[TYPES/announce] CFP for Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop 2016

[Alex Shinn]

SECOND NOTICE
Call For Presentations

17th Annual Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop
WEBSITE: http://scheme2016.snow-fort.org/
LOCATION: Nara, Japan (Co-located with ICFP 2016)
DATE: 18 September 2016

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The 2016 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop is calling for
submissions.  This year we are accepting general presentation
proposals in addition to papers.

Submissions related to Scheme, Racket, Clojure, and functional
programming are welcome and encouraged. Topics of interest include
but are not limited to:

Program-development environments, debugging, testing
Implementation (interpreters, compilers, tools, benchmarks, etc.)
Syntax, macros, hygiene
Distributed computing, concurrency, parallelism
Probabilistic computing
Interoperability with other languages, FFIs
Continuations, modules, object systems, types
Theory, formal semantics, correctness
History, evolution and standardization of Scheme
Applications, experience and industrial uses of Scheme
Education
Scheme pearls (elegant, instructive uses of Scheme)

We also welcome submissions related to dynamic or multiparadigmatic
languages and programming techniques.

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Important Dates:

24 June 2016 - Submissions deadline
22 July 2016 - Author notification
15 August 2016 - Camera-ready deadline
18 September 2016 - Workshop
All deadlines are 23:59 (UTC-12, "Anywhere on Earth").

Paper submissions must be in ACM proceedings format, no smaller than
9-point type (10-point type preferred). Microsoft Word and LaTeX
templates for this format are available at:
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/

Paper submissions should be in PDF and printable on US Letter, and
generally in the range of 6 to 12 pages.

Presentation submissions should include an outline of the material.
Talks are 40 minutes, including questions and answers.

More information available at: http://scheme2016.snow-fort.org/

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Organizers:

Alex Shinn (general chair)
Kathy Gray (program chair)

(Apologies for duplications from cross-posting.)