Calls for participation

2010-09-15

[Caml-list] Call for Paper for HotSWUp 2011: Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades

The following call for paper may be of interest to some members of the function community.

Fabien Dagnat

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CALL FOR PAPERS

HotSWUp 2011: Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades

(co-located with ICDE 2011)
Hannover, Germany
April 16, 2011

http://www.hotswup.org

Submission deadline: 15 November 2010

OBJECTIVES

Actively-used software systems are upgraded regularly to incorporate
bug fixes and security patches or to keep up with the evolving
requirements. Whether upgrades are applied offline or online, they
significantly impact the system's performance and reliability.
Recently-introduced commercial products aim to address various aspects
of this problem; however, recent studies and a large body of anecdotal
evidence suggest that upgrades remain failure-prone, tedious, and
expensive.

The goal of the HotSWUp Workshop is to identify cutting-edge research
for supporting software system upgrades that are flexible, efficient,
robust, and easy to specify and apply. Many diverse research areas
are concerned with building large, evolving, highly-available systems.
As such, HotSWUp seeks contributions from all these areas, ranging
from databases to distributed systems, and from programming languages
to software engineering, and separately reflected in conferences such
as SIGMOD, ICDE, SOSP, OSDI, OOPSLA, PLDI, ICSE, and FSE. By seeking
contributions from both academic researchers and industry
practitioners, HotSWUp aims to combine novel ideas with experience
from upgrading real systems. The present workshop aims to build on
the successes of HotSWUp'08 and HotSWUp'09 where the paper
presentations and lively discussions attracted a diverse audience of
researchers.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Upgrading Information Systems under Schema Evolution.
- Programming language / operating system / database support for
software upgrades.
- Improving the reliability of upgrades (e.g., support for upgrade
validation and for rollback after failures).
- Support for system or data restructuring (e.g., evolving APIs,
changes to database schemas).
- Identifying dependencies between components and guaranteeing safe
interactions among mixed versions.
- Coordinating and disseminating upgrades in large-scale distributed
systems.
- Software upgrades and the Cloud Computing Infrastructure.
- Tools for preparing, testing, and applying software upgrades.
- Human factors in software upgrades (e.g., usability of upgrading
tools, common operator mistakes).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We are interested in papers that address practical as well as
theoretical aspects of software upgrades from large scale to embedded
applications. Particularly welcome this year are submissions
concerning software upgrade issues in database systems. Preferably,
submissions should fall into one of the following categories:

- Suggest how a successful approach can be applied in a different context
(e.g., static dependency analysis applied to distributed-system upgrades).
- Refute an old assumption about software upgrades (e.g., by presenting
negative results).
- Describe a new problem or propose a novel solution to an old problem.
- Present empirical evidence related to the practical implementation of
software upgrades.

Papers must not exceed 5 pages, in IEEE camera-ready format (templates
at
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html).
Papers must be submitted electronically at http://www.hotswup.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline 15 November 2010
Acceptance notification 15 December 2010
Camera-ready deadline 3 January 2011
Workshop date 16 April 2011

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University, USA (co-organizer)
Carlo Aldo Curino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Fabien Dagnat, Telecom Bretagne, France
Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria
Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, College park, USA (co-organizer)
Manuel Oriol, University of York, UK
George Papastefanatos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Paolo Papotti, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Jason Nieh, Columbia University, USA
Xin Qi, Facebook, USA
Mark Segal, Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, USA
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA
Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (co-organizer)

MORE INFORMATION

Visit the workshop's homepage at:
http://www.hotswup.org

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2010-09-07

[Caml-list] TLDI 2011: 2nd Call For Papers

TLDI 2011

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on
Types in Language Design and Implementation

Austin, Texas, USA
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
(Co-located with POPL 2011)

http://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/tldi2011/

Submission Deadline: October 11, 2010

The role of types and proofs in all aspects of language design,
compiler construction, and software development has expanded greatly
in recent years. Type systems, type-based analyses and type-theoretic
deductive systems have been central to advances in compilation
techniques for modern programming languages, verification of safety
and security properties of programs, program transformation and
optimization, and many other areas. The ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Types
in Language Design and Implementation brings researchers together to
share new ideas and results concerning all aspects of types and
programming, and is now an annual event. TLDI 2011 is the sixth
workshop in the series and will be co-located with POPL in Austin,
Texas in January 2011.

