[TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2021 2nd 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 * 
 
The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as in previous years. 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. Then, after another round of reviewing, these  
revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Authors  
should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings  
templates for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors 
to include their ORCIDs in their papers. 
 
 
* Best paper awards * 
Thanks to Springer's sponsorship, two awards (including a 500 EUR prize each) 
will be given at LOPSTR 2021. The program committee will select the winning 
papers based on relevance, originality and technical quality but may also 
take authorship into account (e.g. a student paper). 
 
 
* Invited Speaker * 
TBA 
 
 
* Program Committee * 
Roberto Amadini, University of Bologna, Italy 
Sabine Broda, University of Porto, Portugal 
Maximiliano Cristiá, CIFASIS-UNR, Argentina 
Włodzimierz Drabent, IPI PAN, Poland & Linköping University, Sweden 
Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France 
Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy 
Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK 
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA 
Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland 
Michael Hanus, Kiel University, Germany 
Bishoksan Kafle, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain 
Maja Kirkeby, Roskilde University, Denmark 
Temur Kutsia, RISC J. Kepler University of Linz, Austria 
Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany 
Pedro López-García, IMDEA Software Institute & CSIC, Spain 
Jacopo Mauro, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 
Fred Mesnard, Université de la Réunion, France 
Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano, Italy 
Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA 
Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University, Japan 
Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 
 
 
* 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, wim.vanhoof at unamur.be 
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