___________________________________________________________________ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - LOPSTR'05 International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation SEPTEMBER 7 - 9, 2005 : LONDON, UK. http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/lopstr05/ ___________________________________________________________________ The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development; the workshop is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR'05 will be held at Imperial College in London co-located with SAS 2005: The International Static Analysis Symposium (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~clh/sas05.htm). LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting new work and discussing work in progress, so it is a real workshop in the sense that it is also able to provide useful feedback to authors on their preliminary research. Formal proceedings of the workshop are produced only after the workshop, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. Scope of LOPSTR --------------- We solicit extended abstracts and full papers. 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. Papers describing applications such as those in the areas of verification and security are especially welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics: * specification * synthesis * verification * transformation * specialisation * analysis * optimisation * composition * reuse * applications and tools * proofs as programs * component-based software development * agent-based software development * software architectures * design patterns and frameworks * program refinement and logics for refinement Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors can either submit extended abstracts describing work in progress or they can choose to submit full papers. Contributions should be written in English and should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format. Authors are also asked to register with the online site and submit titles and abstracts of their intended submissions three days before the deadline. Prospective authors who have difficulties for the electronic submission may contact the chairman at hill@comp.leeds.ac.uk. Full papers should not exceed 16 pages (including references) in llncs format. These papers will be judged using ordinary conference quality criteria and accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference and will automatically appear in the pre-proceedings as well as in the final collection of papers, published in the LNCS series. The submission deadline for full papers is May 20th, 2005. Extended abstracts should not exceed 6 pages in llncs format and may describe work in progress. Promising abstracts relevant to the scope of LOPSTR will be selected for presentation at the conference. The submission deadline for extended abstracts is June 3rd, 2005. Accepted papers and abstracts will be collected in informal pre-proceedings which will be available at the conference. After the conference, authors of extended abstracts describing work judged to be mature enough for publication will be invited to submit full papers. These will be reviewed according to the usual refereeing procedures. All accepted full papers, both those accepted for the conference and those accepted full papers based on the extended abstracts will be published in the final collection of papers which is expected to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/) series by Springer-Verlag. Note that the full papers accepted before the conference will automatically appear in that book; there will be no additional refereeing (although authors will be given a chance to revise their papers, if they so wish). Program Committee ----------------- * Maria Alpuente, * Roberto Bagnara, * Gilles Barthe, * Annalisa Bossi, * Giorgio Delzanno, * Michael Hanus, * Patricia M. Hill, (Program Chair) * John Gallagher, * Lindsay Groves, * Gopal Gupta, * Michael Leuschel, * Fabio Martinelli, * Fred Mesnard, * Maurizio Proietti, * Andreas Podelski, * German Puebla, * Abhik Roychoudhury, * C.R. Ramakrishnan, * Wim Vanhoof. Important dates --------------- * Submission of full papers: May 20, 2005 * Submission of extended abstracts: June 3, 2005 * Notification: June 27, 2005 * Camera-ready: July 22, 2005 * Conference: September 7-9, 2005