The Haskell Workshop forms part of the PLI 2003 colloquium on Principles, Logics, and Implementations of high-level programming languages, which comprises the ICFP, and PPDP, conferences as well as associated workshops. Previous Haskell Workshops have been held in La Jolla (1995), Amsterdam (1997), Paris (1999), Montreal (2000), Firenze (2001), and Pittsburgh (2002).

Preliminary Programme

Paper presentations last 30 minutes including 5-10 minutes of discussion. Tool demos last 20 minutes and 10min talks last, well, 10 minutes. The Future of Haskell discussion also lasts 30 minutes.

You can register for the Haskell Workshop via the PLI'03 registration site.

Scope

The purpose of the Haskell Workshop is to discuss experience with Haskell, and possible future developments for the language. The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Language Design

with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo;

Theory

in the form of a formal treatment of the semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, and foundations for program analysis and transformation;

Implementation Techniques

including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management as well as foreign function and component interfaces;

Tool Support

in the form of profilers, tracers, debuggers, pre-processors, and so forth;

Applications, Practice, and Experience

with Haskell for scientific and symbolic computing, database, multimedia and Web applications, and so forth as well as general experience with Haskell in education and industry;

Functional Pearls

being elegant, instructive examples of using Haskell.

Following the scheme adopted by ICFP 2003, papers in the latter two categories need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, 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!

Submission Details

Authors should submit papers in postscript format, formatted for A4 paper, to Johan Jeuring (johanj@cs.uu.nl) by May 22, 2003. The length should be restricted to the equivalent of 5000 words (which is approximately 12 pages in ACM format). Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

If there is sufficient demand, we would like to organise facilities for system demonstrations. If you are interested in demonstrating an application or tool written in Haskell or supporting Haskell development, please contact Johan Jeuring (johanj@cs.uu.nl).

Programme Committee