ICFP 2010 - The 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming ICFP 2010

Important Dates
Submission: 2 April 2010
Author response: 24 ? 25 May 2010
Notification: 7 June 2010
Final papers due: 12 July 2010
All deadlines are at 14:00 UTC.

Scope
ICFP 2010 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to features, from abstraction to application. The scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages with objects or concurrency. Particular topics of interest include

Language Design: type systems; concurrency and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; relations to object-oriented or logic programming; interoperability
Implementation: abstract machines; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management; multi-threading; exploiting parallel hardware; interfaces to foreign functions, services, components or low-level machine resources >
Software-Development Techniques: algorithms and data structures design patterns; specification; verification; validation; proof assistants; debugging; testing; tracing; profiling
Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; rewriting; type theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects
Transformation and Analysis: abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program transformation; program calculation; program proof
Applications and Domain-Specific Languages: symbolic computing; formal-methods tools; artificial intelligence; systems programming; distributed-systems and web programming; hardware design; databases; XML processing; scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces; multimedia programming; scripting; system administration; security; education
Functional Pearls: elegant, instructive, and fun essays on functional programming
The conference also solicits Experience Reports, which are short papers that provide evidence that functional programming really works or describe obstacles that have kept it from working in a particular application.

Abbreviated instructions for authors
By 2 April 2010, 14:00 UTC, submit an abstract of at most 300 words and a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for an Experience Report), including bibliography and figures. The deadline will be strictly enforced and papers exceeding the page limits will be summarily rejected. Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it.

A submission will be evaluated according to its relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. It should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical content should be accessible to a broad audience. Functional Pearls and Experience Reports are separate categories of papers that need not report original research results and must be marked as such at the time of submission. Detailed guidelines on both categories are on the conference web site.

Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at http://www.acm.org/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm.

Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to transfer the copyright to the ACM. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents by signing an additional permission form at the time of the presentation. Formatting: Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. If this requirement is a hardship, make contact with the program chair at least one week before the deadline. Papers must adhere to the standard ACM conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LATEX is available from SIGPLAN at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.....

Submission: Submissions will be accepted electronically at a URL to be named later. Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface.

Author response: Authors will have a 48-hour period, starting at 14:00 UTC on 24 May 2010, to read and respond to reviews. Special Journal Issue: There will be a special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming with papers from ICFP 2010. The program committee will invite the authors of select accepted papers to submit a journal version to this issue.
Organization
Conference Chair

Paul Hudak, Yale University
Program Chair

Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania
Program Committee

Umut Acar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Zena Ariola, University of Oregon
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh
Peter Dybjer, Chalmers University of Technology
Robert Bruce Findler, Northwestern University
Andy Gill, Kansas University
Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen
Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, College Park
Patricia Johann, University of Strathclyde
Andres Löh, Utrecht University
Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research
Didier Rémy, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt
John Reppy, University of Chicago
Manuel Serrano, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Matthieu Sozeau, Harvard University