Tokyo, Japan

September 19-21, 2011

Call for Papers

Important Dates

Titles, abstracts & keywords due: Thursday 17 March 2011 at 14:00 UTC Submissions due: Thursday 24 March 2011 at 14:00 UTC Author response: Tuesday & Wednesday 17-18 May Notification: Monday 30 May 2011 Final copy due: Friday 01 July 2011 Conference: Monday-Wednesday 19-21 September 2011

Scope

ICFP 2011 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, and 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, concurrency, or parallelism. Particular topics of interest include

Language Design: type systems; concurrency and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; relations to imperative, object-oriented, or logic programming; interoperability

Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; 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; mathematical logic; monads; continuations; delimited continuations; global, delimited, or local effects

Transformation and Analysis: abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program transformation; program calculation; program proofs; normalization by evaluation

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

Experience Reports: short papers that provide evidence that functional programming really works or describe obstacles that have kept it from working in a particular application

Instructions for authors

By 17 March 2011, 14:00 UTC, submit a title, an abstract of at most 300 words, and keywords.

By 24 March 2011, 14:00 UTC, submit a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for a Functional Pearl and for an Experience Report), including bibliography and figures.

The deadlines will be strictly enforced and papers exceeding the page limits will be summarily rejected. However, if you are affected by the earthquake in Japan, we will accept your title and abstract until Monday 4 April at 23:59, and your submission until Thursday 7 April at 23:59.

Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it.

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

In addition, authors of resubmitted (but previously rejected) papers 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 program chair will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her previous review. Otherwise, no rewiewer will read the annotated copies of the previous reviews.

Overall, 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.

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.htm

Submission: Abstracts and submissions will be accepted electronically at http://www.cs.au.dk/~danvy/icfp11/. 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 Tuesday 17 May 2010, to read reviews and respond to them.

Special Journal Issue: There will be a special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming with papers from ICFP 2011. The program committee will invite the authors of select accepted papers to submit a journal version to this issue.

Conference Chairs:

Program Chair:

Program Committee:

Manuel M T Chakravarty, University of New South Wales, AustraliaZhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics (NII), JapanOlivier Danvy, Aarhus University, DenmarkKenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, JapanJosh Berdine, Microsoft Research, UKAdam Chlipala, Harvard University, USAWilliam Cook, University of Texas at Austin, USAMaribel Fernandez, King's College London, UKRonald Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University, USANeal Glew, Intel Labs, USAJacques Garrigue, Nagoya University, JapanSuresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USASam Lindley, University of Edinburgh, UKFrank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, USAPaola Quaglia, University of Trento, ItalyAlexis Saurin, University of Paris VII, FranceMike Spivey, Oxford University, UKKristian Stoevring, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkDoaitse Swierstra, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsDavid Van Horn, Northeastern University, USARene Vestergaard, JAIST, JapanEdwin Westbrook, Rice University, USA