[TYPES/announce] CFP: PLACES 2015 Workshop
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] CALL FOR PAPERS PLACES'15 Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software 18th April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://places15.di.fc.ul.pt/ Applications today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is inherently concurrent and communication-centred. To exploit and harness the richness of this computing environment, designers and programmers will utilise a rich variety of programming paradigms, depending on the shape of the data and control flow. Plausible candidates for such paradigms include structured imperative concurrent programming, stream-based programming, concurrent functions with asynchronous message passing, higher-order types for events, and the use of types for communications and data structures (such as session types and linear types), to name but a few. Combinations of these abstractions will be used even in a single application, and the runtime environment needs to ensure seamless execution without relying on differences in available resources such as the number of cores. The development of effective programming methodologies for the coming computing paradigm demands exploration and understanding of a wide variety of ideas and techniques. This workshop aims to offer a forum where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the central challenges for programming in the near future, the development of programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern. ** Topics of Interest ** Submissions are invited in the general area of foundations of programming languages for concurrency, communication and distribution. Specific topics include: language design and implementations for communications and/or concurrency, program analysis, session types, multicore programming, use of message passing in systems software, interface languages for communication and distribution, concurrent data types, concurrent objects and actors, web services, novel programming methodologies for sensor networks, integration of sequential and concurrent programming, high-level programming abstractions for security concerns in concurrent, distributed programming, and runtime architectures for concurrency, scalability and/or resource allocations. Papers are welcome which present novel and valuable ideas as well as experiences. ** Invited Speaker ** To be confirmed ** Submission Guidelines ** Submissions will be 6-page extended abstracts and can also include an appendix of up to 4 pages and should be submitted in PDF format by Monday 5th January (anywhere on Earth) using the EasyChair proceedings template available at: http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690 Abstracts and papers should be submitted using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places15 Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. A post-workshop proceedings will be published in EPTCS. We are considering the possibility of a special journal issue. The submission deadline is strict and will not be extended. Enquiries can be sent to the PC co-chairs. ** Important Dates ** Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 29th December 2014 Paper submission deadline: Monday, 5th January 2015 Notification: Wednesday, 4th February 2015 Final version for pre-proceedings: Friday, 13th February 2015 Workshop date: Saturday, 18th April 2015 ** Programme Committee ** Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK (co-chair) Jade Alglave, University College London, UK (co-chair) Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Stefan Blom, University of Twente, Netherlands Nathan Chong, University College London, UK Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Hans Hüttel, Aalborg University, Denmark Paul Keir, Codeplay Software Ltd, UK Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Pierre-Yves Strub, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Jules Villard, Imperial College London, UK ** Organising Committee ** Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge, UK Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK
[TYPES/announce] CFP: PLACES 2015 workshop
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] CALL FOR PAPERS PLACES'15 Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software 18th April 2015, London, UK Affiliated to ETAPS http://places15.di.fc.ul.pt/ Applications today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is inherently concurrent and communication-centred. To exploit and harness the richness of this computing environment, designers and programmers will utilise a rich variety of programming paradigms, depending on the shape of the data and control flow. Plausible candidates for such paradigms include structured imperative concurrent programming, stream-based programming, concurrent functions with asynchronous message passing, higher-order types for events, and the use of types for communications and data structures (such as session types and linear types), to name but a few. Combinations of these abstractions will be used even in a single application, and the runtime environment needs to ensure seamless execution without relying on differences in available resources such as the number of cores. The development of effective programming methodologies for the coming computing paradigm demands exploration and understanding of a wide variety of ideas and techniques. This workshop aims to offer a forum where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the central challenges for programming in the near future, the development of programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern. ** Topics of Interest ** Submissions are invited in the general area of foundations of programming languages for concurrency, communication and distribution. Specific topics include: language design and implementations for communications and/or concurrency, program analysis, session types, multicore programming, use of message passing in systems software, interface languages for communication and distribution, concurrent data types, concurrent objects and actors, web services, novel programming methodologies for sensor networks, integration of sequential and concurrent programming, high-level programming abstractions for security concerns in concurrent, distributed programming, and runtime architectures for concurrency, scalability and/or resource allocations. Papers are welcome which present novel and valuable ideas as well as experiences. ** Invited Speaker ** To be confirmed ** Submission Guidelines ** Submissions will be 6-page extended abstracts and can also include an appendix of up to 4 pages and should be submitted in PDF format by Monday 5th January (anywhere on Earth) using the EasyChair proceedings template available at: http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690 Abstracts and papers should be submitted using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places15 Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. A post-workshop proceedings will be published in EPTCS. The submission deadline is strict and will not be extended. Enquiries can be sent to the PC co-chairs. ** Important Dates ** Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 29th December 2014 Paper submission deadline: Monday, 5th January 2015 Notification: Wednesday, 4th February 2015 Final version for pre-proceedings: Friday, 13th February 2015 Workshop date: Saturday, 18th April 2015 ** Programme Committee ** Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK (co-chair) Jade Alglave, University College London, UK (co-chair) Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Stefan Blom, University of Twente, Netherlands Nathan Chong, University College London, UK Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Hans Hüttel, Aalborg University, Denmark Paul Keir, Codeplay Software Ltd, UK Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Pierre-Yves Strub, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Jules Villard, Imperial College London, UK ** Organising Committee ** Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK Simon Gay, University of Glasgow, UK Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge, UK Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK