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LOPSTR 2020: Fist Call for Papers
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30th International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2020
https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/maribel.fernandez/LOPSTR2020/
Bologna, 7-9 September 2020
Abstract Deadline: 5 June 2020 Paper Deadline: 12 June 2020
SCOPE
The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on logic-based program development in any
language paradigm.
LOPSTR 2020 will be co-located with PPDP, WFLP and Microservices.
TOPICS
Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development
(including in domain-specific languages), all stages of the software
life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and
programming-in-the-large, including:
* synthesis; transformation; specialisation; composition; optimisation *
specification; analysis and verification; testing and certification *
program and model manipulation; inversion * machine learning for
program development
* transformational techniques in SE; applications and tools
Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in
all these areas are especially welcome.
Survey papers and papers that describe experience with industrial
applications are also welcome.
Important Dates
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Abstract submission: 5 June 2020 (AoE)
Paper/Extended abstract submission: 12 June 2020 (AoE)
Notification: 12 July 2020
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): 12 August 2020
Symposium: 7-9 September 2020
Submission Guidelines ---------------------
Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in
English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title;
authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and
three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in
selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers (and, if
possible, line numbers) should appear on the manuscript to help the
reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages
excluding references. Additional pages may be used for appendices (not
intended for publication). Reviewers are not required to read appendices,
and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Papers should be
submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2020.
PROCEEDINGS Post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the
LNCS series, as in previous editions.
Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal
proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium
and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors
of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation
will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions. Then, after
another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published
in the formal proceedings. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’
guidelines and use their proceedings templates, available also in Overleaf,
for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to
include their ORCIDs in their papers.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
Thanks to Springer's sponsorship, two awards (including a 500EUR prize each)
will be given at LOPSTR 2020, based on relevance, originality and technical
quality of papers. The PC may split the awards among several papers.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain María Alpuente,
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Clara Bertolissi, University Aix-Marseilles, France
Emanuele De Angelis, CNR Inst. for Systems Analysis and Computer
Science, Italy
Maribel Fernández, King's College London, UK (chair)
Mario Florido, University of Porto, Portugal
Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy
Robert Glück, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, US
Michael Hanus, Kiel University, Germany
Delia Kesner, Université de Paris, France
Andy King, University of Kent, UK
Temur Kutsia, RISC J. Kepler University of Linz, Austria Giselle Reis,
Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Masahito Sakai, Nagoya University, Japan
René Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Alwen Tiu, The
Australian National University, Australia
Germán Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
LOCAL ORGANISATION
Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna
CONTACT
For more information please contact the PC Chair:
Maribel.Fernandez(a)kcl.ac.uk
Hi!
I've read that Curry is a super set of Haskell, except for the type
classes. But some Curry implementations do also include Haskell type
classes.
Does that mean, that Haskell code can easily be used inside Curry
programs? Like C in C++? Is it possible to use all those Haskell
libraries in Curry?
Or, if not, is it very easy to port Haskell to Curry?
Cheers
Volker
Hi!
I'm wondering if Curry (or rather a specific implementation of curry?)
supports Unicode? Does it have a string type of Unicode-code points?
And does it have, for instance, a Unicode-aware function to get the
upper case if a letter? Or, is there a Unicode-aware collation
function?
I googled, but there wasn't found much.
Cheers,
Volker
Hi!
I'm reading the "Dynamic Predicates in Functional Logic Programs" paper and
I'm finding it quite interesting since I've always found the integration
with persistent data stores to be a weak point in most languages and
frameworks, and it seemed to me that Logic Programming should offer a more
natural way to deal with this problem given that it's got the idea of a
global database built in (as the paper points out).
So my question is: has this been implemented in any form in existing Curry
systems? I think there was a mention of dynamic predicates having been
implemented as a library but I can't find it. Was the idea scrapped perhaps?
