Final CFP: Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP) 2014

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                               WGP 2014

            10th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming

                          Gothenburg, Sweden

                        Sunday, August 31, 2014

                    http://www.wgp-sigplan.org/2014

                          Co-located with the

    International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2014)

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Goals of the workshop

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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 program are often quite rich in structure; for

example they may be other programs, types or type constructors, class

hierarchies, or even programming paradigms.

Generic programming techniques have always been of interest, both to

practitioners and to theoreticians, and, for at least 20 years,

generic programming techniques have been a specific focus of research

in the functional and object-oriented programming communities. Generic

programming has gradually spread to more and more mainstream

languages, and today is widely used in industry. This workshop brings

together leading researchers and practitioners in generic programming

from around the world, and features papers capturing the state of the

art in this important area.

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as

practical, of

    * generic programming,

    * programming with (C++) concepts,

    * meta-programming,

    * programming with type classes,

    * programming with modules,

    * programming with dependent types,

    * type systems for generic programming,

    * polytypic programming,

    * adaptive object-oriented programming,

    * component-based programming,

    * strategic programming,

    * aspect-oriented programming,

    * family polymorphism,

    * object-oriented generic programming,

    * implementation of generic programming languages,

    * static and dynamic analyses of generic programs,

    * and so on.

Program Committee

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José Pedro Magalhães (co-chair), University of Oxford

Tiark Rompf (co-chair), Oracle Labs & EPFL

Peter Achten, Radboud University Nijmegen

Nada Amin, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Pierre-Évariste Dagand, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt

Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen

Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University

Miles Sabin, Underscore Consulting LLP, Chuusai Ltd.

Alexander Slesarenko, Huawei Labs & Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM)

Anthony M. Sloane, Macquarie University

Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University

Meng Wang, Chalmers University of Technology

Proceedings and Copyright

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We plan to have formal proceedings, published by the ACM.  Authors must

transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the

extent transferable), but retain various rights

(http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy). Authors are

encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code,

test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material.

Submission details

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Deadline for submission:        Sunday     2014-05-11

Notification of acceptance:     Friday     2014-06-06

Final submission due:           Wednesday  2014-06-18

Workshop:                       Sunday     2014-08-31

Submitted papers should fall into one of two categories:

 * Regular research papers (12 pages)

 * Short papers: case studies, tool demos, generic pearls (6 pages)

Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting

research results. Short papers need not present novel or fully polished

results. Good candidates for short papers are those that report on 

interesting case studies of generic programming in open source or 

industry, present demos of generic programming tools or libraries, 

or discuss elegant and illustrative uses of generic programming ('pearls').

All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted

using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (two-column, 9pt). Regular 

research papers must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers must not exceed 

6 pages. If applicable, papers should be marked with one of the labels

'case study, 'tool demo' or 'generic pearl' in the title at the time 

of submission.

Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at

  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgp2014

Travel Support

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Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant

to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as

for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for

companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for

travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details

on the PAC program, see its web page (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm).

History of the Workshop on Generic Programming

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Earlier Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in

  * Boston, Massachusetts, US 2013 (affiliated with ICFP13),

  * Copenhagen, Denmark 2012 (affiliated with ICFP12),

  * Tokyo, Japan 2011 (affiliated with ICFP11),

  * Baltimore, Maryland, US 2010 (affiliated with ICFP10),

  * Edinburgh, UK 2009 (affiliated with ICFP09),

  * Victoria, BC, Canada 2008 (affiliated with ICFP),

  * Portland 2006 (affiliated with ICFP),

  * Ponte de Lima 2000 (affiliated with MPC),

  * Marstrand 1998 (affiliated with MPC).

Furthermore, there were a few informal workshops

  * Utrecht 2005 (informal workshop),

  * Dagstuhl 2002 (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference),

  * Nottingham 2001 (informal workshop).

There were also (closely related) DGP workshops in Oxford (June

3-4 2004), and a Spring School on DGP in Nottingham (April 24-27

2006, which had a half-day workshop attached).

WGP Steering Committee

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Shin-Cheng Mu (chair)

Jaako Järvi

Andres Löh

Ronald Garcia

Jacques Carette

Jeremiah Willcock

Tim Sheard

Stephanie Weirich

Tarmo Uustalu