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First CFP: Types in Compilation 2000


		     PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

		 The Third International Workshop on

		   Types in Compilation (TIC 2000)
                (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/tic00/)


			   Montreal, Canada

		       Co-located with PLI 2000
		   (http://www.cs.yorku.ca/pli-00)

Types play a central role in many of the advanced compilation techniques
developed for modern programming languages.  Standard or non-standard type
systems and type analyses have been found to be useful for optimizing
dynamic
method dispatch in object-oriented languages, for reducing run-time tests in
dynamically-typed languages, for guiding data representations and code
generation, for program analysis and transformation, for compiler
verification
and debugging, and for establishing safety properties of distributed or
mobile
code.  The Types in Compilation (TIC) workshops bring together researchers
to
share new ideas and results in this area.  The next workshop, TIC 2000, will
take place as part of the colloquium on Principles, Logics, and
Implementations of high-level programming languages (PLI 2000).

Submissions for this event are invited on all areas of interaction between
advanced compilation techniques and type systems or type analyses, including
both practical applications and theoretical aspects.  TIC 2000 specifically
encourages papers from a broad field of programming language researchers,
including object-oriented, dynamically-typed, late-binding, and mobile-code
paradigms, as well as traditional fully-static type system.  Topics of
interest include:

      - Type-directed compilation and typed intermediate languages.
      - Analysis and transformations for efficient implementation of
        parametric and subtype polymorphism.
      - Compiling and optimizing dynamic dispatch and related issues
        in object-oriented languages.
      - Elimination of run-time type tests in dynamically-typed
        languages.
      - Flow analysis for reconstructing type information, including
        control-flow analyses, set-based analyses, and soft typing.
      - Type-based data representation analysis.
      - Type-based interoperability between languages.
      - Types and the correctness of program transformations.
      - Type-safe, mobile intermediate representations such as
        proof-carrying code or Java-style safe bytecodes.
      - Interactions between types and run-time systems such as
        garbage collectors.
      - Compile-time and run-time representations of type
        information.
      - Type-directed partial evaluation; type-based multi-level
        languages.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list; papers on novel utilizations of
type information are welcome.  Authors concerned about the suitability of a
topic are encouraged to inquire via electronic mail to the program chair
prior
to submission.

Workshop chair:
        Karl Crary
        Computer Science Department
        Carnegie Mellon University
        5000 Forbes Avenue
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213
        E-mail: crary@cs.cmu.edu

Program chair:
        Robert Harper
        Computer Science Department
        Carnegie Mellon University
        5000 Forbes Avenue
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213
        E-mail: rwh@cs.cmu.edu

Program committee:
	Dominic Duggan, Stevens Institute of Technology
	Robert Harper (chair), Carnegie Mellon University
	Trevor Jim, AT&T
	Andrew Kennedy, Microsoft Corporation
	Atsushi Ohori, Kyoto University
	Franklyn Turbak, Wellesley College

Organizing committee:
        Craig Chambers, University of Washington
        Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University
        Xavier Leroy, INRIA Rocquencourt
        Robert Muller, Boston College
        Atsushi Ohori, Kyoto University
        Simon Peyton Jones, Glasgow University

Important dates:
        Submission deadline             June 1, 2000
        Notification of acceptance	  August 15, 2000
        Workshop                           September 21, 2000

Submission procedure:

We solicit submissions on original research not published or submitted
for publication elsewhere.  Technical summaries, in English and not to
exceed 5000 words (approximately 10 pages), should be submitted to the
program chair by Monday, June 1, 2000.  To submit, authors
should complete the following two steps by the submission deadline:

1. Send an e-mail message to rwh+tic@cs.cmu.edu containing the title,
   authors' contact information, and an abstract (not to exceed 200
   words) in ASCII.

2. Send the technical summary itself. The summary should be sent
   electronically to rwh+tic@cs.cmu.edu.  (Persons to whom electronic
   submission poses a hardship may make individual arrangements with
   the program chair.)

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is strongly preferred for all
submissions.  Authors should ensure that to use full font inclusion to
ensure
portability.  All papers must be formatted for US Letter (8.5"x11") paper.
Postscript (PS) format submissions will also be accepted, provided that they
preview and print properly using Ghostscript with standard fonts.

All submissions must include a return postal address and an electronic mail
address.  Receipt of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail within 2
days.

A post-workshop refereed proceedings is anticipated.  Further details will
be available once arrangements have been made with the publisher.