Call for Papers: HVCS'18 - 5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis

[German Vidal]

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Call for Papers

5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS)
Affiliated with ICLP at FLoC 2018

July 13, 2018 - Oxford, UK

https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs18/


Invited speakers: 

  TBA

Submission deadlines:

- Paper submission:   15 April 2018
- Paper notification: 15 May 2018
- Camera-ready:       31 May 2018
- Workshop:           13 July 2018


Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be
modeled directly using Horn clauses, and many recent advances in the
CLP and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving
problems presented as Horn clauses.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the
communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP),
Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated
Deduction (e.g., CADE), on the topic of Horn clause based analysis,
verification and synthesis.

Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by
these communities at different times and from different perspectives,
and this workshop is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful
exchange and integration of experiences.

The workshop follows four previous meetings: HCVS 2017 in Gothenburg, 
Sweden (w/CADE), HCVS 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (w/ETAPS), 
HCVS 2015 in San Francisco, CA, USA (w/CAV), and HCVS 2014 in Vienna, 
Austria (w/VSL).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn
clauses, constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas:

- Analysis and verification of programs and systems of various kinds
  (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, higher-order,
  concurrent)
- Program synthesis
- Program testing
- Program transformation
- Constraint solving
- Type systems
- Case studies and tools
- Challenging problems

We solicit regular papers describing theory and implementation of
Horn-clause based analysis and tool descriptions. We also solicit
extended abstracts describing work-in-progress, as well as
presentations covering previously published results that are of
interest to the workshop.


Program Committee:

- Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid)
- Maria Alpuente (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia)
- Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research)
- Fabio Fioravanti (University of Chieti-Pescara)
- John Gallagher (Roskilde University)
- Pierre-Loic Garoche (ONERA)
- Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo)
- Temesghen Kahsai (Amazon) -chair
- Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Heriot-Watt University)
- David Monniaux (CNRS/Verimag)
- Jorge A. Navas (SRI International)
- Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)
- Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR)
- Philipp Rummer (Uppsala University)
- Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich)
- German Vidal (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) -chair

Submission has to be done in one of the following formats:

- Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography, typeset in EPTCS
  format), which should present previously unpublished work (completed
  or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and
  applications.

- Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe
  work in progress or aim to initiate discussions.

- Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or
  presented at a conference or another workshop. Such papers can be
  submitted in any format, and will not be included in the workshop
  post-proceedings.

All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and
will be selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee
reports. Accepted regular papers and extended abstracts will be
published electronically as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, see http://www.eptcs.org/

Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of
them will be present at the workshop. Papers must be submitted through
the EasyChair system using the web page:

  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2018