[posting on behalf of John Reppy <jhr@cs.uchicago.edu>] ====================================================================== International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2006) Call for Papers September 18-20, 2006 Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: 7 April, 2006 http://icfp06.cs.uchicago.edu ICFP 2006 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics ranging from principles to practice, from foundations to features, 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 and concurrency. Particular topics of interest include: * Applications and domain-specific languages: Systems programming, scientific and numerical computing, symbolic computing and artificial intelligence, databases, graphical user interfaces, multimedia programming, application scripting, system administration, distributed-systems and web programming, XML processing, security. * Foundations: Formal semantics, lambda calculus, type theory, monads, continuations, control, state, effects. * Design: Algorithms and data structures, modules and type systems, concurrency and distribution, components and composition, relations to object-oriented and logic programming. * Implementation: Abstract machines, compile-time and run-time optimization, just-in-time compilers, memory management. Interfaces to foreign functions, services, components and low-level machine resources. * Transformation and analysis: Abstract interpretation, partial evaluation, program transformation. * Software-development techniques for functional programming: Design patterns, specification, verification, validation, debugging, test generation, tracing and profiling. * Practice and experience: Functional programming in education and industry. * Functional pearls: Elegant, instructive examples of functional programming. Papers in the last two categories need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, re-usable programming idioms, or elegant new ways of approaching a problem. A special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming will highlight selected papers from the meeting. Submission instructions are available at http://www.easychair.org/ ICFP2006/ The top submitted papers, as determined by the program committee, will be invited to submit journal versions for a special issue of JFP. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 7 April, 2006 On-line response to reviews: 14 May, 2006 Author notification: 273 May, 2006 Camera-ready copy: 26 June, 2006 Organizers: Conference Chair: John Reppy (University of Chicago) Program Chair: Julia Lawall (DIKU) Program Committee: Torben Amtoft (Kansas State University) Matthias Blume (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Robby Findler (University of Chicago) Alain Frisch (INRIA Rocquencourt) Patricia Johann (Rutgers University) Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba) Andres Loh (Universitat Bonn) Simon Marlow (Microsoft Research Ltd.) Greg Morrisett (Harvard University) Riccardo Pucella (Northeastern University) Doaitse Swierstra (Utrecht University) Mitch Wand (Northeastern University) Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt University) Hongwei Xi (Boston University) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania)