(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.) Third International Conference on PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING Firenze, Italy, 5-7 September 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS PPDP 2001 aims to stimulate research on the use of declarative methods in programming and on the design, implementation and application of programming languages that support such methods. Topics of interest include any aspect related to understanding, integrating and extending programming paradigms such as those for functional, logic, constraint and object-oriented programming; concurrent extensions and mobile computing; type theory; support for modularity; use of logical methods in the design of program development tools; program analysis and verification; abstract interpretation; development of implementation methods; application of the relevant paradigms and associated methods in industry and education. This list is not exhaustive: submissions describing new and interesting ideas relating broadly to declarative programming are encouraged. The technical program of the conference will combine presentations of the accepted papers with invited talks and advanced tutorials. PPDP 2001 is part of a federation of colloquia known as Principles, Logics and Implementations of high-level programming languages (PLI 2001) which includes the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2001) and a large number of workshops devoted to aspects of programming languages. The colloquia will run from 2 to 8 September, 2001. The venue for the conference is Firenze (Florence), one of Europe's most attractive cities, famous for its churches, galleries and museums. More details can be found on the conference web site. Web Sites and Email Contact: PPDP 2001: http://music.dsi.unifi.it/pli01/ppdp PLI 2001: http://music.dsi.unifi.it/pli01 mailto:ppdp01@cs.mu.oz.au Important Dates: Submission 15 March 2001 Notification 7 May 2001 Final Version 11 June 2001 Conference Chair: Rocco De Nicola, Universita di Firenze http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~denicola/ mailto:denicola@dsi.unifi.it Program Chair: Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~harald/ mailto:harald@cs.mu.oz.au Program Committee: Maria Alpuente, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, ES Yves Caseau, Bouygues, FR Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, IL Saumya Debray, Univ. of Arizona, US Conal Elliott, Microsoft Research, US Sandro Etalle, Univ. Maastricht, NL Roberto Giacobazzi, Univ. di Verona, IT Michael Leuschel, Univ. of Southampton, GB John Lloyd, Australian National Univ., AU Torben Mogensen, Kobenhavns Univ., DK Alan Mycroft, Cambridge Univ., GB Gopalan Nadathur, Univ. of Minnesota, US Martin Odersky, Ecole Polyt. Fed. Lausanne, CH Catuscia Palamidessi, Penn State Univ., US Andreas Podelski, Max-Planck-Inst. Informatik, DE Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala Univ., SE Christian Schulte, Univ. des Saarlandes, DE Michael Schwartzbach, Aarhus Univ., DK Harald Sondergaard, Univ. of Melbourne, AU Peter J. Stuckey, Univ. of Melbourne, AU