Submissions for TLDI 2011 are invited on all interactions of types
with language design, implementation, and programming methodology.
This includes both practical applications and theoretical aspects.
TLDI 2011 specifically encourages papers from a broad field of
programming language and compiler researchers, including those working
on object-oriented or dynamic languages, systems programming,
mobile-code or security, as well as traditional fully-static type
systems. Topics of interest include:

* Typed intermediate languages and type-directed compilation
* Type-based language support for safety and security
* Types for interoperability
* Type systems for system programming languages
* Type-based program analysis, transformation, and optimization
* Dependent types and type-based proof assistants
* Types for security protocols, concurrency, and distributed
computing
* Type inference and type reconstruction
* Type-based specifications of data structures and program
invariants
* Type-based memory management
* Proof-carrying code and certifying compilation
* Types and objects

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list; papers on novel
utilizations of type information are welcome. Authors concerned about
the suitability of a topic are encouraged to inquire via electronic
mail to the program chair prior to submission.

Submission Guidelines:

Authors should submit a full paper of no more than 12 pages (including
bibliography and appendices) by Monday, October 11, 2010. The
submission deadline and length limitations are firm. Submissions that
do not meet these guidelines will not be considered.

All submissions should be in standard ACM SIGPLAN conference format:
two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline. Detailed
formatting guidelines are available on the SIGPLAN Author Information
page, along with a LaTeX class file and template.

Papers must be submitted electronically via the workshop website
(http://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/tldi2011/) in Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF) and must be formatted for US Letter size (8.5"x11")
paper. Authors for whom this is a hardship should contact the program
chair before the deadline.

Submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy.
Submissions should contain original research not published or
submitted for publication elsewhere.

Publication:

As in previous years, accepted papers will be published by the ACM and
appear in the ACM digital library. A printed proceedings will be
available at the workshop.

Important Dates:

- Submission deadline: October 11, 2010 (Monday), 21:00 Samoa-Apia Time
- Notification: November 8, 2010 (Monday)
- Final versions due: November 22, 2010 (Monday)
- Workshop: January 25, 2011 (Tuesday)

General Chair:

Stephanie Weirich
University of Pennsylvania
sweirich at cis dot upenn dot edu

Program Chair:

Derek Dreyer
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
dreyer at mpi-sws dot org

Program Committee:

Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham)
Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen)
Michael Hicks (University of Maryland, College Park)
Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mark Jones (Portland State University)
Neel Krishnaswami (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Paul-André Melliès (CNRS & Université Paris Diderot)
Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software, Madrid)
Benjamin Pierce (University of Pennsylvania)
Tachio Terauchi (Tohoku University)
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Northeastern University)

Steering Committee:

Amal Ahmed (Indiana University)
Nick Benton (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS)
Robert Harper (Carnegie Mellon University, chair)
Andrew Kennedy (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
Francois Pottier (INRIA Rocquencourt)
Zhong Shao (Yale University)
Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania)
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2010-09-02

[Caml-list] Types'10 - Call for Participation

Call for Participation

Types Meeting 2010
Warsaw, 13 -- 16 October 2010
http://types10.mimuw.edu.pl

This is a reminder that the early registration deadline for Types'10 is

Monday, September 13

Note also that your talk should be submitted no later than September 20.
Do not hesitate to contact types10@mimuw.edu.pl if you have any
questions.
See you in Warsaw at Types 2010!

The Organizing Committee
types10@mimuw.edu.pl

2010-08-31

[Caml-list] Call for Participation

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

RV 2010 : 1st International Conference on Runtime Verification
November 1-4, 2010, St. Julians, Malta

http://www.rv2010.org

** Early registration deadline: September 30, 2010 **

The 2010 Runtime Verication conference is a forum for researchers and industrial
practitioners for presenting theories and tools for monitoring and analyzing
system (software and hardware) executions, as well as forum for presenting
applications of such tools to practical problems. The field of runtime verification
is often referred to under different other names, including dynamic analysis, runtime
analysis, and runtime monitoring, to mention a few. Runtime verification
can be applied during the development of a system for the purpose of program
understanding, debugging, and testing, or it can be applied as part of a running
system, for example for security or safety monitoring, and can furthermore
be part of a fault protection framework.

RV 2010 is conducted over 4 days. The first day offers 6 tutorials in parallel
sessions. The remaining three days offer 6 invited talks, and presentation of
27 regular papers, short papers and tool demonstrations.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

- Mike Barnett
Principal RSDE, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
"Code Contracts for .NET: Runtime Verification and So Much More"

- Rance Cleaveland
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, MD, USA
Co-founder of Reactive Systems, Inc.
"Automatic Requirement Extraction from Test Cases"

- Matthew Dwyer
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Nebraska, NE, USA
"Optimizing Runtime Monitors : Combining Static and Dynamic Techniques"

- Martin Odersky
Professor, Programming Methods Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Contracts in Scala"

- Wim De Pauw
Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
"Visualizing Complex IT Systems"

- R. Sekar
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director, Center for Cyber-security, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
"Runtime Analysis and Instrumentation for Securing Software"

TUTORIALS:

- Run-time Verification of Networked Software
by: Cyrille Valentin Artho

- Clara: Partially Evaluating Runtime Monitors at Compile Time
by: Eric Bodden and Patrick Lam

- You should Better Enforce than Verify
by: Ylies Falcone

- Runtime Verification for the Web
by: Sylvain Halle and Roger Villemaire

- Statistical Model Checking: Present and Future
by: Axel Legay

- Runtime Verification with the RV System
by: Patrick Meredith and Grigore Rosu.

