With apology for multiples copies. Deadline for abstracts June 8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR'03 August 25 - 27, 2003 Uppsala, Sweden ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ----------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dtai/lopstr03/ ----------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development, and the symposium is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR 2003 will be held at the University of Uppsala, as part of PLI 2003 (Principles, Logics, and Implementation of High-Level Programming Languages), a confederation of conferences and workshops including ICFP 2003 (ACM-SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming) and PPDP 2003 (ACM-SIGPLAN International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Past events were held in Manchester, UK (1991, 1992, 1998), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1993), Pisa, Italy (1994), Arnhem, the Netherlands (1995), Stockholm, Sweden (1996), Leuven, Belgium (1997), Venice, Italy (1999), London, UK (2000), Paphos, Cyprus (2001), Madrid, Spain (2002). Since 1994 the proceedings have been published in the LNCS series of Springer-Verlag. LOPSTR also aims to be a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, so it has a strong workshop character, in the sense that it is also intended to provide useful feedback to authors on their preliminary research. Formal proceedings of the symposium are produced only after the symposium, so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. Scope of the Symposium We solicit extended abstracts describing recent work or work in progress. 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. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics: * specification * synthesis * verification * transformation * specialisation * analysis * composition * reuse * optimisation * applications and tools * component-based software development * agent-based software development * software architectures * design patterns and frameworks * program refinement and logics for refinement * proofs as programs Submission Guidelines Authors can submit extended abstracts of approximately 6 pages with a maximum of 10 pages describing recent work or work in progress. Contributions should be written in English and should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format to the program chairman at the following email address: Maurice.Bruynooghe@cs.kuleuven.ac.be. Prospective authors who have difficulties for the electronic submission may contact the chairman. Accepted papers have to be presented at the Symposium by one of the authors and will appear in the informal pre-proceedings distributed at the Symposium. Formal Proceedings After the symposium, authors of abstracts that are judged mature for publication will be invited to submit a full paper describing original work neither published nor submitted elsewhere. These will be reviewed according to the usual refereeing procedures, and accepted papers will be published in a final collection of papers which are expected to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. Important Dates June 8, 2003: submission deadline for extended abstracts June 24, 2003: notification of authors of abstracts August 1, 2003: deadline for informal pre-proceedings December 1, 2003: submission deadline for revised papers February 1, 2004: notification of authors Program Committee Elvira Albert (Spain) Roland Bol (Sweden) LOCAL ORGANISOR Maurice Bruynooghe (Belgium) PROGRAMME CHAIR Michael Butler (UK) Jim Caldwell (USA) Wlodek Drabent (Poland) Tom Ellman (USA) Norbert E. Fuchs (Switzerland) Robert Glück (Japan) Gopal Gupta (USA) Ian Hayes (Australia) Catholijn Jonker (the Netherlands) Andy King (UK) Mario Ornaghi (Italy) Maurizio Proietti (Italy) German Puebla (Spain) Julian Richardson (USA) Olivier Ridoux (France) Sabina Rossi (Italy) Wim Vanhoof (Belgium)