ICLP 2011 - Call for Participation

[Yuliya Lierler]

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

       27th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2011)
                Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

              Lexington, Kentucky, USA, July 6-10, 2011

                    http://www.cs.uky.edu/iclp2011/

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REGISTRATION

Registration Site is now open. Early registration is until May 31st, 2011

CONFERENCE SCOPE

Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier 
international conference for presenting research in logic programming. This 
year conference will offer invited talks and tutorials, as well as technical 
presentations on the broad spectrum of most recent research topics in the 
field. The conference will also host Doctoral Consortium, several workshops, 
and a Prolog programming contest.

WORKSHOPS

     * Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP), July 10
     * Logic Programming and Multi-Agent Systems (LPMAS), July 9
     * WG17, July 8-9
     * Logic-based methods in Programming Environments (WLPE), July 10
     * Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming
       Systems (CICLOPS), July 10

Workshops 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.

Submissions for all workshops are now open.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The 7th 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.

Submission deadline for the consortium is April 24th, 2011.

INVITED TALKS

     * Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford: Ontological Reasoning and
       Query-Answering with Logic Programming
     * Adam Lally, IBM Research: Natural Language Processing With
       Prolog in the IBM Watson System
     * Guenter Kniesel, University of Bonn: LP for Software Engineering
       and Software Engineering for LP (provisional title)

TUTORIALS

     * Michael A Covington, University of Georgia: Developing Prolog Coding
       Standards
     * Francesca Toni, Imperial College London: Argumentation and Logic
       Programming

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially
disadvantaged participants and, specially, students in order to be able to
attend the conference. For information, please contact the organizers of
the Doctoral Consortium and the General Chairs.

HOTELS

Blocks of rooms are reserved in Hilton Lexington/Downtown and Hyatt Regency 
Lexington Hotel. The conference rate is guaranteed if a room is reserved by 
June 9 in Hilton and June 5 in Hyatt. ICLP-2011 web site provides a link for 
placing a reservation.

CONFERENCE VENUE

Lexington is a medium size, pleasant and quiet university town. It is located 
in the heart of the so-called Bluegrass Region in Central Kentucky. The city is 
surrounded by beautiful horse farms on green pastures dotted with ponds and 
traditional architecture stables, ponds and small race tracks, and bordered by 
white or black fences. The Horse Museum is as beautifully located as it is 
interesting. Overall, the city has a nice feel that mixes well old and new.

Traveling to Lexington is easy. The local airport has frequent direct flights 
to Atlanta, Detroit and Chicago. It has also direct but less frequent flights 
(one or two a day) to several other large US cities such as Cincinnati, 
Dallas-Ft.  Worth, Houston and Newark. Thus, it can be reached easily from any 
place in the world.

SPONSOR

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

ICLP 2011 ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky), Victor Marek
(University of Kentucky)

Program Co-chairs: John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA,
Spain), Michael Gelfond (Texas Tech University, USA)

Workshops Chair: Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University)

Publicity Chair: Yuliya Lierler (University of Kentucky)

Doctoral Consortium: Alessandro Dal Palu (Universit degli Studi di Parma),
Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology)

Prolog Programming Contest: Tom Schrijvers (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)