VENUE:

The conference takes place in St. Julians on Malta, and is hosted by the
University of Malta. Malta lies at almost the exact geographical heart of the
Mediterranean Sea. With Sicily some 95 kms to the North, Tripoli 350 kms to
the South and Tunis 320 kms to the West, Malta is virtually at the crossroads
between continents. Malta's pre-history dates back to 5000 B.C. The official
languages of Malta are Maltese and English, so getting by with English is
not a problem. Italian is also widely spoken.

The accommodation and conference venue is the 5 star Le Meridien Hotel,
located on the ground of a 19th century Villa in St Julians, overlooking Balluta Bay.

The climate is typically Mediterranean. The average temperature in November is
20C (70F) during the day and around 14C (60F) at night.

REGISTRATION:

The registration is open at:

http://www.um.edu.mt/events/rv2010/registration

- Early registration fee, before or on 30 september: 380 Euros
- Late registration fee, after 30 September: 450 Euros

STUDENTS:

RV 2010 is supporting a limited number of registrations for students at 190 Euros.
Students can apply by sending an email to Gordon Pace (gordon.pace@um.edu.mt)
with evidence of student status.

ORGANIZATION:

General Chairs:
- Howard Barringer, University of Manchester, UK
- Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
- Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Program Chairs:
- Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Local Organization Chair:
- Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta

Tutorials Chair:
- Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany

Tool Demonstrations Chair:
- Nikolai Tillmann, Microsoft Research, USA

Publicity Chair:
- Ylies Falcone, INRIA Rennes, France

SPONSORS:

RV 2010 is sponsored by:
- The International Federation for Computational Logic
- The ARTIST Network of Excellence on Embedded Systems Design
- Microsoft Research
- University of Illinois

We look forward to welcoming you at the 1st International Conference on Runtime Verification.

2010-08-28

[Caml-list] HLPP 2010 Call for participation

Fourth International Workshop on
High-level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP 2010)
Baltimore, Maryland, September 25, 2010
Affiliated to ICFP 2010
http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2010
Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN

Aims and Scope

As processor and system manufacturers adjust their roadmaps towards
increasing levels of both inter and intra-chip parallelism, so the
urgency of reorienting the mainstream software industry towards these
architectures grows.

At present, popular parallel and distributed programming methodologies
are dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message
passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms.

Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and
have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous
parallelism.

This workshop provides a forum for discussion and research about such
high-level approaches to parallel programming.

Workshop Program

08:00-08:45: Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00: Invited Talk
Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics)
Calculational Parallel Programming
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-12:00: Session "Skeletal Parallelism"
Johan Enmyren and Christoph Kessler
SkePU: A Multi-Backend Skeleton Programming Library for Multi-GPU Systems
Kiminori Matsuzaki and Kento Emoto
Lessons from Implementing the BiCGStab Method with SkeTo Library
Oleg Lobachev and Rita Loogen
Estimating Parallel Performance, A Skeleton-Based Approach
12:00-12:30: Session "Verification of High-Level Parallel Programs"
Frédéric Gava and Jean Fortin
BSP-Why: an intermediate language for deductive verification of BSP programs
12:30-02:00: Lunch
02:00-03:00: Invited Talk
Phil Trinder (Heriot-Watt University)
SymGrid-Par: A Standard Skeleton-Based Framework for Computational
Algebra Systems
03:00-03:30: Break
03:30-04:30: Session "Bulk Synchronous Parallelism"
Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary, Rob H. Bisseling and Fredrik Manne
Parallel Greedy Graph Matching using an Edge Partitioning Approach
Joel Falcou, Khaled Hammidouche and Daniel Etiemble
Hybrid Bulk Synchronous Parallelism Library for Clustered SMP Architectures
04:30-05:00: Break

Programme Committee

Anne Benoit (ENS Lyon, France)
Murray Cole (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alexandros Gerbessiotis (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Christoph Kessler (Linköpings Universitet, Sweden)
Herbert Kuchen (University of Muenster, Germany)
Rita Loogen (University of Marburg, Germany)
Frédéric Loulergue (University of Orléans, France), chair
Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology, Japan)
Samuel Midkiff (Purdue University, USA)
Susanna Pelagatti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Sukyoung Ryu (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Kazunori Ueda (Waseda University, Japan)

2010-08-23

[Caml-list] ICFP '10: Final call for participation

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Final Call for Participation

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

http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2010/
Baltimore, Maryland September 25 – October 2
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ICFP 2010 provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear
about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and
uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire
spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries.

