Scope

The symposium recognises 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:

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 welcome:

• Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
• Functional programming in the cloud
• Functional programming in education
• High performance functional computing
• Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
• Dependently typed functional programming
• Validation and verification of functional programs
• Using functional techniques to verify/reason about imperative/object-oriented programs
• Debugging for functional languages
• Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc.
• Interoperability with imperative programming languages
• Novel memory management techniques
• Program transformation techniques
• Empirical performance studies
• Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
• New implementation strategies
• 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 2013 program chair, Jay McCarthy.

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 student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year.

Submission and Draft Proceedings

Acceptance of papers for presentation at the symposium is based on a lightweight screening process of extended abstracts (2 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (max 16 pages). Accepted abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings. Latex style files are available from Springer's web page (llncs2e.zip).

The submission must clearly indicate 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.

Paper submission is done through TFP13's EasyChair page:

The papers of the local proceedings will also be made available on-line under some copyright conditions, with which all authors are asked to agree.

Post-Symposium Refereeing and Publication

In addition to the symposium draft proceedings, we will continue the previous years' decision of publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Proceedings of the last three instances of TFP have been published as LNCS 6546 (TFP10), LNCS 7193 (TFP11), and LNCS TBA (TFP12). 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 submitted 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 and to help in improving the quality of the paper.

Registration

Registration for TFP13, as well as the adjoined workshops, is handled through the on-line registration page linked below. Note that for guaranteed on-site accommodation, registration must be completed by the early registration deadline.

If you are registering for TFPIE as well, it is referred to as the "One Day Workshop" on the registration site.

Local Arrangments

The conference will be held on BYU campus in the Wilkinson Student Center (building 88 or WSC on BYU's campus map) in room 5519. (Many participants are curious about the impact the BYU Honor Code will have on their attendance. This code is for students, not for visitors to BYU. The only way it will impact participants is, for example, potential confusion from on-lookers who see you smoke in areas permitted by the Utah Clean Air Act, and in the inability of the conference to pay for or provide prohibited substances like alcohol, tea, or coffee. You can, of course, bring your own drinks, etc.)

We have arranged for a room block at the Provo Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Downtown Provo. We will be running shuttles to and from the hotel and BYU. Please use the group code tfptfpa or this reservation link.

When planning your flight, you should plan on flying into Salt Lake International Airport (Code: SLC). There are variety of option for traveling to Provo from the airport, such as shuttles and public transit. You may want to coordinate with other attendees via Facebook to share transportation costs.

Part way through the conference, we will be organizing an excursion to Historic Temple Square and the City Creek Center, the most popular tourist attraction in Utah. As part of the excursion, we'll have the chance to listen to a live choir and organ concert, visit the world's largest genealogical library, and have a small tour in one of 40 different languages, including nearly all European languages, so you can have a tour with a guide from your home country in your native tongue.

Sponsors

TFP 2013 is sponsored by the Brigham Young University Computer Science department.

Organizers