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.

Boston 2013 (affiliated with ICFP, and sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN).

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, and Copenhagen 2012 (and affiliated with ICFP from 2006-2013). In 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 the workshop was sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN.

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.

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.

The 2011/2012 members of the Steering Committee are:

• the (co-)chairs of the previous three workshops
  • Marcin Zalewski (end of term 2013, SC chair 2012/2013)
  • Bruno Oliveira (end of term 2013)
  • Jaako Järvi (end of term 2014)
  • Shin-Cheng Mu (end of term 2014)
  • Andres Löh (end of term 2015)
  • Ronald Garcia (end of term 2015)
• three members-at-large
  • Magne Haveraaen (end of term 2013)
  • Tim Sheard (end of term 2014)
  • Stephanie Weirich (end of term 2015)

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.