ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic programming

Scope

The Workshop on Generic Programming is an annual workshop, typically organized in affiliation with an international conference. Scope

Generic programming is about making programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic program are often quite rich in structure; for example they may be other programs, types or type constructors, class hierarchies, or even programming paradigms.

Generic programming techniques have always been of interest, both to practitioners and to theoreticians, and for at least one decade generic programming techniques have been a specific focus of research in the programming language community. This workshop brings together leading researchers in generic programming from around the world, and features papers capturing the state of the art in this important emerging area. Next Workshop

Current workshop

The 11th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP 2015) will be held in Vancouver, Canada, affiliated with ICFP 2015.

Past Workshops

Previous Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in

• Marstrand 1998 (affiliated with MPC),
• Ponte de Lima 2000 (affiliated with MPC),
• Nottingham 2001 (informal workshop),
• Dagstuhl 2002 (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference),
• Oxford 2004 (informal workshop),
• Utrecht 2005 (informal workshop),
• Portland 2006,
• Victoria 2008,
• Edinburgh 2009,
• Baltimore 2010,
• Tokyo 2011,
• Copenhagen 2012,
• Boston 2013,
• Gothenburg 2014,
• Vancouver 2015.

The workshop has been affiliated with ICFP from 2006-2013. In 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014 the workshop was sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN.

Steering Committee

Responsibilities

The main purpose of the WGP Steering Committee is to provide continuity of the workshop and to offer help and advice to the current organizer(s) of the workshop.

The responsibilities of the steering committee are:

• To provide continuity of the GP Workshop and maintain the functional vision and vigour of the workshop.
• To officially represent the GP Workshop with the sponsoring organization.
• To appoint the GP Workshop Programme Chair each year, and approve the Programme Chair’s choice of Programme Committee.
• To provide help and guidance to the GP Workshop Programme Chair in the overall technical organization of the workshop, as well with budget preparation and the cooperation with affiliated conferences and workshops.

Membership

The GP Workshop Steering Committee comprises the three previous GP Workshop Programme (Co-)Chairs and three appointed Members-At-Large.

Each year, around the date of the GP Workshop, the Steering Committee appoints the Programme (Co-)Chair(s) for the next GP Workshop. The steering committee additionally appoints a new Member-At-Large to succeed the currently longest serving Member-At-Large. The previous WGP Programme (Co-)Chair and the newly appointed Member-At-Large then join the Steering Committee, while the longest serving former Programme (Co-)Chair and Member-At-Large step down.

The chair of the Steering Committee is one of the longest serving Programme (Co-)Chairs.

Should there be vacancies within the Steering Committee, e.g. due to a member stepping down early, the Steering Committee appoints members to fill the vacancies and, if necessary, decides on the succession ordering.

Present Members

The 2014/2015 members of the Steering Committee are:

• the (co-)chairs of the previous three workshops
  • Jacques Carette (end of term 2016, SC-chair)
  • Jeremiah Willcock (end of term 2016)
  • José Pedro Magalhães (end of term 2017)
  • Tiark Rompf (end of term 2017)
  • Patrick Bahr (end of term 2018)
  • Sebastian Erdweg (end of term 2018)
• three members-at-large
  • Bruno Oliveira (end of term 2018)
  • Tarmo Uustalu (end of term 2016)
  • Fritz Henglein (end of term 2017)

Programme Committee

The Programme Committee is responsible for the technical content of the Workshop. The Workshop Chair, with the approval of the Steering Committee, appoints the Programme Committee and leads its work.