PACMPL Volume 3, Issue ICFP 2019
Call for Papers
accepted papers to be invited for presentation at
The 24th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
Berlin, Germany
http://icfp19.sigplan.org/
### Important dates
Submissions due: 1 March 2019 (Friday) Anywhere on Earth
https://icfp19.hotcrp.com
Author response: 16 April (Tuesday) - 18 Apri (Friday) 14:00 UTC
Notification: 3 May (Friday)
Final copy due: 22 June (Saturday)
Conference: 18 August (Sunday) - 23 August (Friday)
### About PACMPL
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL
<https://pacmpl.acm.org/>) is a Gold Open Access journal publishing
research on all aspects of programming languages, from design to
implementation and from mathematical formalisms to empirical
studies. Each issue of the journal is devoted to a particular subject
area within programming languages and will be announced through
publicized Calls for Papers, like this one.
### Scope
[PACMPL](https://pacmpl.acm.org/) issue ICFP 2019 seeks original
papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions
are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from
foundations to features, and from abstraction to application. The
scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming,
including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as
languages with objects, concurrency, or parallelism. Topics of
interest include (but are not limited to):
* *Language Design*: concurrency, parallelism, and distribution;
modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; type
systems; interoperability; domain-specific languages; and
relations to imperative, object-oriented, or logic programming.
* *Implementation*: abstract machines; virtual machines;
interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time
optimization; garbage collection and memory management;
multi-threading; exploiting parallel hardware; interfaces to
foreign functions, services, components, or low-level machine
resources.
* *Software-Development Techniques*: algorithms and data structures;
design patterns; specification; verification; validation; proof
assistants; debugging; testing; tracing; profiling.
* *Foundations*: formal semantics; lambda calculus; rewriting; type
theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; program
verification; dependent types.
* *Analysis and Transformation*: control-flow; data-flow; abstract
interpretation; partial evaluation; program calculation.
* *Applications*: symbolic computing; formal-methods tools;
artificial intelligence; systems programming; distributed-systems
and web programming; hardware design; databases; XML processing;
scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces;
multimedia and 3D graphics programming; scripting; system
administration; security.
* *Education*: teaching introductory programming; parallel
programming; mathematical proof; algebra.
Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance,
correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission
should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms,
clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is
significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical
content should be accessible to a broad audience.
PACMPL issue ICFP 2019 also welcomes submissions in two separate
categories — Functional Pearls and Experience Reports —
that must be marked as such at the time of submission and that need
not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both
categories are given at the end of this call.
Please contact the principal editor if you have questions or are
concerned about the appropriateness of a topic.
### Preparation of submissions
**Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is **Friday, March 1, 2019**,
Anywhere on Earth (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth>).
This deadline will be strictly enforced.
**Formatting**: Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black
and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF
tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Small" template that is
available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from
<https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions>. For authors
using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential
files, is available from
<http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format>.
There is a limit of **25 pages for a full paper or Functional Pearl**
and **12 pages for an Experience Report**; in either case, the
bibliography will not be counted against these limits. Submissions
that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the
requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. Supplementary
material can and should be **separately** submitted (see below).
See also PACMPL's Information and Guidelines for Authors at
<https://pacmpl.acm.org/authors.cfm>.
**Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at <https://icfp19.hotcrp.com/>
Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the
submission deadline using the same web interface.
**Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period,
starting at 14:00 UTC on **Tuesday, April 16, 2019**, to read reviews
and respond to them.
**Supplementary Material**: Authors have the option to attach
supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that
reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material
should **not** be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it
should be uploaded as a **separate** PDF document or tarball.
Supplementary material should be uploaded **at submission time**, not
by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository.
Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized
supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be
visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary
material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted
their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s).
**Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with
the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at
<https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors>.
**Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's
republication policy, as explained on the web at
<http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication>.
**Resubmitted Papers**: Authors who submit a revised version of a
paper that has previously been rejected by another conference have the
option to attach an annotated copy of the reviews of their previous
submission(s), explaining how they have addressed these previous
reviews in the present submission. If a reviewer identifies
him/herself as a reviewer of this previous submission and wishes to
see how his/her comments have been addressed, the principal editor
will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her
previous review. Otherwise, no reviewer will read the annotated copies
of the previous reviews.
