TFP 2012 - The 2012 Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2012)

The 2012 Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2012) will be held at the University of St Andrews on June 12-14, 2012.

The Symposium will be co-located with a number of exciting events including a workshop on 75 Years of Lambda-Calculus, the first International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), an Erlang Factory Lite, Haskell and SAC Hackathons, a Summer School on Dependent Types.

TFP 2012 is sponsored by Erlang Solutions Ltd. and the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)

Key Dates
March 2012 Submission of draft papers
April 2012 Acceptance of papers for presentation at the symposium
June 12-14, 2012 Symposium
July 2012 Submission of revised papers for final proceedings
Sept. 2012 Notification of acceptance into final proceedings

A Week of Functional Programming in St Andrews!
June 11 International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE)
June 12-14 TFP 2012
June 14 Technical workshop on Patterns for Multicore (ParaPhrase Project)
June 15 Erlang Tutorials and Erlang Factory Lite

June 15 Workshop on 75 Years of Lambda Calculus

Symposium Objectives
The symposium is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area of functional programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below), described in draft papers submitted prior to the symposium. A formal post-symposium refereeing process then selects a subset of the articles presented at the symposium and submitted for formal publication, as a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume, as they were for the TFP 2010 selected papers.

The TFP symposium is the heir of the successful series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2003, in Munich (Germany) in 2004, in Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005, in Nottingham (UK) in 2006, in New York (USA) in 2007, in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008, in Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009, in Oklahoma (USA) in 2010, and in Madrid (Spain) in 2011. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage .

Scope of the Symposium
The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium’s focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories:

Research Articles:
leading-edge, previously unpublished research work

Position Articles:
on what new trends should or should not be

Project Articles:
descriptions of recently started new projects

Evaluation Articles:
what lessons can be drawn from a finished project

Overview Articles:
summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject

Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.

Articles on the following subject areas are particularly welcome:

?Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
?Functional programming in the cloud
?High performance functional computing
?Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
?Dependently typed functional programming
?Validation and verification of functional programs
?Using functional techniques to verify/reason about imperative/object-oriented programs
?Debugging for functional languages
?Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc.
?Interoperability with imperative programming languages
?Novel memory management techniques
?Program transformation techniques
?Empirical performance studies
?Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
?New implementation strategies
?Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area
?If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2012 program chair, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl.

Best Student Paper Award
TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year.

Submissions and Draft Proceedings
Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on a lightweight peer review process of extended abstracts (6 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (16 pages). Accepted abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings.

The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate whether the main author or authors are research students. Formatting details and submission procedures will be posted on this site as the submission deadline is approaching.

Symposium Organisation
Kevin Hammond General Chair

Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Programme Chair

Edwin Brady Local Arrangements
Vladimir Janjic