ACM SIGPLAN 2008 Haskell Symposium Call for Papers Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, 25th September, 2008

The Haskell Symposium 2008 is part of the 2008 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) as an associated ACM SIGPLAN sponsored symposium.

The purpose of the Haskell Symposium is to discuss experience with Haskell, and future developments for the language. The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Language Design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo;
• Theory, in the form of a formal treatment of the semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, and foundations for program analysis and transformation;
• Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management as well as foreign function and component interfaces;
• Tools, in the form of profilers, tracers, debuggers, pre-processors, and so forth;
• Applications, Practice, and Experience, with Haskell for scientific and symbolic computing, database, multimedia and Web applications, and so forth as well as general experience with Haskell in education and industry;
• Functional Pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of using Haskell.

Papers in the latter two categories need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, re-usable programming idioms, or elegant new ways of approaching a problem. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other practitioners can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a program!

Before 2008, the Haskell Symposium was known as the Haskell Workshop. The name change reflects the steady increase of influence of the Haskell Workshop on the wider community, as well as the high quality of accepted papers in recent years. Previously, Haskell Workshops have been held in La Jolla (1995), Amsterdam (1997), Paris (1999), Montreal (2000), Firenze (2001), Pittsburgh (2002), Uppsala (2003), Snowbird (2004), Tallinn (2005), Portland, Oregon (2006), Freiburg (2007).

Submission Details

• Submission Deadline: Tuesday, June 24^rd 2008, 8PM Kansas (Central) time [new deadline]
• Author Notification: Friday, July 18^th 2008
• Final Papers Due: Monday, July 28^th 2008

Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm). The length is restricted to 12 pages, and the font size 9pt. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission.

Paper submissions can be made via the easychair webpage http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haskell08

Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

If there is sufficient demand, we will try to organize a time slot for system or tool demonstrations. If you are interested in demonstrating a Haskell related tool or application, please send a brief demo proposal to Andy Gill, andygill@ku.edu.

Links

• http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium, the permanent homepage of the Haskell Symposium.
• http://haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2008, the 2008 Haskell Symposium web page.
• http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008, the ICFP 2008 web page.

Program Committee

• Arthur Baars, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Valencia, Spain
• Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University, UK
• Andy Gill, University of Kansas, USA (Program Chair)
• William Harrison, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
• Roman Leshchinskiy, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Bernie Pope, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Colin Runciman, University of York, UK
• Tim Sheard, Portland State University, USA
• Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Satnam Singh, Microsoft Research, UK
• Wouter Swierstra, Nottingham University, UK
• Varmo Vene, University of Tartu, Estonia