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[ This workshop is likely to be of interest to TYPES readers; several type-related topics appear in the CFP. ] 1st CALL FOR PAPERS PLACES'09 Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software 22nd March 2009, York, England http://places09.di.fc.ul.pt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applications on the web 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 normal applications will soon need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems will be 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 queues, and the use of types for communication 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 and distribution. Specific topics include: language design and implementations, program analysis, session types, multicore programming, concurrent data types, web services, novel programming methodologies for sensor networks, integration of sequential and concurrent programming, and runtime architectures including resource allocations. Papers are welcome which present novel and valuable ideas as well as experiences. ** Invited Speaker ** To be confirmed ** Submission Guidelines ** Authors are invited to submit a title and a 200 word abstract by 6th January 2009 to help the PC chairs assign reviewers to papers. Preliminary papers of up to five pages in length should be submitted in PDF format by 11th January using the EasyChair proceedings template available at: http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip Abstracts and full papers should be submitted using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=places2009 Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. We are currently organising a suitable publisher for the post-workshop proceedings. The final choice of publisher will be confirmed on the workshop website shortly. Enquires can be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Important Dates ** Abstract (title & 200 words max): 6th January 2009 Paper Submission: 23:59 (GMT) 11th January 2009 Paper Notification: 25th January 2009 Camera Ready: 8th February 2009 Note: timescales are very short and therefore deadlines will not be extended. ** Program Committee ** Alastair Beresford (chair), University of Cambridge Simon Gay (chair), University of Glasgow Kohei Honda, Queen Mary University of London Greg Morrisett, Harvard University Alan Mycroft, University of Cambridge Vijay A. Saraswat, IBM Research Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon Jan Vitek, Purdue University Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London