The 2021 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop is calling for
submissions.
*The submission deadline has been extended one week, to 3 July 2021,
Anywhere on Earth.*
Workshop website:
https://icfp21.sigplan.org/home/scheme-2021#Call-for-Papers
*New submission link:*
https://scheme2021.hotcrp.com/
We invite high-quality papers about novel research results, lessons learned
from practical experience in industrial or educational setting, and even
new insights on old ideas. We welcome and encourage submissions that apply
to any language that can be considered Scheme: from strict subsets of RnRS
to other “Scheme” implementations, to Racket, to Lisp dialects including
Clojure, Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, Interlisp, to functional languages with
continuations and/or macros (or extended to have them) such as Dylan,
ECMAScript, Hop, Lua, Scala, Rust, etc. The elegance of the paper and the
relevance of its topic to the interests of Schemers will matter more than
the surface syntax of the examples used. Topics of interest include (but
are not limited to):
Interaction: program-development environments, debugging, testing,
refactoring
Implementation: interpreters, compilers, tools, garbage collectors,
benchmarks
Extension: macros, hygiene, domain-specific languages, reflection, and
how such extension affects interaction.
Expression: control, modularity, ad hoc and parametric polymorphism,
types, aspects, ownership models, concurrency, distribution, parallelism,
non-determinism, probabilism, and other programming paradigms
Integration: build tools, deployment, interoperation with other
languages and systems
Formal semantics: Theory, analyses and transformations, partial
evaluation
Human Factors: Past, present and future history, evolution and
sociology of the language Scheme, its standard and its dialects
Education: approaches, experiences, curricula
Applications: industrial uses of Scheme
Scheme pearls: elegant, instructive uses of Scheme
Important dates
Updated: Submission deadline has been extended to 3 July 2021.
Updated: Authors will be notified by 19 July 2021.
Camera-ready versions are due 21 July 2021.
All deadlines are (23:59 UTC-12), "Anywhere on Earth".
Workshop will be held online 27 August 2021, 11:00--19:30 UTC
Submission Information
Paper submissions must use the format acmart and its sub-format sigplan
acmsmall (note the change from last year). They must be in PDF, printable
in black and white on US Letter size. Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates
for this format are available at:
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/
This format is in line with ACM conferences (such as ICFP with which we are
colocated). It is recommended to use the review option when submitting a
paper; this option enables line numbers for easy reference in reviews.
We want to encourage all kinds of submissions, including full papers,
experience reports and lightning talks. Papers and experience reports are
expected to be 10–24 pages in length using the single-column SIGPLAN acmart
style. (For reference, this is about 5–12 pages of the older SIGPLAN
2-column 9pt style.) Abstracts submitted for lightning talks should be
limited to 192 words. Each accepted paper and report will be presented by
its authors in a 25 minute slot including Q Each accepted lightning talk
will be presented by its authors in a 5 minute slot, followed by 5 minutes
of Q
The size limits above exclude references and any optional appendices. There
are no size limits on appendices, but the papers should stand without the
need to read them, and reviewers are not required to read them.
Authors are encouraged to publish any code associated to their papers under
an open source license, so that reviewers may try the code and verify the
claims.
Proceedings will be published as a Technical Report at Northeastern
University and uploaded to arXiv.org.
Publication of a paper at this workshop is not intended to replace
conference or journal publication, and does not preclude re-publication of
a more complete or finished version of the paper at some later conference
or in a journal.
Reviewing Process
Scheme 2021 will use lightweight-double-blind reviewing. Submitted papers
must omit author names and institutions and reference the authors’ own
related work in the third person (e.g., not "we build on our previous
work..." but rather “we build on the work of...").
The purpose 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 or makes the job of reviewing the
paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be
omitted or anonymized).
Formatting Information
Full papers and experience reports should use the sigplan acmsmall
option to acmart.
