[TYPES/announce] POPL 2024: Call for Papers (deadline: July 11)

[Donaldson, Alastair F]

Dear all

Please find below the Call for Papers for the POPL 2024 conference. We would be grateful if you could help distribute this call among your networks.

Many thanks

Alastair Donaldson and John Wickerson
POPL 2024 Publicity Chairs


PACMPL Issue POPL 2024 seeks contributions on all aspects of programming languages and programming systems, both theoretical and practical. Authors of papers published in PACMPL Issue POPL 2024 will be invited to present their work in the POPL conference in January 2024, which is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGACT and ACM SIGLOG.

POPL 2024 Website: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl24.sigplan.org__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBOvFvRA4$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl24.sigplan.org/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBv08igqk$ >

Call for Papers: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl24.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2024-popl-research-papers__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBwwOw4Cs$ 

Double-Blind Review FAQ: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl24.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2024-popl-research-papers*FAQ-on-Double-Blind-Reviewing__;Iw!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCB77j5pnk$ 


### Organization

Conference Location: London, United Kingdom

Conference Dates: January 17-19, 2024

General Chair: Philippa Gardner, Imperial College London

Program Chair: Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS

Program Committee: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl24.sigplan.org/committee/POPL-2024-popl-research-papers-program-committee__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBTQC5lII$ 


### Important Dates

All the times/deadlines below are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) in 2023.

Submission deadline: July 11
Start of author response period: Sept 11
End of author response period: Sept 14
Notification of conditional acceptance: Oct 2
Artifact deadline: Oct 9
Revised submissions due: Oct 26
Notification of final acceptance (artifacts & papers): Nov 7
Camera-ready deadline: Nov 10


### Scope

Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and programming systems. Both theoretical and experimental papers are welcome. We seek submissions that make principled, enduring contributions to the theory, design, understanding, implementation, or application of programming languages.


### Evaluation Criteria

The Program Committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its accessibility to both experts and the general POPL audience. All papers will be judged on significance, originality, relevance, correctness, and clarity. Each paper must explain its scientific contribution in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Advice on writing technical papers can be found on the [SIGPLAN author information page](https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBBWyuG58$ ).

Deadlines and formatting requirements, detailed below, will be strictly enforced.


### Full Double-Blind Reviewing Process

POPL 2024 will use a **full double-blind** reviewing process (similar to the one used for POPL 2023 but different from the lightweight double-blind process used in previous years). This means that identities of authors will not be made visible to reviewers until after conditional-acceptance decisions have been made, and then only for the conditionally-accepted papers. The use of full double-blind reviewing has several consequences for authors.

* **Submissions**: Authors must omit their names and institutions from their paper submissions. In addition, references to authors' own prior work should be in the third person  (e.g., not "We build on our previous work …" but rather "We build on the work of …").

* **Supplementary material**: Authors are permitted to provide supplementary material (e.g., detailed proofs, proof scripts, system implementations, or experimental data) along with their submission, which reviewers may (but are not required to) examine. This material may take the form of a single file, such as a PDF or a tarball. **Authors must fully anonymize any supplementary material. Links to supplementary material on external websites are not permitted.**

* **Author response**: In responding to reviews, authors should not say anything that reveals their identity, since author identities will not be revealed to reviewers at that stage of the reviewing process.

* **Dissemination of work under submission**: Authors are welcome to disseminate their ideas and post draft versions of their paper(s) on their personal website, institutional repository, or arXiv (reviewers will be asked to turn off arXiv notifications during the review period). But authors should not take steps that would almost certainly reveal their identities to members of the Program Committee, e.g., directly contacting PC members or publicizing the work on widely-visible social media or major mailing lists used by the community.

The purpose of the above restrictions is to help the Program Committee and external reviewers come to a judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors' identities if they were to try. In particular, nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the quality of the submission.

However, there are occasionally cases where adhering to the above restrictions is truly difficult or impossible for one reason or another. In such cases, the authors should contact the Program Chair to discuss the situation and how to handle it.

