[TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2021 Call for Papers

[Wim Vanhoof]

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                      31st International Symposium on                       
              Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation 
                               LOPSTR 2021 
                     http://saks.iasi.cnr.it/lopstr21/ <http://saks.iasi.cnr.it/lopstr21/> 
 
                   Tallinn, Estonia, September 7-9, 2021 
                       (co-located with PPDP 2021) 
 
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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 31st International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and 
Transformation (LOPSTR 2021) will be held at the Teachers' House in 
Tallinn, Estonia. 
Previous symposia were held in Bologna (as a virtual meeting), Porto, 
Frankfurt am Main, Namur, Edinburgh, Siena, Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven, 
Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Venice, London, 
Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, 
Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. 
LOPSTR 2021 will be co-located with PPDP 2021 (International Symposium 
on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). 
 
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, 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 
  - verification and testing of machine learning systems 
  - transformational techniques in SE 
  - applications and tools 
 
Both full papers and extended abstracts describing foundations and 
applications in these areas are welcome. Survey papers that present 
some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective and 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 chairs in case of questions). 
 
 
* Important Dates * 
 
Abstract submission (optional):                   May 1, 2021 (AoE) 
Paper/Extended abstract submission:               May 15, 2021 
Notification:                                     July 1, 2021  
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings):    August 20, 2021 
Symposium:                                        September 7-9, 2021 
Revised paper submission:                         November 1, 2021 (AoE) 
Notification:                                     December 1, 2021 
Final version (for post-proceedings):             January 16, 2022 
 
 
* Submission Guidelines * 
 
Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) 
in PDF, formatted in LNCS 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. Full papers cannot exceed 15 pages excluding references. Extended abstracts cannot exceed 8 pages excluding references. Additional pages may be used for 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 EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2021> 
 
 
* Proceedings *  
  
All papers (extended abstracts and full papers) accepted for presentation 
at the symposium will be made available through electronic pre-proceedings. 
As is usual for LOPSTR, formal proceedings will be published only after 
the symposium. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the 
formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium. 
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. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised 
papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. 
 
 
* Program Chairs * 
 
Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy 
Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium 
 
 
* Local organisation * 
 
Niccolò Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia 
 
 
* Contact * 
 
For more information, please contact the Program Committee Chairs: 
emanuele.deangelis at iasi.cnr.it <mailto:emanuele.deangelis at iasi.cnr.it>, wim.vanhoof at unamur.be <mailto:wim.vanhoof at unamur.be> 
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