[TYPES/announce] ML 2024 – Call for presentations: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop

[Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni]

We are happy to invite submissions to ML 2024 (apologies for 
cross-postings).

   * Submission deadline: June 6th
   * September 6th in Milan, Italy. Co-located with ICFP 2024.
   * Submission website: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ml2024.hotcrp.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!VGh6G_yb7cSAIDHJ1j27mYHC7oCLyy9Uy5GFj6U7YkP1bE9a2KV0mBPTH_sDHUqCXT8DXdn3RgnWEE8_-ug-lrv4xUOFr9sCC7okWF0XAUk$ 
   * Workshop website: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://icfp24.sigplan.org/home/mlworkshop-2024__;!!IBzWLUs!VGh6G_yb7cSAIDHJ1j27mYHC7oCLyy9Uy5GFj6U7YkP1bE9a2KV0mBPTH_sDHUqCXT8DXdn3RgnWEE8_-ug-lrv4xUOFr9sCC7okcP2VRxA$ 


# Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop

ML (originally, “Meta Language”) is a family of programming languages
that includes dialects known as Standard ML, OCaml, and F#, among
others. The development of these languages has inspired a large amount
of computer science research, both practical and theoretical.

The ML Family Workshop is an established informal workshop aiming to
recognize the entire extended ML family and to provide the forum to
present and discuss common issues: all aspects of the design,
semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of the
members of the ML family. We also encourage presentations from related
languages (such as Haskell, Scala, Rust, Nemerle, Links, Koka, F*,
Eff, ATS, etc), to promote the exchange of ideas and experience. The
ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml
Users and Developers Workshop.

## Format

The ML 2024 workshop will continue the informal approach followed
since 2010. Presentations are selected by the program committee from
submitted proposals. There are no published proceedings, so
contributions may be submitted for publication elsewhere. The main
criterion is the promoting and informing the development of the entire
extended ML family and delivering a lively workshop atmosphere. We
particularly encourage talks about works in progress, presentations of
negative results (things that were expected to but did not quite work
out) and informed positions.

Each presentation should take 20-25 minutes. The exact time will be
decided based on scheduling constraints.

We plan the workshop to an be in-person event with remote
participation (streamed live). Speakers are generally expected to
present in person (we will work to make remote presentations
possible).

The 2024 ML family workshop is co-located with ICFP 2024 and will take
place on September the 6th in Milan, Italy.

## Scope

We seek presentations on topics including (but not limited to):

* Language design: abstraction, higher forms of polymorphism,
  concurrency, distribution and mobility, staging, extensions for
  semi-structured data, generic programming, object systems, etc.

* Implementation: compilers, interpreters, type checkers, partial
  evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, foreign function
  interfaces, etc.

* Type systems: inference, effects, modules, contracts, specifications
  and assertions, dynamic typing, error reporting, etc.

* Applications: case studies, experience reports, pearls, etc.

* Environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language
  interoperability, functional data structures, etc.

* Semantics of ML-family languages: operational and denotational
  semantics, program equivalence, parametricity, mechanization, etc.

We specifically encourage reporting what did not meet expectations or
what, despite all efforts, did not work to satisfaction.

Four kinds of submissions are solicited: Research Presentations,
Experience Reports, Demos, and Informed Positions.

* Research Presentations: Research presentations should describe new
  ideas, experimental results, or significant advances in ML-related
  projects. We especially encourage presentations that describe work
  in progress, that outline a future research agenda, or that
  encourage lively discussion. These presentations should be
  structured in a way which can be, at least in part, of interest to
  (advanced) users.

* Experience Reports: Users are invited to submit Experience Reports
  about their use of ML and related languages. These presentations do
  not need to contain original research but they should tell an
  interesting story to researchers or other advanced users, such as an
  innovative or unexpected use of advanced features or a description
  of the challenges they are facing or attempting to solve.

* Demos: Live demonstrations or short tutorials should show new
  developments, interesting prototypes, or work in progress, in the
  form of tools, libraries, or applications built on or related to ML
  and related languages. (You will need to provide all the hardware
  and software required for your demo; the workshop organizers are
  only able to provide a projector.)

* Informed Positions: A justified argument for or against a language
  feature. The argument must be substantiated, either theoretically
  (e.g., by a demonstration of (un)soundness, an inference algorithm,
  a complexity analysis), empirically or by substantial experience.
  Personal experience is accepted as justification so long as it is
  extensive and illustrated with concrete examples.

## Submission details

Submissions must be in the PDF format and have a short summary
(abstract) at the beginning. Submissions in the categories of
Experience Reports, Demos, or Informed Positions should indicate so in
the title or subtitle. The point of the submission should be clear
from its two first pages (PC members are not obligated to read any
further.)

Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website before
the submission deadline.

Only the short summary/abstract of accepted submissions will be
published on the conference website. After acceptance, authors will
have the opportunity to attach or link to that summary any relevant
material (such as the updated submission, slides, etc.)

*Submission website*: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ml2024.hotcrp.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!VGh6G_yb7cSAIDHJ1j27mYHC7oCLyy9Uy5GFj6U7YkP1bE9a2KV0mBPTH_sDHUqCXT8DXdn3RgnWEE8_-ug-lrv4xUOFr9sCC7okWF0XAUk$ 

*Workshop website*: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://icfp24.sigplan.org/home/mlworkshop-2024__;!!IBzWLUs!VGh6G_yb7cSAIDHJ1j27mYHC7oCLyy9Uy5GFj6U7YkP1bE9a2KV0mBPTH_sDHUqCXT8DXdn3RgnWEE8_-ug-lrv4xUOFr9sCC7okcP2VRxA$ 

## Coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop

The OCaml workshop is seen as more practical and is dedicated in
significant part to OCaml community building and the development of
the OCaml system. In contrast, the ML family workshop is not focused
on any language in particular, is more research-oriented, and deals
with general issues of ML-style programming and type systems. Yet
there is an overlap, which we are keen to explore in various ways. The
authors who feel their submission fits both workshops are encouraged
to mention it at submission time or contact the program chairs.