WGP 2010: 6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming 2010

September 26, 2010 in Baltimore, US

Call for Papers

6th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming, 2010 Baltimore, Maryland, US Sunday, September 26th, 2010

http://osl.iu.edu/wgp2010

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 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

  • polytypic programming,
  • programming with dependent types,
  • programming with type classes,
  • programming with (C++) concepts,
  • generic programming,
  • programming with modules,
  • meta-programming,
  • adaptive object-oriented programming,
  • component-based programming,
  • strategic programming,
  • aspect-oriented programming,
  • family polymorphism,
  • object-oriented generic programming,
  • and so on.

Organisers:

Co-Chair Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Seoul National University Co-Chair Marcin Zalewski, Indiana University

Programme Committee:

Alley Stoughton, Kansas State University Andrei Alexandrescu, Facebook Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (Co-Chair), Seoul National University Doug Gregor, Apple Gilad Bracha, I am a Computational Theologist Emeritus Magne Haveraaen, Universitetet i Bergen Marcin Zalewski (Co-Chair), Indiana University Neil Mitchell, Standard Chartered Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica Thorsten Altenkirch, University of Nottingham Ulf Norell, Chalmers University

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

Submission details Deadline for submission: Sunday 2010-06-13 Notification of acceptance: Monday 2010-07-12 Final submission due: Tuesday 2010-07-27 Workshop: Sunday 2010-09-26

Authors should submit papers, in postscript or PDF format, formatted for A4 paper, to the WGP09 EasyChair instance by 13th of June 2010. 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:

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

Earlier Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in

  • 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). Additional information:

The WGP steering committee consists of J Gibbons, R Hinze, P Jansson, J Jarvi, J Jeuring, B Oliveira, S Schupp and M Zalewski