### Review Process
This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight
double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for PACMPL
issue ICFP 2019. We anticipate that there will be a need to clarify
and expand on this process, and we will maintain a list of frequently
asked questions and answers on the conference website to address
common concerns.
**PACMPL issue ICFP 2019 will employ a two-stage review process.** The
first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using
the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on
initial reviews through the author response period mentioned
previously. At the review meeting, a set of papers will be
conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected.
Authors will be notified of these decisions on **May 3, 2019**.
Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with
committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set
of mandatory revisions. After four weeks (May 31, 2019), the authors
will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase
assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately
addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final
accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that
the mandatory revisions can be addressed within four weeks and hence
that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the
second phase.
The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory
revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be
accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request
to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a
quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance
within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be
grounds for the paper’s rejection.
**PACMPL issue ICFP 2019 will employ a lightweight double-blind
reviewing process.** To facilitate this, submitted papers must
adhere to two rules:
1. **author names and institutions must be omitted**, and
2. **references to authors' own related work should be in the third
person** (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather
"We build on the work of ...").
The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an
initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it
impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to
try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the
submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult
(e.g., important background references should not be omitted or
anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate
their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally
would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the
web or give talks on their research ideas.
### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers
* As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must
adhere to the new ACM Small format. The page limit for the final
versions of papers will be increased by two pages to help authors
respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions: **27 pages
plus bibliography for a regular paper or Functional Pearl, 14 pages
plus bibliography for an Experience Report**.
* Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of
the three ACM licensing options: open access on payment of a fee
(**recommended**, and SIGPLAN can cover the cost as described next);
copyright transfer to ACM; or retaining copyright but granting ACM
exclusive publication rights. Further information about ACM author
rights is available from <http://authors.acm.org>.
* PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal. It will be archived in ACM’s
Digital Library, but no membership or fee is required for
access. Gold Open Access has been made possible by generous funding
through ACM SIGPLAN, which will cover all open access costs in the
event authors cannot. Authors who can cover the costs may do so by
paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). PACMPL, SIGPLAN, and ACM
Headquarters are committed to exploring routes to making Gold Open
Access publication both affordable and sustainable.
* ACM offers authors a range of copyright options, one of which is
Creative Commons CC-BY publication; this is the option recommended
by the PACMPL editorial board. A reasoned argument in favour of this
option can be found in the article [Why
CC-BY?](https://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/) published by OASPA, the Open
Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
* We intend that the papers will be freely available for download from
the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity via the OpenTOC mechanism.
* ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to
generate and post links on either their home page or institutional
repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their
articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. Downloads
through Author-Izer links are captured in official ACM statistics,
improving the accuracy of usage and impact
measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of an
ACM article should reduce user confusion over article
versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the
appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit
<http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service> to learn
how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL.
* At least one author of each accepted submissions will be expected to
attend and present their paper at the conference. The schedule for
presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the
full program has been selected. Presentations will be videotaped
and released online if the presenter consents.
* The official publication date is the date the papers 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.
### Artifact Evaluation
Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase
of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit
supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be
reviewed by an Artifact Evaluation Committee, separate from the paper
Review Committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support
the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the
Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of
approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers
will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available
upon publication of the papers, for example, by including them as
"source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal
will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in
the ACM guidelines for artifact badging.
Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not
influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance.
### Special categories of papers
In addition to research papers, PACMPL issue ICFP solicits two kinds
of papers that do not require original research contributions:
Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports,
which are limited to half the length of a full paper. Authors
submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines.
#### Functional Pearls
A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to
functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to:
* a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea
* an instructive example of program calculation or proof
* a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure
* an interesting application of functional programming techniques
* a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom
While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a
short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do
so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational
pearls.
Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as
ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria. In particular,
a pearl is not required to report original research, but, it should be
concise, instructive, and entertaining. A pearl is likely to be
rejected if its readers get bored, if the material gets too
complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the
writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing.
A submission that is intended to be treated as a pearl must be marked
as such on the submission web page, and should contain the words
"Functional Pearl" somewhere in its title or subtitle. These steps
will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation
criteria. Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however, for
the purpose of computing the conference's acceptance rate.
#### Experience Reports
The purpose of an Experience Report is to help create a body of
published, refereed, citable evidence that functional programming
really works — or to describe what obstacles prevent it from
working.
Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to:
* insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming
* comparison of functional programming with conventional programming
in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum
* project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when
using functional programming in a real-world project
* curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in education
* real-world constraints that created special challenges for an
implementation of a functional language or for functional
programming in general
An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal PACMPL issue ICFP
paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to
evaluate it.
* Both in the papers and in any citations, the title of each
accepted Experience Report must end with the words "(Experience
Report)" in parentheses. The acceptance rate for Experience
Reports will be computed and reported separately from the rate for
ordinary papers.
* Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long,
excluding bibliography.
* Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the
conference, but depending on the number of Experience Reports and
regular papers accepted, authors of Experience reports may be
asked to give shorter talks.
* Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our
community to accumulate a body of evidence about the efficacy of
functional programming, an acceptable Experience Report need not
add to the body of knowledge of the functional-programming
community by presenting novel results or conclusions. It is
sufficient if the Report states a clear thesis and provides
supporting evidence. The thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it
need not be novel.
The review committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on
whether they judge the evidence to be convincing. Anecdotal evidence
will be acceptable provided it is well argued and the author explains
what efforts were made to gather as much evidence as
possible. Typically, more convincing evidence is obtained from papers
which show how functional programming was used than from papers which
only say that functional programming was used. The most convincing
evidence often includes comparisons of situations before and after the
introduction or discontinuation of functional programming. Evidence
drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient, but more
weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of groups
of people.
An Experience Report should be short and to the point: it should make
a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular
project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If
functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has
worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results —
the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in
what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of
the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize
the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to
what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The
paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the
project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than
generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more
valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of
schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team
more productive.
If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new
technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of
the functional-programming community, it may be better to submit it as
a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty,
originality, and relevance. The principal editor will be happy to
advise on any concerns about which category to submit to.
### ICFP Organizers
General Chair: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany)
Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Simon Marlow (Facebook, UK)
Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA)
Programming Contest Organiser: Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College, Singapore)
Publicity and Web Chair: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA)
Student Research Competition Chair: William J. Bowman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Workshops Co-Chair: Christophe Scholliers (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK)
Conference Manager: Annabel Satin (P.C.K.)
### PACMPL Volume 3, Issue ICFP 2019
Principal Editor: François Pottier (Inria, France)
Review Committee:
Lennart Beringer (Princeton University, United States)
Joachim Breitner (DFINITY Foundation, Germany)
Laura M. Castro (University of A Coruña, Spain)
Ezgi Çiçek (Facebook London, United Kingdom)
Pierre-Evariste Dagand (LIP6/CNRS, France)
Christos Dimoulas (Northwestern University, United States)
Jacques-Henri Jourdan (CNRS, LRI, Université Paris-Sud, France)
Andrew Kennedy (Facebook London, United Kingdom)
Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research, United States)
Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku University, Japan)
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (University of Hong Kong, China)
Klaus Ostermann (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Jennifer Paykin (Galois, United States)
Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Mike Rainey (Indiana University, USA)
Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University, USA)
Sam Staton (University of Oxford, UK)
Pierre-Yves Strub (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
German Vidal (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
External Review Committee:
Michael D. Adams (University of Utah, USA)
Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde, IK)
Sheng Chen (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Adam Chlipala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Evelyne Contejean (LRI, Université Paris-Sud, France)
Germán Andrés Delbianco (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot, France)
Dominique Devriese (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Richard A. Eisenberg (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Conal Elliott (Target, USA)
