Workshop on Generic Programming June 18th 1998 Marstrand, Sweden http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/conf/wgp/ Call for papers Generic programming is about making programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic programs are often quite rich in structure. For example they may be other programs, types or type constructors, or even programming paradigms. Generic programming techniques have always been of interest, both to practitioners and theoreticians, but to date have rarely been a specific focus of research. Recent developments in functional and object-oriented programming lead the organizers of this workshop to believe that there is sufficient interest to warrant the organisation of a one-day workshop on the theme of generic programming. The workshop will be on June 18th, 1998, directly following the Mathematics of Program Construction conference to be held in Marstrand Sweden. We cordially invite all those with an active interest in this important new area to submit a short position paper on their work to one of the organizers. Deadline for submission to the workshop is Feb. 16, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be March 7, 1997 The organizers are as follows: Roland Backhouse (Cochair) Netherlands Tim Sheard (Cochair) USA Johan Jeuring Oege de Moor Bernhard Moeller Jose Oliveira Barry Jay Robin Cocket who is director of the Charity Project Karl Lieberherr Fritz Ruehr