Call for Papers
IFL 2009
Seton Hall University
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ, USA
http://tltc.shu.edu/blogs/projects/IFL2009/


The 21st IFL symposium, IFL 2009, will be held for the first time in the USA. The hosting institution is Seton Hall
University in South Orange, NJ, USA and the symposium dates are September 23-25, 2009. It is our goal to make IFL a
regular event held in the USA. The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the
implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2009 will be a venue for
researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to
the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming.

Following the IFL tradition, IFL 2009 will use a post-symposium review process to produce a formal proceedings which we
expect to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All participants in IFL 2009 are
invited to submit either a draft paper or and extended abstract describing work to be presented at the symposium.
These submissions will be screened by the program committee chair to make sure they are within the scope of IFL and will
appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. Submissions appearing in the draft proceedings are not
peer-reviewed publications. After the symposium, authors will be given the opportunity to incorporate the feedback from
discussions at the symposium and will be invited to submit a revised full arcticle for the formal review process. These
revised submissions will be reviewed by the program committee using prevailing academic standards to select the best
articles that will appear in the formal proceedings.


TOPICS

IFL welcomes submissions describing practical and theoretical as well as submissions describing applications and tools.
If you are not sure if your work is appropriate for IFL 2009, please contact the PC chair at ifl2009@shu.edu. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

 language concepts
 type checking
 contracts
 compilation techniques
 staged compilation
 runtime function specialization
 runtime code generation
 partial evaluation  
 (abstract) interpretation
 generic programming techniques
 automatic program generation
 array processing
 concurrent/parallel programming
 concurrent/parallel program execution
 functional programming and embedded systems
 functional programming and web applications
 functional programming and security
 novel memory management techniques
 runtime profiling and performance measurements
 debugging and tracing
 virtual/abstract machine architectures
 validation and verification of functional programs  
 tools and programming techniques


PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers or extended abstracts 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 Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science of Seton Hall University.


IMPORTANT DATES

Registration deadline                                       August 15, 2009
Presentation submission deadline              August 15, 2009
IFL 2009 Symposium                                        September 23-25, 2009
Submission for review process deadline  November 1, 2009
Notification Accept/Reject                              December 22, 2009
Camera ready version                                     January 15, 2010


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Peter Achten                       University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Jost Berthold                       Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Andrew Butterfield             University of Dublin, Ireland
Robby Findler                     Northwestern University, USA
Kathleen Fisher                   AT&T Research, USA
Cormac Flanagan              University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Matthew Flatt                        University of Utah, USA
Matthew Fluet                       Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA
Daniel Friedman                 Indiana University, USA
Andy Gill                                University of Kansas, USA
Clemens Grelck                  University of Amsterdam/Hertfordshire, The Netherlands/UK
Jurriaan Hage                      Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Ralf Hinze                              Oxford University, UK
Paul Hudak                           Yale University, USA
John Hughes                        Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Patricia Johann                    University of Strathclyde, UK
Yukiyoshi Kameyama        University of Tsukuba, Japan
Marco T. Morazán (Chair)  Seton Hall University, USA
Rex Page                                University of Oklahoma, USA
Fernando Rubio                    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Sven-Bodo Scholz               University of Hertfordshire, UK
Manuel Serrano                     INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Chung-chieh Shan                Rutgers University, USA
David Walker                         Princeton University, USA
Viktória Zsók                          Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary


PETER LANDIN PRIZE

The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected
by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award
equivalent to 150 euros.