25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2015

http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/ University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015

DEADLINES Abstract submission: April 6, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015

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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 25th 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. 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 * inversion * specification * analysis and verification * testing and certification * program and model manipulation * transformational techniques in SE * applications and tools

Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome.

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions).

Important Dates

Abstract submission: April 6, 2015 Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015 Notification: May 25, 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 you can access through the website of LOPSTR 2015.

Proceedings

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (to be confirmed). 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 a primary computer science journal. The submissions to the special issue must be substantial extensions of the proceedings versions and will undergo the usual journal reviewing process.

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 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, Universidade 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, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy Sara Brunetti, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy Simone Rinaldi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy Elisa Tiezzi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, Univ. of Siena, Italy