====================================================================== LOPSTR 2020: Fist Call for Papers ======================================================================
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 --------------- 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@kcl.ac.uk