LPAR-20 in Fiji - Call for Papers and Workshops

[Geoff Sutcliffe]

                The 20th International Conference on
    Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
                             LPAR-20

               University of the Pacific, Suva, Fiji
                       http://www.LPAR-20.org

                    CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning,
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 20th LPAR
will be held at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji in 2015
(see dates below).

== Topics

New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome.
Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open
questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Abduction and interpolation methods
+ Automated reasoning
+ Constraint programming
+ Decision procedures
+ Description logics
+ Foundations of security
+ Hardware verification
+ Implementations of logic
+ Interactive theorem proving
+ Knowledge representation and reasoning
+ Logic and computational complexity
+ Logic and databases
+ Logic and games
+ Logic and machine learning
+ Logic and the web
+ Logic and types
+ Logic in artificial intelligence
+ Logic of distributed systems
+ Logic programming
+ Logical aspects of concurrency
+ Logical foundations of programming
+ Modal and temporal logics
+ Model checking
+ Non-monotonic reasoning
+ Ontologies and large knowledge bases
+ Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning
+ Program analysis
+ Rewriting
+ Satisfiability checking
+ Satisfiability modulo theories
+ Software verification
+ Specification using logic
+ Unification theory

== Submission Details

Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

- Regular papers  that describe solid new research results. They can be up to
  15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references, but excluding
  appendices (that reviewers are not required to read).

- Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report
  experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They
  can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style.

Both types of papers must be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar20

== Participation

Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week
before the paper submission deadline (see below). Authors of accepted papers 
are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the 
conference. More details about the venue and organisation can be found on the
conference website.

== Important Dates

Abstract Submission: 30 June
Paper Submission: 7 July
Notification: 23 August
Workshops: 23 November
Conference: 24-28 November

== Programme Committee

Cyrille Valentin 	Artho 	AIST, Japan
Franz Baader 		TU Dresden, Germany
Christel Baier 		TU Dresden, Germany
Peter Baumgartner 	NICTA, Australia
Armin Biere 		Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Nikolaj Bjorner 	Microsoft Research, USA
Lei Bu 	Nanjing 	University, China
Franck Cassez 		Macquarie University, Australia
Ansgar Fehnker 		University of the South Pacific
Rajeev Gore 		Australian National University, Australia
Tim Griffin 	 	University of Cambridge, UK
Ralf Huuck 			NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Kim Guldstrand Larsen 	Aalborg University, Denmark
Dejan Jovanovic 	SRI International, USA
Gerwin Klein 		NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Dexter Kozen 		Cornell University, USA
Rustan Leino 		Microsoft Research, USA
Joe Leslie-Hurd 	Intel Corporation, USA
Annabelle McIver 	Macquarie University, USA
Kenneth McMillan 	Microsoft Research, USA
Marius Minea 		Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Matteo Mio 			CNRS, ENS Lyon, France
Prakash Panangaden 	McGill University, Canada
Christine Paulin-Mohring 	Universit=C3=A9 Paris-Sud, France
Andreas Podelski 	University of Freiburg, Germany
Geoff Sutcliffe 	University of Miami, USA
Gancho Vachkov 		The University of the south Pacific (USP), Fiji
Ron Van Der Meyden 	UNSW, Australia
Tomas Vojnar 		Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Andrei Voronkov 	University of Manchester, UK
Toby Walsh 			NICTA and UNSW, Australia
More to be announced ...


                          CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

LPAR-20 workshops will be held either as one-day or half-day events. If you
would like to propose a workshop for LPAR-20, please contact the workshop
chair via email (Peter.Baumgartner at nicta.com.au), by the proposal deadline.

== Proposals

To help planning, workshop proposals should contain the following data:

- Name of the workshop.
- Brief description of the workshop, including workshop topics.
- Valid web address of the workshop.
- Contact information of the workshop organizers.
- An estimate of the audience size.
- Proposed format of the workshop (for example, regular talks, tool demos,
  poster presentations, etc.).
- Duration of the workshop (one-day or half-day).
- Potential invited speakers (if any).
- Procedures for selecting papers and participants.
- Special technical or AV needs.

== Important dates

Workshop proposals submission deadline:     May 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance:                June  1, 2015
Workshops:                             November 23, 2015