[TYPES/announce] Onward! 2011: Call for Papers, Essays, Films, and Workshops
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Call for Papers, Essays, Films, and Workshops -=-=-=-=-= Onward! 2011 ACM Conference on New Ideas in Programming and Reflections on Software October 22-27, 2011 Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, Portland, Oregon USA Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN http://onward-conference.org/2011/ http://onward-conference.org/2011/poster.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to not (yet) so well-proven but well-argued ideas. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Onward! fosters the multidisciplinarity of software development. We are interested in anything to do with programming and software. Processes, methods, languages, art, philosophy, biology, economics, communities, politics, ethics, and of course applications. Anything! Sounds good? Do you want to report on and present your new ideas to the community and get feedback? Do you have a video to show or a story to tell, an essay perhaps? Do you want to bring reflections and new insights to the community? Or do you simply want to know more about innovations, visions, and the future of programming languages and software engineering? Then... Join Onward!, the unique, creative, and collaborative environment to discuss and investigate challenging problems related to software, its creation, and nurturing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Call for Research Papers: * http://onward-conference.org/2011/papers-call.html * Research papers submission: April 8, 2011 * Research papers notification: June 13, 2011 * Camera-ready copy of research papers due: July 25, 2011 Call for Essays: * http://onward-conference.org/2011/essays-call.html * Essays submission: April 18, 2011 * Essays notification: June 13, 2011 * Camera-ready copy of essays due: July 15, 2011 Call for Films: * http://onward-conference.org/2011/films-call.html * Films submission: May 10, 2011 * Films notification: July 1, 2011 * Final Films due: August 1, 2011 Call for Workshops: * http://onward-conference.org/2011/workshops-call.html * Workshop proposal submission: April 8, 2011 * Workshop proposal notification: May 8, 2011 * Camera-ready copy of workshop abstracts due: June 8, 2011 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Organization * General Chair: Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany * Steering Committee Chair and General Co-Chair: Richard P. Gabriel, IBM Research, USA * Program Chair: Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Workshops Chair: Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Essays Chair: David West, New Mexico Highlands University, USA * Films Chair: Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany * Web Chair: Tobias Pape, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, Germany * Design: Constanze Langer, Institute of Industrial Design, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[TYPES/announce] IWACO 2011: Call for Papers
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Call For Papers International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO) Celebrating 20 years of aliasing research at ECOOP 2011 July 25th, 2011, Lancaster, UK http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/IWACO2011/ Call For Papers === 2011 is the 20th anniversary of "The Geneva Convention on The Treatment of Object Aliasing", which started research in aliasing and led to the development of object-ownership techniques. To celebrate, IWACO 2011 will be a special edition; we are in negotiation to publish a book (edited by members of the organising committee) containing the best papers from IWACO '11 and invited papers of a survey or retrospective nature. In addition to original research papers, we encourage authors to submit position papers and papers considering future research directions. The power of objects lies in the flexibility of their interconnection structure. But this flexibility comes at a cost. Because an object can be modified via any alias, object-oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Aliasing makes objects depend on their environment in unpredictable ways, breaking the encapsulation necessary for reliable software components, making it difficult to reason about and optimise programs, obscuring the flow of information between objects, and introducing security problems. Aliasing is a fundamental difficulty, but we accept its presence. Instead we seek techniques for describing, reasoning about, restricting, analysing, and preventing the connections between objects and/or the flow of information between them. Promising approaches to these problems are based on ownership, confinement, information flow, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, effects systems, and access control mechanisms. The workshop will generally address the question how to manage interconnected object structures in the presence of aliasing. In particular, we will consider the following issues (among others): * models, type and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing object ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and/or information flow. * optimisation techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting object ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and/or information flow. * empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these issues in mind * novel applications of aliasing management techniques such as ownership types, ownership domains, confined types, region types, and uniqueness. We encourage not only submissions presenting original research results, but also papers that attempt to establish links between different approaches and/or papers that include survey material. Original research results should be clearly described, and their usefulness to practitioners outlined. Paper selection will be based on the quality of the submitted material. The workshop will be held as part of the ECOOP'11 conference taking place in Lancaster, England. Programme Committee --- Nicholas Cameron(chair, Victoria University of Wellington) Dave Clarke (KU Leuven) Werner Dietl(University of Washington) Ioannis Kassios (ETH Zurich) Doug Lea(State University of New York at Oswego) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Matthew Parkinson (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Alex Potanin(Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Uppsala University) Important Dates --- 15 April, 2011: paper submission deadline 20 May, 2011: author notification 25 May, 2011: full program disseminated 24 June, 2011: papers available 25 July, 2011: workshop takes place Organisers -- Dave Clarke (KU Leuven) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Uppsala University) Peter Muller(ETH Zurich) Matthew Parkinson (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Participation - The number of participants is limited to 25. Apart from those with accepted papers, others may attend by sending an email to Nicholas Cameron (ncame...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz) indicating what contribution you could make to the workshop. A small number of places will be reserved for PhD students and other researchers wishing to begin research in this area. Selection Process - Both full papers (up to 10 pgs.) and short papers (1-2 pgs.) are welcome. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee. The accepted papers,
