It is just at the doorstep of London and more presentations on Erlang would be
welcome!


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* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE!!
* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
*
* 20th International Symposium on the
* Implementation and Application of Functional Languages
* IFL 2008
* 10-12.Sept 2008, Hatfield UK
*
* http://events.sac-home.org/ifl2008/
*
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UPDATED DEADLINES:

* Submission for draft proceedings: NOW 1. Sept
* Early Registration: NOW 2. Sept

Please note, that the draft proceedings do NOT require full papers; extended
abstracts will be considered too.

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The aim of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in
the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming
languages. They provide an open forum for researchers who wish to present and
discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, preliminary results, etc.
related primarily but not exclusively to the implementation and application of
functional languages. Formal proceedings are produced after the symposium, so
that authors can incorporate the feedback from discussions at the symposium in
their published papers.

Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* language concepts
* type checking
* compilation techniques
* (abstract) interpretation
* generic programming techniques
* automatic program generation
* array processing
* concurrent/parallel programming
* concurrent/parallel program execution
* functional programming on embedded systems
* functional programming on multi-cores/ many-cores
* heap management
* runtime profiling
* performance measurements
* debugging and tracing
* (abstract) machine architectures
* verification
* formal aspects
* tools and programming techniques

Papers on applications or tools demonstrating the suitability of novel ideas in
any of the above areas and contributions on related theoretical work are also
welcomed. The change of the symposium name adding the term application,
introduced in 2004, is to reflect the broader scope IFL has gained over the
years.

Paper Submissions
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Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers to be published in the draft
proceedings and to present them at the symposium. All contributions must be
written in English, conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS series format and not
exceed 16 pages. The draft proceedings will appear as a Technical Report of the
School of Computer Science of the University of Hertfordshire.

Attendees of IFL 2008 will have the opportunity to submit a revised version of
their paper for post-symposium reviewing. As in previous years, we hope that
selected papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) Series.

The Peter Landin Prize
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Since 2002 every year the Peter Landin Prize of 150 GBP is awarded to the best
paper presented at the symposium, as selected by the program committee.


Important Dates
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* Submission for draft proceedings: NOW 1. Sept.
* Early Registration: NOW 2. Sept.
* Symposium: 10-12. September
* Submission for post-refereeing: 14. November
* Notification of acceptance / rejection: 23. January 2009
* Submission of a camera ready version: 20. February 2009


Contact
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For further details see <http://events.sac-home.org/ifl2008/> or contact
us by email: events <at> sac-home.org