8th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP 2012)

• 2012-02-27: CFP is now online.
• 2012-02-22: Submission is now open.

You can read/download the complete Call for Papers in various formats:

• cfp.txt
• cfp.pdf

Paper submission is open. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at:

• https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wgp2012

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 20 years, generic programming techniques have been a specific focus of research in the functional and object-oriented programming communities. Generic programming has gradually spread to more and more mainstream languages, and today is widely used in industry. This workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners in generic programming from around the world, and features papers capturing the state of the art in this important area.

We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of

• generic programming,
• programming with (C++) concepts,
• meta-programming,
• programming with type classes,
• programming with modules,
• programming with dependent types,
• type systems for generic programming,
• polytypic programming,
• adaptive object-oriented programming,
• component-based programming,
• strategic programming,
• aspect-oriented programming,
• family polymorphism,
• object-oriented generic programming,
• implementation of generic programming languages,
• static and dynamic analyses of generic programs,
• and so on.

• Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia
• Andres Löh, Well-Typed LLP

• Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen
• Jacques Carette, McMaster University
• Manuel Chakravarty, University of New South Wales
• Ronald Garcia (co-chair), University of British Columbia
• Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University
• Andy Gill, University of Kansas
• Douglas Gregor, Apple
• Andrew Kennedy, Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Neelakantan Krishnaswami, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
• Andres Löh (co-chair), Well-Typed LLP
• Zoltan Porkolab, Eötvös Loránd University
• Chung‐chieh Shan, University of Tsukuba