23-27 November 2008
Doha, Qatar
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
LPAR'08
15th International Conference on Logic for
Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
November 23-27, 2008
Carnegie Mellon University
Doha, Qatar
http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED
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The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artific
ial
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some
of
the most renowned researchers in the areas of automated reasoni
ng,
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come
to
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and
to
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 2
008
edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus
of
Carnegie Mellon University.
Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Compu
ter
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied.
At
one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the for
mal
semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions of ga
tes
every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is
in
itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessent
ial
specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems
to
networked infrastructures. It is logical techniques that link implementat
ion
and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving
and
model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation
and
artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a cent
ral
role in Computer Science education.
New results in the fields of computational logic and applications
are
welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may exam
ine
open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories
and
practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Automated reasoning * Logic of distributed systems
* Computional interpretations of logic * Logic programming
* Constraint programming * Modal and temporal logics
* Constructive logic and type theory * Model checking
* Decision procedures * Non-monotonic reasoning
* Description logics * Ontologies
* Foundations of security * Program and system verificat
ion
* Implementations of logic * Proof assistants
* Interactive theorem proving * Proof-carrying code
* Knowledge representation and reasoning * Proof planning
* Lambda calculus * Proof theory
* Logic and automata * Propositional satisfiability
* Logic and computational complexity * Reasoning about actions
* Logic and databases * Rewriting and unification
* Logic and games * Satisfiability modulo theori
es
* Logic for the semantic web * Static analysis of programs
* Logical aspects of concurrency * Specification using logics
* Logical foundations of programming * Translation validation
* Logic in artificial intelligence
Invited Speakers
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It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influent
ial
researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision
for
their fields. We are honored that the following members of the community h
ave
accepted this invitation.
* Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
* Amir Pnueli, New York University (USA)
* Michael Backes, Saarland University and MPI-SWS (Germany)
* Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
Submission Instructions
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Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published
or
that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference w
ith
proceedings. Papers should be submitted in Postscript or Portable Docum
ent
Format (PDF); papers submitted in a proprietary word processor format such
as
Microsoft Word cannot be considered. Submissions can be of two types:
* Regular papers are meant to describe solid new research results.
They
can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures a
nd
references but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not require
d to
read).
* Experimental and tool papers are intended to describe implementations
of
systems, to report experiments with implemented systems, or to com
pare
implemented systems. They can be at most 8 pages long in the LNCS style
.
Both types of papers can be electronically submitted by visit
ing
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar2008. Prospective authors
are
required to register a title and an abstract a week before the pa
per
submission deadline (see below).
As with the previous editions, the proceedings of LPAR'08 will be published
in
Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. They will
be
available at the conference.
In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners
are
encouraged to report on interesting work in progress by submitting abstra
cts
of up to 5 LNCS pages, to be selected for a short-paper session. Th
ese
abstracts will not be printed in the proceedings of LPAR'08 and they have
a
separate submission deadline (see below).
Participation
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Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of t
hem
will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this pol
icy
will be removed from the proceedings.
Important Dates (updated)
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Abstract submission deadline: 06 June 2008 - STRICT!
Paper submission deadline: 16 June 2008 - STRICT!
Notification of acceptance: 29 August 2008
Camera-ready papers: 19 September 2008
Short paper submission deadline: 26 September 2008
LPAR'08 Workshops: 22 November 2008
LPAR 2008: 23-27 November 2008
Program Committee
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* Franz Baader, TU Dresden (Germany)
* Matthias Baaz, TU Vienna (Austria)
* Peter Baumgartner, National ICT (Australia)
* Josh Berdine, MSR Cambridge (UK)
* Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University (Austria)
* Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair
* Sagar Chaki, Carnegie Mellon SEI (US)
* Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan (France)
* Javier Esparza, TU Munich (Germany)
* Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona (Italy)
* Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen (Germany)
* Orna Grumberg, Technion (Israel)
* Thomas Henzinger, EPFL (Switzerland)
* Joxan Jaffar, NUS (Singapore)
* Claude Kirchner, INRIA & LORIA (France)
* Stephan Kreutzer, Oxford University (UK)
* Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel)
* Alexander Leitsch, TU Vienna (Austria)
* Nicola Leone, University of Calabria (Italy)
* Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt (Germany)
* Cathy Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory (US)
* Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
* John Mitchell, Stanford University (US)
* Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg (Germany)
* Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi (India)
* Alexander Razborov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
* Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS (Germany)
* Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
* Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam (Germany)
* Carsten Schürmann, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
* Helmut Seidl, TU Munich (Germany)
* Henny Sipma, Stanford University (US)
* Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami (US)
* Ashish Tiwari, SRI (US)
* Helmut Veith, TU Darmstadt (Germany) - chair
* Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester (UK) - chair
Contact Information
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Email: lpar08@qatar.cmu.edu
Web page: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08