Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Call for papers - 28th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2012)

Apologises for cross posting.

 

Gergely

 

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

 

       28th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2012)

 

                  Budapest, Hungary, September 4-8, 2012

 

                      http://www.cs.bme.hu/iclp2012/

 

 

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The International Conference on Logic Programming is the premier venue for

presenting research in logic programming. ICLP 2012 will take place in

Budapest, honouring the important contribution that the Hungarian logic

programming community has given to this field. The ICLP technical program

will include presentations of accepted papers, invited talks, advanced

tutorials and panels, a special session on most influential papers, the

doctoral consortium, the programming contest, and several workshops.

 

Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not

restricted to:

 

 - Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Non-Monotonic Reasoning,

   Knowledge Representation.

 - Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines,

   Parallelism.

 - Environments: Program Analysis,  Transformation, Validation,

   Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing.

 - Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher

   Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques.

 - Related Paradigms: Abductive/Inductive/Constraint Logic Programming,

   Answer-Set Programming.

 - Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software

   Engineering, Natural Language Processing, (Semantic) Web,

   Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics,  Declarative

   Networking.

 

There are four broad categories for submissions:

 

 (1) technical papers describe technically sound, innovative

     ideas that can advance the state of the art of logic programming;

 (2) application papers present real-world applications  of logic programming;

 (3) system and tool papers focus on the novelty, practicality, usability

     and general availability of the systems and tools described; and

 (4) technical communications aim at describing recent developments,

     new projects, and other materials that are not ready for publication

     as standard papers.

 

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Important Dates

 

      Workshop Proposals:                     January 29, 2012

      Paper registration (abstract):                 March 11, 2012

      Submission deadline:                    March 18, 2012

      Notification to Authors (first round):         April 28, 201

      Notification to Authors (second round):        June 10, 2012

      Camera-ready LIPIcs copy due:                  June 10, 2012

      Camera-ready TPLP copy due:                    July 1, 2012

      Conference:                                    September 4-8, 2012

 

 

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General Chair

    Peter Szeredi (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics)

 

Program Committee Chairs

    Agostino Dovier (Univ. of Udine)

    Vitor Santos Costa (Univ. of Porto)

 

Workshop Chair

    Mats Carlsson (SICS, Sweden)

 

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

    Marco Gavanelli (Univ. of Ferrara)

    Stefan Woltran (T.U. Wien)

 

Programming Contest

    Tom Schrijvers (Univ. of Gent)

 

Publicity Chair

    Gergely Lukacsy (Cisco Systems Inc.)

 

Web Manager

    Janos Csorba (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics)

 

Program Committee

    Elvira Albert (U.C. Madrid)

    Sergio Antoy (Portland State Univ.)

    Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Res. Labs)

    Manuel Carro (U.P. Madrid)

    Michael Codish (Ben Gurion Univ.)

    Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser Univ.)

    Marina De Vos (Univ. of Bath)

    Alessandro Dal Palu' (Univ. of Parma)

    Bart Demoen (K.U. Leuven)

    Thomas Eiter (T.U. Wien)

    Esra Erdem (Sabanci Univ.)

    Thom Fruehwirth (Univ. of Ulm)

    Andrea Formisano (Univ. of Perugia)

    Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash Univ.)

    Marco Gavanelli (Univ. of Ferrara)

    Hai-Feng Guo (Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha)

    Gopal Gupta (Univ. of Texas, Dallas)

    Katsumi Inoue (National Inst. of Informatics, Japan)

    Angelica Kimmig (K.U. Leuven)

    Joohyung Lee (Arizona State Univ.)

    Evelina Lamma (Univ. of Ferrara)

    Nicola Leone (Univ. of Calabria)

    Yuliya Lierler (Univ. of Kentucky)

    Boon Thau Loo (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

    Michael Maher (R.R.I., Sidney)

    Alessandra Mileo (DERI, Galway)

    Jose Morales (U.P. Madrid)

    Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State Univ.)

    Gianfranco Rossi (Univ. of Parma)

    Beata Sarna-Starosta (Cambian, Vancouver)

    Torsten Schaub (Univ. of Potsdam)

    Tom Schrijvers (Univ. of Gent)

    Fernando Silva (Univ. of Porto)

    Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State Univ.)

    Terrance Swift (Univ. Nova de Lisboa)

    Peter Szeredi (Budapest Univ. of Tech.)

    Francesca Toni (I.C. London)

    Mirek Truszczynski (Univ. of Kentucky)

    German Vidal (U.P. of Valencia)

    Stefan Woltran (T.U. Wien)

    Neng-Fa Zhou (CUNY, New York)

 

 

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               PAPER PUBLICATION

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All accepted (long) papers will be published in the journal Theory and

Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge U. Press (CUP), in one or

more special issues.  In order to ensure the quality of the final version,

papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the

decision period) and/or ``shepherding.''  The program committee may also

recommend standard papers to be published as technical communications.

 

At the time of the conference CUP will make the web page for this(ese) TPLP

issue(s) available including volume and issue numbers, table of contents,

page numbers, and the papers themselves. All registered attendants at the

conference will get lifetime access to the web site for the online version of

the issue(s).  Pointers to the arXiv/CoRR versions of these papers will be

guaranteed from the ALP website www.logicprogramming.org.  Attendants will

also receive all the papers in a memory stick at the conference.

 

The collection of technical communications will appear as a volume of the

LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics) series, and

published online through the Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server

(DROPS).  All technical communications will also get space in the program for

presentation.  The journal issue(s) will also include a listing of the

technical communications, with pointers to the LIPIcs/DROPS volume.

 

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                        SPONSORS

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The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP)

and the Artificial Intelligence Section of the John von Neumann Computer

Society.

 

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                    FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

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The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially

disadvantaged participants and, specially, students in order to be able to

attend the conference.

 

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                      WORKSHOPS

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The ICLP 2012 program will include several workshops, held before, after, and

in parallel with the main conference.  They are perhaps the best places for

the presentation of preliminary work, undeveloped novel ideas, and new open

problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive

discussions and project collaboration.

 

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                DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

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The 8th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides research

students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research

directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and world-renown experts

in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to

attend the event and the main conference.  The best paper and presentation

from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a special session of

the main ICLP conference.

 

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               PROLOG PROGRAMMING CONTEST

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ICLP 2012 will also feature the 19th edition of the Prolog Programming

Contest.

 

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                   CONFERENCE VENUE

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Budapest is located in the center of Hungary, in the heart of Central Europe.

Hungary is member of the European Union and belongs to the Schengen area.

 

Detailed tourist and travel information can be obtained from

http://www.budapestinfo.hu/index.php?id=home_en.  Hungary is well-served by

transport links from abroad.  The main international airport is Budapest

Ferihegy http://www.bud.hu/english.  Budapest is linked to 15 European

capitals by train (eg. Wien-Budapest trip is less than 3 hours), directly or

indirectly (see http://www.mav-start.hu/english for details).

 

The conference is organized by the John von Neumann Computer Society

http://njszt.hu/en, who handled the ICLP'93 conference and the 1980 Logic

Programming Workshop in Debrecen.

 

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