Sebastian Erdweg (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Michael Greenberg (Pomona College, USA)
Adrien Guatto (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot, France)
Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK)
Troels Henriksen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Ralf Jung (MPI-SWS, Germany)
Ohad Kammar (University of Oxford, UK)
Oleg Kiselyov (Tohoku University, Japan)
Hsiang-Shang ‘Josh’ Ko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Ondřej Lhoták (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Dan Licata (Wesleyan University, USA)
Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University, USA)
Simon Marlow (Facebook, UK)
Akimasa Morihata (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni (Inria, France)
Kim Nguyễn (University of Paris-Sud, France)
Ulf Norell (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku University, Japan)
Rex Page (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Zoe Paraskevopoulou (Princeton University, USA)
Nadia Polikarpova (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research, USA)
Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, USA)
Andreas Rossberg (Dfinity, Germany)
KC Sivaramakrishnan (University of Cambridge, UI)
Nicholas Smallbone (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Matthieu Sozeau (Inria, France)
Sandro Stucki (Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Don Syme (Microsoft, UK)
Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington, USA)
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA)
Takeshi Tsukada (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
Benoit Valiron (LRI, CentraleSupelec, Univ. Paris Saclay, France)
Daniel Winograd-Cort (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Nicolas Wu (University of Bristol, UK)
Tried a code snippet with Gambit 4.7.4 on my iPhone and got an unbound variable error for filter. I noticed the same thing on my laptop’s version (4.8.9). Dybvig’s 4th edition of The Scheme Programming Language lists filter as part of the language on page 164.
Why does it not exist in Gambit Scheme?
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====== TFP 2019 ======
20th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming
12-14 June, 2019
Vancouver, BC, CA
https://www.tfp2019.org/index.html
== Important Dates ==
Submission Deadline for pre-symposium formal review Thursday, March
28, 2019
Sumbission Deadline for Draft Papers Thursday, May 9, 2019
Notification for pre-symposium submissions Thursday, May 2, 2019
Notification for Draft Papers Tuesday, May 14, 1029
TFPIE Tuesday, June 11,
2019
Symposium Wednesday, June 12, 2019 – Friday, June 14, 2019
Notification of Student Paper Feedback Friday June 21, 2019
Submission Deadline for revised Draft Papers (post-symposium formal review)
Thursday, August
1, 2019
Notification for post-symposium submissions Thursday, October
24, 2019
Camera Ready Deadline (both pre- and post-symposium) Friday, November
29, 2019
The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an
international forum for
researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming,
taking a broad
view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively
environment
for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see
below at scope).
Please be aware that TFP uses two distinct rounds of submissions (see
below at submission
details).
TFP 2019 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming
events. TFP 2019
will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in
Functional Programming
in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 11.
== Scope ==
The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various
routes. As part of
the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five
article
categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories:
Research Articles:
Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
Position Articles:
On what new trends should or should not be
Project Articles:
Descriptions of recently started new projects
Evaluation Articles:
What lessons can be drawn from a finished project
Overview Articles:
Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject
Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for
publication to any
other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming:
theoretical,
implementation-oriented, or experience-oriented. Applications of
functional programming
techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.
Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to:
Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
Functional programming in the cloud
High performance functional computing
Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
Dependently typed functional programming
Validation and verification of functional programs
Debugging and profiling for functional languages
Functional programming in different application areas:
security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded
systems, global computing, grids, etc.
Interoperability with imperative programming languages
Novel memory management techniques
Program analysis and transformation techniques
Empirical performance studies
Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
(Embedded) domain specific languages
New implementation strategies
Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area
If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP,
please contact
the TFP 2019 program chairs, William J. Bowman and Ron Garcia.
== Best Paper Awards ==
To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper
accepted for
the formal proceedings.
TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students,
acknowledging that
students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student
paper is one
for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of
students, the students
are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A
prize for the
best student paper is awarded each year.
In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the
best paper happens
to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes.
== Instructions to Author ==
Papers must be submitted at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2019
Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions formally
reviewed either
before or after the Symposium.
== Pre-symposium formal review ==
Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be submitted
before an early
deadline and receive their reviews and notification of acceptance for
both presentation
and publication before the symposium. A paper that has been rejected in
this process may
still be accepted for presentation at the symposium, but will not be
considered for the
post-symposium formal review.
