[Caml-list] IFL 2025: First call for papers

[Caml-list] IFL 2025: First call for papers

[Mart Lubbers]

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                                IFL 2025

37th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages


                        Montevideo, Uruguay

                        October 1-3, 2025

                       https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/congresos/ifl2025

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### Scope

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 2025 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.

### Topics of interest

Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to:

- language concepts
- type systems, type checking, type inferencing
- compilation techniques
- staged compilation
- run-time function specialisation
- run-time code generation
- partial evaluation
- (abstract) interpretation
- meta-programming
- generic programming
- automatic program generation
- array processing
- concurrent/parallel programming
- concurrent/parallel program execution
- embedded systems
- web applications
- (embedded) domain specific languages
- security
- novel memory management techniques
- run-time profiling performance measurements
- debugging and tracing
- virtual/abstract machine architectures
- validation, verification of functional programs
- tools and programming techniques

### Peer-review process

Differently from previous editions of IFL, IFL 2025 solicits two kinds
of submissions:

* Regular papers (12 pages including references)
* Draft papers for presentations ('weak' limit between 8 and 15 pages)

Regular papers will undergo a rigorous review by the program committee,
and will be evaluated according to their correctness, novelty,
originality, relevance, significance, and clarity. A set of regular
papers will be conditionally accepted for publication. Authors of
conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews
along with a set of mandatory revisions. Regular papers not accepted for
publication will be considered as draft papers, at the request of the
author.

Draft papers will be screened to make sure that they are within the
scope of IFL, and will be accepted for presentation or rejected
accordingly.

Prior to the symposium:

  Authors of conditionally accepted papers and accepted presentations
  will submit a pre-proceedings version of their work that will appear
  in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. The draft
  proceedings does not constitute a formal publication.

  We require that at least one of the authors present the work at IFL
  2025.

After the symposium:

  Authors of conditionally accepted papers will submit a revised
  versions of their paper for the formal post-proceedings.

  The program committee will assess whether the mandatory revisions have
  been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the
  final accept/reject status of the paper.

  Our interest is to ultimately accept all conditionally accepted
  papers. If you are an author of a conditionally accepted paper, please
  make sure that you address all the concerns of the reviewers.

  Authors of accepted presentations will be given the opportunity to
  incorporate the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be
  invited to submit a revised full article for the formal
  post-proceedings.

  The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to
  their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and
  clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or
  rejected.


### Important dates

Submission of regular papers:                  June 16, 2025
Regular papers notification:                   August 4, 2025
Submission of draft papers:                    August 4, 2025
Draft papers notification:                     August 11, 2025
Deadline for early registration:               September 5, 2025
Submission of pre-proceedings version:         September 8, 2025
IFL Symposium:                                 October 1-3, 2025
Submission of papers for post-proceedings:     December 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance:                    February 28, 2026
Camera-ready version:                          March 30, 2026

Deadlines are end of day Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)
(https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe).


### Submission details

All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM
two columns conference format, which can be found at:

    http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Submit your paper here:

    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl20240

Important note to authors about the new ACM open access publishing model
ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the
International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at
institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not
qualify for a waiver will be required to pay an article processing
charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library.
To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article,
please follow the detailed guidance here:

https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance.

Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows:

- Full details of the new ICPS publishing model:
  https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq
- Full details of the ACM Open program:
  https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess
- Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info@acm.org.

### Peter Landin Prize

The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the
symposium every year. The honoured 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.

### Organisation

PC Chairs:

Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Marcos Viera, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Local Chairs:

Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Marcos Viera, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay


### Program committee:

Matteo Cimini, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Facundo Domínguez, Tweag
João Paulo Fernandes, Universidade do Porto
Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University
Jurriaan Hage, Heriot Watt University
Jason Hemann, Seton Hall University
Maja Hanne Kirkeby, Roskilde University
Mart Lubbers, Radboud University
Bruno C. D. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong
Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University
Andre Rauber Du Bois, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Rodrigo Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Alejandro Russo, Chalmers University of Technology
João Saraiva, University of Minho
Wenhao Tang, University of Edinburgh
Zhixuan Yang, Imperial College London
Brent Yorgey, Hendrix College
Beta Ziliani, Manas.Tech
Viktória Zsók, Eötvös Loránd University

### Venue

IFL 2025 will be held physically in Montevideo, Uruguay. See the website
for more information.

    https://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/congresos/ifl2025


### Acknowledgments

This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from
previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organisers for their
work, which is reused here.