[TYPES/announce] PLACES 2009 Call For Papers

[Simon Gay]

[ This workshop is likely to be of interest to TYPES readers; several  
type-related topics appear in the CFP. ]



                          1st CALL FOR PAPERS
                               PLACES'09
            Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency
                  and Communication-cEntric Software
                    22nd March 2009, York, England
                     http://places09.di.fc.ul.pt/
                     places-workshop at cl.cam.ac.uk


Applications on the web today are built using numerous interacting
services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and
sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing
units. Many normal applications will soon need to make effective use of
thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation
in such systems will be inherently concurrent and communication-centred.

To exploit and harness the richness of this computing environment,
designers and programmers will utilise a rich variety of programming
paradigms, depending on the shape of the data and control flow.
Plausible candidates for such paradigms include structured imperative
concurrent programming, stream-based programming, concurrent functions
with queues, and the use of types for communication and data structures
(such as session types and linear types), to name but a few.
Combinations of these abstractions will be used even in a single
application, and the runtime environment needs to ensure seamless
execution without relying on differences in available resources such as
the number of cores.

The development of effective programming methodologies for the coming
computing paradigm demands exploration and understanding of a wide
variety of ideas and techniques.  This workshop aims to offer a forum
where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the
central challenges for programming in the near future, the development  
of
programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and
distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern.


** Topics of Interest **

Submissions are invited in the general area of foundations of
programming languages for concurrency and distribution. Specific topics
include: language design and implementations, program analysis, session
types, multicore programming, concurrent data types, web services, novel
programming methodologies for sensor networks, integration of sequential
and concurrent programming, and runtime architectures including resource
allocations. Papers are welcome which present novel and valuable ideas
as well as experiences.


** Invited Speaker **

To be confirmed


** Submission Guidelines **

Authors are invited to submit a title and a 200 word abstract by 6th
January 2009 to help the PC chairs assign reviewers to papers.
Preliminary papers of up to five pages in length should be
submitted in PDF format by 11th January using the EasyChair
proceedings template available at:

http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip

Abstracts and full papers should be submitted using EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places2009

Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. We are
currently organising a suitable publisher for the post-workshop
proceedings. The final choice of publisher will be confirmed on the
workshop website shortly. Enquires can be sent to:

places-workshop at cl.cam.ac.uk.


** Important Dates **

Abstract (title & 200 words max): 6th January 2009
Paper Submission: 23:59 (GMT) 11th January 2009
Paper Notification: 25th January 2009
Camera Ready: 8th February 2009

Note: timescales are very short and therefore deadlines will not be
extended.


** Program Committee **

Alastair Beresford (chair), University of Cambridge
Simon Gay (chair), University of Glasgow
Kohei Honda, Queen Mary University of London
Greg Morrisett, Harvard University
Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge
Vijay A. Saraswat, IBM Research
Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon
Jan Vitek, Purdue University
Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London