== Post-symposium formal review ==
Papers submitted for post-symposium review (draft papers) will receive
minimal reviews and
notification of acceptance for presentation at the symposium. Authors of
draft papers will
be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback received at
the symposium. A
post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these
articles for formal
publication.
== Paper categories ==
There are two types of submission, each of which can be submitted either
for pre-symposium
or post-symposium review:
Extended abstracts. Extended abstracts are 4 to 10 pages in length.
Full papers. Full papers are up to 20 pages in length.
Each submission also belongs to a category:
research
position
project
evaluation
overview paper
Each submission should clearly indicate to which category it belongs.
Additionally, a draft paper submission—of either type (extended abstract
or full paper) and
any category—can be considered a student paper. A student paper is one
for which primary
authors are research students and the majority of the work described was
carried out by the
students. The submission should indicate that it is a student paper.
Student papers will receive additional feedback from the PC shortly
after the symposium has
taken place and before the post-symposium submission deadline. Feedback
is only provided for
accepted student papers, i.e., papers submitted for presentation and
post-symposium formal
review that are accepted for presentation. If a student paper is
rejected for presentation,
then it receives no further feedback and cannot be submitted for
post-symposium review.
== Format ==
Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For
more information
about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site
(http://www.springer.com/lncs).
== Program Committee ==
Program Co-chairs
William J. Bowman University of British Columbia
Ronald Garcia University of British Columbia
Matteo Cimini University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ryan Culpepper Czech Technical Institute
Joshua Dunfield Queen's University
Sam Lindley University of Edinburgh
Assia Mahboubi INRIA Nantes
Christine Rizkallah University of New South Wales
Satnam Singh
Marco T. Morazán Seton Hall University
John Hughes Chalmers University and Quviq
Nicolas Wu University of Bristol
Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven
Scott Smith Johns Hopkins University
Stephanie Balzer Carnegie Mellon University
Viktória Zsók Eötvös Loránd University
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====== TFP 2019 ======
20th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming
12-14 June, 2019
Vancouver, BC, CA
https://www.tfp2019.org/index.html
== Important Dates ==
Submission Deadline Thursday, March 28, 2019
Paper Notification Thursday, May 2, 2019
TFPIE Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Symposium Wednesday, June 12, 2019 – Friday, June
14, 2019
Student Paper Feedback Friday June 21, 2019
Submission for Formal Review Thursday, August 1, 2019
Notification of Acceptance Thursday, October 24, 2019
Camera Ready Friday, November 29, 2019
The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an
international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of
functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future
trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for
presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see
below at scope).
Please be aware that TFP uses two distinct rounds of submissions (see
below at submission details).
TFP 2019 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming
events. TFP 2019 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on
Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take
place on June 11.
== Scope ==
The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various
routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify
the following five article categories. High-quality articles are
solicited in any of these categories:
Research Articles:
Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
Position Articles:
On what new trends should or should not be
Project Articles:
Descriptions of recently started new projects
Evaluation Articles:
What lessons can be drawn from a finished project
Overview Articles:
Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject
Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for
publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of
functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or
experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques
to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.
Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to:
Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
Functional programming in the cloud
High performance functional computing
Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
Dependently typed functional programming
Validation and verification of functional programs
Debugging and profiling for functional languages
Functional programming in different application areas:
security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded
systems, global computing, grids, etc.
Interoperability with imperative programming languages
Novel memory management techniques
Program analysis and transformation techniques
Empirical performance studies
Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
(Embedded) domain specific languages
New implementation strategies
Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area
If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP,
please contact the TFP 2019 program chairs, William J. Bowman and Ron
Garcia.
== Best Paper Awards ==
To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper
accepted for the formal proceedings.
TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students,
acknowledging
that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A
student
paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the
work of
students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would
present
the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year.
In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best
paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both
prizes.
== Instructions to Author ==
Papers must be submitted at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2019
Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions formally
reviewed either before or after the Symposium.
== Pre-symposium formal review ==
Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be submitted
before an early deadline and receive their reviews and notification of
acceptance for both presentation and publication before the symposium. A
paper that has been rejected in this process may still be accepted for
presentation at the symposium, but will not be considered for the
post-symposium formal review.
