Haskell Symposium 2020 New Jersey, United States, 27–28 August 2020

The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2020 will be co-located with the 2020 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), in New Jersey, United States.

Please use the ICFP website to register for the Symposium.

Scope

The Haskell Symposium presents original research on Haskell, discusses practical experience and future development of the language, and promotes other forms of declarative 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;
  
  
• Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell;
  
  
• 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;
  
  
• System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results.

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, and to other languages where appropriate.

Experience reports and functional pearls need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report 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 standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting.

System demonstrations should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals 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, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal.

[Formatting] Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines.

• Authors should use the acmart format, with the sigplan sub-format for ACM proceedings.
For details, see http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format
• Functional pearls, experience reports, and demo proposals should be labelled clearly as such.

[Lightweight Double-blind Reviewing] Haskell Symposium 2020 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules:

1. Author names and institutions must be omitted, and
2. References to authors’ own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”).

A reviewer will learn the identity of the author(s) of a paper after a review is submitted.

[Limits] The length of submissions should not exceed the following limits:

Regular paper:	12 pages
Functional pearl:	12 pages
Experience report:	6 pages
Demo proposal:	2 pages

There is no requirement that all pages are used. For example, a functional pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. In all cases, the list of references is not counted against these page limits.

[Submissions] Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, and authors should be aware of ACM's policies on plagiarism.

Program Committee members are allowed to submit papers, but their papers will be held to a higher standard.

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

Papers should be submitted through HotCRP.

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

Supplementary material: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should not be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a separate PDF document or tarball.

Supplementary material should be uploaded at submission time, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository.

Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s).

Resubmitted Papers: Authors who submit a revised version of a paper that has previously been rejected by another conference 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 principal editor 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.

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 program, see its web page.

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Their authors will be required to choose one of the following options:

• Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive permission-to-publish license (and, optionally, licenses the work with a Creative Commons license);
• Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive permssion-to-publish license;
• Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM.

Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium website but not formally published in the proceedings.

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.

Artifacts

Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make auxiliary material (artifacts like source code, test data, etc.) available with their paper. They can opt to have these artifacts published alongside their paper in the ACM Digital Library (copyright of artifacts remains with the authors).

[Badge] If an accepted paper's artifacts are made permanently available for retrieval in a publicly accessible archival repository like the ACM Digital Library, that paper qualifies for an Artifacts Available badge. Applications for such a badge can be made after paper acceptance and will be reviewed by the PC chair.

Related

• Text only version of call for for submissions
• ICFP 2020
• Previous Haskell Symposiums