2022-03-16

[Caml-list] GPCE 2022 Call for Papers

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GPCE 2022:
21st International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences

December 5-10, 2022 (co-located with SPLASH)
Auckland, New Zealand, or hybrid

https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2022/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts &
Experiences (GPCE) is a programming languages conference focusing on techniques
and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line
development.

GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to
its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to:

- program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program
  synthesis, and code-recommendation systems,
- domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language
  workbenches,
- feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions,
- applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and
  product-line development.

GPCE promotes cross-fertilization between programming languages and software
development and among different styles of generative programming in its broadest
sense.

Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are
in scope.

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PAPER CATEGORIES
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GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions:

- **Full Papers** reporting original and unpublished results of research that
  contribute to scientific knowledge for any GPCE topics. Full paper
  submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding the bibliography.

- **Short Papers** presenting unconventional ideas or new visions in any GPCE
  topics. Short papers do not always contain complete results as in the case
  of full papers, but can introduce new ideas to the community and get early
  feedback. Note that short papers are not intended to be position statements.
  Accepted short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented
  at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding
  the bibliography, and must have the text "(Short Paper)" appended to their
  titles.

- **Tool Demonstrations** presenting tools for any GPCE topics. Tools must
  be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must
  provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography
  and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not
  exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstration submissions must have the text
  "(Tool Demonstration)" appended to their titles. If they are accepted, tool
  descriptions will be included in the proceedings. The demonstration
  outline will only be used for evaluating the submission.

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PAPER SELECTION
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The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the
following selection criteria:

- Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them
  appropriately within the context established by previous research in the
  field.
- Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to
  the state of the art or practice in significant ways.
- Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples
  of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems,
  experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies.
- Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly.

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BEST PAPER AWARD
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Following the tradition, the GPCE 2022 program committee will select the
best paper among accepted papers.  The authors of the best paper will be
given the best paper award at the conference.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Abstract submission     8 August (Mon)
- Paper submission    12 August (Fri)
- Review notification    28 September (Wed)
- Author response period  28 September (Wed) - 30 September (Fri)
- Final notification    10 October (Mon)
- Camera-ready            24 October (Mon)
- Conference              two days in 5 December (Mon) - 10 December (Sat)

All times are in AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce2022.hotcrp.com/

All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart". Be
sure to use the latest LaTeX templates and class files, the SIGPLAN
sub-format, and 10-point font. Consult the sample-sigplan.tex template and
use the document-class \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}.

To increase fairness in reviewing, GPCE 2022 uses the double-blind review
process which has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences:

- Author names, institutions, and acknowledgments should be omitted from
  submitted papers, and
- references to the authors' own work should be in the third person.

No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if
reviewers are able to infer authors' identities in implicit ways.

For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions,
contact the program chair.

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available
in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must describe work not currently
submitted for publication elsewhere as described by the SIGPLAN
Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/).


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ORGANIZATION
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- General Chair:   Bernhard Scholz (University of Sydney)
- Program Chair:   Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba)
- Publicity Chair: Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

- Steering Committee Chair: Sebastian Erdweg (JGU Mainz)

For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions,
contact the program chair: kameyama at acm.org

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Baris Aktemur - Intel
Walter Binder - Università della Svizzera italiana
Nicolas Biri - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Elisa Gonzalez Boix - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sheng Chen - UL Lafayette
Shigeru Chiba - The University of Tokyo
Youyou Cong - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Coen De Roover - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Robert Glück - University of Copenhagen
Jeff Gray - University of Alabama
Atsushi Igarashi - Kyoto University
Yukiyoshi Kameyama - University of Tsukuba, Chair
Raffi Khatchadourian - City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College
Julia Lawall - Inria
Geoffrey Mainland - Drexel University
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira - The University of Hong Kong
Klaus Ostermann - University of Tübingen
Max Schaefer - GitHub
Ulrik Pagh Schultz - University of Southern Denmark
Sibylle Schupp - Hamburg University of Technology
Amir Shaikhha - University of Edinburgh
Artjoms Sinkarovs - Heriot-Watt University
Daniel Strüber - Chalmers University of Gothenburg, Radboud University Nijmegen
Nicolas Stucki - EPFL
Eli Tilevich - Virginia Tech
Tijs van der Storm - CWI & University of Groningen
Jeremy Yallop - University of Cambridge

