ACM SIGPLAN 2008 Haskell Symposium 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.

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 an increasing numbers of high quality submissions making the acceptance process highly competitive. 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).

General Information

• Call for Papers (TXT)
• Paper submissions can be made via the easychair webpage http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haskell08
• The list of accepted papers has been finalized.
• The schedule for accepted papers and demos has been posted.
• The symposium will have printed proceedings which will be distributed to the participants at the time of the symposium and be published in the ACM digital library.
• The permanent homepage of the Haskell Symposium and the Haskell Symposium Steering Committee.

Important Dates and Deadlines

• Submission Deadline: Tuesday, June 24^rd 2008, 8PM Kansas (Central) time [now closed]
• Author Notification: Friday, July 18^th 2008
• Final Papers Due: Monday, July 28^th 2008, 8:00 AM EST. (Your upload link url has been sent from Sheridan Printing via email.)
• Symposium: Thursday, September 25^th 2008

Registration

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