Call for Papers ===============

16th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2014)

http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/padl2014

San Diego, California, USA, January 20-21, 2014 Co-located with ACM POPL'14

Conference Description ======================

Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems.

New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well.

PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Innovative applications of declarative languages * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications * Practical applications of theoretical results * New language developments and their impact on applications * Declarative languages and Software Engineering * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications * Practical experiences and industrial applications * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom * Practical extensions such as constraint-based, probabilistic, and reactive languages.

PADL'14 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages. In this occasion PADL is co-located, as traditionally, with ACM POPL, which will be held immediately following PADL. The symposium will be held in San Diego, California, USA.

Important Dates and Submission Guidelines =========================================

Abstract Submission: September 6, 2013 Paper Submission: September 13, 2013 Notification: October 21, 2013 Camera-ready: November 10, 2013 Symposium: January 20-21, 2014

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF using the Springer LNCS format. The submission will be done through EasyChair conference system. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. PADL'14 will accept both technical and application papers:

* Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 16 pages in Springer LNCS format. * Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag conference proceedings, and will be presented in a separate session. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 6 pages in Springer LNCS format.

Program Committee =================

Matthew Flatt (co-chair), University of Utah, USA Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia, Canada Hai-Feng Guo (co-chair), University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Manuel Hermenegildo, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh, UK Leaf Petersen, Intel, USA Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands C.R. Ramakrishnan, Stony Brook University, USA Sukyoung Ryu, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Manuel Serrano, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Yi-Dong Shen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Peter Stuckey, University of Melbourne, Australia Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg, Germany Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Aaron Turon, Max Plank Institute, Germany David Van Horn, Northeastern University, USA German Vidal, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Contacts ========

For additional information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chairs:

Matthew Flatt School of Computing, University of Utah Email: mflatt <AT> cs <DOT> utah <DOT> edu

Hai-Feng Guo Department of Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha Email: haifengguo <AT> unomaha <DOT> edu

With the Cooperation of =======================

The Association for Logic Programming (ALP) ACM SIGPLAN ===================================