Call for Papers
ICFP 2007: International Conference on Functional Programming
Freiburg, Germany, 1-3 October 2007
Important Dates
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Submission: 11:00 6 April 2007, Samoa time (AST)
Author response: 11:00 23 May to 11:00 25 May 2007 (AST)
Notification: 8 June 2007
Final papers due: 20 July 2007
Note from the ICFP07 Program Chair
As the April 6 deadline for ICFP approaches, we thought it might be
useful to call potential authors' attention to several significant
points in the Call for Papers, the full text of which can be found at
http://icfp07.eecs.harvard.edu/cfp.html
Experience Reports
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This year ICFP is soliciting a new category of paper: the Experience
Report.
An Experience Report is a short paper of 2--4 pages. Unlike a normal
ICFP
paper, it is not intended to add to the body of *knowledge* of the
functional-programming community. Rather, each Experience Report will
add to
a body of published, refereed, citable *evidence* that functional
programming
really works--or will describe obstacles that prevented it from
working.
Double-blind review
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A reviewer's attitude toward a submission may be affected, even
unconsciously, by the identity of the author. Our reviewers want to
be able
to approach each submission without such involuntary reactions as
``Peyton
Jones; he writes a good paper'' or ``Who are these people? I have
never
heard of them.'' We especially want to ensure that work submitted by
newcomers to our community gets the same careful consideration and
scrutiny
as the work of our best-known people. We are therefore requesting
that
authors make it possible for their submissions to be reviewed without
forcing
the reviewers to know who the authors are. Once all reviews are
written,
identities will be revealed at the PC meeting.
For authors, this process should be simple:
* Omit authors' names from your title page (or list them as
``omitted for
submission''), and when you cite your own work, please make it
difficult
to figure out exactly who you are, even if a reviewer might be
able to
make a good guess.
* If your submission is supported by other material, such as a
technical
report containing lengthy proofs, please do not cite this material
on
the web---instead, submit a zip file including both your paper and
the
technical report.
Detailed guidelines can be found at http://icfp07.eecs.harvard.edu/blind.html
Firm length limit; no appendices
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The 12-page limit (for full papers) and 4-page limit (for Experience
Reports)
are *firm*. Papers exceeding these limits will be rejected summarily
by the
program chair. If an author wishes to include an appendix which would
put
the main submission over the limit, the appendix must be submitted as
a
separate document, in a zip file with the main submission. It is
understood
that the reviewers' only obligation is to read the main submission;
material beyond the 12-page limit may well go unread.
Other details
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We are encouraging author-date citations (Peyton Jones and Wadler
1993)
rather than the default numbered citations [27]. LaTeX users can
\usepackage{natbib} and \bibliographystyle{plainnat}.
The submission deadline is late morning Samoan time, but in many times
zones
of interest, this is equivalent to late afternoon or early evening.