ICFP 2006: Call for Workshop Proposals

The ICFP 2006 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held in Portland, Oregon from September 18 to September 20, 2006.

Proposals for workshops are invited for consideration of ACM SIGPLAN sponsorship and affiliation with ICFP 2006. Affiliated workshops will be held on September 16 and 17 (as well as on September 21, if necessary). The purpose of these workshops is to provide a forum for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than at ICFP itself. They may also provide good opportunities for young researchers to present their work to, and to obtain feedback from, a specialized community. The format of each workshop is to be determined by its organizers, but it is expected that each workshop allows ample time for general discussion. The preference is for workshops which span only one day, but other schedules will also be considered.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit workshop proposals to the ICFP 2006 Workshop Chairs, Matthias Blume and Patricia Johann, via e-mail (icfp06-workshops@cs.uchicago.edu), no later than November 11, 2005. Submission may be made by e-mail (Postscript, PDF, or ASCII) with "ICFP06 Workshop Submission" in the subject header. Following ACM SIGPLAN's sponsorship procedures, proposals must include:

1. The name of the workshop.
2. A statement of goals for the workshop.
3. The names and addresses of the organizers.
4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members. (It would be wise to inform your potential comittee members that they have been selected pending SIGPLAN approval.)
5. A description of plans for calls for participation (e.g., calls for papers).
6. The expected number of attendees and planned length of the workshop.
7. A description of plans for publicity.
8. An explanation of any plans for a published proceedings.
9. A description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance, sites, registration fees and summary budget information.
10. The URL of the workshop web site.

Note that should a proposal be accepted, a final report about the workshop, suitable for publication in SIGPLAN Notices, will be required.

Notification of acceptance will be made by DECEMBER 15, 2005. Accepted workshops will be sponsored by SIGPLAN (see http://www.acm.org/sigplan/sigplan_workshop_proposal.htm for more information).

A committee chaired by the ICFP 2006 Workshop Chairs and consisting of the ICFP Program and General Chairs and the SIGPLAN Executive Committee will evaluate all proposals.

The workshop selection committee members are:

The maximum number of workshop proposals to be accepted is 6.

Any further information needed for preparing a workshop proposal can be obtained by sending email to the workshop chairs (icfp06-workshops@cs.uchicago.edu) or consulting the ICFP 2006 web site at http://icfp06.cs.uchicago.edu/.