[TYPES/announce] Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2012) -- Final Call
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] ** Second CALL FOR PAPER Sixth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS 2012) June 29th, Dubrovnik (Croatia). http://itrs2012.di.unito.it/ Workshop held in conjunction with LICS 2012 ** ITRS 2010 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: April 13 Author notification: April 30 Abstract final version due: June 10 EPTCS Post-proceedings Submission: before September 30th, 2012 SUBMISSION The submission is in two stages. (1) Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (3-5 pages, max. 10 pages) in PDF format. (2) After the workshop, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full versions, which will be referred for inclusion in EPTCS post-proceedings. TOPICS Possible topics for submitted papers include, but are not limited to: - Formal properties of systems with intersection types. - Results for related systems, such as union types, refinement types, or singleton types. - Applications to lambda calculus and similar systems. - Applications to pi-calculus and similar systems. - Applications for programming languages. - Applications for other areas, such as database query languages and program extraction from proofs. - Related approaches using behavioural/intesional types to characterize computational properties. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stéphane Lengrand (École Polytechnique) Koji Nakazawa (Kyoto Univ.) Luke Ong (Oxford Univ.) Luca Paolini (Univ. Torino), chair Frank Pfenning (Carniege Mellon Univ.) Betti Venneri (Univ. di Firenze) INFORMATION For further information, please contact Luca Paolini Email: paol...@di.unito.it
[TYPES/announce] HOPE 2012 (a new workshop co-located with ICFP): Call for Talk Proposals
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] CALL FOR TALK PROPOSALS HOPE 2012 The 1st ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects September 9, 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark (the day before ICFP 2012) http://hope2012.mpi-sws.org HOPE is a *new workshop* that is intended to bring together researchers interested in the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. It will be *informal*, consisting of invited talks, contributed talks on work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. This 1st edition of HOPE is dedicated to John Reynolds, whose work is an inspiration to us all. - Goals of the Workshop - A recurring theme in many papers at ICFP, and in the research of many ICFP attendees, is the interaction of higher-order programming with various kinds of effects: storage effects, I/O, control effects, concurrency, etc. While effects are of critical importance in many applications, they also make it hard to build, maintain, and reason about one's code. Higher-order languages (both functional and object-oriented) provide a variety of abstraction mechanisms to help tame or encapsulate effects (e.g. monads, ADTs, ownership types, typestate, first-class events, transactions, Hoare Type Theory, session types, substructural and region-based type systems), and a number of different semantic models and verification technologies have been developed in order to codify and exploit the benefits of this encapsulation (e.g. bisimulations, step-indexed Kripke logical relations, higher-order separation logic, game semantics, various modal logics). But there remain many open problems, and the field is highly active. The goal of the HOPE workshop is to bring researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and perspectives together to exchange new and exciting ideas concerning the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs. We want HOPE to be as informal and interactive as possible. The program will thus involve a combination of invited talks, contributed talks about work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. There will be no published proceedings, but participants will be invited to submit working documents, talk slides, etc. to be posted on this website. --- Call for Talk Proposals --- We solicit proposals for contributed talks. Proposals should be at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format, and should specify how long a talk the speaker wishes to give. By default, contributed talks will be 30 minutes long, but proposals for shorter or longer talks will also be considered. Speakers may also submit supplementary material (e.g. a full paper, talk slides) if they desire, which PC members are free (but not expected) to read. We are interested in talks on all topics related to the interaction of higher-order programming and computational effects. Talks about work in progress are particularly encouraged. If you have any questions about the relevance of a particular topic, please contact the PC chairs at the address hope2...@mpi-sws.org. Deadline for talk proposals:June 8, 2012 (Friday) Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2012 (Sunday) Workshop: September 9, 2012 (Sunday) The submission website is now open: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hope2012 - Workshop Organization - Program Co-Chairs: Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University) Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) Program Committee: Jim Laird (University of Bath) Rasmus Møgelberg (IT University of Copenhagen) Greg Morrisett (Harvard University) Aleks Nanevski (IMDEA Software Institute) David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology) Matthew Parkinson (Microsoft Research Cambridge) François Pottier (INRIA Rocquencourt) Amr Sabry (Indiana University) Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research Redmond) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London)