2022-03-13

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

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10th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on
Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design
(FARM)
Call for Papers, Demos, and Performance
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 16th September 2022
Deadline: June 1
https://functional-art.org/2022/
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Key Dates
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Submission deadline June 1
Author notification July 1
Workshop September 16

Call for Papers
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The ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music,
Modelling and Design (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
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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.

Papers
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Paper submissions are invited in three categories:

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

Papers must be submitted via HotCRP (https://farm22.hotcrp.com/), and
meet the following requirements:

- 5 to 12 pages
- PDF format
- Adhere to the ACM SIGPLAN template

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part
of the FARM 2022 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.

Demos
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Demo submissions should describe a demonstration and its context,
connecting it with the themes of FARM. A demo could be in the form of
a short (10 to 20 minute) tutorial, a presentation of work in
progress, an exhibition of some work, or even a performance.

Demos must be submitted via HotCRP (https://farm22.hotcrp.com/), and
meet the following requirements:

- 500 to 2000 words
- Have a title starting with "Demo: "
- PDF format
- Adhere to the ACM SIGPLAN template (https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/ProceedingsFormat/)

Accepted demos will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of
the FARM 2022 proceedings.

Performances
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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 risk-taking proposals that push forward the
state of the art as well as refined presentations of highly developed
practice. In either case, please support your submission with a clear
description of your performance, including how your performance
employs functional programming and a discussion of influences and
prior art as appropriate.

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
- A list of technical requirements
- A link to an audio or video example (YouTube, Vimeo, Bandcamp, etc.)

Accepted performances will be presented at the performance evening.

Contact
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For any questions, issues or comments, email
farm-2022@functional-art.org.

[Caml-list] [Call for participation] TFPiE and TFP online events March 16-18

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              C A L L  F O R  P A R T I C I P A T I O N

 11th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in
Education
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           23rd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming

                         16 - 18 March 2022

                 wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2022
                         trendsfp.github.io
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The programmes for TFPIE and TFP are online (all times are UTC+0):
- TFPIE: https://wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2022
- TFP:   https://trendsfp.github.io/schedule.html

Registration is free. Prior to the events you receive a mail with the
links to
the Zoom meetings.

The Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international
forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional
programming,
taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. We aspire
to be
a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other
contributions.

The Trends in Functional Programming in Education workshops are an
informal meeting
intended for researchers, professors, teachers, and all professionals
that use or
are interested in the use of functional programming in education. TFPIE
aims to be
a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas, and work in progress
on the use
of functional programming in education are discussed. We foster a spirit
of open
discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop.

The program has a lot of interesting talks, possibilities for
interaction, and
keynote presentations:

Trends in Functional Programming in Education keynote speaker:
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Peter Achten: The Perfect Functional Programming Course

Trends in Functional Programming keynote speaker:
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Christiaan Baaij: Building a Haskell-to-Hardware compiler: Theory & Practice

2022-03-06

[Caml-list] 22nd Midlands Graduate School, 10-14 April 2022: Call for Participation

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

22nd Midlands Graduate School (MGS'22)
in the
Foundations of Computing Science
10-14 April 2022, Nottingham (UK)

https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psznk/events/mgs22.html


OVERVIEW

MGS is an annual spring school that offers an intensive programme of
lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. While the
school addresses especially PhD students in their first or second
year, it is also open to UG and MSc students, postdocs, participants
from the industry, and generally everyone interested in its topics.
MGS'22 is the school's 22nd incarnation.


