[TYPES/announce] FOOL '08: Call for Participation

[Christopher A. Stone]

                             CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                          2008 International Workshop
                                       on
                    Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages

                                    FOOL '08
                       http://fool08.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
                            Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

                                January 13, 2008
                         San Francisco, California, USA
                               Following POPL '08

The search for sound principles for object-oriented languages has  
given rise
to much work during the past two decades, leading to a better  
understanding of
the key concepts of object-oriented languages and to important  
developments in
type theory, semantics, program verification, and program  
development. The
FOOL workshops bring together researchers to share new ideas and  
results in
these areas.

The next workshop, FOOL '08, will be held in San Francisco,  
California, on
Saturday January 13, 2008, the day after POPL '08. Eight contributed  
papers
will be presented, along with invited talks.

To register for the workshop, use the standard POPL registration form,
available through:

                  http://www.regmaster.com/conf/popl2008.html

The POPL early registration deadline ends ****December 13th****.  
Please make
your hotel arrangements as soon as possible.

To keep down the cost of registration, we will not be providing printed
proceedings. All papers will be available online before the workshop,  
so you
may print the papers you wish to have on hand.

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Program:

OOMatch: Pattern Matching as Dispatch in Java
    Adam Richard and Ondrej Lhotak

Type Safe Nondeterminism - A Formal Semantics of Java Threads
    Andreas Lochbihler

A Unified Framework for Verification Techniques for Object Invariants
    Sophia Drossopoulou, Adrian Francalanza and Peter Mueller

Safe Type-level Abstraction in Scala
    Adriaan Moors, Frank Piessens and Martin Odersky

A Step-indexed Semantics of Imperative Objects
    Catalin Hritcu and Jan Schwinghammer

Computational Soundness and Adequacy for Typed Object Calculus
    Johan Glimming

Ownership Type Systems and Dependent Classes
    Werner Dietl and Peter Mueller

A Theory of Linear Objects
    Matthew Kehrt and Jonathan Aldrich

PLUS invited speakers (TBA)

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Program Committee:

   Jonathan Aldrich  (Carnegie Mellon University)
   Susan Eisenbach   (Imperial College)
   Manuel Fahndrich  (Microsoft Research)
   Cormac Flanagan   (University of California, Santa Cruz)
   Matthew Flatt     (University of Utah)
   Jacques Garrigue  (Nagoya University)
   Atsushi Igarashi  (Kyoto University)  [Chair]
   Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge)
   Julian Rathke     (University of Southampton)
   Frank Tip         (IBM)
   Tobias Wrigstad   (Stockholm University)

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