[TYPES/announce] Third Call for Papers: Workshop on Script to Program Evolution (STOP 2012)
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Workshop on Script to Program Evolution (co-located with ECOOP and PLDI) Beijing, China June 11, 2012 http://wrigstad.com/stop12/ Submission site: http://continue2.cs.brown.edu/stop2012/ OVERVIEW Recent years have seen increased use of scripting languages in large applications. Scripting languages optimize development time, especially early in the software life cycle, over safety and robustness. As the understanding of the system reaches a critical point and requirements stabilize, scripting languages become less appealing. Compromises made to optimize development time make it harder to reason about program correctness, harder to do semantic-preserving refactorings, and harder to optimize execution speed. Lack of type information makes code harder to navigate and to use correctly. In the worst cases, this situation leads to a costly and potentially error-prone rewrite of a program in a compiled language, losing the flexibility of scripting languages for future extension. Recently, pluggable type systems and annotation systems have been proposed. Such systems add compile-time checkable annotations without changing a program’s run-time semantics which facilitates early error checking and program analysis. It is believed that untyped scripts can be retrofitted to work with such systems. Furthermore, integration of typed and untyped code, for example, through use of gradual typing, allows scripts to evolve into safer programs more suitable for program analysis and compile-time optimizations. With few exceptions, practical reports are yet to be found. The STOP workshop focuses on the evolution of scripts, largely untyped code, into safer programs, with more rigid structure and more constrained behavior through the use of gradual/hybrid/pluggable typing, optional contract checking, extensible languages, refactoring tools, and the like. The goal is to further the understanding and use of such systems in practice, and connect practice and theory. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Abstracts, position papers, and status reports are welcome. Papers should be 1-2 pages in standard ACM SIGPLAN format. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. The accepted papers, after rework by the authors, will be published in an informal proceedings, which will be distributed at the workshop. All accepted submissions shall remain available from the workshop web page. Papers are to be submitted electronically via the STOP website: http://continue2.cs.brown.edu/stop2012/ IMPORTANT DATES paper submission: 11:59 PM 30 March 2012 Eastern Daylight Time notification: 20 April 2012 camera-ready paper:15 May 2012 conference date: 11 June 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Avik Chaudhuri, Adobe Labs Kathryn Gray, Swansea University Arjun Guha, Brown University David Herman, Mozilla Research Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego
[TYPES/announce] PhD/Postdoc Positions in Theoretical Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] [I would be grateful for further distribution of the job advertisement below] In the newly founded Theoretical Computer Science group (Chair 8) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, several research positions are available that can be filled at the doctoral or post-doctoral level. These include project positions of up to two years, in the TV-L E13 or E14 pay scale depending on qualification of the applicant; project topics include - coalgebraic logic - probabilistic description logic - formal methods in mechanical engineering. Additionally, at least one position is available that is not tied to a specific research project but does carry a teaching obligation of 5h per week; in this case, research work can be positioned in any of the core fields of the group including - modal logic - knowledge representation - coalgebra - formal methods - program semantics - applications of semantic technologies Such positions can be filled at TV-L E13 for an initial appointment of three years, with a possibility of extension for another three years subject to provisions by German laws on temporal employment in academia; postdoctoral applicants from EU countries can be appointed at the A13 payscale (akademischer Rat) (which pays better and has better benefits) for two periods of three years, with a possible extension of two periods of two years at the A14 payscale (akademischer Oberrat) for candidates who successfully complete a habilitation during the first six years. Please send applications consisting of a cover letter, resume, and contact details of three references by email to lutz.schroe...@cs.fau.de. There is no particular application deadline; positions will be filled when suitable candidates are found. Best regards, Lutz -- -- Prof. Dr. Lutz Schröder Chair of Theoretical Computer Science Department of Computer Science Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg lutz.schroe...@informatik.uni-erlangen.de lutz.schroe...@cs.fau.de --
