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Dates: 27–28 September 2018, St. Louis, MO, United States

The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2018 will be co-located with the 2018 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), in St. Louis, MO, United States. The Haskell Symposium aims to present original research on Haskell, discuss practical experience and future development of the language, and 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;

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. More advice is available via the Haskell wiki.

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.