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Haskell Symposium 2011

Tokyo, Japan
22nd September, 2011
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The ACM SIGPLAN  Haskell Symposium 2011 will be co-located with the 2011 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), in Tokyo, Japan.

The purpose of the Haskell Symposium is to discuss experiences 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:

  • Language Design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo;

  • Theory, such as formal treatments 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, testing tools, and suchlike;

  • Functional Pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of using Haskell;

  • Applications, using Haskell for scientific and symbolic computing, database, multimedia, telecom and web applications, and so forth;

  • Practice and Experience, general experience with Haskell in education and industry.
  • Papers in the latter three categories need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, reusable 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 Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a program!

    General Information

    Important Dates and Deadlines

    Schedule

    8.55-10.00: Session 1 "Monads"
    chair: Graham Hutton

    8.55: Welcome
    Koen Claessen (PC chair)

    9.00: Extending monads with pattern matching
    Tomas Petricek, Alan Mycroft and Don Syme

    9.30: Bringing Back Monad Comprehensions
    George Giorgidze, Torsten Grust, Nils Schweinsberg and Jeroen Weijers

    10.00-10.30: Coffee Break

    10.30-12.00: Session 2 "Libraries"
    chair: John Launchbury

    10.30: Termination combinators forever
    Max Bolingbroke, Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis

    11.00: Hobbits for Haskell: A Library for Higher-Order Encodings in Functional Programming Languages
    Edwin Westbrook, Nicolas Frisby and Paul Brauner

    11.30: A library writer's guide to shortcut fusion
    Thomas Harper

    12.00-13.30: Lunch

    13.30-15.00: Session 3 "Parallelism"
    chair: Sam Lindley

    13.30: Efficient Parallel Stencil Convolution in Haskell
    Ben Lippmeier and Gabriele Keller

    14.00: A monad for deterministic parallelism
    Simon Marlow, Ryan Newton and Simon Peyton Jones

    14.30: Prettier Concurrency: Purely functional concurrent revisions
    Daan Leijen, Sebastian Burckhardt and Manuel Fahndrich

    15.00-15.30: Coffee Break

    15.30-17.00: Session 4 "Embedded Languages"
    chair: Neil Mitchell

    15.30: Flexible Dynamic Information Flow Control in Haskell
    Deian Stefan, Alejandro Russo, John Mitchell and David Mazieres

    16.00: Embedded parser generators
    Jonas Duregård and Patrik Jansson

    16.30: Haskell for the cloud
    Jeff Epstein, Andrew Black and Simon Peyton Jones

    17.00-17.10: Short Break

    17.10-17.45: Session 5 "Future of Haskell"
    chair: Janis Voigtländer

    Programme Committee

    Submission Details

    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 text should be in a 9pt font in two columns; the length is restricted to 12 pages, except for Teaching, Applications, and Practice and Experience" papers, which are restricted to 6 pages. Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

    In addition, we solicit proposals for system demonstrations, based on running (perhaps prototype) software rather than necessarily on novel research results. Proposals are limited to 2-page abstracts, in the same ACM format as papers, and should explain why a demonstration would be of interest to the Haskell community. They will be assessed for relevance by the PC; accepted proposals will be published on the Symposium website, but not formally published in the proceedings.

    Submission of papers is organized via Easychair:


    Koen Claessen