresponds to 8:00 PM EDT, 6:00 PM MDT, and 5:00 PM PDT.) Papers must be submitted in either PDF format or as PostScript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must be printable on US Letter sized paper. Submissions should be typeset in 10 point font on 12 point baseline in two columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). Submissions should be be no more than 15 pages including text, figures, and bibliography. Authors wishing to supply additional material to the reviewers beyond the 15 page limit may do so in clearly marked appendices, on the understanding that reviewers are not required to read the appendices. Suitable LaTeX class files may be downloaded from the workshop web site. (This is not the standard ACM conference style; it is a larger format adopted by POPL'05 to be easier on reviewer's eyes.) We anticipate that experience papers will be shorter, generally around 10 pages in length. Submitted papers must have content that has not previously been published in other conferences or refereed venues. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or refereed venues is unacceptable. Each paper should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, saying why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors should strive to make the technical content of their papers understandable to a broad audience. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will not be considered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers Workshop chair: Oscar Waddell Computer Science Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-7104 owaddell@cs.indiana.edu Program committee: J. Michael Ashley (Beckman Coulter, Inc.) Danny Dubé (Université Laval) Robert Bruce Findler (University of Chicago) Richard Kelsey (Ember Corporation) Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen) Michael Sperber (DeinProgramm) Steering committee: William D. Clinger (Northeastern University) Marc Feeley (University of Montreal) Matthias Felleisen (Northeastern University) Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) Dan Friedman (Indiana University) Christian Queinnec (University Paris 6) Manuel Serrano (INRIA) Olin Shivers (Georgia Institute of Technology) Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University)