[TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: IFL 2018 (30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)

Tue Mar 13 03:48:49 EDT 2018

Hello,

Please, find below the first call for papers for IFL 2018.
Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested.
Apologies for any duplicates you may receive.

best regards,
Jurriaan Hage
Publicity Chair of IFL

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                                    IFL
2018
    30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional
Languages

                   University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA
                             September 5th-7th, 2018

                            http://iflconference.org

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### Scope

The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively
engaged
in the implementation and application of functional and function-based
programming languages. IFL 2018 will be a venue for researchers to present
and
discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe
results
related to the implementation and application of functional languages and
function-based programming.

Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to:

- language concepts
- type systems, type checking, type inferencing
- compilation techniques
- staged compilation
- run-time function specialization
- run-time code generation
- partial evaluation
- (abstract) interpretation
- metaprogramming
- generic programming
- automatic program generation
- array processing
- concurrent/parallel programming
- concurrent/parallel program execution
- embedded systems
- web applications
- (embedded) domain specific languages
- security
- novel memory management techniques
- run-time profiling performance measurements
- debugging and tracing
- virtual/abstract machine architectures
- validation, verification of functional programs
- tools and programming techniques
- (industrial) applications

### Submissions and peer-review

Differently from previous editions of IFL, IFL 2018 solicits two kinds of
submissions:

* Regular papers (12 pages including references)
* Draft papers for presentations ('weak' limit between 8 and 15 pages)

Regular papers will undergo a rigorous review by the program committee, and
will
be evaluated according to their correctness, novelty, originality,
relevance,
significance, and clarity. A set of regular papers will be conditionally
accepted for publication. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be
provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions.
Regular papers not accepted for publication will be considered as draft
papers,
at the request of the author.

Draft papers will be screened to make sure that they are within the scope of
IFL, and will be accepted for presentation or rejected accordingly.

Prior to the symposium:
  Authors of conditionally accepted papers and accepted presentations will
  submit a pre-proceedings version of their work that will appear in the
draft
  proceedings distributed at the symposium. The draft proceedings does not
  constitute a formal publication.

  We require that at least one of the authors present the work at IFL 2018.

After the symposium:

  Authors of conditionally accepted papers will submit a revised versions of
  their paper for the formal post-proceedings.
  The program committee will assess whether the mandatory revisions have
been
  adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final
  accept/reject status of the paper.
  Our interest is to ultimately accept all conditionally accepted papers.
If you
  are an author of a conditionally accepted paper, please make sure that you
  address all the concerns of the reviewers.

  Authors of accepted presentations will be given the opportunity to
incorporate
  the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be invited to
submit a
  revised full article for the formal post-proceedings.
  The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their
  correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity,
and
  will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected.

### Publication

The formal proceedings will appear in the International Conference
Proceedings
Series of the ACM Digital Library.

At no time may work submitted to IFL be simultaneously submitted to other
venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy:

         http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication

### Important dates

Submission of regular papers:                       May        25, 2018
Submission of draft papers:                         July       17, 2018
Regular and draft papers notification:              July       20, 2018
Deadline for early registration:                    August      8, 2018
Submission of pre-proceedings version:              August     29, 2018
IFL Symposium:                                      September 5-7, 2018
Submission of papers for post-proceedings:          November    7, 2018
Notification of acceptance:                         December   22, 2018
Camera-ready version:                               February   10, 2019

### Submission details

All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two
columns conference format, which can be found at:

              http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Authors submit through EasyChair:

                 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2018

### Peter Landin Prize

The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the
symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program
committee
based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize
carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros.

### Organization and Program committee

Chairs: Jay McCarthy & Matteo Cimini, University of Massachusetts Lowell,
USA

Program Committee:

* Arthur Chargu√©raud, Inria, FR
* Ben Delaware, Purdue University, USA
* Christos Dimoulas, Northwestern University, USA
* David Darais, University of Vermont, USA
* Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK
* Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK
* Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA
* Heather Miller, EPFL & Northeastern University, CH & USA
* Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK
* Keiko Nakata, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, DE
* Laura Castro, University of A Coru√±a, ESP
* Magnus Myreen, Chalmers University of Technology, SWE
* Natalia Chechina, Bournemouth University, UK
* Peter Achten, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL
* Peter-Michael Osera, Grinnell College, USA
* Richard Eisenberg, Bryn Mawr College, USA
* Trevor McDonell, University of New South Wales, AUS
* Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, JAP

### Venue

The 30th IFL will take place at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in
Lowell (MA), in association with the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
The City of Lowell is located at the heart of the Merrimack Valley just 30
miles
northwest of Boston. Lowell can be easily reached by train or taxi.
See the website for more information on the venue.

### Acknowledgments

This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous
instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organizers for their work, which
is
reused here.

A part of IFL 2018 format and CFP language that describes conditionally
accepted
papers has been adapted from call-for-papers of OOPSLA conferences.
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