FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ICLP'06 22nd International Conference on Logic Programming Seattle, Washington, USA, 17-20 August, 2006 http://www.cs.uky.edu/iclp06/ Part of Fourth Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2006 http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/ CONFERENCE SCOPE Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions (papers and posters) are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to: * Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. * Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines, Parallelism. * Environments: Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and Verification, Debugging, Profiling. * Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Programming Techniques. * Alternative Paradigms: Constraint Logic Programming, Abductive Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming. * Applications: Deductive Databases, Data Integration, Software Engineering, Natural Language, Web Tools, Internet Agents, Artificial Intelligence. The three broad categories for submissions are: (1) technical papers, where specific attention will be given to work providing novel integrations of the areas listed above, (2) application papers, where the emphasis will be on their impact on the application domain as opposed to the advancement of the the state-of-the-art of logic programming, and (3) posters, ideal for presenting and discussing current work not yet ready for publication, for PhD thesis summaries and research project overviews. In addition to papers and posters, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, several workshops and Doctoral Student Consortium. Details, as they become available will be posted at http://www.cs.uky.edu/iclp06/ PAPERS AND POSTERS Papers and posters must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English. Technical papers and application papers must not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format (cf. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). The limit for posters is 2 pages in that format. The primary means of submission will be electronic. More information on the submission procedure will be available at http://www.cs.uky.edu/iclp06/ PUBLICATION The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. The proceedings will include the accepted papers and the abstracts of accepted posters. SUPPORT SPONSORING AND AWARDS The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming. The ALP has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants. The ALP is planning to sponsor two awards for ICLP'06: for the best technical paper and for the best student paper. IMPORTANT DATES Papers Posters Abstract submission deadline 14 February N/A Submission deadline 21 February 14 March Notification of authors 7 April 14 April Camera-ready copy due 2 May 2 May ICLP'2006 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Manuel Hermenegildo (herme@fi.upm.es) Program Co-Chairs: Sandro Etalle (s.etalle@utwente.nl) Mirek Truszczynski (mirek@cs.uky.edu) Workshop Chair: Christian Schulte (schulte@imit.kth.se) Doctoral Student Consortium: Enrico Pontelli (epontell@cs.nmsu.edu) Publicity Chair: Alexander Serebrenik (a.serebrenik@tue.nl) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Krzysztof Apt Annalisa Bossi Veronica Dahl Giorgio Delzanno Pierre Deransart Agostino Dovier Thomas Eiter Sandro Etalle, co-chair John Gallagher Michael Gelfond Hai-Feng Guo Manuel Hermenegildo Tomi Janhunen Fangzhen Lin Michael Maher Victor Marek Eric Monfroy Stephen Muggleton Brigitte Pientka Maurizio Proietti I.V. Ramakrishnan Peter van Roy Harald Sondergaard Mirek Truszczynski, co-chair German Vidal Andrei Voronkov Roland Yap CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be a part of the fourth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'06) to be held August 10-21, 2006, in Seattle, Washington (http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/). Other participating conferences are: Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA), Logic in Computer Science (LICS), Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT), and Int'l Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR). Plenary events involving multiple conferences are planned.