[TYPES] Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages 2004

[Logic Programming Rsrch Association]

[ - Apologies for multiple messages
  - Final deadline for Paper submission is Feb 16th.
  - BEST PAPER AWARD: A best paper award ($500) will be given to
       the paper judged most innovative and practical.
  - PADL'04 proceedings will be published as Springer Verlag LNCS,
       past proceedings can be found in LNCS 1551, 1753, 1990, 2257, & 2562.
]

                          CALL FOR PAPERS!!!

                    Sixth International Symposium on
             Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages 2004
		             (PADL '04)

	           http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/PADL04

		          Dallas, Texas, USA
		            Jun 18-19, 2004

              Co-located with Compulog USA Summer School
               on Computational Logic, June 14-17, 2004


Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive
frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully
applied to vastly different real-world situations, ranging from data base management
to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems.

New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas.
At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raises
numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for
scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming
environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation
of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well.

PADL is a forum for researchers and practioners to present original work emphasizing
novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts,
including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include:

 * innovative applications of declarative languages;
 * declarative domain-specific languages and applications;
 * practical applications of theoretical results;
 * new language developments & their impact on applications;
 * evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications;
 * novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom; and
 * practical experiences

PADL 04 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation
of declarative languages, and is not limited to the scope of the past five PADL symposia.

PADL has traditionally been co-located with ACM POPL, but PADL 04 will be co-located
with and will immediately follow the second Compulog Americas Summer School in
Computational Logic, to be held Mon-Thurs, June 14-17, at Dallas.

IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

      Paper Submission:      February 16, 2004
      Notification:          March 22, 2004
      Final Manuscript:      April 19, 2004
      Symposium:             June 18-19, 2004

      Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper (written in
      English) in Postscript (Level 2) or PDF. Papers must be no longer than 15
      pages, written in 11-point font and with single spacing. Since the final
      proceedings will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer
      Verlag, authors are strongly encouraged to use the LNCS paper formatting
      guidelines for their submission.

      Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and
      their affiliations; contact author's email and postal addresses, telephone and
      fax numbers, abstract, and three to four keywords. The keywords will be used to
      assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. If electronic submission
      is impossible, please contact the program chair for information on how to submit
      hard copies.


MOST PRACTICAL PAPER AWARD

	  A cash prize of US$500 will be made for the submission that is judged
	  by the programm committee to be the best in terms of practicality, originality,
	  and clarity of presentation. The program committee may choose not to make an
	  award; or may make multiple awards, in which case the award money will be
	  equally divided.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     o Maurice Bruynooghe, KU Leuven, Belgium
     o Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada
     o Stefan Decker, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
     o Olivier Danvy, University of Aarhus, Denmark
     o Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA
     o Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
     o Michael Hanus, University of Kiel, Germany
     o John Hughes, Chalmers University, Sweden
     o Joxan Jaffar, National University of Singapore
     o Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo, USA
     o Julia Lawall, DIKU, Denmark
     o Michael Leuschel, University of Southampton, U.K.
     o Gopalan Nadathur, University of Minnesota, USA
     o Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA
     o C.R. Ramakrishnan, University at Stony Brook, USA
     o Tim Sheard, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
     o Vitor Santos Costa, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
     o Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA

Contacts:
     For information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chair:
          Bharat Jayaraman
          PC Chair - PADL 2004
          Department of Computer Science and Engineering
          University at Buffalo
          Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
          Email: bharat at cse.buffalo.edu

     For other information about the conference and the summer school, please contact:
          Gopal Gupta
          Department of Computer Science
          University at Texas at Dallas
          Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
          Email: gupta at utdallas.edu

Sponsored by: COMPULOG Americas (http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~complog)