********************************************************************* * The 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML * * * * September 16, 2006 * * * * Colocated with the 11th ACM SIGPLAN * * International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2006), * * Portland, Oregon. * * * * Call for Papers * * * * http://gallium.inria.fr/ml2006/ * ********************************************************************* Important dates * Submission deadline: Saturday 3rd June 2006. * Notification of acceptance: Saturday 8th July 2006. * Final paper due: Saturday 29th July 2006. Scope The ML family of programming languages, whose most popular variants are SML and OCaml, has inspired a tremendous amount of computer science research, both practical and theoretical, and ML continues to underpin a variety of applications, ranging from compilers and theorem provers to low-level system software. This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion and research on existing and future ML and ML-like languages. We seek papers on any ML-related topic, including (but not limited to): * applications. * extensions: objects, classes, concurrency, distribution and mobility, semi-structured data handling, etc. * type systems: inference, modules, specification, error reporting, etc. * implementation: compilers, interpreters, partial evaluators, garbage collectors, etc. * environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, etc. * semantics. Both experimental and theoretical papers are welcome. Each paper 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. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. Papers must be submitted in either PDF format or as PostScript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript. They must be printable on US Letter sized paper. Papers should be formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm The length should be no more than 12 pages. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. General Chairs and Program Chairs Andrew Kennedy Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0FB, UK akenn@microsoft.com François Pottier INRIA Rocquencourt BP 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex FRANCE francois.pottier@inria.fr Programme Committee Derek Dreyer (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Matthew Fluet (Cornell University) John Harrison (Intel Corporation) Haruo Hosoya (University of Tokyo) Andrew Kennedy (Microsoft Research Cambridge, co-chair) Eugenio Moggi (Università di Genova) Michael Norrish (National ICT Australia) François Pottier (INRIA Rocquencourt, co-chair) Ian Stark (University of Edinburgh) Alley Stoughton (Kansas State University) Jérôme Vouillon (CNRS and Université Paris 7) Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania)