14 September 2012: CALL FOR PAPERS Eleventh ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop

Erlang Solutions - - July 19, 2012

Copenhagen, Denmark

A satellite event of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2012).

Erlang is a concurrent, distributed functional programming language aimed at systems with requirements on massive concurrency, soft real time response, fault tolerance, and high availability. It has been available as open source for over a decade, creating a community that actively contributes to its already existing rich set of libraries and applications. Originally created for telecom applications, its usage has spread to other domains including e-commerce, banking, databases, and computer telephony and messaging.

Erlang programs are today among the largest applications written in any functional programming language. These applications offer new opportunities to evaluate functional programming and functional programming methods on a very large scale and suggest new problems for the research community to solve.

This workshop will bring together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It will enable participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users’ experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming.

We invite three sorts of submissions.

  • Technical papers describing language extensions, critical discussions of the status quo, formal semantics of language constructs, program analysis and transformation, virtual machine extensions and compilation techniques, implementations and interfaces of Erlang in/with other languages, and new tools (profilers, tracers, debuggers, testing frameworks, etc.). The maximum length for technical papers is restricted to 12 pages.
  • Practice and application papers describing uses of Erlang in the “real-world”, Erlang libraries for specific tasks, experiences from using Erlang in specific application domains, reusable programming idioms and elegant new ways of using Erlang to approach or solve a particular problem. The maximum length for the practice and application papers is restricted to 12 pages. Note that this is a maximum length: we welcome shorter papers also; the program committee will evaluate all papers on an equal basis independent of their lengths.

  • Poster presentations describing topics related to the workshop goals. Each of them includes max 2 pages of the abstract and summary. Presentations in this category will be given an hour of shared simultaneous demonstration time.

    Workshop Chair

    • Torben Hoffmann, Issuu, Denmark

    Program Chair

    • John Hughes, Chalmers University of Technology/Quviq AB, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Program Committee

    (Note: the Workshop and Program Chairs are also committee members) 

    • Clara Benac Earle, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    • Scott Lystig Fritchie, Basho Technologies, USA
    • Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England
    • Tamas Kozsik, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
    • Kenneth Lundin, Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • Erik Stenman, Klarna AB, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Kresten Krab Thorup, Trifork A/S, Aarhus, Denmark
    • Steve Vinoski, Basho Technologies, USA

    Important Dates

    • Submission deadline: Sunday, June 3, 2012
    • Author notification: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
    • Final submission for the publisher: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
    • Workshop date: Friday, September 14, 2012

    Instructions to authors

    Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair (via the “Erlang2012” event). The submission page is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erlang2012.

    Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines.

    Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN’s republication policy. Violation risks summary rejection of the offending submission. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

    Paper submissions will be considered for poster submission in the case that they are not accepted as full papers.

    Venue & Registration Details

    For registration, please see the ICFP 2012 web site.

    Accepted Papers

    Kenji Rikitake. TinyMT Pseudo Random Generator for Erlang
    Macías López, Laura M. Castro and David Cabrero. Failover and takeover contingency mechanisms for netsplits and node fall down
    Joseph Blomstedt. Concurrent Property-based Testing: From Prototype to Final Implementation
    Nikolaos Papaspyrou and Konstantinos Sagonas. On Preserving Term Sharing in the Erlang Virtual Machine
    Kostis Sagonas, Chris Stavrakakis and Yiannis Tsiouris. ErLLVM: An LLVM Backend for Erlang
    Stavros Aronis, Nikolaos Papaspyrou, Katerina Roukounaki, Konstantinos Sagonas, Yiannis Tsiouris and Ioannis Venetis. A Scalability Benchmark Suite for Erlang/OTP
    Bryan Fink. Experience Report: Distributed Computation on Dynamo-style Distributed Storage: Riak Pipe
    Álvaro Fernández Díaz, Clara Benac Earle and Lars-Ake Fredlund. Erlang as an Implementation Platform for BDI Languages

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