On behalf of the PC chair: ====================================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- PPDP 2019 21st International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming 7–9 October 2019, Porto, Portugal Collocated with FM'19 http://ppdp2019.macs.hw.ac.uk ====================================================================== Important Dates --------------- Title and abstract registration 26 April 2019 (AoE) Paper submission 3 May 2019 (AoE) Rebuttal period (48 hours) 3 June 2019 (AoE) Author notification 14 June 2019 Final paper version 15 July 2019 Conference 7–9 October 2019 About PPDP ---------- The PPDP 2019 symposium brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint handling programming paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification. Invited Speakers ---------------- Amal Ahmed Northeastern University, USA Title: TBA Naoki Kobayashi The University of Tokyo, Japan Title: 10 Years of the Higher-Order Model Checking Project Scope ----- Submissions are invited on all topics related to declarative programming, from principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming. - Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management. - Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and effects; semantics. - Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing. - Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application; education. Submission Categories --------------------- Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System Descriptions, and Experience Reports. Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style 2-column (including figures, but excluding bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability. Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must not exceed 5 pages **including references**. Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results. They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Supplementary material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study any material beyond the respective page limit. Format of a Submission ---------------------- For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the "Current ACM Master Template" which is available at <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. The most recent version at the time of writing is 1.48. You must use the LaTeX sigconf proceedings template as the conference organizers are unable to process final submissions in other formats. In case of problems with the templates, contact ACM's TeX support team at Aptara <acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com <mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com>>. Authors should note ACM's statement on author's rights (http://authors.acm.org/) which apply to final papers. Submitted papers should meet the requirements of ACM's plagiarism policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). Requirements for Publication ---------------------------- At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present the work at the conference. The pc chair may retract a paper that is not presented. The pc chair may also retract a paper if complaints about the paper's correctness are raised which cannot be resolved by the final paper deadline. Program Committee Chair ----------------------- Ekaterina Komendantskaya Heriot-Watt University, UK Program Committee ----------------- Henning Basold, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, France Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maria Paola Bonacina, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy Dmitry Boulytchev, JetBrains Research, Russia William Byrd, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Neelakantan Krishnaswami, University of Cambridge, UK Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz · Landau, Germany Anthony Widjaja Lin, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany Christopher Mieklejohn, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck, Austria Gopalan Nadathur, University of Minnesota, USA Keisuke Nakano, Tohoku University, Japan Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK Alberto Pardo, University of the Republic, Uruguay Aleksy Schubert, University of Warsaw, Poland Peter J. Stuckey, The University of Melbourne, Australia Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University, Iceland Local Chair ----------- José Nuno Oliveira INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal For any queries about local issues please contact the local organiser, José Nuno Oliveira <jno@di.uminho.pt <mailto:jno@di.uminho.pt>>. Untitled Document ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */Heriot-Watt University is The Times & The Sunday Times International University of the Year 2018/* Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. With campuses and students across the entire globe we span the world, delivering innovation and educational excellence in business, engineering, design and the physical, social and life sciences. This email is generated from the Heriot-Watt University Group, which includes: 1. Heriot-Watt University, a Scottish charity registered under number SC000278 2. Edinburgh Business School a Charity Registered in Scotland, SC026900. 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