CALL FOR PAPERS
                Trends in Functional Programming 2007
                                   New York, USA
                                    April 2-4, 2007
                     http://tltc.shu.edu/tfp2007/
                        OR
                 http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/


The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum
for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages,  
focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional  
Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest  
research results through acceptance by extended abstracts. A formal post-symposium  
refereeing process then selects the best articles presented at the symposium for
publication in a high-profile volume.  

TFP 2007 is co-hosted by Seton Hall University and The City College of New York (CCNY)
and will be held in New York, USA, April 2-4, 2007 at the CCNY campus.

The TFP symposium is the successor to the successful series of Scottish Functional  
Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in Edinburgh, Scotland in
2003 (co-located with IFL), in Munich, Germany in 2004, in Tallinn, Estonia in 2005  
(co-located with ICFP and GPCE), and in Nottingham, UK in 2006  
(co-located with Types). For further general information about TFP please see the
TFP homepage at http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ .



                                SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM


The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part  
of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article  
categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories:


        Research Articles        leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
        Position Articles           on what new trends should or should not be
        Project Articles             descriptions of recently started new projects
        Evaluation Articles      what lessons can be drawn from a finished project
        Overview Articles         summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject


Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other  
forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical,  
implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional  
programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.

Articles on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed:

    o Dependently Typed Functional Programming
    o Validation and Verification of Functional Programs
    o Debugging for Functional Languages
    o Functional Programming and Security
    o Functional Programming and Mobility
    o Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications
    o Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications
    o Functional Languages for Embedded Systems
    o Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing
    o Functional GRIDs
    o Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse)
    o Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages
    o Novel Memory Management Techniques
    o Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages
    o Program Transformation Techniques
    o Empirical Performance Studies
    o Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages
    o New Implementation Strategies
    o any new emerging trend in the functional programming area

If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact  
the TFP 2007 program chair, Marco T. Morazan, at tfp2007@shu.edu.



                                BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD


TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that
students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A prize for the best  
student paper is awarded each year.



                                SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS


Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of  
extended abstracts (6 to 10 pages in length) by the program committee. Accepted  
abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the symposium for publication in  
the draft proceedings and on-line.


The submission must clearly indicate to which category it belongs to: research, position,
project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate whether the main author
or authors are research students. Formatting details can be found at the TFP 2007 website.
Submission procedures will be posted on the TFP 2007 website as the submission deadline is
reached.

The papers in the draft proceedings will also be made available on-line under the following  
conditions, with which all authors are asked to agree:

    The documents distributed by this server have been provided by the
    contributing authors as a means to ensure timely dissemination of
    scholarly and technical work on a noncommercial basis. Copyright and
    all rights therein are maintained by the authors or by other
    copyright holders, notwithstanding that they have offered their
    works here electronically. It is understood that all persons copying
    this information will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by
    each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the
    explicit permission of the copyright holder.



                        POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION


In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we intend to continue the TFP tradition of  
publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in  
Functional Programming. All TFP authors will be invited to submit revised papers after the  
symposium. These will be refereed using normal conference standards and a subset of the best  
papers, over all categories, will be selected for publication. Papers will be judged on their  
contribution to the research area with appropriate criteria applied to each category of paper.

Student papers will be given extra feedback by the Program Committee in order to assist those  
unfamiliar with the publication process.



                        Important DATES


        Abstract Submission: February 1, 2007
        Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2007
        Registration Deadline: March 2, 2007
        Camera Ready Full Paper Due: March 9, 2007
        TFP Symposium: April 2-4, 2007




                                PROGRAMME COMMITTEE



        John Clements                California Polytechnic State University, USA
        Marko van Eekelen                Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
        Benjamin Goldberg                New York University, USA
        Kevin Hammond                University of St. Andrews, UK
        Patricia Johann                Rutgers University, USA  
        Hans-Wolfgang Loidl        Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany
        Rita Loogen                Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
        Greg Michaelson                Heriot-Watt University, UK
        Marco T. Morazán (Chair)        Seton Hall University, USA
        Henrik Nilsson                University of Nottingham, UK
        Chris Okasaki                United States Military Academy at West Point, USA  
        Rex Page                        University of Oklahoma, USA
        Ricardo Pena                Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
        Benjamin C. Pierce                University of Pennsylvania, USA
        John Reppy                University of Chicago, USA
        Ulrik P. Schultz                University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
        Clara Segura                Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
        Jocelyn Sérot                Université Blaise Pascal, France  
        Zhong Shao                Yale University, USA  
        Olin Shivers                        Georgia Institute of Technology, USA  
        Phil Trinder                        Heriot-Watt University, UK
        David Walker                Princeton University, USA



                 ORGANIZATION


        Symposium Chair:        Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK
        Programme Chair:        Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA
        Treasurer:                       Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK
        Local Arrangements:   Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA



                                SPONSORS


        The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Seton Hall University

        The Department of Computer Science, The City College of New York

        The Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software of The City College of New York  

        The Grove School of Engineering of The City College of New York


We are actively looking for additional TFP sponsors, who may, for example, help to
subsidise attendance by research students. If you or your organisation might be  
willing to sponsor TFP, or if you know someone who might be willing to do so, please
do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair, Marco T. Morazan, or the Symposium Chair,  
Henrik Nilsson. Your students will be grateful!



************************************************************************************
Dr. Marco T. Morazan
TFP 2007
Program Committee Chair
http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/