[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS!!! Eighth International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages 2006 (PADL '06) http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pvh/PADL06 Charleston Place Hotel Charleston, South Carolina January 9-10 Co-located with ACM POPL'06 Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to vastly different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raises numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include: * innovative applications of declarative languages; * declarative domain-specific languages and applications; * practical applications of theoretical results; * new language developments & their impact on applications; * evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications; * novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom; and * practical experiences PADL 06 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages, and is not limited to the scope of the past five PADL symposia. PADL 06 will be co-located with the ACM POPL. IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper Submission: August 20, 2005 Notification: September 30, 2005 Final Manuscript: October 20, 2005 Symposium: January 9-10, 2005 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper (written in English) in Postscript (Level 2) or PDF. Papers must be no longer than 15 pages, written in 11-point font and with single spacing. Since the final proceedings will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer Verlag, authors are strongly encouraged to use the LNCS paper formatting guidelines for their submission. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email and postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, abstract, and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program chair for information on how to submit hard copies. MOST PRACTICAL PAPER AWARD The Most Practical Paper award will be given to the submission that is judged by the programm committee to be the best in terms of practicality, originality, and clarity of presentation. The program committee may choose not to make an award; or may make multiple awards. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TBA Contacts: For information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chair: Pascal van Hentenryck PC Chair - PADL 2006 Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI, U.S.A. Email: pvh@cs.brown.edu For other information about the conference and the summer school, please contact: Gopal Gupta Department of Computer Science University at Texas at Dallas Dallas, TX, U.S.A. Email: gupta@utdallas.edu Sponsored by COMPULOG Americas (http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~complog), and in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN.