Haskell Symposium 2013

Boston, MA, USA
23–24 September 2013
(directly before ICFP)

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The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2013 will be colocated with the 2013 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) in Boston, MA, USA. This year, the symposium will last 2 days rather than 1 as in the past. Thanks to broader participation from a growing community, we will be able to include more regular papers as well as system demonstrations and a new category of panel discussions, while upholding the scientific quality of the symposium.

The Haskell Symposium seeks to present original research on Haskell, to discuss practical experience and future development of the language, as well as to promote other forms of denotative programming. Topics of interest include

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 semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, 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

such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools;

Applications

to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth;

Functional Pearls

being elegant and instructive programming examples;

Experience Reports

to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts.

Papers in the latter three categories need not necessarily report original research results. They may report instead, for example, reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementors, or researchers. 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 advice on Functional Pearls and Experience Reports can be found on the ICFP’09 page (but note that our Experience Reports can be 6 instead of 4 pages). On Functional Pearls, see also JFP editorial advice. On Experience Reports, see also Ben Lippmeier’s advice on the Haskell Wiki.

Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work (also for other languages where appropriate).

In addition, we solicit proposals for

System Demonstrations (no longer than a regular paper talk)

based on running (perhaps prototype) software rather than necessarily on novel research results.

Panel Discussions (no shorter than a regular paper talk)

submitted by a moderator who proposes to bring together specific panelists who have agreed to address a specific pressing issue in the Haskell community. Panels will subsume past “Future of Haskell” discussions.

These proposals should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated or the panelist positions that would be discussed. The proposals should explain (and will be judged on) whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical or social. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal.

Travel support

Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC programme, see its web page.

Proceedings

ACM Press will publish formal proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must grant ACM publication rights upon acceptance. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material.

Accepted demo and panel proposals will be posted on the symposium web page, but not formally published in the proceedings.

Submission details

Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. The text should be in a 9-point font in two columns. The length is restricted to 12 pages, except for “Experience Report” papers, which are restricted to 6 pages. Papers need not fill the page limit—for example, a Functional Pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. Each paper submission must adhere to SIGPLAN’s republication policy.

Demo and panel proposals are limited to 2-page abstracts, in the same ACM format as papers.

“Functional Pearls”, “Experience Reports”, “Demo Proposals”, and “Panel Proposals” should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission.

The paper submission deadline and length limitations are firm. There will be no extensions, and papers violating the length limitations will be summarily rejected.

Submission is via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haskell2013