PROGRAMME

MGS'22 offers eight courses:
- our invited course by Andrej Bauer
- three basic courses on category theory, proof theory, and HoTT/UF
with agda, which require no previous experience
- four advanced courses on topos theory, string diagrams, coalgebra,
and graph transformations.


REGISTRATION

Participation at MGS'22 costs GBP 320. Please see the website
https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psznk/events/mgs22.html
for details, point "Registration".

The fee covers participation in all lectures and exercise classes,
refreshments in coffee breaks, and a conference dinner. Please note
that you have to book accommodation yourselves but there are rooms
available on campus. Places are limited and will be allocated on a
first-come-first-served basis. If you would like to participate,
please register early to secure a place. The registration period
closes as soon as all places are filled or on March 20, whichever is
sooner.


ORGANISATION

Please direct all queries about MGS'22 to Thorsten Altenkirch and Nicolai Kraus,
thorsten....@nottingham.ac.uk
nicolai....@nottingham.ac.uk

2022-02-21

[Caml-list] 2nd Call for Participation: ´Virtual BOB 2022 (March 11)

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BOB 2022
Conference
"What happens if we simply use what's best?"
March 11, 2022, online
0100+UTC
https://bobkonf.de/2022/

Program: https://bobkonf.de/2022/program.html
Registration: https://bobkonf.de/2022/program.html
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BOB conference is a place for developers, architects, and decision-makers
to explore technologies beyond the mainstream in software development
and to find the best tools available to software developers today. Our
goal is for all participants of BOB to return home with new insights
that enable them to improve their own software development
experience.

The program features 14 talks and 8 tutorials on current topics:

https://bobkonf.de/2022/program.html

The subject range includes functional programming, effects,
distributed programming, formal methods, generative art, event-driven
systems, the human brain, Haskell, Python, Scala, Lua, Clojure,
Erlang, Nix, and others.

Derek Dreyer will give the keynote talk.

Due to COVID-related risks, BOB will take place online, entirely
within a Gather Town virtual world. We've placed special emphasis on
enabling social, casual interaction, in addition to our stellar
program.

Registration is open - student tickets are €10, regular tickets are
€30. As always, grants are available for members of groups
underrepresented in tech:

https://bobkonf.de/2022/program.html

[Caml-list] [TFP'22] final call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming 2022 (deadline March 7 2022)

================ TFP 2022 =================
==         Final Call For Papers         ==
==          registration opened          ==
===========================================

23rd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming
17-18 March, 2022
Online event
https://trendsfp.github.io/index.html

Due the pandemic, we have had to make TFP virtual this year. As a
result, we've decided to push back the deadlines and conference date
by a few weeks. In particular, the pre-symposium deadline for
submitting the first version of your paper is now just after the ICFP
deadline.


== Important Dates ==

Submission deadline for draft papers                Monday 7th March, 2022
Notification for draft submissions                  Friday 11th March, 2022
Symposium dates                                     Thursday 17th -
Friday 18th March, 2022
Submission deadline for post-symposium reviewing    Wednesday 6th April,
2022
Notification for post-symposium submissions         Friday 27th May, 2022

The Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an
international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of
functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future
trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for
presenting the latest research results, and other contributions.



== Scope ==

The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various
routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore
identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles
are solicited in any of these categories:

* Research Articles:
   Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
* Position Articles:
  On what new trends should or should not be
* Project Articles:
   Descriptions of recently started new projects
* Evaluation Articles:
   What lessons can be drawn from a finished project
* Overview Articles:
   Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject

Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for
publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of
functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or
experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques
to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.

Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to:

* Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
* Functional programming in the cloud
* High performance functional computing
* Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
* Dependently typed functional programming
* Validation and verification of functional programs
* Debugging and profiling for functional languages
* Functional programming in different application areas:
   security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded
   systems, global computing, grids, etc.
* Interoperability with imperative programming languages
* Novel memory management techniques
* Program analysis and transformation techniques
* Empirical performance studies
* Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
* (Embedded) domain specific languages
* New implementation strategies
* Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area

If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of
TFP, please contact the TFP 2022 program chairs, Wouter Swierstra and
Nicolas Wu.


== Best Paper Awards ==

To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best
paper accepted for the formal proceedings.

TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students,
acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new
subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state
that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed
as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for
the best student paper is awarded each year.

In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the
best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive
both prizes.


== Instructions to Author ==

Papers must be submitted at:

   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp22

Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions
formally reviewed either before or after the Symposium.


== Post-symposium formal review process ==

Draft papers will receive minimal reviews and notification of
acceptance for presentation at the symposium. Authors of draft papers
will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback received
at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select
a subset of these articles for formal publication.


== Paper categories ==

Draft papers and papers submitted for formal review are submitted as
extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (20
pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs
to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It
should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether
the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which all authors
are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members
shortly after the symposium has taken place.


== Format ==

Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS
style. For more information about formatting please consult the
Springer LNCS web site.


== Program Committee ==

Guillaume Allais                University of St Andrews
José Manuel Calderón Trilla     Galois, Inc.
Stephen Chang                   University of Massachusetts Boston
Matthew Flatt                   University of Utah
Jeremy Gibbons                  University of Oxford
Zhenjiang Hu                    Peking University
Mauro Jaskelioff                CIFASIS / Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Moa Johansson                   Chalmers University of Technology
Shin-ya Katsumata               National Institute of Informatics
Oleg Kiselyov                   Tohoku University
Bas Lijnse                      Netherlands Defence Academy / Radboud
University Nijmegen
Kazutaka Matsuda                Tohoku University
Nico Naus                       Virginia Tech
Christine Rizkallah             University of New South Wales
Alejandro Serrano               47 Degrees
Amir Shaikhha                   Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Aaron Stump                     University of Iowa
Wouter Swierstra (Co-chair)     Utrecht University
Baltasar Trancón Y Widemann     Semantics GmbH
Nicolas Wu (Co-chair)           Imperial College London
Ningning Xie                    University of Hong Kong

[Caml-list] Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2022

PACMPL Volume 6, Issue ICFP 2022

Call for Papers

Accepted papers to be invited for presentation at
The 27th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

Ljubljana, Slovenia

http://icfp22.sigplan.org/

### Important dates

Submissions due: 2 March 2022 (Wednesday), Anywhere on Earth
Author response: 2 May (Monday) - 5 May (Thursday)
Notification: 21 May (Thursday)
Submission of revised papers: 16 June (Thursday)
Final copy due: 21 July (Thursday)
Conference: 11 September (Sunday) - 16 September (Friday)


[PACMPL](https://pacmpl.acm.org/) issue ICFP 2022 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. Topics of
interest include (but are not limited to):

* Language Design: concurrency, parallelism, and distribution;
modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; macros;
pattern matching; type systems; type inference; dependent types;
session types; gradual typing; refinement types; interoperability;
domain-specific languages; imperative programming; object-oriented
programming; logic programming; probabilistic programming;
reactive programming; generic programming; bidirectional
programming.

* Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines;
interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time
optimization; garbage collection and memory management; runtime
systems; 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; build systems;
program synthesis.

* Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; program
equivalence; rewriting; type theory; logic; category theory;
monads; continuations; control; state; effects; names and binding;
program verification.

* Analysis and Transformation: control flow; data flow; abstract
interpretation; partial evaluation; program calculation.

* Applications: 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;
graphics and multimedia; GPU programming; scripting; system
administration; security.

* Education: teaching introductory programming; parallel
programming; mathematical proof; algebra.

Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance,
correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission
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.
PACMPL issue ICFP 2022 also welcomes submissions in two separate
categories — Functional Pearls and Experience Reports — that must be
marked as such when submitted and that need not report original
research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at
the end of this call.
Please contact the associate editor if you have questions or are
concerned about the appropriateness of a topic.

