TFP 2025 – Call for Papers

Important Dates

Submission deadline (pre-symposium, full papers) Wed 13th Nov 2024 (AOE)
Notification (pre-symposium, full papers) Wed 11th Dec 2024
Submission deadline (pre-symposium draft papers) Wed 11th Dec 2024 (AOE)
Notification (pre-symposium draft papers) Mon 16th Dec 2024
Symposium Tue 14th to Thu 16th Jan 2025
Submission deadline (post-symposium review) Wed 19th Feb 2025 (AOE)
Notification (post-symposium submissions) Wed 26th Mar 2025

The Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions.

This year, TFP will take place in-person at the University of Oxford, UK. It is co-located with the Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE) workshop, which will take on the day before the main symposium.

Please be aware that TFP has several submission deadlines. The first, 13th November, is for authors who wish to have their full paper reviewed prior to the symposium. Papers that are accepted in this way must also be presented at the symposium. The second, 11th December, is for authors who wish to present their work or work-in-progress at the symposium first without submitting to the full review process for publication. These authors can then take into account feedback received at the symposium and submit a full paper for review by the third deadline, 19th February.

Scope

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 paper categories. High-quality submissions are solicited in any of these categories:

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

Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to:

If you are in doubt on whether your paper is within the scope of TFP, please contact the programme chair, Jeremy Gibbons.

Best Paper Awards

TFP awards two prizes for the best papers each year.

First, to reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best overall paper accepted for the post-conference formal proceedings.

Second, each year TFP also awards a prize for the best student paper. 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 the paper’s first authors, and a student would present the paper.

In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, then that paper will receive both prizes.

Instructions to Authors

Submission is via EquinOCS (temporarily closed while we deal with pre-symposium full paper submissions, reopening on 2nd December).

Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions formally reviewed either before or after the Symposium. Further, pre-symposium submissions may either be full (earlier deadline) or draft papers (later deadline).

Pre-symposium formal review

Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be submitted before the early deadline and will receive their reviews and notification of acceptance for both presentation and publication before the symposium. A paper that has been rejected for publication but accepted for presentation may be revised and resubmitted for the post-symposium formal review.

Post-symposium formal review

Draft papers will receive minimal reviews and notification of acceptance for presentation at the symposium. Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback received at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these papers for formal publication.

Paper categories

Draft papers and papers submitted for formal review are submitted as extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (up to 20 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which all authors are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place.

Format

Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS Guidelines web site.

Organizing Committee

Jeremy Gibbons University of Oxford, UK Programme Chair
Jason Hemann Seton Hall University, US Conference Chair
Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Publicity Chair
Marco T. Morazán Seton Hall University, US Steering Committee Chair

Programme Committee

Peter Achten Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
Edwin Brady University of St Andrews, UK
Laura Castro University of A Coruña, ES
Youyou Cong Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP
Paul Downen University of Massachusetts Lowell, US
João Paulo Fernandes University of Coimbra, PT
Ben Greenman University of Utah, US
Jurriaan Hage Heriot-Watt University, UK
Jason Hemann Seton Hall University, US
Zhenjiang Hu Peking University, CN
Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Heriot-Watt University, UK
Kazutaka Matsuda Tohoku University, JP
Zoe Paraskevopoulou Ethereum Foundation, US
Alejandro Serrano 47 Degrees, ES
Nick Smallbone Chalmers University, SE
Alley Stoughton Boston University, US
Wouter Swierstra Utrecht University, NL
Niki Vazou IMDEA Software Institute, ES
Marcos Viera Universidad de la República, UY
Viktória Zsók Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, HU