[ Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ] PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages 2005 (PADL 05) http://www.unm.edu/~herme/padl05/ Long Beach, California, USA January 10-11, 2005 Co-located with ACM POPL, January 12-14, 2005 Paper submission deadline: September 10th Declarative languages build on sound theoretical foundations to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to a wide array of different real-world situations, including database management, active networks, software engineering, decision support systems, or music composition. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, the application 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 often 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 and their impact on applications. * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications. * Novel implementation techniques relevant to applications. * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom. * Practical experiences. PADL 05 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages, and is not limited to the scope of the first six PADL symposia (past proceedings can be found in Springer Verlag LNCS, numbers 1551, 1753, 1990, 2257, 2562, and 3057). In this occasion PADL is co-located, as traditionally, with ACM POPL, which will be held immediately following PADL, January 12-14. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 10, 2004 Notification: October 10, 2004 Camera-ready: November 10, 2004 Symposium: January 10-11, 2005 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper (written in English) in Postscript (Level 2) or PDF. Submission should be completed using the electronic procedure available at the conference website. 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 chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. MOST PRACTICAL PAPER AWARD A cash prize of US$500 will be awarded to the submission that is judged by the program 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, in which case the award money will be evenly divided. CONTACTS Please visit the conference web site: http://www.unm.edu/~herme/padl05/ for further information. For additional information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chairs: Manuel Hermenegildo (1,2) herme@unm.edu, or Daniel Cabeza (2) dcabeza@fi.upm.es 1 Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A. 2 Facultad de Informatica, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid 28660-Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain For additional information about the conference please contact the General Chair: Gopal Gupta Department of Computer Science University at Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A. gupta@utdallas.edu -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Hermenegildo | University of New Mexico, NM, USA Professor, P. of Asturias Chair | Office: ECE 219A Depts. of Computer Science and | Tel: +1 (505) 277 -9328/-3112 Electrical and Computer Engineering | http://www.unm.edu/~herme -----------------------------------------------------------------------------