Cheers
/Felix
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Declare 2019: Call for Participation
Cottbus, Germany, September 9-12, 2019 www.declare19.de
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Declarative programming is an advanced paradigm for the modeling and
solving of complex problems. This method has attracted increased
attention over the last decades, e.g., in the domains of data and
knowledge engineering, databases, artificial intelligence, natural
language processing, modeling and processing combinatorial problems,
and for establishing systems for the web.
The conference Declare 2019 aims at cross-fertilizing exchange of
ideas and experiences among researches and students from the different
communities interested in the foundations, implementation techniques,
novel applications, and combinations of high-level, declarative
programming and related areas. The technical program of the event will
include invited talks, presentations of refereed papers, and system demonstrations.
Declare 2019 consists of the sub-events INAP, WFLP, and WLP:
INAP - 22nd International Conference on Applications of
Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management
WFLP - 27th International Workshop on
Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming
WLP - 33rd Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming
Accepted papers and preliminary program:
https://www.declare19.de/index.php/organization/program/
Please register here:
https://www.declare19.de/index.php/organization/registration/
Looking forward to see you at Declare 2019 in Cottbus in September.
The Organizing Committee
Petra Hofstedt (General Chair),
Sven Löffler, Katrin Ebert,
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
WFLP 2019 - Submission Deadline extended
27th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming
Cottbus, Germany, September 9-13, 2019
(part of Declare 2019; co-located with INAP, WLP, and QPLogic:
www.declare19.de)
Important Dates --- EXTENDED DEADLINES ---
Paper submission: June 24, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2019
Camera-ready papers: August 5, 2019
Early registration: August 12, 2019
Online Registration: September 2, 2019
Workshop: September 9-13, 2019
The international Workshop on Functional and (constraint) Logic
Programming (WFLP) aims at bringing together researchers, students, and
practitioners interested in functional programming, logic programming,
and their integration. WFLP has a reputation for being a lively and
friendly forum, and it is open for presenting and discussing work in
progress, technical contributions, experience reports, experiments,
reviews, and system descriptions.
The 27th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic
Programming (WFLP 2019) will be held at the Brandenburgische
Technische Universität Cottbus Germany. Previous WFLP editions were
WFLP 2018 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), WFLP 2017 (Würzburg, Germany),
WFLP 2016 (Leipzig, Germany), WFLP 2014 (Wittenberg, Germany), WFLP 2013
(Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2012 (Nagoya, Japan), WFLP 2011 (Odense, Denmark),
WFLP 2010 (Madrid, Spain), WFLP 2009 (Brasilia, Brazil), WFLP 2008
(Siena, Italy), WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain),
WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003
(Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany),
WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad
Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg,
Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg,
Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany).
WFLP 2019 will be part of DECLARE 2019 and hence be co-located
with INAP 2019 (International Conference on Applications
of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management),
WLP 2019 (Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming), and
QPLogic 2019 (Quantum and Probability Logic).
Topics
The topics of interest cover all aspects of functional and logic
programming. They include (but are not limited to):
* Functional programming
* Logic programming
* Constraint programming
* Deductive databases, data mining
* Extensions of declarative languages, objects
* Multi-paradigm declarative programming
* Foundations, semantics, non-monotonic reasoning, dynamics
* Parallelism, concurrency
* Program analysis, abstract interpretation
* Program and model manipulation
* Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming
* Specification,
* Verification
* Debugging
* Testing
* Knowledge representation, machine learning
* Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms
* Implementation of declarative languages
* Advanced programming environments and tools
* Software techniques for declarative programming
* Applications
The primary focus is on new and original research results, but
submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development,
application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are
also encouraged. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above
topics from a new perspective, and experience reports are also welcome.
Papers must be written and presented in English. Work that already
appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may
be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions).
