====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Symposium on International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2008 http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/lopstr08/ July 17-18, 2008, Valencia, Spain (co-located with SAS 2008, PPDP 2008, and PLID 2008) ====================================================================== Objectives: 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 authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. Topics: 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 in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: specification synthesis verification transformation analysis optimisation composition security reuse applications and tools component-based software development software architectures agent-based software development program refinement Survey papers, that present some aspect 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 Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Paper/extended abstract submission: May 7, 2008 Notification (for pre-proceedings): June 8, 2008 Camera-ready (for pre-proceedings): June 29, 2008 Symposium: July 17-18, 2008 Submissions can either be (short) extended abstracts or (full) papers whose length should not exceed 9 and 15 pages (including references), respectively. Submissions must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style (excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication). Referees are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Short papers may describe work-in-progress or tool demonstrations. Both accepted short and full papers will appear in the pre-proceedings. The full papers will automatically appear in the formal proceedings that will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. In addition, after the symposium, the programme committee will select those short papers to be considered for formal publication. These authors will be invited to revise and extend their submissions in the light of the comments of the reviewers and the feedback solicited at the meeting. Then after another round of reviewing, the revised papers which are accepted will be also published in the formal proceedings. Papers should be submitted either in PDF or PostScript via the web page of LOPSTR 2008. Program Committee: Slim Abdennadher German University Cairo Danny De Schreye K.U.Leuven, Belgium Wlodek Drabent Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland / Linkoeping Univ., Sweden Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA Michael Hanus University of Kiel, Germany (Chair) Patricia Hill University of Leeds, UK Andy King University of Kent, UK Michael Leuschel University of Duesseldorf, Germany Torben Mogensen DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mario Ornaghi Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Etienne Payet Universite de La Reunion, France Alberto Pettorossi University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy German Puebla Technical University of Madrid, Spain C.R. Ramakrishnan SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Sabina Rossi Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Chiaki Sakama Wakayama University, Japan Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium Eelco Visser Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ----------------------------------------------------------------------