====================================================================== 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/ ====================================================================== Two weeks left for early registration (until August 8): 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" * the most influential paper 10-year award for PPDP 2004 Tentative program: ========== Monday 8 September Welcome to PPDP 2014 - 08:45-09:00 Olaf Chitil and Andy King Distilled Tutorial - 9:00-10:00 Ralf Laemmel "Declarative Software Development" Break - 10:00-10:15 Session - 10:15-11:15 10:15-10:45 Rémi Douence and Nicolas Tabareau "Lazier Imperative Programming" 10:45-11:15 Stefan Mehner, Daniel Seidel, Lutz Straßburger and Janis Voigtländer "Parametricity and Proving Free Theorems for Functional-Logic Languages" Break - 11:15-11:30 Session - 11:30-12:30 11:30:-12:00 Paul Tarau "Bijective Collection Encodings and Boolean Operations with Hereditarily Binary Natural Numbers" 12:00-12:30 Flavio Cruz, Ricardo Rocha and Seth Goldstein "Design and implementation of a multithreaded virtual machine for executing linear logic programs" Lunch break - 12:30-14:00 Distilled tutorial - 14:00-15:00 Danko Ilik "Proofs in Continuation-Passing Style: normalization of Gödel's System T extended with sums and delimited control operators" Break - 15:00-15:15 Session - 15:15-16:15 15:15-15:45 Kenichi Asai, Luminous Fennell, Peter Thiemann and Yang Zhang "A Type Theoretic Specification for Partial Evaluation" 15:45-16:15 Paul Downen, Luke Maurer, Zena Ariola and Daniele Varacca "Continuations, Processes, and Sharing" Break - 16:15-16:30 Session - 16:30-17:30 16:30-17:00 Pierre Neron "Partial Inlining for Program Transformation" 17:00-17:30 Jean-Louis Giavitto and José Echeveste "Real-Time Matching of Antescofo Temporal Patterns" Program-chair report - 17:30-17:45 Olivier Danvy ---------- Tuesday 9 September Distilled tutorial - 9:00-10:00 Jerzy Karczmarczuk "On the Declarative Structure of Quantum Concepts: States and Observables" Break - 10:00-10:15 Session - 10:15-11:15 10:15-10:45 José Meseguer and Salvador Lucas "Proving Operational Termination of Declarative Programs in General Logics" 10:45-11:15 Fan Yang, Santiago Escobar, Catherine Meadows, José Meseguer and Paliath Narendran "Theories of Homomorphic Encryption, Unification, and the Finite Variant Property" Break - 11:15-11:30 Session - 11:30-12:30 11:30:-12:00 Tzu-Chun Chen, Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and Nobuko Yoshida "On the Preciseness of Subtyping in Session Types" 12:00-12:30 Hugo Pacheco, Tao Zan and Zhenjiang Hu "BiFluX: A Bidirectional Functional Update Language for XML" Lunch break - 12:30-14:00 Distilled tutorial - 14:00-15:00 Henrik Nilsson "Declarative Game Programming" Break - 15:00-15:15 Session - 15:15-16:15 15:15-15:45 Francisco Ferreira and Brigitte Pientka "Bidirectional Elaboration of Dependently Typed Programs" 15:45-16:15 Steven Ramsay "Exact Intersection Type Abstractions for Safety Checking of Recursion Schemes" Break - 16:15-16:30 Session - 16:30-17:30 16:30-17:00 Julian Kranz and Axel Simon "Structure-Preserving Compilation: Efficient Integration of Functional DSLs into Legacy Systems" 17:00-17:30 Ulrich Schöpp "Organising Low-Level Programs using Higher Types" ---------- Wednesday 10 September Invited talk - 9:00-10:00 Roberto Giacobazzi Obscuring Code -- Unveiling and Veiling Information in Programs Break - 10:00-10:15 Session - 10:15-11:15 10:15-10:45 Rémy Haemmerlé "On Combining Backward and Forward Chaining in Constraint Logic Programming" 10:45-11:15 Nataliia Stulova, Jose F. Morales and Manuel V. Hermenegildo "Assertion-based Debugging of Higher-Order (C)LP Programs" Break - 11:15-11:30 Session - 11:30-12:30 11:30:-12:00 Takahito Aoto and Sorin Stratulat "Decision Procedures for Proving Inductive Theorems without Induction" 12:00-12:30 Joachim Jansen, Ingmar Dasseville, Jo Devriendt and Gerda Janssens "Experimental Evaluation of a State-of-the-Art Grounder" Lunch break - 12:30-13:30 Session - 13:30-14:30 13:30:-14:00 Tom Schrijvers, Nicolas Wu, Benoit Desouter and Bart Demoen "Heuristics entwined with handlers combined" 14:00-14:30 James Cheney, Amal Ahmed and Umut Acar "Database queries that explain their work" ========== Also, please note a change of dates: LOPSTR will start on September 9, rather than September 10 as previously announced. See you in Canterbury!