== Post-symposium formal review ==
Draft papers will receive minimal reviews and notification of acceptance
for presentation at the symposium. Authors of draft papers will be
invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive at the
symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset
of these articles for formal publication.
== Paper categories ==
Draft papers and papers submitted for formal review are submitted as
extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (20 pages).
The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to:
research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should
also indicate which authors are research students, and whether the main
author(s) are students. A draft paper for which all authors are students
will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after
the symposium has taken place.
== Format ==
Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For
more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site.
== Program Committee ==
Program Co-chairs
William J. Bowman University of British Columbia
Ronald Garcia University of British Columbia
Matteo Cimini University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ryan Culpepper Czech Technical Institute
Joshua Dunfield Queen's University
Sam Lindley University of Edinburgh
Assia Mahboubi INRI Nantes
Christine Rizkallah University of New South Wales
Satnam Singh
Marco T. Morazán Seton Hall University
John Hughes Chalmers University and Quviq
Nicolas Wu University of Bristol
Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven
Scott Smith Johns Hopkins University
Stephanie Balzer Carnegie Mellon University
Viktória Zsók Eötvös Loránd University
Voting is now closed on the Tangerine Edition ballot and the accompanying
Orange Edition straw poll. My thanks to the 29 Schemers who weighed in on
what will be part of the Tangerine Edition, as well as the 17 Schemers who
provided feedback on what should and should not appear on the Orange
Edition ballot. Note that proposals passed by a majority of the votes
cast: "no vote" did not count one way or another.
The raw votes are available as Google spreadsheets at <
http://tinyurl.com/tangerine-results> and <
http://tinyurl.com/orange-straw-results). The Chair edited Vincent Manis's
vote from "no vote" to "SRFI 152" at his own request.
The following nine SRFIs passed with resounding majorities:
SRFI 115 (combinator-based regular expressions)
SRFI 141 (comprehensive integer division operators)
SRFI 143 (fixnum operators)
SRFI 144 (flonum operators, R6RS plus <math.h>)
SRFI 146 (persistent tree and hash mappings)
SRFI 151 (comprehensive bitwise operations on integers)
SRFI 158 (backward-compatible additions to SRFI 127 on generators)
SRFI 159 (combinator formatting)
SRFI 160 (comprehensive homogeneous vector library, including
inexact-complex vectors)
The sample implementation of SRFI 160 is not yet written: however, the API
has mostly stabilized, excluding u1vectors (bitvectors) from consideration
and adding a (srfi 160 base) library that provides SRFI 4 support for all
SRFI 4 vector types plus the complex types.
The R6RS library (rnrs bytevectors) was adopted into Tangerine, also by a
large majority. Implementors should note that "must" when applied to a
procedure or macro argument means only "it is an error unless"; actually
signaling an error is not required. In addition, there are corrections at <
http://www.r6rs.org/r6rs-errata.html>, including substantive changes to the
`utf16->string` and `utf32->string` procedures. A portable R7RS-small
implementation of this library written by Will Clinger can be found at
snow-fort.org and in the contrib/cowan subdirectory of the SRFI 4
repository.
Required support for the full numeric tower, including bignums up to an
implementation-defined limit, ratios (exact non-integers), inexact numbers,
and complex (non-real) numbers both exact and inexact, is also part of
Tangerine. There are no such requirements in R7RS-small. Note that while
most numeric types were uncontroversial, exact complex numbers passed by
just one vote. (See <
http://mentalfloss.com/article/59873/10-elections-decided-one-vote-or-less>
for other elections decided by a single vote.)
Finally, the vote on the string library was problematic. Out of 26 votes
cast, a one-vote majority of 14 voted for SRFI 152, a simple index-based
string library. However, rather than accepting the Will of the People in
this particular case, your Chair has decided to disregard this vote and
postpone the choice of a string library to the Green Edition. Anyone who
wishes to appeal against this decision should post to <
scheme-reports-wg2(a)googlegroups.com>, and if anyone does, a vote will be
taken on that list whether to sustain the Chair's decision (no string
library yet) or override it (SRFI 152 becomes the string library).
