2021-05-13

[Caml-list] Call for Papers: 19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2021)

CALL FOR PAPERS
19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2021)
Oct 17-Oct 22, 2021,
Chicago, Illinois (co-located with SPLASH 2021)

https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2021

The 19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2021)
aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for
the presentation of the latest results and the exchange of ideas in
programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia but is an
international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages
community. APLAS 2021 will be co-located with SPLASH 2021.

Due to the COVID-19 situation, all authors will be given the chance to
present remotely regardless of whether the conference is held as a physical,
virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting.

Papers are solicited on topics such as:

- Semantics, logics, foundational theory
- Design of languages, type systems, and foundational calculi
- Domain-specific languages
- Compilers, interpreters, abstract machines
- Program derivation, synthesis, and transformation
- Program analysis, verification, model-checking
- Logic, constraint, probabilistic, and quantum programming
- Software security
- Concurrency and parallelism
- Tools and environments for programming and implementation
- Applications of SAT/SMT to programming and implementation

Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers
identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid
changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome.
Demonstration of tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the Tool paper
category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome
to consult with program chair prior to submission.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: June 16, 2021 (anywhere on Earth)
Author response: July 28 - 30, 2021
Author notification: August 11, 2021
Final version: September 1, 2021
Conference: October 17 - October 22, 2021


CALL FOR REGULAR RESEARCH PAPERS

We solicit submissions in the form of regular research papers describing
original scientific research results, including system development and case
studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer
LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses
both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions)
papers. In either case, submissions should clearly identify what has been
accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the
basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.
System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and
will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of
space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the
technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link
to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them.

CALL FOR TOOL PAPERS

We solicit submissions in the form of tool papers describing a
demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program
construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The
main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and
well-documented tool-highlighting the overall functionality of the tool,
the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the
tool, an assessment of the tool's strengths and weaknesses, and a summary
of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool
demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the
tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available
on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the
Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include
an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline,
screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live
demo.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, South Korea
Edwin Brady, University of St. Andrews, UK
Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Andreea Costea, NUS, Singapore
Rayna Dimitrova, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Yu Feng, UC Santa Barbara, US
Giulio Guerrieri, University of Bath, UK
Kihong Heo, KAIST, South Korea
Yue Li, Nanjing University, China
Sam Lindley, Heriot-Watt University / University of Edinburgh, UK
Sergio Mover, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Uday P. Khedker, IIT Bombay, India
Alex Potanin, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Xiaokang Qiu, Purdue University, US
Jiasi Shen, MIT, US
Xujie Si, McGill University, Canada
Gagandeep Singh, VMWare Research / UIUC, US
Youngju Song, Seoul National University, South Korea
Kohei Suenaga, Kyoto University, Japan
Yulei Sui, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Tachio Terauchi, Waseda University, Japan
Xinyu Wang, University of Michigan, US
Qirun Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
Xin Zhang, Peking University, China

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page using
HotCRP (https://aplas2021.hotcrp.com).
The acceptable format is PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English.
The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
Accepted papers must be presented at the conference.


REVIEW PROCESS

APLAS 2021 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following
this process means that reviewers will not see the authors' names or
affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors' names will then
be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted.
To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following:
Author names and institutions must be omitted and
References to the authors' own related work should be in the third person
(e.g., not "We build on our previous work …" but rather "We build on the
work of …").
The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial
judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them
to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the
name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing
the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating
new ideas. For example, important background references should not be
omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and
share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. Authors should feel free
to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they
normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on
the web or give talks on their research ideas.

AUTHOR RESPONSE PERIOD

During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and
respond to them as appropriate.

RESEARCH INTEGRITY

The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of publication,
to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is possible if fatal
flaws are discovered in the paper, or research integrity is found to have
been seriously breached.
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

[Caml-list] LOPSTR 2021 - Call for Papers: Extended Deadline

31st International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2021

http://saks.iasi.cnr.it/lopstr21/

Tallinn (Estonia) and Virtual
September 7-9, 2021
(co-located with PPDP 2021)


*** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 7, 2021 ***

* The conference will be held as a hybrid (blended) meeting, both
in-person and virtual. *

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The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR
is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any
language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly
forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings
are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate
this feedback in the published papers.

The 31st International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2021) will be held as a hybrid (blended) meeting,
both in-person (at the Teachers' House in Tallinn, Estonia) and virtual.
Previous symposia were held in Bologna (as a virtual meeting), Porto,
Frankfurt am Main, Namur, Edinburgh, Siena, Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven,
Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Venice, London,
Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven,
Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester.
LOPSTR 2021 will be co-located with PPDP 2021 (International Symposium
on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming).

Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development,
all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both
programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large, including,
but not limited to:

  - synthesis
  - transformation
  - specialization
  - composition
  - optimization
  - inversion
  - specification
  - analysis and verification
  - testing and certification
  - program and model manipulation
  - machine learning for program development
  - verification and testing of machine learning systems
  - transformational techniques in SE
  - applications and tools

Both full papers and extended abstracts describing foundations and
applications in these areas are welcome. Survey papers that present
some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective and papers
that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome.

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English,
and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published
or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop
with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or
informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact
the PC chairs in case of questions).


* Important Dates *

Paper/Extended abstract submission (extended): June 7, 2021
Notification (extended): July 16, 2021
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 20, 2021
Symposium: September 7-9, 2021
Revised paper submission: November 1, 2021 (AoE)
Notification: December 1, 2021
Final version (for post-proceedings): January 16, 2022


* Submission Guidelines *

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English)
in PDF, formatted in LNCS style. Each submission must include on its first
page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's
email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist
the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers
(and, if possible, line numbers) should appear on the manuscript to help
the reviewers in writing their report. Full papers cannot exceed 15 pages
excluding references. Extended abstracts cannot exceed 8 pages excluding
references. Additional pages may be used for appendices not intended for
publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus
papers should be intelligible without them. Papers should be submitted
via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2021


* Proceedings *

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as in previous years. Full papers
can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or
accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal
proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and
full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or
extend their submissions. Then, after another round of reviewing, these
revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Authors
should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings
templates for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors
to include their ORCIDs in their papers.


* Best paper awards *
Thanks to Springer's sponsorship, two awards (including a 500 EUR prize
each)
will be given at LOPSTR 2021. The program committee will select the winning
papers based on relevance, originality and technical quality but may also
take authorship into account (e.g. a student paper).


* Invited Speaker *
TBA


* Program Committee *
Roberto Amadini, University of Bologna, Italy
Sabine Broda, University of Porto, Portugal
Maximiliano Cristiá, CIFASIS-UNR, Argentina
Włodzimierz Drabent, IPI PAN, Poland & Linköping University, Sweden
Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France
Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Michael Hanus, Kiel University, Germany
Bishoksan Kafle, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Maja Kirkeby, Roskilde University, Denmark
Temur Kutsia, RISC J. Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Pedro López-García, IMDEA Software Institute & CSIC, Spain
Jacopo Mauro, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Fred Mesnard, Université de la Réunion, France
Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano, Italy
Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA
Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University, Japan
Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain


* Program Chairs *
Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy
Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium


* Local organisation *
Niccolò Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia


* Contact *

For more information, please contact the Program Committee Chairs:
emanuele.deangelis@iasi.cnr.it, wim.vanhoof@unamur.be

2021-05-11

[Caml-list] SBLP 2021 - Second Call for Papers (deadline extension)

Differences regarding first CFP: one week deadline extension and update on pages limit.

[ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ]

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Call for Papers - XXV Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP 2021)


Online, September 27 - October 1, 2021

Conference website: http://cbsoft2021.joinville.udesc.br/sblp.php

Submission link:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2021


SBLP 2021 is the 25th edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages. It is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and constitutes a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use of programming languages. SBLP's first edition was in 1996. Since 2010, it has been part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice.

The symposium is planned to take place from September 27 to October 1, 2021, fully online.


Submission Guidelines
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Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submissions in English are encouraged because only accepted papers written in English will appear in the proceedings indexed in the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

SBLP 2021 will use a lightweight double-blind review process. The manuscripts should be submitted for review anonymously (i.e., without listing the author's names on the paper) and references to own work should be made in the third person.

Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System:

 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2021


The following paper categories are welcome (page limits include figures, references and appendices):

Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column conference format, available at

 http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Full papers can be further specialized, at submission time, as Student papers (i.e., as papers describing research conducted mainly by a student at any level). Student papers will be subject to the exact same reviewing process and criteria, but may be entitled for an award (see below).

Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses.

*Each paper can have a maximum of one extra page for references.*

Awards:

Two best paper awards will be attributed, distinguishing full paper submissions of the best:

  * student paper;

  * non-student paper.


List of Topics (related but not limited to the following)
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  * Programming paradigms and styles, scripting and domain-specific languages and support for real-time, service-oriented, multi-threaded, parallel, distributed, and quantum programming

  * Program generation and transformation

  * Formal semantics and theoretical foundations: denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical

  * Program analysis and verification, type systems, static analysis, and abstract interpretation

  * Programming language design and implementation, programming, language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques

  * Programming languages for the blockchain technology: design and implementation of Smart Contract languages, implementation of consensus protocols, language-based security and cryptographic primitives


Publication
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SBLP proceedings will be published in ACM's digital library. A selection of the best papers appearing in the 2019 and 2020 editions of SBLP have been invited to be extended and considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Computer languages (COLA), by Elsevier. We will approach COLA for a similar special issue regarding the 2021 edition of SBLP.


Important dates
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Abstract submission: 9 May, 2021 23 May, 2021

Paper submission: 16 May, 2021 23 May, 2021

Author notification: 09 July, 2021

Camera ready deadline: 23 July, 2021


Program Committee
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* Program Committee Chair:

- João Paulo Fernandes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal


* Publicity Chair:

- Mário Pereira, NOVA LINCS & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal


* Program Committee:

- Adrien Guatto, Université de Paris, CNRS, IRIF, France

- Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

- Alcides Fonseca, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

- Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC (CONICET / UBA), Argentina

- Alex Kavvos, University of Bristol, UK

- Anderson Faustino da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil

- Andrei Rimsa, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Boston University, USA

- Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

- Caterina Urban, INRIA & École Normale Supérieure | Université PSL, France

- Cláudio Lourenço, Huawei Research, UK

- Cristiano Vasconcellos, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil

- Dalvan Griebler, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) / Sociedade Educacional Três de Maio (Setrem), Brazil

- Emmanuel Chailloux, Sorbonne Université, France

- Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA

- Fernando Castor, Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, Brazil

- Fernando Pereira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Francisco Junior, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil

- Francisco Sant'anna, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Jean-Christophe Filliâtre, CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay, France

- Léon Gondelman, University of Aarhus, Denmark

- Lourdes González Huesca, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

- Luiz Fernandes, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

- Marcos Viera, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

- Mário Pereira, NOVA LINCS & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

- Mauro Jaskelioff, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

- Noemi Rodriguez, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Paul Leger, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

- Roberto Bigonha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Rodrigo Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

- Rui Pereira, HASLab/INESC Tec, Portugal

- Samuel Feitosa, Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

- Sérgio Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

- Simão Melo de Sousa, NOVA-LINCS &  Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

- Stefania Dumbrava, École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'industrie et l'Entreprise, France

- Stéphane Lengrand, Stanford Research Institute, USA


Contact
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to João Paulo Fernandes

(jpaulo@fe.up.pt)

2021-05-10

[Caml-list] FMBC 2021 - Final Call for Papers (Deadline extension)

[ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ]

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3rd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) - Final Call

https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2021

July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021, *online*

Co-located with the 33nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2021)

http://i-cav.org/2021/


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: May 16, 2021 (extended)
Paper submission: May 23, 2021 (extended)
Notification: June 30, 2021 (extended)
Camera-ready: July 14, 2021 (extended)
Workshop: July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021

Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Blockchains are decentralized transactional ledgers that rely on
cryptographic hash functions for guaranteeing the integrity of the
stored data. Participants on the network reach agreement on what valid
transactions are through consensus algorithms.

Blockchains may also provide support for Smart Contracts. Smart
Contracts are scripts of an ad-hoc programming language that are
stored in the Blockchain and that run on the network. They can
interact with the ledger's data and update its state. These scripts
can express the logic of possibly complex contracts between users of
the Blockchain. Thus, Smart Contracts can facilitate the economic
activity of Blockchain participants.

With the emergence and increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies such
as Bitcoin and Ethereum, it is now of utmost importance to have strong
guarantees of the behavior of Blockchain software.
These guarantees can be brought by using Formal Methods. Indeed,
Blockchain software encompasses many topics of computer science where
using Formal Methods techniques and tools are relevant: consensus
algorithms to ensure the liveness and the security of the data on the
chain, programming languages specifically designed to write Smart
Contracts, cryptographic protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs,
used to ensure privacy, etc.

This workshop is a forum to identify theoretical and practical
approaches of formal methods for Blockchain technology. Topics
include, but are not limited to:
* Formal models of Blockchain applications or concepts
* Formal methods for consensus protocols
* Formal methods for Blockchain-specific cryptographic primitives or protocols
* Design and implementation of Smart Contract languages
* Verification of Smart Contracts

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SUBMISSION
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Submit original manuscripts (not published or considered elsewhere)
with a page limit of 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short
papers (excluding bibliography and short appendix of up to 5
additional pages).

Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 3
pages (including bibliography) summarizing your ongoing work in the
area of formal methods and blockchain. Authors of selected
extended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2021

Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and prepare their submissions
according to the instructions and styling guides for OASIcs provided
by Dagstuhl.

Instructions for authors: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#oasics

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the
paper at the workshop as a registered participant.

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PROCEEDINGS
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All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted regular papers
(full and short papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings,
published as a volume of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)
by Dagstuhl.

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INVITED SPEAKER
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David Dill, Lead Researcher, Blockchain, Novi/Facebook, USA
https://research.fb.com/people/dill-david/

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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PC CO-CHAIRS
* Bruno Bernardo (Nomadic Labs, France) (bruno@nomadic-labs.com)
* Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) (D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk)

PC MEMBERS
* Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
* Lacramioara Astefanoei (Nomadic Labs, France)
* Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy)
* Joachim Breitner (Dfinity Foundation, Germany)
* Achim Brucker (University of Exeter, UK)
* Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, France)
* Jérémie Decouchant (TU Delft, Netherlands)
* Dana Drachsler Cohen (Technion, Israel)
* Ansgar Fehnker (University of Twente, Netherlands)
* Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, USA)
* Lars Hupel (INNOQ, Germany)
* Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK)
* Igor Konnov (Informal Systems, Austria)
* Andreas Lochbihler (Digital Asset, Switzerland)
* Simão Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
* Karl Palmskog (KTH, Sweden)
* Maria Potop-Butucaru (Sorbonne Université, France)
* Andreas Rossberg (Dfinity Foundation, Germany)
* Albert Rubio (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
* César Sanchez (Imdea, Spain)
* Clara Schneidewind (TU Wien, Austria)
* Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College/NUS, Singapore)
* Mark Staples (CSIRO Data61, Australia)
* Meng Sun (Peking University, China)
* Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK)
* Josef Widder (Informal Systems, Austria)

2021-05-03

[Caml-list] ACM Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design - Last Call for Papers, Demos, and Performances

Less than 2 weeks to go!

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7th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on
Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design
(FARM)
Call for Papers, Demos, and Performance
Virtual, 27th August 2021
Deadlines:
May 15 (Papers & Demos)
June 13 (Performances
https://functional-art.org/2021
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Key Dates
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Papers and Demos:
Paper submission deadline May 15
Author notification June 5
Camera ready June 26
Workshop August 27

Performances:
Performance submission deadline June 13
Performance notification June 26

Call for Papers
===============

After an 2020 online edition restricted to the performance session,
the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music,
Modelling and Design (FARM) will also be held online in 2021 but open
to all tracks (paper, demo and performance). Pursuing its mission,
this 9th workshop aims to bring together people who are harnessing
functional techniques in the pursuit of creativity and artistic
expression.

FARM encourages submissions from across art, craft, and design,
including textiles, visual art, music, 3D sculpture, animation, GUIs,
video games, 3D printing and architectural models, choreography,
poetry, and even VLSI layouts, GPU configurations, or mechanical
engineering designs. Theoretical foundations, language design,
implementation issues, and applications in industry or the arts are
all within the scope of the workshop.

In addition to the main workshop, FARM hosts a traditional evening of
performances. Thus, this call encompasses both papers/demos for the
workshop (and its published proceedings) as well as performance
proposals for the evening's event. Authors are invited to make a
single submission for each. Authors may submit both a paper/demo and
performance proposal, but the submissions will be considered
independently.

Note on Finances
================

Paid registration to the FARM workshop is usually required for paper
and demo submitters, but will be waived for performers.

If you would have financial difficulty attending, you can apply for
conference "PAC" funds. Please get in touch for more information.

Submission
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We welcome submissions from academic, professional, and independent
programmers and artists. Submissions are accepted via the Submission
page on Easychair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=farm2021

Paper proposals
===============

Paper submissions are invited in three categories:

- Original research
- Overview / state of the art
- Technology tutorial (especially tools and environments for distributed artistic workflow)

All submissions must propose an original contribution to the FARM
theme. FARM is an interdisciplinary conference, so a wide range of
approaches are encouraged. An original paper should have 5 to 12
pages, be in portable document format (PDF), and use the ACM SIGPLAN
style guides and ACM SIGPLAN template (using the SIGPLAN
sub-format). Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital
Library as part of the FARM 2021 proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit auxiliary material for publication
along with their paper (source code, data, videos, images, etc.);
authors retain all rights to the auxiliary material.

Demo proposals
==============

Demo proposals should describe a demonstration to be given at the FARM
workshop and its context, connecting it with the themes of FARM. A
demo could be in the form of a short (1020 minute) tutorial,
presentation of work-in-progress, an exhibition of some work, or even
a performance. Demo proposals should be in the form of an extended
abstract (500 to 2000 words). A demo proposal should be clearly marked
as such, by prepending "Demo Proposal:" to the title and proposed to
the 'paper' track. Demo proposals will be published on the FARM
website.

Performance proposals
======================

FARM seeks proposals for performances which employ functional
programming techniques, in whole or in part. We invite a diverse range
of functionally-themed submissions including music, video, dance, and
performance art. Both live performances and fixed-media submissions
are welcome. We encourage both risk-taking proposals that push forward
the state of the art and refined presentations of highly developed
practice. Performances will be held online.

Performance proposals should be emailed to
performance@functional-art.org, and must include: a description of the
performance (please be as specific as possible), an explanation of the
use of functional programming in the work, and a list of technical
requirements. All proposals should be supported by a link to an audio
or video example (YouTube, Vimeo, Bandcamp, etc.).

Important dates/deadlines
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Submission Deadline: May, 15th
Author Notification: June, 5th
Performance Submission Deadlione: June 13th
Camera Ready: June 26th
Performance Notification: June 26
Workshop: August 27th

Authors take note
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For original papers and demos, the official publication date is the
date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital
Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of
the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for
any patent filings related to published work.

All presentations at FARM 2021 will be recorded. Permission to publish
the resulting video (in all probability on YouTube, along with the
videos of ICFP itself and the other ICFP-colocated events) will be
requested on-site.

Questions
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If you have any questions about what type of contributions that might
be suitable, or anything else regarding submission or the workshop
itself, please contact the organizers at: farm2021@functional-art.org.

Workshop organization
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General chair: Daniel Winograd-Cort (Luminous Computing)
Program chair: Jean-Louis Giavitto (IRCAM Paris)
Publicity chair: Mike Sperber (Active Group GmbH)
Performance Chair: John MacCallum (HfMT Hamburg)