TFP 2008

The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages, focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results through acceptance by extended abstracts and full papers. A formal post-symposium refereeing process selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume.

TFP 2008 is hosted by the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and will be held in the rural setting of Center Parcs 'Het Heijderbos', Heijen (in the vicinity of Nijmegen), The Netherlands. TFP 2008 is co-located with the 6th Int'l. Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming (AFP'08), which is held immediately before TFP'08.

SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: - Research: leading-edge, previously unpublished research. - Position: on what new trends should or should not be. - Project: descriptions of recently started new projects. - Evaluation: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project. - Overview: summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject.

Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Contributions on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed: If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2008 program chairs, Peter Achten and Pieter Koopman, at afp_tfp_2008@cs.ru.nl.
 * Dependently Typed Functional Programming
 * Validation and Verification of Functional Programs
 * Debugging for Functional Languages
 * Functional Programming and Security
 * Functional Programming and Mobility
 * Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications
 * Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications
 * Functional Languages for Embedded Systems
 * Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing
 * Functional GRIDs
 * Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse)
 * Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages
 * Novel Memory Management Techniques
 * Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages
 * Program Transformation Techniques
 * Empirical Performance Studies
 * Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages
 * New Implementation Strategies
 * Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area

SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of full papers (15 pages) and extended abstracts (3 pages) by the program committee. TFP encourages PhD students to submit papers. PhD students may request the program committee to provide extensive feedback on their full papers at the time of submission. Full papers describing work accepted for presentation must be completed before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings and on-line. Further details can be found at the TFP 2008 website http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/AFP_TFP_2008/.

POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we continue the TFP tradition of publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in Functional Programming.

IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2008) Paper Submission: March 3 Notification of Acceptance: March 31 Early Registration Deadline: April 14 Late Registration Deadline: May 5 Camera Ready Symposium: May 5 TFP Symposium: May 26-28 Post Symposium Paper Submission: June 20 Notification of Acceptance: September 7 Camera Ready Revised Paper: September 21 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP