[Apologies for multiple copies] ================FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS====================== 24th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2014 http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/ University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 10-11, 2014 DEADLINES Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014 =========================================================== The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2014) will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; previous symposia were held in Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2014 will be co-located with PPDP 2014 (International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: * synthesis * transformation * specialization * composition * optimization * inversion * specification * analysis and verification * testing and certification * program and model manipulation * transformational techniques in SE * applications and tools Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. 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 co-chairs in case of questions). Important Dates Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014 Notification: July 18, 2014 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 25, 2014 Symposium: September 10-11, 2014 Submission Guidelines Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Paper should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2014. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program co-chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Slim Abdennadher German University of Cairo, Egypt Étienne André Université Paris 13, France Martin Brain University of Oxford, UK Wei-Ngan Chin National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Comini University of Udine, Italy Wlodzimierz Drabent IPIPAN, Poland and Linköping University, Sweden Fabio Fioravanti University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Jürgen Giesl RWTH Aachen University, Germany Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arnaud Gotlieb SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jacob Howe City University London, UK Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Alexei Lisitsa University of Liverpool, UK Jorge Navas NASA, USA Naoki Nishida Nagoya University, Japan Corneliu Popeea Technische Universität München, Germany Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy (Program Co-Chair) Tom Schrijvers Ghent University, Belgium Hirohisa Seki Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (Program Co-Chair) Jon Sneyers K.U. Leuven, Belgium Fausto Spoto University of Verona, Italy Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Annie-Liu Yanhong Stony Brook University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy (maurizio.proietti@iasi.cnr.it) Hirohisa Seki, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (seki@nitech.ac.jp) Symposium Co-Chairs Olaf Chitil and Andy King School of Computing University of Kent CT2 7NF Kent, UK Organizing Committee Emanuele De Angelis Fabrizio Smith