PPDP 2014: 2nd Call for Papers

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             2nd Call for papers
           16th International Symposium on
      Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
                  PPDP 2014

        Canterbury, Kent, September 8-10, 2014
            (co-located with LOPSTR 2014)

         http://users-cs.au.dk/danvy/ppdp14/

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          SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 MAY, 2014

PPDP 2014 is a forum that brings together researchers from the
declaratrive programming communities, including those working in the
logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also
embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation
languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical
formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing
computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity,
concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static
analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools
in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to

* Functional programming
* Logic programming
* Answer-set programming
* Functional-logic programming
* Declarative visual languages
* Constraint Handling Rules
* Parallel implementation and concurrency
* Monads, type classes and dependent type systems
* Declarative domain-specific languages
* Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs
* Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages
* Language extensions for security and tabulation
* Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity
* Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems
* Practical experiences and industrial application

This year the conference will be co-located with the 24th
International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2014).

The conference will be held in Canterbury, UK. Previous symposia were
held at Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg
(Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland),
Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden),
Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris
(France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia.

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in
English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal,
conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already
appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings
may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of
questions). The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital
Library.

After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to
extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the
symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra
material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of
reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a journal.

Important Dates

   Abstract Submission:           12 May, 2014
   Paper submission:               15 May, 2014
   Notification:               30 June, 2014
   Camera-ready:               To be announced

   Symposium:                  8-10 September, 2014

   Invites for journal publication:   To be announced
   Submission of journal version:     To be announced
   Notification:               To be announced
   Camera-ready version:          To be announced


Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in
PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP
2014. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title;
authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four
keywords. The keywords will be used to assist the program committee in
selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist
of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting
guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with
formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged
on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and
clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been
accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide
additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do
so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read
such appendices.

Program Committee

Michael Adams        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Elvira Albert        Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Dariusz Biernacki    University of Wroclaw, Poland
Bernd Brassel        Recordbay, Germany
Mike Codish        Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Olivier Danvy (chair)    Aarhus University, Denmark
Marc Denecker         KU Leuven, Belgium
Joshua Dunfield        Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
Zoe Drey        ENSTA Bretagne/Lab-STICC, France
Thibaut Feydy        NICTA, Australia
Danko Ilik        Inria, France
Yukiyoshi Kameyama    University of Tsukuba, Japan
Chantal Keller        Microsoft Research -- Inria Joint Centre
Temur Kutsia        RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Dan Licata        Wesleyan University, USA
Akimasa Morihata    University of Tokyo, Japan
Matthias Puech        McGill University, Canada
Tiark Rompf        Oracle Labs and EPFL, Switzerland
Kristoffer H. Rose    Two Sigma Labs, New York, USA
Ilya Sergey           IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Ralf Treinen        University Paris-Diderot, France
Frank D. Valencia    CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France


Program Chair

    Olivier Danvy
    Department of Computer Science
    Aarhus University
    Aabogade 34
    DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
    Email: [email protected]

Symposium Chairs:

    Andy King
    School of Computing
    University of Kent
    Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF
    United Kingdom
    Email: [email protected]

    Olaf Chitil
    School of Computing
    University of Kent
    Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF
    United Kingdom
    Email: [email protected]

Publicity Chair:

    Jacob Johannsen
    Department of Computer Science
    Aarhus University
    Aabogade 34
    DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
    Email: [email protected]