Submission Guidelines
Submission is via Easychair submission website for WFLP 2019:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wflp2019
Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
+ Regular research paper
+ Work-in-progress report
+ System description
Regular research papers must describe original work, be written and
presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers
that have been formally published or that are simultaneously submitted
to a journal, conference, or workshop with formal proceedings. They will
be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness,
originality, and clarity. For work-in-progress reports and system
descriptions, less formal rules apply, and presentation-only submissions
(talk and discussion, but no paper in the formal proceedings) are
possible. Please contact the PC chair with any questions.
All submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science style. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references
but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication.
Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should
be intelligible without them. However, all submissions (especially
work-in-progress reports and system descriptions) may be considerably
shorter than 15 pages.
Proceedings
All papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published
in informal proceedings publicly available at the Computing Research
Repository. According to the program committee reviews, submissions can be
directly accepted for publication in the formal post-conference proceedings.
The formal post-conference proceedings will be published in both electronic
and paper formats by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. After the conference, all authors accepted only for presentation
will be
invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the
feedback
solicited at the conference. Then, after another round of reviewing, these
revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings.
Therefore, all accepted papers will be published in open-access, and the
authors can also decide to publish their work in the Springer LNCS formal
proceedings.
Program Committee
Maria Alpuente Frasnedo, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Sergio Antoy, Portland State University, USA
Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, UK
Sandra Dylus, University of Kiel, Germany
Moreno Falaschi, U. Siena, Italy
Michael Hanus, University of Kiel, Germany
Herbert Kuchen, University of Münster, Germany (Chair)
Julio Mariño Carballo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Manuel Montenegro Montes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden
Sibylle Schwarz, HTWK Leipzig, Germany
Dietmar Seipel, University of Würzburg, Germany
Josep Silva Galiana, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Johannes Waldmann, HTWK Leipzig, Germany
Organizing Committee
Petra Hofstedt (General Chair),
Sven Löffler, Katrin Ebert,
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
I'm trying to understand the implementation of typeclasses in Curry so that I can implement them in my compiler. Is there some documentation describing how dictionaries are implemented, including the naming conventions used?
One problem I face is knowing how to choose default instances. For example, the program "main = 1 + 1" translates to the following FlatCurry:
program "test"
import "Prelude"
function "test.main" 1
lhs_vars [1]
Node "Prelude.apply" (
Node "Prelude.apply" (
Node "Prelude.+" (
var 1 ) ,
Node "Prelude.apply" (
Node "Prelude.fromInt" (
var 1 ) ,
int 1 ) ) ,
Node "Prelude.apply" (
Node "Prelude.fromInt" (
var 1 ) ,
int 1 ) )
Function "main" expects an implicit argument that is an instance of Prelude.Num. This is because no type declaration was specified, so its type is "Num a => a". If I were to declare main as having a concrete type such as Int or Float, then it would take no arguments.
KiCS2 and PAKCS can run this program, so they must somehow choose a default instance. How is this done?
I'm especially bothered that the FlatCurry appears to be missing crucial information - i.e., the fact that "main" expects a Num instance is not mentioned in the FlatCurry. How do other Curry implementations know to pass a Num dictionary and how is the default instance chosen?
-Andy
I can define an empty data type in Curry, e.g.:
data A
The built-in types such as Char, Int and Float are defined this way in the Prelude. Prior to the introduction of typeclasses the Curry frontend would translate this to a FlatCurry Type with no constructors. Newer versions produce a type with one constructor named "_Constr#A".
I'd like to understand how to interpret this. Is the above legal Curry? Is this perhaps a forward declaration or opaque type? Can the type, A, be defined later? If so, would it have to be defined in the same module? Is this documented somewhere?
I'm tempted to reject such a declaration unless the system can find a built-in definition but I don't want to reject legal programs.
-Andy
On behalf of the PC chair:
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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
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Important Dates
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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(a)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
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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
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Ekaterina Komendantskaya Heriot-Watt University, UK
Program Committee
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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
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José Nuno Oliveira INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal
For any queries about local issues please contact the local organiser,
José Nuno
Oliveira <jno(a)di.uminho.pt <mailto:jno@di.uminho.pt>>.
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