Why am I doing this? There were 6 votes for the original SRFI 13, of which
SRFI 152 is a subset. There were 3 votes for the cursor-based SRFI 130,
which its author has offered to rewrite (as a new SRFI) to remove some
substantive objections to it. SRFI 140, which splits Scheme strings into
mutable and immutable subtypes, also received 3 write-in votes: I had
excluded it from the ballot because it cannot be portably implemented on
top of R7RS-small, and non-portable SRFIs are collected in the Green
Edition. For that reason, string libraries will be revoted then. (In the
Red Edition, no proposal obtained a majority.)
As is traditional, the Chair is giving the new libraries their official
names. The names corresponding to the SRFIs in the order listed above
are: (scheme regex), (scheme division), (scheme fixnum), (scheme flonum),
(scheme mapping) and (scheme mapping hash), (scheme bitwise), (scheme
generator), (scheme format), and (scheme vector @), where @ is a
metasyntactic variable for any of {base, u8, s8, u16, s16, u32, s32, u64,
s64, f32, f64, c64, c128}. The (rnrs bytevectors) library will be known
within R7RS-large as (scheme bytevector): note the change from plural to
singular to conform with other R7RS library names.
The (scheme mapping hash) library has fewer operations than the (scheme
mapping) library, but is usable with unordered data types provided a good
hash function can be written for them.
This decision supersedes within R7RS-large the Red Edition's definition of
(scheme generator) as SRFI 158. This should affect nobody except people
who have used one of the 19 new identifiers for some other purpose, in
which case import exclusion is at their service.
Of the nine libraries asked about on the Orange Edition straw poll, all
were well-supported (with volunteers to implement some of them) except the
prime number library at <
https://bitbucket.org/cowan/r7rs-wg1-infra/src/default/PrimesGauche.md>.
There was also a one-vote majority against the TalliesCowan (descriptive
statistics) library, but as there is a volunteer to implement it, I'll
leave it on the docket for now.
--
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
weirdo: When is R7RS coming out?
Riastradh: As soon as the top is a beautiful golden brown and if you
stick a toothpick in it, the toothpick comes out dry.
Hi all,
I am happy to announce the release of Gerbil v0.15, to go with Gambit
v4.9.2.
The highlight of this release is full support for R7RS Red edition and
many new libraries, improvements and bug fixes.
In addition:
- For MacOS users: Gerbil is in homebrew now!
- We have launched the gerbil package directory.
- The Gerbil Treadmill is a new emacs mode by edw.
As usual, for sources and downloads:
https://github.com/vyzo/gerbilhttps://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/releases
Full release changelog:
https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
For questions and support, come say hi on #gerbil-scheme in irc.freenode.net
.
Happy Hacking!
-- vyzo
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:20 PM Ivan Raikov <ivan.g.raikov(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't the difference with R6RS that R7RS-large draws extensively on
> SRFIs which are indeed attempts to codify existing practices?
>
SRFIs don't always codify existing practice, including the SRFIs drawn on
in past, present, and future R7RS-large ballots. The original intention of
the
Steering Committee, I think, had nothing to do with SRFIs; I simply decided
when writing the charter (which the committee approved) to leverage both
existing and to-be-written SRFIs in order to be able to create R7RS-large
piecemeal, which has always seemed to me the only practical approach.
That said, SRFIs often do refer to existing implementations, or
implementations
of languages other than Scheme.
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:15 PM Per Bothner <per(a)bothner.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/16/19 6:27 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> > > So what is happening is that people are voting for more rather than
> less, as with the Red Edition. This encourages me that I'm going in a
> sensible direction with the large language.
> >
> > For the record, I'm extremely leery of the more-is-better approach.
> > We seem to be adding a large number of very large APIs, which seems
> > to be contrary to the Scheme ideal of small well-chosen primitives
> > that work synergistic well together. People were unhappy with R6RS
> > because of its size and that so much of it was invention rather than
> > codifying existing practice. R7RS-large is the same - but much more so.
> > --
> > --Per Bothner
> > per(a)bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
> >
>
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