The Scheme Workshop will be held this year in Pittsburgh, in October, the day before ICFP. I am the workshop chairman. I am taking the liberty of cross-posting the call for papers to some netnews programming-language groups with related topics. We would certainly welcome papers on relevant topics from your communities as well as attendance and participation in the workshop's discussions. -Olin Shivers =============================================================================== ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Scheme Workshop Thursday, October 3, 2002 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The workshop forms part of PLI 2002, which consists of the ICFP and PPDP conferences and other workshops. Full details on the workshop can be found at URL <http://scheme2002.ccs.neu.edu/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Scope ------- The purpose of the workshop is to discuss experience with and future developments of the Scheme programming language, 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Proceedings ------------- The proceedings of the conference will be published as a Georgia Tech College of Computing technical report. A special issue of the journal Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation about Scheme <http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1388-3690> is planned afterwards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Important dates ----------------- - Submission deadline: 2200 UTC, 17 May, 2002 - Notification of acceptance or rejection: 28 June, 2002 - Final paper due: 31 August, 2002 - Workshop: 3 October, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission guidelines ----------------------- Authors should submit a 100-200 word abstract and a full paper by 22:00 Universal Coordinated Time on Thursday, 17 May, 2002. (Note that 2200 UTC is 1800 EDT, or 1500 PDT.) Submissions will be carried out electronically via the Web, at <http://scheme2002.ccs.neu.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 program chair at least one week before the deadline. There are two classes of submissions: reular 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Organisers ------------ Workshop chair: Olin Shivers College of Computing Georgia Tech Atlanta, Ga 30332-0280 +1 404 385.00.91 shivers@cc.gatech.edu 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) Program committee: Alan Bawden (Brandeis) Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus) Richard Kelsey (Ember, Corp.) Brad Lucier (Purdue University) Paul Steckler (Northeastern University) Andrew Wright (Aleris) Publicity: Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University)