CALL FOR PAPERS
Eleventh ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop
Copenhagen, Denmark
Friday, September 14, 2012

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.
Related Links

    ICFP 2012 web site: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2012/
    Past ACM SIGPLAN Erlang workshops: http://www.erlang.org/workshop/
    Open Source Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/
    EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=erlang2012
    Author Information for SIGPLAN Conferences: http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm