Call for Participation: LOPSTR 2016 - 26th Intl. Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

LOPSTR 2016
26th International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation,
Edinburgh, Scotland UK, September 6-8, 2016
http://www.cliplab.org/Conferences/LOPSTR16/

co-located with

PPDP 2016
18th International Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming,
Edinburgh, Scotland UK, September 5-7, 2016
http://ppdp16.webs.upv.es/

and

SAS 2016
23rd Static Analysis Symposium,
Edinburgh, Scotland UK, September 8-10, 2016
http://staticanalysis.org/sas2016/

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Registration is open at:
http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppdp-lopstr-sas-2016/

   ** EARLY REGISTRATION UNTIL AUGUST 15 **

VISA

Please check here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa whether you
require a visa to visit the UK. If so, contact us as soon as possible
as explained here:
http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppdp-lopstr-sas-2016/registration.html
Getting a visa can take from 3-6 weeks depending on the nationality
and country from which applying.

We recommend that anyone considering attending who needs a visa
register now and apply now.  If you are eventually unable to attend
due to visa issues we will refund your registration fee.

INVITED TALKS

- Greg Morrisett, Cornell University, USA (jointly with PPDP'16):
   Challenges in Compiling Coq.

- Francesco Logozzo, Facebook, USA (jointly with PPDP'16):
   Abstract interpretation for taint analysis at scale.

- Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (jointly with SAS'16):
   Learning from Programs: Probabilistic Models, Program Analysis and 
Synthesis.

ACCEPTED PAPERS

- Symbolic Abstract Contract Synthesis in a Rewriting Framework.
   María Alpuente, Daniel Pardo and Alicia Villanueva.

- Coinductive Soundness of Corecursive Type Class Resolution.
   Frantisek Farka, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Kevin Hammond and Peng Fu.

- MiniZinc with Strings.
   Roberto Amadini, Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson, Joseph D. Scott, 
Peter
   J. Stuckey and Guido Tack.

- On the Completeness of Selective Unification in Concolic Testing of
   Logic Programs.
   Fred Mesnard, Etienne Payet and German Vidal.

- Verification of Time-Aware Business Processes using Constrained Horn 
Clauses.
   Emanuele De Angelis, Fabio Fioravanti, Maria Chiara Meo, Alberto
   Pettorossi and Maurizio Proietti.

- Tuning Fuzzy Logic Programs with Symbolic Execution.
   Gines Moreno, Jaime Penabad and German Vidal.

- A Hiking Trip Through the Orders of Magnitude: Deriving Efficient
   Generators for Closed Simply-Typed Lambda Terms and Normal Forms.
   Paul Tarau.

- A New Functional-Logic Compiler for Curry: Sprite.
   Sergio Antoy and Andy Jost.

- Towards Reversible Computation in Erlang.
   Naoki Nishida, Adrian Palacios and German Vidal.

- Slicing Concurrent Constraint Programs.
   Moreno Falaschi, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Carlos Olarte and Catuscia
   Palamidessi.

- Scaling Bounded Model Checking By Transforming Programs With Arrays.
   Anushri Jana, Uday Khedker, Advaita Datar, R Venkatesh and Niyas C.

- Hierarchical Shape Abstraction of Free-List Memory Allocators.
   Bin Fang and Mihaela Sighireanu.

- A Productivity Checker for Logic Programming.
   Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Patricia Johann and Martin Möhrmann.

- Automata Theory Approach to Predicate Intuitionistic Logic.
   Maciej Zielenkiewicz and Aleksy Schubert.

- Nominal Unification of Higher Order Expressions with Recursive Let.
   Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Temur Kutsia, Jordi Levy and Mateu Villaret.

- A Formal, Resource Consumption-Preserving Translation of Actors to 
Haskell.
   Elvira Albert, Nikolaos Bezirgiannis, Frank De Boer and Enrique 
Martin-Martin.

- Partial Evaluation of Order-sorted Equational Programs modulo Axioms.
   María Alpuente, Angel Cuenca, Santiago Escobar and Jose Meseguer.

- lpopt: A Rule Optimization Tool for Answer Set Programming.
   Manuel Bichler, Michael Morak and Stefan Woltran.

- CurryCheck: Checking Properties of Curry Programs.
   Michael Hanus.

- Intuitionistic Logic Programming for SQL.
   Fernando Saenz-Perez.

Hope to see you in Edinburgh!

Manuel Hermengildo and
Pedro Lopez-Garcia
LOPSTR 2016 Co-chairs