2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming: Call for Papers

The 2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming provides an opportunity to report experience with the programming languages known as Scheme, to discuss ideas for the future of Scheme, and to present research related to Scheme and functional programming. We encourage everyone interested in Scheme to participate.

We invite authors to submit papers in either of two categories: technical papers and experience papers.

Authors of both technical and experience papers are invited to describe, in an appendix, proposals for demonstrating their work or ideas during the workshop.

We also invite proposals for panel discussions on topics of interest to the Scheme community. The author(s) of an accepted proposal for panel discussion will give a brief introduction to the topic before moderating the discussion that follows.

Submissions are due on Sunday, 29 June. (This extends the original date by nine days.) Authors will be notified of the program committee's decision by 14 July. The final versions of accepted papers will be due on 15 August.

Technical papers

Portability and interoperability: Issues, solutions, libraries, surveys, standards, etc.
Design: Language critiques and extensions, concurrent and distributed computing, texts, records, objects, modules, macros, types, etc.
Implementation: Compilers, interpreters, runtime systems, profilers, debuggers, programming environments, etc.
Theory: Semantics, memory models, concurrency, correctness of analyses, transformations, and programs, etc.
Education: Teaching functional programming, teaching with Scheme, etc.

Experience papers

Applications: Interesting uses of Scheme in commercial or real-world contexts.
Practice and experience: Experience with Scheme in education and industry, especially experience that identifies things Scheme does well or poorly.
Scheme pearls: Short papers that describe elegant and enlightening uses of Scheme.

Experience papers need not report original research results; they may instead report experience that will benefit others, such as elegant or realistic solutions to practical problems. The key criterion for such a paper is that it helps other practitioners. It is not enough simply to describe a program!

Submission guidelines

Submissions should be sent to the program chair as a PDF or Postscript file suitable for printing on US Letter sized paper.
Submissions should be no longer than 12 pages, including bibliography and appendices. Authors who wish to furnish the program committee with additional materials in support of the paper may do so in clearly marked appendices. These appendices will not be counted as part of the submission, will not be counted against the 12-page limit, and may not even be read by any members of the program committee.
Submissions should be prepared in standard ACM format: two columns, nine point font on ten point baseline, page 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in).
A suggested LaTex class file is provided, with accompanying guide, template, and example including references.
Submitted papers must have content that has not previously been published in other conferences or refereed venues, and simultaneous submission to other conferences or refereed venues is unacceptable.
We recommend (but do not require) that citations be put into author-date form. For details on how to do this, see the relevant section of the ICFP call for papers

Important dates

Program Committee

William D Clinger (Northeastern University; organizer and program chair)
Kathi Fisler (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Abdulaziz Ghuloum (Indiana University)
Shiro Kawai (Scheme Arts)
Scott Owens (University of Cambridge)
Jonathan Rees (Science Commons)

Steering Committee

William D. Clinger (Northeastern University)
Marc Feeley (University of Montréal)
Robby Findler (University of Chicago)
Dan Friedman (Indiana University)
Christian Queinnec (University Paris 6)
Manuel Serrano (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
Olin Shivers (Northeastern University)
Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University)

Submission deadline	29 June 2008 (extended from 20 June 2008)
Author notification	14 July 2008
Final paper due	15 August 2008
Workshop	20 September 2008