LOPSTR 2019: Fist Call for Papers

[Tong Liu]

[LOPSTR 2019: Our apologies for possible duplicates]

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              LOPSTR 2019: Fist Call for Papers 
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                 29th International Symposium on
         Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
                           LOPSTR 2019

          http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/lopstr19/

            Porto, Portugal, October 8-10, 2019
    (co-located with the Symposium on Formal Methods, FM'19 
                  and a part of the FM Week)


The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on  logic-based program development. LOPSTR
is open  to contributions  in logic-based  program development  in any
language  paradigm.  LOPSTR  has  a reputation  for  being  a  lively,
friendly forum for presenting and  discussing work in progress. Formal
proceedings are produced only after  the symposium so that authors can
incorporate this feedback in the published papers.

The 29th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and 
Transformation (LOPSTR 2019) will be held at the Porto, Portugal. Previous 
symposia were held in Namur, Edinburgh, Siena, Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven, 
Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, 
Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, 
Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, Manchester and Frankfurt. LOPSTR 2019 
will be co-located with the Symposium on Formal Methods, FM'19 
and a part of the FM Week. 

Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, 
all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small 
and programming-in-the-large. 
This year LOPSTR extends its traditional topics to include also logic-based program 
development based on integration of sub-symbolic and symbolic models,  on machine 
learning techniques and on differential semantics. Both full papers and extended 
abstracts describing applications in all these areas are especially welcome. 
Contributions are  welcome on all  aspects of logic-based program development, 
including, but not limited to:

* synthesis 
* transformation 
* specialization 
* composition 
* optimization 
* inversion 
* specification 
* analysis and verification 
* testing and certification 
* program and model manipulation 
* machine learning for program development
* integration of sub-symbolic and symbolic models
* differential semantics
* transformational techniques in SE 
* applications and tools 

Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new
perspective,  and application  papers  that  describe experience  with
industrial applications are also welcome.

Papers  must  describe original  work,  be  written and  presented  in
English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published  or   that  are  simultaneously  submitted   to  a  journal,
conference, or  workshop with refereed proceedings.  Work that already
appeared in  unpublished or informally published  workshop proceedings
may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions).

Important Dates

Abstract submission: June 17, 2019
Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 24, 2019
Notification: July 24, 2018
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 7, 2019
Symposium: October 8-10, 2019


Submission Guidelines 

Authors  should submit  an electronic  copy of  the paper  (written in
English) in  PDF, formatted in  the Lecture Notes in  Computer Science
style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title;
authors and their affiliations;  contact author's email; abstract; and
three  to  four keywords  which  will  be used  to  assist  the PC  in
selecting appropriate reviewers  for the paper. Page  numbers (and, if
possible, line  numbers) should appear  on the manuscript to  help the
reviewers in writing their report.  Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages
including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended
for publication.  Reviewers are not  required to read  the appendices,
and thus papers should be  intelligible without them. Papers should be
submitted  via  the  Easychair  submission website  for  LOPSTR  2019.


Best Paper Award and Prize

A best paper award will be granted, which will include a 500 EUR prize
provided by  Springer.  This  award will  be given  to the  best paper
submitted to the conference, based  on the relevance, originality, and
technical quality. The program committee may split the award among two
or more papers, also considering authorship (e.g., student paper).


Proceedings 

The formal  post-conference proceedings will be  published by Springer
in the  Lecture Notes in Computer  Science series. Full papers  can be
directly  accepted  for  publication  in the  formal  proceedings,  or
accepted  only for  presentation  at the  symposium  and inclusion  in
informal  proceedings. After  the symposium,  all authors  of extended
abstracts  and full  papers  accepted only  for  presentation will  be
invited to revise and/or extend their  submissions in the light of the
feedback  solicited at  the symposium.  Then, after  another round  of
reviewing, these  revised papers may  also be published in  the formal
proceedings. 
After the symposium, a selection of the best papers might  be invited for 
submission to a special issue of a journal. 


Program Committee

Sabine Broda - University of Porto, Portugal
Manuel Carro - Technical University of Madrid and IMDEA, Spain
Ugo Dal Lago - University of Bologna, Italy
Daniel De Schreye - KU Leuven, Belgium
Santiago Escobar - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Moreno Falaschi - University of Siena, Italy
Laurent Fribourg - CNRS, France
Arnaud Gotlieb - SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway
Gopal Gupta - The University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A
Andy King - University of Kent, U.K.
Herbert Kuchen - University of Muenster, Germany
Jacopo Mauro - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Hernan Melgratti - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maria Chiara Meo - University G. D'Annunzio, Chieti Pescara, Italy
Carlos Olarte - Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Hirohisa Seki - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Caterina Urban - INRIA, France
Herbert Wiklicky - Imperial College London, U.K. 

Program Chair

Maurizio Gabbrielli -  University of Bologna, Italy

General Chair of FM 19

Jose' Nuno Oliveira, INESC TEC & University of Minho

Publicity Chair

Tong Liu -  University of Bologna, Italy