Boston, Massachusetts
Higher-Order Programming with Effects
We received 20 high-quality submissions for talk proposals this year, from which the program committee decided to accept 10 for presentation at the workshop. The talks will be videorecorded, and the recordings will be made available here after the workshop.
Also this year, the workshop will feature a special session in memory of John Reynolds. The session will include talks from Olivier Danvy, Robert Harper, Peter O'Hearn, and Uday Reddy, with a mixture of scientific and personal reflections on John's life and work.
The workshop is sponsored in part by a generous donation from:
A recurring theme in many papers at ICFP, and in the research of many ICFP attendees, is the interaction of higher-order programming with various kinds of effects: storage effects, I/O, control effects, concurrency, etc. While effects are of critical importance in many applications, they also make it hard to build, maintain, and reason about one's code. Higher-order languages (both functional and object-oriented) provide a variety of abstraction mechanisms to help "tame" or "encapsulate" effects (e.g. monads, ADTs, ownership types, typestate, first-class events, transactions, Hoare Type Theory, session types, substructural and region-based type systems), and a number of different semantic models and verification technologies have been developed in order to codify and exploit the benefits of this encapsulation (e.g. bisimulations, step-indexed Kripke logical relations, higher-order separation logic, game semantics, various modal logics). But there remain many open problems, and the field is highly active.
The goal of the HOPE workshop is to bring researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and perspectives together to exchange new and exciting ideas concerning the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of higher-order effectful programs.
We want HOPE to be as informal and interactive as possible. The program will thus involve a combination of invited talks, contributed talks about work in progress, and open-ended discussion sessions. There will be no published proceedings, but participants will be invited to submit working documents, talk slides, etc. to be posted on this website.
We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format. However, we will accept longer proposals or submissions to other conferences, under the understanding that PC members are only expected to read the first two pages of such longer submissions. When submitting talk proposals, authors should specify how long a talk the speaker wishes to give. By default, contributed talks will be 30 minutes long, but proposals for shorter or longer talks will also be considered. Speakers may also submit supplementary material (e.g. a full paper, talk slides) if they desire, which PC members are free (but not expected) to read.
We are interested in talks on all topics related to the interaction of higher-order programming and computational effects. Talks about work in progress are particularly encouraged. If you have any questions about the relevance of a particular topic, please contact the PC chairs at the address hope2013@mpi-sws.org.
Deadline for talk proposals (extended): | July 15, 2013 (Monday) | |
Notification of acceptance (updated): | August 2, 2013 (Friday) | |
Workshop: | September 28, 2013 (Saturday) |
The submission website is now closed.
Program Co-Chairs | Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) |
Hongseok Yang (University of Oxford) | |
Program Committee | Anindya Banerjee (IMDEA Software Institute) |
Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University) | |
Aquinas Hobor (National University of Singapore) | |
Chung-Kil Hur (Microsoft Research Cambridge) | |
Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) | |
Matthew Might (University of Utah) | |
Peter Müller (ETH Zurich) | |
Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) | |
Zhong Shao (Yale University) |
This is the 2nd edition of the HOPE workshop.
The 1st edition of the workshop was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2012.