CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming MSFP 2006 Kuressaare, Estonia, 2 July 2006 http://cs.ioc.ee/mpc-amast06/msfp/ a satellite workshop of MPC 2006 a "small workshop" of the TYPES project Background Something wonderful happened when monads arrived in Haskell: some human mathematics explaining the structure of certain computational phenomena became a mechanical means to implement those phenomena. It's a good way to go about functional programming - to dig out the mathematical structure underlying a problem and set it to work! There's more where monads came from, and we want it. This new workshop is about getting it. In recent years, a diverse array of mathematical structures has appeared in our programs: monads dualise to comonads and generalise to Freyd categories aka 'arrows'; 'container' types have a generalised polynomial structure supporting generic programming, not to mention a differential calculus; isomorphisms from 'high school algebra' are used to search libraries and repair type errors; coalgebras give structure to recursion; the list goes on... MSFP is broad in scope, covering the extraction of functionality from structure wherever it can be found. It complements the remit of its host conference, Mathematics of Program Construction, by seeking to enrich the language and toolset available for specifications and programs alike. It is also a "small workshop" of the FP6 IST coordination action TYPES. Invited speakers Andrzej Filinski, Københavns Universitet John Power, University of Edinburgh Important dates * Submission of papers: 10 April 2006 * Notification of authors: 8 May 2006 * Camera-ready version: 5 June 2006 Topics Submissions are welcome on, but by no means restricted to, topics from the following partially computed coinductive list: * structured effectful computation * structured recursion * structured tree and graph operations * structured syntax with variable binding * structures for datatype-genericity * structures for search * structured representations of functions * structured manipulation of mathematical structure * structured <thunk> in functional programming Authors concerned about the suitability of a topic are very welcome to contact Conor McBride, ctm(at)cs.nott.ac.uk. Submission and publication Papers in pdf not exceeding 15 pages and adhering to the eWiC style must be submitted by 10 April 2006 via an online submission webpage. Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. The proceedings of MSFP 2006 will be published in the Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series of the British Computer Society, http://ewic.bcs.org/. After the workshop, the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded versions to a special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming from Cambridge University Press. Programme committee Yves Bertot, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Marcelo Fiore, University of Cambridge Masahito Hasegawa, Kyoto University Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham Paul Levy, University of Birmingham Andres Löh, Universitt Bonn Christoph Lüth, Universitt Bremen Conor McBride, University of Nottingham (co-chair) Marino Miculan, Università degli Studi di Udine Randy Pollack, University of Edinburgh Amr Sabry, Indiana University Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics (co-chair) Main conferences MSFP 2006 is a satellite workshop of the 8th International Conference on Mathematics on Program Construction, MPC 2006, to take place 3-5 July. Co-located with MPC 2006, the 11th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, AMAST 2006, will follow 5-8 July. Venue Kuressaare (pop. 16000) is the main town on Saaremaa, the second-largest island of the Baltic Sea. Kuressaare is a charming seaside resort on the shores of the Gulf of Riga highly popular with Estonians as well as visitors to Estonia. The scientific sessions of MPC/AMAST 2006 will take place at Saaremaa Spa Hotel Meri, one among the several new spa hotels in the town. The social events will involve a number of sites, including the 14th-century episcopal castle. Accommodation will be at Saaremaa Spa Hotels Meri and Rüütli. To get to Kuressaare and away, one must pass through Tallinn (pop. 402000), Estonia's capital city. Tallinn is famous for its picturesque medieval Old Town, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. TYPES support MSFP 2006 is an official workshop of the EU FP6 IST coordination action TYPES. Participants from TYPES sites/subsites may use project funds to cover their travel and participation. Local organizers MPC/AMAST 2006 is organized by Institute of Cybernetics, a research institute of Tallinn University of Technology. The local organizers are Tarmo Uustalu (chair), Monika Perkmann, Juhan Ernits, Ando Saabas, Olha Shkaravska, Kristi Uustalu. Contact email address of the local organizers: mpc06(at)cs.ioc.ee.