SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop 2009, Edinburgh

05 Sep 2009 to 05 Sep 2009

Erlang is a concurrent, distributed functional programming language aimed at systems with requirements on massive concurrency, soft real time response, fault tolerance, and high availability. It has been available as open source for several years creating a community that actively contributes to its already existing rich set of libraries and applications. Originally created for telecom applications, its usage has spread to other domains including e-commerce, banking, and computer telephony.

Erlang programs are today among the largest applications written in any functional programming language. These applications offer new opportunities to evaluate functional programming and functional programming methods on a very large scale and suggest new problems for the research community to solve.

This workshop has brought together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It enabled participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming.

• Clara Benac Earle, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

• Simon Thompson, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

• Laura M. Castro, University of A Coruña, Spain.
• Francesco Cesarini, Erlang Training and Consulting, London, UK.
• Torben Hoffman, Motorola, Denmark.
• Zoltán Horváth, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
• Jan Lehnardt, CouchDB, Berlin, Germany.
• Daniel Luna, Kreditor, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Kenneth Lundin, Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Rex Page, University of Oklahoma, USA.
• Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy.
• Tee Teoh, Canadian Bank Note, Ottawa, Canada.
• Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.