OCaml Users and Developers Workshop 2014

2014-09-05
Gothenburg, Sweden

Call for presentations (past)

Scope

Presentations and discussions will focus on the OCaml programming language and its community. We aim to solicit talks on all aspects related to improving the use or development of the language and its programming environment, including, for example (but not limited to):

  • compiler developments, new backends, runtime and architectures

  • practical type system improvements, such as (but not limited to) GADTs, first-class modules, generic programming, or dependent types

  • new library or application releases, and their design rationales

  • tools and infrastructure services, and their enhancements

  • prominent industrial or experimental uses of OCaml, or deployments in unusual situations.

Presentations

It will be an informal meeting with no formal proceedings. The presentation material will be available online from the workshop homepage. The presentations may be recorded, and made available at a later time.

The main presentation format is a workshop talk, traditionally around 20 minutes in length, plus question time, but we also have a poster session during the workshop -- this allows to present more diverse work, and gives time for discussion. The program committee will decide which presentations should be delivered as posters or talks.

Submission

To submit a presentation, please register a description of the talk (about 2 pages long) at https://icfp-ocaml17.hotcrp.com/ providing a clear statement of what will be provided by the presentation: the problems that are addressed, the solutions or methods that are proposed. If you wish to perform a demo or require any special setup, we will do our best to accommodate you.

LaTeX-produced PDFs are a common and welcome submission format. For accessibility purposes, we ask PDF submitters to also provide the sources of their submission in a textual format, such as .tex sources. Reviewers may read either the submitted PDF or the text version.

ML family workshop and post-proceedings

The ML family workshop, held on the previous day, deals with general issues of the ML-style programming and type systems, and is seen as more research-oriented. Yet there is an overlap with the OCaml workshop, which we are keen to explore, for instance by having a common session. The authors who feel their submission fits both workshops are encouraged to mention it at submission time and/or contact the Program Chairs.

As another form of cooperation, combined post-proceedings of selected papers from the two workshops will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science series. The Program Committees shall invite interested authors of selected presentations to expand their abstract for inclusion in the proceedings. The submissions would be reviewed according to the standards of the publication.

Questions and contact

If you have any questions, please e-mail: Jacques Garrigue

09 Sep 2014
Add links to slides
07 Sep 2014
Links to videos of the talks added to the program
24 Aug 2014
Add abstracts to the program
04 Jul 2014
preliminary program
20 May 2014
Extended deadline is Friday May 23, 23:59 UTC-11
16 May 2014
Precise deadline is May 19, 23:59 UTC-11 (i.e. May 20 10:59 UTC)
07 May 2014
Sent the last CFP. Deadline is May 19
24 Apr 2014
The submission site is now open
10 Feb 2014
workshop announcement
05 Sep 2014
Workshop

All Presentations

Title Authors Resources
Multicore OCaml Stephen Dolan, Leo White, Anil Madhavapeddy
Ephemerons meet OCaml GC François Bobot
Introduction to 0install Thomas Leonard
Transport Layer Security purely in OCaml Hannes Mehnert, David Kaloper Meršinjak
OCamlOScope: a New OCaml API Search Jun Furuse
The State of OCaml (invited) Xavier Leroy
The OCaml Platform v1.0 Anil Madhavapeddy, Amir Chaudhry, Jeremie Diminio, Thomas Gazagnaire, Louis Gesbert, Thomas Leonard, David Sheets, Mark Shinwell, Leo White, Jeremy Yallop
A Proposal for Non-Intrusive Namespaces in OCaml Pierrick Couderc, Fabrice Le Fessant, Benjamin Canou, Pierre Chambart
Improving Type Error Messages in OCaml Arthur Charguéraud
Github Pull Requests for OCaml development: a field report Gabriel Scherer
Irminsule; a branch-consistent distributed library database Thomas Gazagnaire, Amir Chaudhry, Anil Madhavapeddy, Richard Mortier, David Scott, David Sheets, Gregory Tsipenyuk, Jon Crowcroft
A Case for Multi-Switch Constraints in OPAM Fabrice Le Fessant
LibreS3: design, challenges, and steps toward reusable libraries Edwin Török
Nullable Type Inference Michel Mauny, Benoit Vaugon
Coq of OCaml Guillaume Claret
High Performance Client-Side Web Programming with SPOC and Js of ocaml Mathias Bourgoin, Emmmanuel Chailloux
Using Preferences to Tame your Package Manager Roberto Di Cosmo, Pietro Abate, Stefano Zacchiroli, Fabrice Le Fessant, Louis Gesbert
Simple, efficient, sound-and-complete combinator parsing for all context-free grammars, using an oracle Tom Ridge

Workshop Details

Program Committee
Esther Baruk (LexiFi, France), Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University, Japan (chair)), Oleg Kiselyov (Monterey, CA, USA), Pierre Letouzey (Universite Paris 7, France), Luc Maranget (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France), Keisuke Nakano (University of Electro-Communications, Japan), Yoann Padioleau (Facebook, USA), Andreas Rossberg (Google, Germany), Julien Signoles (CEA LIST, France), Leo White (University of Cambridge, UK)

Some Videos

Multicore OCaml
Multicore OCaml, by Stephen Dolan, Leo White, Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge). Currently, threading is supported in OCaml only by means of a global lock, allowing at most thread to run OCaml code at any time. We present ongo- ing wo...
Ephemerons meet OCaml GC
Ephemerons meet OCaml GC, by François Bobot Garbage collectors (GCs) manage the memory for the programmers and help to ensure the safety of the programs by freeing memory only when it cannot be used anymore. GCs detect that a memory block can’...
Introduction to 0install
Introduction to 0install by Thomas Leonard 0install (pronounced “Zero Install”) is a decentralised cross-platform package manager. “Decentralised” means that organisations and individuals can host their software in their own package repositorie...
Transport Layer Security purely in OCaml
Transport Layer Security purely in OCaml by Hannes Mehnert and David Kaloper Meršinjak Transport Layer Security purely in OCamlTransport Layer Security (TLS) is probably the most widely de- ployed security protocol on the Internet. It is used t...
OCamlOScope - a New OCaml API Search
[OCamlOScope](http://ocamloscope.herokuapp.com) is a new search engine for OCaml programming. Tons of OCaml library packages, modules, types, constructors, functions and values can be searched via simple string queries.
The State of OCaml (invited), Xavier Leroy
The State of OCaml (invited), Xavier Leroy