[TYPES/announce] [ICLP'06] - Last Call for Papers - Deadline for Abstracts: February 14

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                    CALL FOR PAPERS

    22nd International Conference on Logic Programming
                       ICLP'06
      Seattle, Washington, USA, 17-20 August, 2006
              http://www.cs.uky.edu/iclp06/
   Part of Fourth Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2006
         http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/

SUBMISSION SITE http://www.easychair.org/ICLP06/
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CONFERENCE SCOPE

Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been
the premier international conference for presenting research in logic
programming. Contributions (papers and posters) are sought in all areas 
of logic programming including but not restricted to:

* Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning,
  Knowledge Representation.
* Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines, 
  Parallelism.
* Environments: Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation 
  and Verification, Debugging, Profiling.
* Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher 
  Order, Types, Modes, Programming Techniques.
* Alternative Paradigms: Constraint Logic Programming, Abductive Logic 
  Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming.
* Applications: Deductive Databases, Data Integration, Software 
  Engineering, Natural Language, Web Tools, Internet Agents, Artificial 
  Intelligence.

The three broad categories for submissions are: (1) technical papers, 
where specific attention will be given to work providing novel integrations 
of the areas listed above, (2) application papers, where the emphasis
will be on their impact on the application domain as opposed to the
advancement of the the state-of-the-art of logic programming, and (3)
posters, ideal for presenting and discussing current work not yet ready 
for publication, for PhD thesis summaries and research project overviews.

In addition to papers and posters, the technical program will include 
a plenary talk in association with other FLoC conferences, two ICLP invited 
talks, an advanced tutorial, Doctoral Consortium and several workshops. The 
workshops will be held on August 16 and August 21, 2006.

PAPERS AND POSTERS

Papers and posters must describe original, previously unpublished 
research, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication 
elsewhere. They must be written in English. Technical papers and
application papers must not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS 
format (cf. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). The 
limit for posters is 2 pages in that format. 

The primary means of submission will be electronic. Papers and posters
must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/ICLP06/submit/

PUBLICATION

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag
in the LNCS series. The proceedings will include the accepted papers
and the abstracts of accepted posters.

SUPPORT, SPONSORING AND AWARDS

The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming.
The ALP has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants.

The ALP is planning to sponsor two awards for ICLP'06: for the best
technical paper and for the best student paper.

IMPORTANT DATES

				Papers 		Posters
Abstract submission deadline    14 February
Submission deadline		21 February	14 March
Notification of authors		7 April		14 April
Camera-ready copy due		2 May		2 May

ICLP'2006 ORGANIZATION

General Chair:
Manuel Hermenegildo (herme at fi.upm.es)

Program Co-Chairs:
Sandro Etalle (s.etalle at utwente.nl)
Mirek Truszczynski (mirek at cs.uky.edu)

Workshop Chair:
Christian Schulte (schulte at imit.kth.se)

Doctoral Student Consortium:
Enrico Pontelli (epontell at cs.nmsu.edu)

Publicity Chair:
Alexander Serebrenik (a.serebrenik at tue.nl)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Krzysztof Apt
Annalisa Bossi
Veronica Dahl
Giorgio Delzanno
Pierre Deransart
Agostino Dovier
Thomas Eiter
Sandro Etalle, co-chair
John Gallagher
Michael Gelfond
Hai-Feng Guo
Manuel Hermenegildo
Tomi Janhunen
Fangzhen Lin
Michael Maher
Victor Marek
Eric Monfroy
Stephen Muggleton
Brigitte Pientka
Maurizio Proietti
I.V. Ramakrishnan
Peter van Roy
Harald Sondergaard
Mirek Truszczynski, co-chair
German Vidal
Andrei Voronkov
Roland Yap

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The ICLP Doctoral Consortium (DC) is the second doctoral consortium to 
be offered as part of ICLP-06. The DC builds on the experience of the 1st 
Doctoral Consortium on Logic Programming, held at ICLP-05. It is designed 
for doctoral students working in areas related to logic and constraint 
programming, who are planning to pursue a career in academia. The Doctoral 
Consortium aims to provide students with an opportunity to present and 
discuss their research directions and to obtain feedbacks from peers as 
well as world-renown experts in the field. The Doctoral Consortium
will also offer invited speakers and panels discussions. More information
can be found at http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~epontell/DC2006/ .

WORKSHOPS

The ICLP-06 program will include several workshops. They provide a
platform for the presentation of preliminary work and novel ideas in a
less formal way than the conference itself. They also are an opportunity
to disseminate work in progress, particularly for new researchers.
Workshops also provide a venue for presenting more specialized topics
and opportunities for more intensive discussions, exchange of ideas, and
project collaboration. The following workshops will be held in
association with the ICLP-06 conference (please, refer to the conference
website for links to workshop pages):

* International Workshop on  Applications of Logic Programming in the
  Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, ALPSWS2006,
  http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/alpsws2006/

* Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming
  Systems, CICLOPS,
  http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/lldap/CICLOPS06/

* International Workshop on Software Verification and Validation
  SVV 2006,
  http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~abhik/svv06/

* Preferences and Their Applications in Logic Programming Systems,
  http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/lldap/Prefs06/

* Search and Logic: Answer Set Programming and SAT,
  http://www.cs.sfu.ca/%7ESearchAndLogic/

* 16th Workshop on Logic-Based Programming Environments, WLPE 2006,
  http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/%7Esusana/Conferences/WLPE06/

* MVLP'06: International Workshop on Multi-Valued Logic and Logic
  Programming
  website to be announced soon

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference will be a part of the fourth Federated Logic Conference
(FLoC'06) to be held August 10-21, 2006, in Seattle, Washington
(http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/). Other participating
conferences are: Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), Rewriting Techniques
and Applications (RTA), Logic in Computer Science (LICS), Theory and
Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT), and Int'l Joint Conference
on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR). Plenary events involving multiple
conferences are planned.