===================================================================== Call for papers 14th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming PPDP 2012 Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20, 2012 (co-located with LOPSTR 2012) ====================================================================== PPDP 2012 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing a variety of other paradigms such as visual programming, executable specification languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analysing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Functional programming * Logic programming * Answer-set programming * Functional-logic programming * Declarative visual languages * Constraint Handling Rules * Parallel implementation and concurrency * Monads, type classes and dependent type systems * Declarative domain-specific languages * Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs * Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages * Language extensions for security and tabulation * Probabilistic modelling in a declarative language and modelling reactivity * Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems * Practical experiences and industrial application This year the conference will be co-located with the 22nd International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2012) and held in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN. The conference will be held in Leuven, Belgium. Previous symposia were held at Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). 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). Proceedings will be published by ACM Press* After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 25% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by Elsevier of 2013. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: May 28, 2012 Paper submission: May 31, 2012 Notification: July 6, 2012 Camera-ready: July 18, 2012 Symposium: September 19-21, 2012 Invites for SCP: September 26, 2012 Submission of SCP: December 12, 2012 Notification from SCP: February 7, 2013 Camera-ready for SCP: March 7, 2013 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist of no more than 12 pages, formatted following the ACM SIG proceedings template (option 1). The 12 page limit must include references but excludes well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Referees are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Invited speakers: Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen, Germany (shared with LOPSTR) Program Committee: Slim Abdennadher German University in Cairo, Egypt Puri Arenas Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Marcello Balduccini Kodak Research Labs, USA Amir Ben-Amram Tel-Aviv Academic College, Israel Philip Cox Dalhousie University, Canada Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK Martin Erwig Oregon State University, USA Martin Gebser University of Potsdam, Germany Jacob Howe City University London, UK Joxan Jaffar National University of Singapore, Singapore Gabriele Keller University of New South Wales, Australia Andy King University of Kent, UK Julia Lawall INRIA Paris, France Rita Loogen Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK Matthew Might University of Utah, USA Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK Catuscia Palamidessi INRIA Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique, France Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University, Sweden and NTUA, Greece Taisuke Sato Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Peter Schneider-Kamp University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Tom Schrijvers University of Ghent, Belgium Terrance Swift Universidade Nova de Lisboa, USA Mirek Truszczynski University of Kentucky, USA Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania, USA Program Chair: Andy King School of Computing, University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK General Co-Chairs: Daniel De Schreye and Gerda Janssens Department of Computer Science K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium * Confirmation pending