Call for Papers (WGP'09)

[Interested Boosters are encouraged to submit.]
Sibylle

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ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming 2009
Edinburgh, UK, August 30, 2009

     http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/cse/WGP09

Goals of the workshop

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 language communities. Generic 
programming has gradually spread to more and more mainstream languages 
and is today widely used also in industry. This workshop will bring 
together leading researchers and practitioners in generic programming 
from around the world, and feature papers capturing the state of the art 
in this important area.

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as 
practical, of

    * adaptive object-oriented programming,
    * aspect-oriented programming,
    * concepts (as in the STL / C++ sense)
    * component-based programming,
    * generic programming,
    * meta-programming,
    * polytypic programming,
    * programming with modules,
    * and so on.

Organisers:

Chair
    Patrik Jansson, FP.SET.CSE.Chalmers.se.
co-Chair
    Sibylle Schupp, STS.TUHH.de.

Programme Committee:

Edwin Brady,  U. of St Andrews, http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~eb/
Peter Gottschling, TU Dresden, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/BA6/91A
Patrik Jansson, Chalmers, http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~patrikj/    Chair
Barry Jay, U. of T., Sydney, http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~cbj/
Jaakko Järvi, Texas A&M, http://parasol.tamu.edu/~jarvi/
Oleg Kiselyov, FNMOC, http://okmij.org/ftp/
Andres Löh,  Utrecht U., http://people.cs.uu.nl/andres/
Fritz Ruehr, Willamette U., http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/
Sibylle Schupp, TU Hamburg Harburg,  
http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~schupp/    Co-Chair
Marcin Zalewski, Chalmers, http://sms.cs.chalmers.se/wiki/Marcin_Zalewski

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

Submission details
Deadline for submission:  Sunday    090510
Notification of acceptance:  Monday    090601
Final submission due: Tuesday    090616
Workshop: Sunday 090830

Authors should submit papers, in postscript or PDF format, formatted for 
A4 paper, to the WGP09 EasyChair instance by 10th of May 2009. The 
length should be restricted to 12 pages in standard (two-column, 9pt) 
ACM format. Accepted papers are published by the ACM and will 
additionally appear in the ACM digital library.

History of the Workshop on Generic Programming

This year:

    * Edinburgh, UK 2009 (affiliated with ICFP09)

Earlier Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in

    * Victoria, BC, Canada 2008 (affiliated with ICFP),
    * Portland 2006 (affiliated with ICFP),
    * Utrecht 2005 (informal workshop),
    * Dagstuhl 2002 (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference),
    * Nottingham 2001 (informal workshop),
    * Ponte de Lima 2000 (affiliated with MPC),
    * Marstrand 1998 (affiliated with MPC).

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).
Additional information:

The WGP steering committee consists of J Gibbons, R Hinze and J Jeuring.