[TYPES/announce] PhD position in Communicating Transactions at Trinity College Dublin
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] [Apologies for multiple mailings] Language Support for Communicating Transactions A three year PhD position, to start in September 2011, is now available at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, associated with the project "Language Support for Communicating Transactions" funded by the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship scheme. Three years fees will be paid at the EU rate and there will be a stipend at the standard HEA rate. The position is based in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, co-supervised by Matthew Hennessy at Trinity and Andrew Gordon and Nick Benton at Microsoft Research, Cambridge England. The goal of the project is to develop abstract models and programming support for "communicating transactions" a novel language construct obtained by dropping the standard isolation requirement from traditional transactions. As a result independent transactions can interfere, or communicate, with each other, which leads to complex interdependences in the event of failure. The goal of the project is to construct abstract models for their behaviour and to develop efficient programming language support for these models. Specifically the project will extend concurrent Haskell with a construct for communicating transactions, study the formal semantics of the extended language, investigate efficient implementation strategies, and develop useful programming idioms and verification techniques. Candidates are expected to have a first-class degree in Computer Science. The project will involve language implementation, the elaboration of formal semantics, and the development of verification techniques. Consequently the successful candidate will have a broad range of skills. These should include language implementation skills, a good knowledge of formal techniques for the specification of language semantics; experience with logic based verification techniques is also desirable. Informal preliminary enquiries may be made to Matthew Hennessy at Trinity College.
[TYPES/announce] LOLA 2011 -- call for contributed talks
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] *** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS *** LOLA 2011 Syntax and Semantics of Low Level Languages Monday 20th June 2011, Toronto, Canada A LICS 2011-affiliated workshop http://flint.cs.yale.edu/lola2011 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline Friday 29th April 2011 Author notification Friday 13th May 2011 WorkshopMonday 20th June 2011 SUBMISSION LINK The submissions will be made by easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2011 DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP It has been understood since the late 1960s that tools and structures arising in mathematical logic and proof theory can usefully be applied to the design of high level programming languages, and to the development of reasoning principles for such languages. Yet low level languages, such as machine code, and the compilation of high level languages into a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of this past decade has been that low level languages are also governed by logical principles. From this key observation has emerged an active and fascinating new research area at the frontier of logic and computer science. The practically motivated design of logics reflecting the structure of low level languages (such as heaps, registers and code pointers) and low level properties of programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand with the some of the most advanced contemporary researches in semantics and proof theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics, uniformity, categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract machines, implicit complexity and sublinear programming. The LOLA workshop, affiliated with LICS, will bring together researchers interested in the various aspects of the relationship between logic and low level languages and programs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Typed assembly languages - Certified assembly programming - Certified and certifying compilation - Proof-carrying code - Program optimization - Modal logic and realizability in machine code - Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code, - Implicit complexity, sublinear programming and Turing machines - Parametricity, modules and existential types - General references, Kripke models and recursive types - Closures and explicit substitutions - Linear logic and separation logic - Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis - Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Nick Benton (MSR Cambridge) * Josh Berdine (MSR Cambridge) * Lars Birkedal (IT University of Copenhagen, co-chair) * Xinyu Feng (University of Science and Technology of China) * Greg Morrisett (Harvard University) * Xavier Rival (INRIA Roquencourt and ENS Paris) * Zhong Shao (Yale University, co-chair) * Nicolas Tabareau (INRIA - EMN) * Jérôme Vouillon (CNRS) * Noam Zeilberger (University of Paris VII) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress, overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials as well as more traditional research talks describing new results. The programme committee will select the workshop presentations from submitted proposals, which may take the form either of a short abstract or of a longer (published or unpublished) paper describing completed work. The submissions should be made by easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2011 INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced soon.
[TYPES/announce] LSFA 2011 - First call for papers
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] LSFA 2011 - Sixth Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications August 27th, 2011, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil Scope Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The objective of this one-day workshop is to put together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and the use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: * Logical frameworks o Proof theory o Type theory o Automated deduction * Semantic frameworks o Specification languages and meta-languages o Formal semantics of languages and systems o Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Implementation of logical and/or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical and/or semantic frameworks LSFA 2011 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. Submissions to the workshop will in the form of full papers. The proceedings are produced only after the meeting, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. Invited Speakers 01 Camilo Rueda (PUJ - Colombia) 02 (TBC) Program Committee Simona Ronchi della Rocca (co-chair, UNITO, Italy) Elaine Gouvêa Pimentel (co-chair, UFMG, Brazil) Luis Farinas del Cerro (IRIT, France) Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Jonathan Seldin (Univ-Lethbridge , Canada) MaurÃcio Ayala-Rincón (UnB, Brazil) Mario Benevides (Coppe-UFRJ, Brazil) Eduardo Bonelli (UNQ, Argentina) Marcelo Corrêa (IM-UFF, Brazil) Clare Dixon (Liverpool, UK) Gilles Dowek (Polytechnique-Paris, France) William Farmer (Mcmaster, Canada) Maribel Fernández (King's College, UK) Marcelo Finger (IME-USP, Brazil) Alwyn Goodloe (NASA LaRC) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt Univ, UK) Delia Kesner (Paris-Jussieu, France) Luis da Cunha Lamb (UFRGS, Brazil) Joao Marcos (UFRN, Brazil) Flavio L. C. de Moura (UnB, Brazil) Ana Teresa Martins (UFC, Brazil) Martin Musicante (UFRN, Brazil) Cláudia Nalon (UnB, Brazil) Vivek Nigam (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Luca Paolini (UNITO, Italy) Organizing Committee Mauricio Ayala-Rincón Edward Hermann Hauesler PUC-Rio Elaine Pimentel (Local-chair) Simona Ronchi della Rocca Dates and Submission Paper submission deadline: May 23 Author notification: June 30 Camera ready:July 31st Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form full papers with at most 16 pages. They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to LSFA 2011 page at EasyChair until the submission deadline in May 23, by midnight, Central European Standard Time (GMT+1). The papers should be prepared in latex using EPTCS style. The workshop pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed-out at workshop registration and the proceedings will be published as a volume of EPTCS. After the workshop, according to the quantity and quality of selected papers, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works that will be also reviewed to high standards. A special issue of the first edition of the workshop appeared in the Journal of Algorithms, a special issue of the second edition of the workshop appeared in the J.IGPL and a special edition of TCS is being prepared with selected contributions from the third and the forth editions of LSFA. At least one of the authors should register at the conference. The paper presentation should be in English. Venue Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais and the third-largest metropolitan area in Brazil. A city surrounded by mountains, quite big, but still with this countryside town air. Contact Information For more information please contact the chairs The web page of the event can be reached at: http://www.mat.ufmg.br/lsfa2011/ Elaine. - Elaine Pimentel - DMat/UFMG Address: Departamento de Matematica Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Av Antonio Carlos, 6627 - C.P. 702 Pampulha - CEP 30.161-970 Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil Phone: 55 31 3409-5970 Fax: 55 31 3409-5692 http://www.mat.ufmg.br/~elaine -