### About PACMPL

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL
<https://pacmpl.acm.org/>) is a Gold Open Access journal publishing
research on all aspects of programming languages, from design to
implementation and from mathematical formalisms to empirical
studies. Each issue of the journal is devoted to a particular subject
area within programming languages and will be announced through
publicized Calls for Papers, like this one.

### Preparation of submissions

**Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is **Wednesday, March 2, 2022**,
Anywhere on Earth (<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>).
This deadline will be strictly enforced.

**Formatting**: Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black
and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by common PDF
tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Small" template that is
available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from
<https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions>.
There is a limit of **25 pages for a full paper or Functional Pearl**
and **12 pages for an Experience Report**; in either case, the
bibliography will not be counted against these limits. Submissions
that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the
requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. Supplementary
material can and should be **separately** submitted (see below).
See also PACMPL's Information and Guidelines for Authors at
<https://pacmpl.acm.org/authors.cfm>.

**Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at <https://icfp22.hotcrp.com/>
Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the
submission deadline using the same web interface.

**Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period,
starting at 17:00 UTC on *Monday, May 2, 2022*, to read reviews
and respond to them.

**Supplementary Material**: Authors have the option to attach
supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that
reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material
should **not** be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it
should be uploaded as a **separate** PDF document or tarball.
Supplementary material should be uploaded **at submission time**, not
by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository.
Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized
supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be
visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary
material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted
their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s).

**Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with
the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at
<https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors>.

**Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's
republication policy, as explained on the web at
<http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication>.

### Review Process

This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight
double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for PACMPL
issue ICFP 2022. We anticipate that there will be a need to clarify
and expand on this process, and we will maintain a list of frequently
asked questions and answers on the PACMPL issue website to address
common concerns.

**PACMPL issue ICFP 2022 will employ a two-stage review process.** The
first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using
the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on
initial reviews through the author response period mentioned
previously. As a result of the review process, a set of papers will be
conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected.
Authors will be notified of these decisions on **May 21, 2022**.
Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with
committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions. On
June 16, 2022, the authors will provide a second
submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the
mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and
thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The
intent and expectation are that the mandatory revisions can be
addressed within three weeks and hence that conditionally accepted
papers will, in general, be accepted in the second phase.
The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory
revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be
accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request
to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a
quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance
within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be
grounds for the paper's rejection.

**PACMPL issue ICFP 2022 will employ a lightweight double-blind
reviewing process.** To facilitate this, submitted papers must
adhere to two rules:

1. **author names and institutions must be omitted**, and
2. **references to 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 judgment 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 or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult
(e.g., important background references should not be omitted or
anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate
their ideas or draft versions of their papers as they normally
would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the
web or give talks on their research ideas.

### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers

* As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must
adhere to the new ACM Small format. The page limit for the final
versions of papers will be increased by two pages to help authors
respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions: **27 pages
plus bibliography for a regular paper or Functional Pearl, 14 pages
plus bibliography for an Experience Report**.

* Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of
the three ACM licensing options, one of which is
Creative Commons CC-BY publication; this is the option recommended
by the PACMPL editorial board. A reasoned argument in favour of this
option can be found in the article [Why
CC-BY?](https://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/) published by OASPA, the Open
Access Scholarly Publishers Association. The other options are
copyright transfer to ACM or retaining copyright but granting ACM
exclusive publication rights.

* PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal, and authors are encouraged to
publish their work under a CC-BY license. Gold Open Access
guarantees permanent free online access to the definitive version in
the ACM Digital Library, and the recommended CC-BY option also
allows anyone to copy and distribute the work with attribution.
Gold Open Access has been made possible by generous funding through
ACM SIGPLAN, which will cover all open access costs in the event
authors cannot. Authors who can cover the costs may do so by paying
an Article Processing Charge (APC). PACMPL, SIGPLAN, and ACM
Headquarters are committed to exploring routes to making Gold Open
Access publication both affordable and sustainable.

* ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to
generate and post links on either their home page or institutional
repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their
articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. Downloads
through Author-Izer links are captured in official ACM statistics,
improving the accuracy of usage and impact
measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of an
ACM article should reduce user confusion over article
versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the
appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit
<http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service> to learn
how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL.

* The official publication date is the date the papers 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.

* Authors of each accepted submission are invited to attend and be
available for the presentation of that paper at the conference. The
schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors
after the full program has been selected.

### Artifact Evaluation

Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase
of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit
supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be
reviewed by an Artifact Evaluation Committee, separate from the paper
Review Committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support
the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the
Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of
approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers
will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available
upon publication of the papers, for example, by including them as
"source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal
will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in
the ACM guidelines for artifact badging.
Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not
influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance.

### Special categories of papers
In addition to research papers, PACMPL issue ICFP solicits two kinds
of papers that do not require original research contributions:
Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports,
which are limited to half the length of a full paper. Authors
submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines.

#### Functional Pearls

A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to
functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to:

* a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea
* an instructive example of program calculation or proof
* a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure
* an interesting application of functional programming techniques
* a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom

While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a
short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do
so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational
pearls.

Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as
ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria. In particular,
a pearl is not required to report original research, but, it should be
concise, instructive, and entertaining. A pearl is likely to be
rejected if its readers get bored, if the material gets too
complicated, if too much-specialized knowledge is needed, or if the
writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing.

A submission that is intended to be treated as a pearl must be marked
as such on the submission web page and should contain the words
"Functional Pearl" somewhere in its title or subtitle. These steps
will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation
criteria. Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however, for
the purpose of computing the conference's acceptance rate.

#### Experience Reports

The purpose of an Experience Report is to describe the experience of
using functional programming in practice, whether in industrial
application, tool development, programming education, or any other
area.

Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to:
* insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming
* comparison of functional programming with conventional programming
in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum
* project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when
using functional programming in a real-world project
* curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in
education
* real-world constraints that created special challenges for an
implementation of a functional language or for functional
programming in general

An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal PACMPL issue ICFP
paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to
evaluate it.

* Both in the papers and in any citations, the title of each accepted
Experience Report must end with the words "(Experience Report)" in
parentheses. The acceptance rate for Experience Reports will be
computed and reported separately from the rate for ordinary papers.
* Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long,
excluding bibliography.
* Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the conference,
but depending on the number of Experience Reports and regular papers
accepted, authors of Experience Reports may be asked to give shorter
talks.
* Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our community
to understand the application of functional programming, an
acceptable Experience Report need not add to the body of knowledge
of the functional-programming community by presenting novel results
or conclusions. It is sufficient if the Report describes an
illuminating experience with functional programming, or provide
evidence for a clear thesis about the use of functional programming.
The experience or thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it need not
be novel.

The review committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on
whether they judge the paper to illuminate some aspect of the use of
functional programming. Anecdotal evidence will be acceptable provided
it is well-argued and the author explains what efforts were made to
gather as much evidence as possible. Typically, more convincing papers
show how functional programming was used than from papers that only
say that functional programming was used. The most convincing
Experience Reports often include comparisons of situations before and
after the introduction or discontinuation of functional programming.
Experience drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient,
but more weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of
groups of people.

An Experience Report should be short and to the point: it should make
a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular
project and why, and it should produce evidence to substantiate this
claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways
it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results —
the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in
what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of
the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize
the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to
what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The
paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the
project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than
generalities about functional programming.

If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new
technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of
the functional-programming community, it may be better to submit it as
a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty,
originality, and relevance. The principal editor will be happy to
advise on any concerns about which category to submit to.