====================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PPDP 2014 16th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming Canterbury, Kent, September 8-10, 2014 http://users-cs.au.dk/danvy/ppdp14/ co-located with LOPSTR 2014 24th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation Canterbury, Kent, September 9-11, 2014 http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/ ====================================================================== Registration is now open: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2014/ppdp-lopstr-14/ A significant discount is available when registering to both events, especially as a student (until August 8). PPDP 2014 features * an invited talk by Roberto Giacobazzi, shared with LOPSTR: "Obscuring Code -- Unveiling and Veiling Information in Programs" * no fewer than 4 distilled tutorials by - Henrik Nilsson and Ivan Perez: "Declarative Game Programming" - Danko Ilik: "Proofs in Continuation-Passing Style: normalization of Gödel's System T extended with sums and delimited control operators" - Jerzy Karczmarczuk: "On the Declarative Structure of Quantum Concepts: States and Observables" - Ralf Laemmel, Andrei Varanovich, and Martin Leinberger: "Declarative Software Development" * a rich program of 22 contributed research talks * the most influential paper 10-year award for PPDP 2004 Also, please note a change of dates: LOPSTR will start on September 9, rather than September 10 as previously announced. Hope to see you in Canterbury.