CfP: LOPSTR 2015 - Deadline extended: May 2

25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation

Co-located with PPDP 2015

Special Issue of Formal Aspects of Computing
http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/
University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015

EXTENDED DEADLINES
Abstract submission: April 26, 2015
Paper/Extended abstract submission: May 2, 2015

The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers.

The 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015) will be held at the University of Siena, Siena, Italy; previous symposia were held in Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve and Manchester (you might have a look at the contents of past LOPSTR symposia). LOPSTR 2015 will be co-located with PPDP 2015 (International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming).

Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to:

• synthesis
• transformation
• specialization
• composition
• optimization
• specification
• analysis and verification
• testing and certification
• program and model manipulation
• transformational techniques in SE
• applications and tools

Important Dates

Abstract submission: April 26, 2015
Paper/Extended abstract submission: May 2, 2015
Notification: June 2, 2015
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): June 15, 2015
Symposium: July 13-15, 2015

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 should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. 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.

Papers should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2015, which can be accessed through the website of LOPSTR 2015: http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/.

Proceedings

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. 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 in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings.

Special journal issue

After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to a special issue of the 'Formal Aspects of Computing' journal. The submissions to the special issue must be substantial extensions of the proceedings versions and will undergo the usual journal reviewing process.

Invited speakers

Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with PPDP)
Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France

Program Committee

Slim Abdennadher, German University of Cairo, Egypt
Maria Alpuente, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Demis Ballis, University of Udine, Italy
Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, UK
Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Moreno Falaschi, University of Siena, Italy (Program Chair)
Jerome Feret, INRIA and ENS, France
Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy
Jurgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Arnaud Gotlieb, SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA, Spain
Viktor Kuncak, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Luigi Liquori, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Mediterranee, France
Alexei Lisitsa, University of Liverpool, UK
Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jorge Navas, NASA, USA
Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan
Carlos Olarte, ECT, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy
Albert Rubio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium

Program and Symposium Chair:

Moreno Falaschi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics,
Univ. of Siena, Italy
(moreno.falaschi@unisi.it)

Organizing Committee

Monica Bianchini, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Sara Brunetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Andrea Machetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Simonetta Palmas, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy
Simone Rinaldi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Elisa Tiezzi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Sara Ugolini, Dip. Informatica, Univ. of Pisa