2003 Scheme Workshop - Call for Papers

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… 2003 Scheme Workshop
Friday, November 7
Boston, Massachusetts

      co-located with the Lightweight Languages Workshop


             -----  CALL FOR PAPERS  -----

The purpose of the 2003 Scheme Workshop is to discuss experience with
and future developments of the Scheme programming language —
including the future of Scheme standardization — as well as general
aspects of computer science loosely centered on the general theme of
Scheme.

Papers are invited concerning all aspects of the design, semantics,
theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Scheme. Some
example areas include (but are not limited to):

  • Theory
    Formal semantics, correctness of analyses and transformations,
    lambda calculus.

  • Design critiques
    Limitations of the language, future directions.

  • Linguistic extensions
    Scheme’s simple syntactic framework and minimal static semantics
    has historically made the language an attractive “lab bench” for
    the development and experimentation of novel language features
    and mechanisms.

    Topics in this area include modules systems, exceptions, control
    mechanisms, distributed programming, concurrency and
    synchronisation, macro systems, and objects.

  • Type systems
    Static analyses for dynamic type systems, type systems that
    bridge the gap between static and dynamic types, static systems
    with “type dynamic” extensions, weak typing.

  • Implementation
    Compilers, optimisation, virtual machines, resource management,
    interpreters, foreign-function interfaces, partial evaluation,
    and generally implementations with novel or noteworthy features.

  • Program-development environments
    The Lisp and Scheme family of programming languages have
    traditionally been the source of innovative program-development
    environments. Authors working on these issues are encouraged to
    submit papers describing their technologies.

  • Education
    Scheme has achieved widespread use as a tool for teaching
    computer science. Papers on the theory and practice of teaching
    with Scheme are invited.

  • Applications and experience
    Interesting applications which illuminate aspects of Scheme;
    experience with Scheme in commercial or real-world contexts; use
    of Scheme as an extension or scripting language.

  • Scheme pearls
    Elegant, instructive examples of functional programming.

    A " Scheme pearl" submission is a special category, and should be
    a short paper presenting an algorithm, idea or programming device
    using Scheme in a way that is particularly elegant.

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Proceedings

The proceedings of the conference will be published as a University of
Utah School of Computing technical report.

Important dates

1 August, 2003 - Submission deadline (end of the day, UTC)

5 September, 2003 - Notification of acceptance or rejection

17 October, 2003 - Final paper due

7 November, 2003 - Workshop

Submission guidelines

Authors should submit a 100-200 word abstract and a full paper by the
end of Friday, 1 August Universal Coordinated Time. (The end of the
day UTC corresponds to 8:00 PM EDT, 6:00 PM MDT, and 5:00 PM PDT.)

Submissions will be carried out electronically via the Web, at

  http://scheme2003.flux.utah.edu/

Papers must be submitted in PDF format, or as PostScript documents
that are interpretable by Ghostscript, and they must be printable on
US Letter sized paper. Individuals for which this requirement is a
hardship should contact the workshop chair at least one week before
the deadline.

There are two classes of submissions, regular papers and short papers:

  • Regular papers

    Submissions should be no more than 12 pages (including bibliography
    and appendices) in standard ACM conference 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). Authors wishing to
    supply additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12 page limit
    can do so in clearly marked appendices, on the understanding that
    reviewers are not required to read the appendices. Submissions that
    do not meet these guidelines will not be considered. Suitable style
    files for Latex, Word, and Word Perfect can be found on the
    submission Web site.

    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. Each paper should explain its contributions in both
    general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been
    accomplished, saying why it is significant, and comparing it with
    previous work. Authors should strive to make the technical content
    of their papers understandable to a broad audience.

  • Short papers

    Short papers need not present novel research; it is sufficient that
    they present material of interest or utility to the Scheme or
    functional-programming community. “Scheme pearls” submissions
    should be presented as short papers.

    Short papers should be formatted with the same guidelines as regular
    papers, but are expected to be typically around six pages in length.

Organizers

Workshop chair:

Matthew Flatt
School of Computing
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
+1 801 587 9091
mflatt@cs.utah.edu

Program committee:

Robert Bruce Findler (University of Chicago)
Erick Gallesio (University of Nice)
Tim Hickey (Brandeis University)
Mario Latendresse (FNMOC)
Jeffrey Mark Siskind (Purdue University)
Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University)

Steering committee:

William D. Clinger (Northeastern University)
Marc Feeley (University of Montreal)
Matthias Felleisen (Northeastern University)
Matthew Flatt (University of Utah)
Dan Friedman (Indiana University)
Christian Queinnec (University Paris 6)
Manuel Serrano (INRIA)
Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University)