The [FAQ on Double-Blind Reviewing](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2024/POPL-2024-popl-research-papers*FAQ-on-Double-Blind-Reviewing__;Iw!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBAsyOgZY$ ) addresses many common scenarios and answers many common questions about this topic. But there remain many grey areas and trade-offs. If you have any doubts about how to interpret the double-blind rules or you encounter a complex case that is not clearly covered by the FAQ, please contact the Program Chair for guidance.


### Additional Details of the Reviewing Process

POPL 2024 will have four Associate Chairs who will help the Program Chair monitor reviews, solicit external expert reviews for submissions when there is not enough expertise on the committee, and facilitate reviewer discussions.

As in previous years, authors will have a multi-day period to respond to reviews, as indicated in the Important Dates table. Responses are optional but recommended. A response should address specific points or questions raised in the reviews as well as any erroneous claims made by reviewers; in particular, it should not present new technical results, unless specifically requested by the reviewers.

The Program Committee (PC) will discuss papers electronically using the HotCRP conference management system. There will be no physical or synchronous PC meeting; this will avoid the time, cost, and environmental impact of transporting an increasingly large committee to one point on the globe. There is also no formal External Program Committee or Extended Review Committee, though experts outside the committee will be consulted as needed. Paper decisions will be accompanied by a "meta-review" summarizing the reasoning behind the committee's decision.

To conform with ACM requirements for journal publication, all POPL papers will be subject to two rounds of review. At the end of the first round, the PC will select a set of _conditionally accepted_ papers, each with a clear list of mandatory revisions that the authors must implement in order for the paper to be accepted. For the second round, authors of conditionally accepted papers will then be required to submit a short description of how they have revised the paper, including how the mandatory revisions have been implemented. The PC will then check the revisions and make final acceptance decisions. Authors of conditionally accepted papers must submit a satisfactory revision to the PC by the second-round deadline or risk rejection.

For additional information about the reviewing process, see: [Principles of POPL](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sigplan.org/Conferences/POPL/Principles/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBUkSQqtU$ ), a presentation of the underlying organizational and reviewing policies for POPL. For POPL 2024, policies specified in this Call for Papers supersede those in the Principles of POPL document.


### Submission Site Information

The submission site is https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl24.hotcrp.com__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBp4l0RQE$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://popl24.hotcrp.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCB3w42xM8$ >.

Authors can submit multiple times prior to the deadline. Only the last submission will be reviewed. There is no abstract deadline. The submission site requires entering author names and affiliations, relevant topics, and potential conflicts. Addition or removal of authors after the submission deadline will need to be approved by the Program Chair (as this kind of change potentially undermines the goal of eliminating conflicts during paper assignment).

The submission deadline is 11:59 PM on July 11, 2023, Anywhere on Earth: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCB0kHeWYE$ 


### Conflicts of Interest

For each submission, the authors must make sure that they properly declare all potential conflicts of interest for all of the authors of that submission. This includes marking PC conflicts as well as “Other Conflicts (external)”. A conflict caught late in the reviewing process leads to a voided review which may be infeasible to replace.

Conflicts should be declared between an adviser and an advisee (e.g., Ph.D., post-doc; forever), between an author and a co-author (papers and proposals; for two years), between people at the same institution (branches of large companies or different locations of research institutes are considered to be the same institution; for two years after leaving an institution), between people with financial conflicts of interest, and between friends or relatives.

Please do not declare spurious conflicts: such incorrect conflicts are especially harmful if the aim is to exclude potential reviewers, so spurious conflicts can be grounds for rejection. If you are unsure about a conflict, please ask the Program Chair.


### Submission Guidelines

Prior to the paper submission deadline, authors should upload their full anonymized paper. Here are some key requirements concerning paper submissions:

* Each paper should have no more than **25 pages of text, excluding bibliography**, using the PACMPL format (specifically, the `acmart` LaTeX class with `acmsmall` option). It is a single-column page layout with a 10 pt font, 12 pt line spacing, and wider margins than recent POPL page layouts. In this format, the main text block is 5.478 in (13.91 cm) wide and 7.884 in (20.03 cm) tall. Use of a different format (e.g., smaller fonts or a larger text block) is grounds for summary rejection. The PACMPL template for LaTeX can be found at the [SIGPLAN author information page](https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBBWyuG58$ ), and further information about PACMPL submissions can be found on the [PACMPL author guidelines page](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmpl/author-guidelines__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBsI7WAbo$ ). PACMPL does not support submissions in Microsoft Word.

* We strongly encourage use of the `review` and `screen` options in order to make submissions easier to review.

* We strongly encourage use of author-year citations, since that is the citation format required by PACMPL for final versions of accepted papers.

* Submissions should be in PDF and printable on both US Letter and A4 paper. Papers may be resubmitted to the submission site multiple times up until the deadline, but the last version submitted before the deadline will be the version reviewed. Papers that exceed the length requirement or deviate from the expected format will be rejected.

* Submitted papers must adhere to the [SIGPLAN Republication Policy](https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBRskp8Yo$ ) and the [ACM Policy on Plagiarism](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism-overview__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBcZhV8Ag$ ). Concurrent paper submissions to other conferences, workshops, journals, or similar forums of publication are not allowed.

* Authors are free to submit supplementary material along with their submissions, but it must be fully anonymized.

* Authors must list all their conflicts of interest (both PC conflicts and external conflicts) in the HotCRP submission form.

* Authors may include additional information in a field of the HotCRP submission form labeled "Confidential Comments for the Program Chair". This information need not be anonymized. It can be used to inform the Program Chair, for example, about sensitive issues concerning a conflict with a PC member or about supplementary material that cannot be anonymized. It is left to the discretion of the Program Chair what to do with this information.

* If for some reason an author feels uncomfortable discussing a sensitive issue with the Program Chair (or communicating via the "Confidential Comments" field in HotCRP), they should feel free to get in touch instead with any of the Associate Chairs, with whom they can discuss the issue in confidence.


### Artifact Evaluation for Accepted Papers

Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be invited to formally submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. Artifact Evaluation is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. Artifact submission is strongly encouraged but voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library.


### Copyright, Publication, and Presentation

As a Gold Open Access journal, PACMPL is committed to making peer-reviewed scientific research free of restrictions on both access and (re-)use. Authors are strongly encouraged to support libre open access by licensing their work with the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBfWmV2AE$ ), which grants readers liberal (re-)use rights.

Authors of accepted papers will be required to choose one of the following publication rights:

* Author licenses the work with a [Creative Commons license](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://creativecommons.org/__;!!IBzWLUs!WzHj6cmM3CxRAMeIKmJLZ-V8p9MfMZ4DrbXAPs4t3CkWPmPUmEC4SJZAgprfSEuFaqTqBVt99cXFs9IANEa-zW89fT-0OvrHc3iGCoCBMcRTqqw$ ), retains copyright, and (implicitly) grants ACM non-exclusive permission to publish (suggested choice).
* Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive permission to publish license.
* Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive permission to publish license.
* Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM.

These choices follow from ACM Copyright Policy and ACM Author Rights, corresponding to ACM's "author pays" option. While PACMPL may ask authors who have funding for open-access fees to voluntarily cover the article processing charge (currently, US$400), payment is not required for publication. PACMPL and SIGPLAN continue to explore the best models for funding open access, focusing on approaches that are sustainable in the long-term while reducing short-term risk.

All papers will be archived by the ACM Digital Library. Authors will have the option of including supplementary material with their paper. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Authors of accepted papers are required to give a short talk (precise length still to be determined, but typically between 15 and 25 minutes) at the conference, according to the conference schedule.


### Distinguished Paper Awards

At most 10% of the accepted papers of POPL 2024 will be designated as Distinguished Papers. This award highlights papers that the Program Committee thinks should be read by a broad audience due to their relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. The selection of the distinguished papers will be made based on the final version of the paper and through an additional review process.


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