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CALL FOR PAPERS
2004 Scheme Workshop
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme2004
Snowbird, Utah, USA
22 September 2004
The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2004.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/icfp04/
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Important dates
Submission deadline June 9, 2004
Author notification July 23, 2004
Final paper due August 23, 2004
Workshop September 22, 2004
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Purpose
The 2004 Scheme Workshop is a forum for discussing experience with
and future development of the Scheme programming language. The scope
of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, implementation,
theory, and application of Scheme. We encourage everyone interested
in Scheme to participate.
The workshop has been accepted by the ICFP'04 workshop committee;
formal approval by the SIGPLAN executive committee is pending.
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Scope
We invite submissions for both technical and experience papers.
Topics of interest for Technical Papers include (but are not limited to):
* Design
Language critiques and extensions, concurrency and distribution,
components and composition, language embedding, object systems,
exception handling, syntactic abstraction, module systems and
libraries, multiparadigm programming, scripting.
* Implementation
Compilers, interpreters, runtime systems, virtual machines, resource
management, program analysis and transformation, partial evaluation,
compile-time and run-time optimization, foreign function and operating
system interfaces, embedded systems.
* Development tools
Profilers, tracers, debuggers, program development environments,
program understanding tools, performance and conformance test suites.
* Theory
Formal semantics, correctness of analyses and transformations,
lambda calculus, continuations.
Topics of interest for Experience Papers include (but are not limited to):
* Applications
Domain-specific languages, graphical user interfaces, web programming,
network applications, multimedia programming, systems programming,
symbolic computing, large systems, use of Scheme as a scripting language.
* Practice and experience
Experience with Scheme in education and industry.
* Scheme pearls
Elegant, instructive uses of Scheme.
Following the model of ICFP 2004, experience papers need not necessarily
report original research results; they may instead report practical
experience that will be useful to others, re-usable programming idioms,
or elegant new ways of approaching a problem. The key criterion for such
a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other practitioners
can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a program!
System Demonstrations. Authors of both technical and experience
papers are invited to describe, in an appendix, proposals for system
demonstrations to be given during the workshop.
Panel Discussions. We also invite proposals for panel discussions
on topics of interest to the Scheme community. Authors of accepted
proposals will give a brief presentation on the topic and then moderate
the discussion that follows.
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Submission guidelines
Authors should submit a 100-200 word abstract and a full paper to the
program chair via e-mail by the end of Wednesday, June 9, Universal
Coordinated Time. (The end of the day UTC corresponds to 8:00 PM EDT,
6:00 PM MDT, and 5:00 PM PDT.)
Papers must be submitted in either PDF format or as PostScript documents
that are interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must be printable on US
Letter sized paper.
Submissions should be typeset in 10 point font on 12 point baseline in
two columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall with a column gutter
of 2pc (0.33in). Submissions should be be no more than 15 pages including
text, figures, and bibliography. Authors wishing to supply additional
material to the reviewers beyond the 15 page limit may do so in clearly
marked appendices, on the understanding that reviewers are not required
to read the appendices. Suitable LaTeX class files may be downloaded from
the workshop web site. (This is not the standard ACM conference style;
it is a larger format adopted by POPL'05 to be easier on reviewer's eyes.)
We anticipate that experience papers will be shorter, generally around
10 pages in length.
Submitted papers must have content that has not previously been published
in other conferences or refereed venues. 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.
Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will not be considered.
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Organizers
Workshop chair:
Oscar Waddell
Computer Science Department
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104
········@cs.indiana.edu
Program committee:
J. Michael Ashley (Beckman Coulter, Inc.)
Danny Dub� (Universit� Laval)
Robert Bruce Findler (University of Chicago)
Richard Kelsey (Ember Corporation)
Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen)
Michael Sperber (DeinProgramm)
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)
Olin Shivers (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University)