ICFP

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Gothenburg for the 19th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming: ICFP 2014.

This year's conference continues its tradition as a forum for researchers, developers, and students to discuss the latest work on the design, implementation, principles, and use of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum, from theory to practice.

This year's call for papers attracted 97 submissions: 85 regular research papers, 9 functional pearls and 3 experience reports. Out of these, the program committee accepted 28 papers, two of which are functional pearls and another two are experience reports. In addition to these papers, the technical program includes three invited keynotes: "Using Formal Methods to Enable More Secure Vehicles: DARPA's HACMS Program" by Kathleen Fisher, "Behavioral Software Contracts" by Robby Findler, and "Depending on Types" by Stephanie Weirich. All three keynote presentations address topics that are currently of high relevance and are presented by leading researchers in these areas.

As usual, the main conference is complemented by a range of affiliated events as well as the ICFP Programming Contest, whose results are announced during the conference. This year, ICFP comes with eleven affiliated events covering a wide range of specialist topics, from functional art and music to high-performance computing. Moreover, the tutorials, talks, and BoFs under the umbrella of the Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) workshop focus on the application of functional programming in modern software development and industrial practice.

With the increasing popularity of functional programming, ICFP is steadily growing and its success depends on an ever larger number of researchers, developers, and volunteers: the authors of research papers who entrust their precious work to ICFP, the many reviewers who generously donate their time, the participants in the programming competition, and the steadily growing list of organisers and volunteers whose work enables ICFP. We like to specifically acknowledge the excellent work of the local organisers, Björn von Sydow and his team as well as Annabel Satin; Anil Madhavapeddy, who liaised with our industrial sponsors; Tom Schrijvers and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt for overseeing the organisation of the workshops; David Van Horn for spreading the word about ICFP; and, last but not least, Duncan Coutts and Nicolas Wu for shouldering the challenging task of organising the programming contest.