** Not that the early registration deadline and discount hotel rates
expire next week. **

* Program:
http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2010/program.html
* Invited speakers:
- Mike Gordon
ML: Metalanguage or Object Language?
- Matthias Felleisen
TeachScheme!: A Checkpoint
- Guy Blelloch
Functional Parallel Algorithms

Schedule including related events:
* September 25:
Workshop on Mechanizing Metatheory (WMM)
Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming (MSFP)
Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP)
* September 26:
Workshop on ML
Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP)
* September 27-29:
ICFP 2010
* September 30:
Haskell Symposium
Erlang Workshop
* October 1:
Commercial Users of Functional Programming – Day 1 (CUFP Tutorials)
Haskell Implementors' Workshop
* October 2:
Commercial Users of Functional Programming – Day 2 (CUFP Talks)

This year there will also be a special series of Birds-of-a-Feather
sessions associated with CUFP.
More information can be found at: http://cufp.org/bofs-2010

Registration information:
* Registration link: https://regmaster3.com/2010conf/ICFP10/register.php

Local arrangements (including travel and accommodation):
* http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2010/local.html
* Conference reservation/rate deadline: September 1st

Conference organizers:
* General Chair:
Paul Hudak, Yale University
* Program Chair:
Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania
* Local Arrangements Chair:
Michael Hicks, University of Maryland
* Workshop Co-Chairs:
Derek Dreyer, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Christopher Stone, Harvey Mudd College
* Programming Contest Chair:
Johannes Waldmann, Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Leipzig
* Video Chair:
Scott Smith, Johns Hopkins University
* Publicity Chair:
Wouter Swierstra, Vector Fabrics

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2010-08-10

[Caml-list] Workshop on ML 2010 - Call for Participation

The 2010 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~mtf/ml2010
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Sunday, September 26, 2010
co-located with ICFP 2010

Call for Participation

ML is a family of programming languages that includes dialects known
as Standard ML, Objective Caml, and F#. The development of these
languages has inspired a large amount of computer science research,
both practical and theoretical. This workshop aims to provide a forum
to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology
(higher-order, typed, or strict languages).

The format of the 2010 Workshop on ML will be different than that of
recent years, returning to a more informal model: a workshop with
presentations selected from submitted abstracts but without published
proceedings. We hope that this format will encourage the presentation
of more exciting (if unpolished) research and deliver a more lively
workshop atmosphere.

Invited Speaker
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Luke Hoban (Microsoft) -- Bringing F# to Visual Studio 2010

Program
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9:00 Invited Talk
Visual F#: Bringing F# to Visual Studio 2010
Luke Hoban (Microsoft Research)
10:00 Break
10:30 Probabilistic programming using first-class stores and
first-class continuations
Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC); Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University)
10:55 Effective progamming in ML
Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research); Ross Tate (University of
California, San Diego)
11:20 Discussion
11:30 First-class modules and composable signatures in Objective
Caml 3.12
Alain Frisch (LexiFi); Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University
Graduate School of Mathematics)
11:55 First-class modules: hidden power and tantalizing promises
Jeremy Yallop (Applicative Ltd); Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC)
12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Deriving a Typed Implementation for Coroutines in ML
Konrad Anton (Universitat Freiburg); Peter Thiemann (Universitat
Freiburg)
14:25 The Design Rationale for Multi-MLton
Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue University); Armand Navabi (Purdue
University); KC Sivaramakrishnan (Purdue University);
Lukasz Ziarek (Purdue University)
14:50 Discussion
15:00 Mirage: high-performance ML kernels in the cloud
Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge); Thomas Gazagnaire
(INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
15:25 Hosting a Standard ML compiler in a Web Browser: Status Report
Martin Elsman
15:50 Discussion
16:00 Break
16:30 A simple and effective method for assigning blame for type errors
David MacQueen (University of Chicago)
16:55 The MetaOCaml files: Status report and research proposal
Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC); Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University)
17:20 Discussion
17:30 Closing

Registration and Local Arrangements
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* https://regmaster3.com/2010conf/ICFP10/register.php
* http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2010/local.html

Program Chair
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Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology

Program Committee
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Kathleen Fisher AT&T Labs Research
Adam Granicz IntelliFactory
Daan Leijen Microsoft Research
Johan Nordlander Lulea University of Technology
Sungwoo Park Pohang University of Science and Technology
Daniel Spoonhower Google