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20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

ICFP 2015

Vancouver, Canada, August 31 - September 2, 2015

http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2015

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Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Submissions due: Friday, February 27 2015, 23:59 UTC-11 https://icfp15.hotcrp.com/ Author response: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 through Thursday, 23 April, 2015 Notification: Friday, May 1, 2015 Final copy due: Friday, June 12, 2015

Scope ~~~~~

ICFP 2015 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.

* Functional Pearls: elegant, instructive, and fun essays on functional programming.

* Experience Reports: short papers that provide evidence that functional programming really works or describe obstacles that have kept it from working.

If you are concerned about the appropriateness of some topic, do not hesitate to contact the program chair.

Abbreviated instructions for authors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* By Friday, 27 February 2015, 23:59 UTC-11, submit a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for an Experience Report) in standard ACM conference format, including bibliography, figures, and appendices.

The deadlines will be strictly enforced and papers exceeding the page limits will be summarily rejected.

* Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it.

* Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at

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

* Authors of resubmitted (but previously rejected) papers 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 program chair 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.

Overall, a submission will be evaluated according to its relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. It 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. Functional Pearls and Experience Reports are separate categories of papers that need not report original research results and must be marked as such at the time of submission. Detailed guidelines on both categories are on the conference web site.

Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted submissions will have a choice of one of three ways to manage their publication rights. These choices are described at

http://authors.acm.org/main.html

Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference.

Formatting: Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must adhere to the standard ACM conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at

http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/

Submission: Submissions will be accepted on the web using a link that will be posted at

https://icfp15.hotcrp.com/

Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface.

Author response: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 0:00 UTC on Tuesday, 21 April 2015, to read reviews and respond to them.

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 the definitive version of ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After your article has been published and assigned to your ACM Author Profile page, please visit

http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service

to learn how to create your links for free downloads from the ACM DL.

Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers 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.

General Chair: Kathleen Fisher Tufts University (USA)

Program Chair: John Reppy University of Chicago (USA)

Program Committee: Amal Ahmed Northeastern University (USA) Jean-Philippe Bernardy Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) Matthias Blume Google (USA) William Byrd University of Utah (USA) Andy Gill University of Kansas (USA) Neal Glew Google (USA) Fritz Henglein University of Copenhagen (Denmark) Gabriele Keller University of New South Wales and NICTA (Australia) Andrew Kennedy Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) Neelakantan Krishnaswami Birmingham University (UK) Daan Leijen Microsoft Research Redmond (USA) Keiko Nakata FireEye Dresden (Germany) Mike Rainey INRIA Rocquencourt (France) Andreas Rossberg Google (Germany) Manuel Serrano INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France) Simon Thompson University of Kent (UK) David Van Horn University of Maryland (USA) Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania (USA)