========================================================================= Final Call for Papers Seventh International Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules CHR 2010 http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dtai/CHR/CHR2010/ Edinburgh (Scotland), July 20, 2010 (co-located with ICLP 2010, part of FLoC 2010) ========================================================================= News * Abstract submission no longer required before paper submission; paper submission deadline = April 5th * Invited speaker: We are privileged to announce a distinguished invited speaker this year: Mark Proctor, lead of the thriving, innovating JBoss Drools project (http://www.jboss.org/drools/). He will introduce the Drools Business Logic integration Platform, a fully featured business rule engine and management system that seamlessly integrates powerful Complex Event Processing and workflow capabilities. Introduction The CHR 2010 Workshop will be held July 20, 2010 in Edinburgh (Scotland) at the occasion of the 26th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2010), the premier international venue for presenting research in logic programming. This year, ICLP is held as part of the Fifth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2010). More information on the venue and co-located conferences can be found on the FLOC website (http://www.floc-conference.org/). The Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) language has become a major declara- tive specification formalism and implementation language for constraint reasoning algorithms and applications. Algorithms specified using infe- rence rules, rewrite rules, sequents, proof rules, or logical axioms can often be directly written in CHR. Its clean semantics facilitates pro- gram design, analysis, and transformation. For more information, please visit the CHR website (http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dtai/projects/CHR/). The aim of the CHR workshop series is to stimulate and promote interna- tional research and collaboration on topics related to the CHR language. The workshop is a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing new results, interesting applications, and work in progress. Previous Workshops on Constraint Handling Rules were organized in 2004 in Ulm (Germany), in 2005 in Sitges (Spain) at ICLP, in 2006 in Venice (Italy) at ICALP, in 2007 in Porto (Portgual) at ICLP, in 2008 in Hagen- berg (Austria) at RTA, and in 2009 in Pasadena (California, US) at ICLP. Topics of Interest The workshop calls for contributions on all aspects of CHR, including topics such as: - (Operational) semantics - Program analysis (confluence, termination, ...) - Comparisons with related approaches - Expressivity and complexity - Language extensions (negation, modules, ...) - Constraint solvers - Implementation and optimization - Concurrency & parallelism - Program transformation and generation - Programming environments (debugging, confluence checking, ...) - Programming pearls Application papers that describe experience with (industrial) applications, are especially welcome. Important dates - Paper submission deadline: April 5, 2010 - Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2010 - Final version due: May 17, 2010 - Workshop date: July 20, 2010 Submission Information The four broad categories for submissions are: 1. technical papers for describing technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of the art of CHR 2. application papers, where the emphasis will be on the use of CHR in the application, on the impact on the application domain, and the lessons learned from this application 3. system and tool papers, empasising the novelty, practicality, usability and general availability of the systems and tools described 4. short papers, for ongoing work not yet ready for full publication and research project overviews. All papers must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English. Technical papers must not exceed 15 pages. The limit for short papers is 7 pages, as is the standard page limit for application papers, and system and tool papers. However, particularly strong contributions in the latter two areas may be submitted as technical paper as well. All papers must be in the Springer LNCS format. General information about the Springer LNCS series and the LNCS authors' instructions are available at the Springer LNCS home page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0). Submissions must be made via the EasyChair submission system, available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chr10 Programme Committee - Sebastian Brand, National ICT Australia, and the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark - Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Leslie De Koninck, Victoria Research Laboratory, NICTA, Australia (co-chair) - Thom Fruehwirth Ulm University, Germany - Marco Gavanelli, University of Ferrara, Italy - Remy Haemmerle, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain - Maria-Chiara Meo, "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University, Italy - Paolo Pilozzi K.U.Leuven, Belgium - Frank Raiser, Ulm University, Germany - Peter Van Weert, K.U.Leuven, Belgium (co-chair) - Jairson Vitorino, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil - Armin Wolf, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany Workshop Coordinators Contact: chr2010@easychair.org Peter Van Weert Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Leuven, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~petervw/ Leslie De Koninck Victoria Research Laboratory, NICTA Melbourne, Australia