[TYPES/announce] CFP: PLACES 2015 Workshop

[Simon Gay]

                            CALL FOR PAPERS
                               PLACES'15
            Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency
                  and Communication-cEntric Software
                     18th April 2015, London, UK
                         Affiliated to ETAPS
                     http://places15.di.fc.ul.pt/


Applications 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
applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing
nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is
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 asynchronous message passing, higher-order
types for events, and the use of types for communications 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, communication and
distribution. Specific topics include: language design and
implementations for communications and/or concurrency, program
analysis, session types, multicore programming, use of message passing
in systems software, interface languages for communication and
distribution, concurrent data types, concurrent objects and actors,
web services, novel programming methodologies for sensor networks,
integration of sequential and concurrent programming, high-level
programming abstractions for security concerns in concurrent,
distributed programming, and runtime architectures for concurrency,
scalability and/or resource allocations. Papers are welcome which
present novel and valuable ideas as well as experiences.


** Invited Speaker **

To be confirmed


** Submission Guidelines **

Submissions will be 6-page extended abstracts and can also include an
appendix of up to 4 pages and should be submitted in PDF format by
Monday 5th January (anywhere on Earth) using the EasyChair proceedings
template available at:

http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690

Abstracts and papers should be submitted using EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places15

Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop.
A post-workshop proceedings will be published in EPTCS.
We are considering the possibility of a special journal issue.

The submission deadline is strict and will not be extended.

Enquiries can be sent to the PC co-chairs.


** Important Dates **

Abstract submission deadline:      Monday, 29th December 2014
Paper submission deadline:         Monday, 5th January 2015
Notification:                      Wednesday, 4th February 2015
Final version for pre-proceedings: Friday, 13th February 2015
Workshop date:                     Saturday, 18th April 2015


** Programme Committee **

Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK (co-chair)
Jade Alglave, University College London, UK (co-chair)
Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Stefan Blom, University of Twente, Netherlands
Nathan Chong, University College London, UK
Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK
Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Hans Hüttel, Aalborg University, Denmark
Paul Keir, Codeplay Software Ltd, UK
Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Pierre-Yves Strub, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Jules Villard, Imperial College London, UK


** Organising Committee **

Alastair Beresford,  University of Cambridge, UK
Simon Gay,  University of Glasgow, UK
Alan Mycroft,  University of Cambridge, UK
Vasco T. Vasconcelos,  University of Lisbon, Portugal
Nobuko Yoshida,  Imperial College London, UK