Dear all,

Apologies for multiple copies of this message. Please circulate the following call for papers to colleagues.

Best wishes, Frank D. Valencia.

------------------- Call for Papers Fifth ACM-SIGPLAN International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming Uppsala, Sweden, 27-29 August 2003

IMPORTANT DATES Submission 29 March 2003 Notification 12 May 2003 Final Version 13 June 2003

WEB SITES PPDP 2003: http://www.it.uu.se/ppdp03/ PLI 2003: http://www.it.uu.se/pli03/ PPDP: http://pauillac.inria.fr/%7Efages/PPDP/.

TOPICS (Not exhaustive): Logic and Constraint Programming; Functional Programming; Object-Oriented Programming; Concurrent Extensions; Mobile Computing; Integration of Paradigms; Proof Theoretic and Semantic Foundations; Program Design and Development; Type and Module Systems; Program Analysis and Verification; Program Transformation; Abstract Machines and Compilation; Programming Environments; and Application of Declarative Programming.

CONFERENCE CHAIR: Konstantinos Sagonas, Uppsala University http://www.csd.uu.se/%7Ekostis, email: kostis@it.uu.se

PROGRAM CHAIR: Dale Miller, INRIA/Futurs & École polytechnique http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Dale.Miller, email: Dale.Miller@inria.fr

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, ES Alessandra Di Pierro, Univ. of Pisa, IT Masami Hagiya, Univ. of Tokyo, JP Fergus Henderson, Univ. of Melbourne, AU Alberto Momigliano, Univ. of Leicester, UK Benjamin Pierce, Univ. of Pennsylvania, US C.R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY Stony Brook, US Mario Rodríguez Artalejo, Univ. Complutense, ES Amr Sabry, Univ. of Indiana, US Konstantinos Sagonas, Uppsala University, SW Frank Valencia, Uppsala University, SW

PREVIOUS PPDP CONFERENCES Paris (1999), Montreal (2000), Firenze (2001), Pittsburgh (2002).

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE: PPDP 2003 aims to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, specifying, and performing computations. Of general interest are all aspects surrounding declarative programming paradigms such as logic programming, functional logic programming, and constraint programming. Topics of more specific interest are enhancements to such formalisms with mechanisms for concurrency, mobility, modularity, object-orientation, and static analysis, as well as the fuller exploitation of the programming-as-proof-search framework through new designs and improved implementation methods. At the level of methodology, the use of logic based principles in the design of tools for program development, analysis, and verification relative to all programming paradigms is of interest. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. This list is not exhaustive: submissions related to new and interesting ideas relating broadly to declarative programming are encouraged. Prospective authors are welcome to communicate with the Program Chair about the suitability of a specific topic.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Submissions must be made on or before 29 March 2003, noon Central European Time and must be no more than 12 pages (including bibliography and appendices) and in standard ACM conference format: detailed formatting guidelines are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html, along with formatting templates or style files for LaTeX, Word Perfect, and Word. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Submissions will be carried out electronically via the Web via a link found at the conference web page. Papers must be submitted in either PDF format or as PostScript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must describe original, previously unpublished work that has not been simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English, must have a cover page with an abstract of up to 200 words, keywords, postal and electronic mailing addresses, and phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author. Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines may not be considered.

CONFERENCE VENUE AND RELATED EVENTS: PPDP 2003 is part of a federation meeting known as Principles, Logics and Implementations of high-level programming languages (PLI 2003) which includes the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2003). PLI will run from 25 - 29 August 2003. The meetings will take place on the Uppsala University campus.

AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS: Proposals are solicited for PLI 2003 affiliated workshops. Details about the submission of proposals are available from the PLI 2003 web site. The deadline for workshop proposals is 14 February 2003.

STUDENT ATTENDEES: Students who have a paper accepted for the conference are offered student membership in SIGPLAN free for one year. As members of SIGPLAN they may apply for travel fellowships from the PAC fund.