[TYPES/announce] PADL 2025: First Call for Papers

[Germán Vidal]

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                         Call for Papers

  27th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
                           (PADL 2025)

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           Denver, Colorado, United States, January 20-21, 2025

                    Co-located with ACM POPL 2025
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Conference Description
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Declarative languages comprise several well-established classes of 
formalisms, namely, functional, logic, and constraint programming. 
Such formalisms enjoy both sound theoretical bases and the availability 
of attractive frameworks for application development. Indeed, they have 
been already successfully applied to many different real-world situations, 
ranging from database management to active networks to software 
engineering to decision support systems.

New developments in theory and implementation fostered applications 
in new areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages 
to novel and challenging problems raise many interesting research issues, 
including 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 well-established forum for researchers and practitioners to 
present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation 
techniques for all forms of declarative programming, including functional 
and logic programming, database and constraint programming, and theorem 
proving.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Innovative applications of declarative languages
Declarative domain-specific languages and applications
Practical applications of theoretical results
New language developments and their impact on applications
Declarative languages and software engineering
Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications
Practical experiences and industrial applications
Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom
Practical extensions such as constraint-based, probabilistic, and reactive languages

PADL 2025 especially welcomes new ideas and approaches related to 
applications, design and implementation of declarative languages 
going beyond the scope of the past PADL symposia, for example, advanced 
database languages and contract languages, as well as verification 
and theorem proving methods that rely on declarative languages.

PADL 2025 will take place on January 20th and 21st, 2025, as a physical 
(in-person) event. For each accepted paper at least one author is 
required to register for the conference and present the paper in person.

Important Dates
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Abstract submission: October 4, 2024 (AoE)
Paper submission:    October 11, 2024 (AoE)
Notification:        November 11, 2024
Symposium:           January 20-21, 2025

Submissions
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PADL 2025 welcomes regular papers (max. 15 pages) and short papers 
(max. 8 pages) that describe original and previously unpublished 
research results on

- complex and/or real-world applications in industry or in other areas 
of research, that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages,

- tools and/or systems developed for such applications, and/or to 
improve practical aspects of declarative languages,

- technical results related to the practical aspects of declarative 
languages. 

Application and systems descriptions, engineering solutions, and 
real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are in particular 
solicited. Regular and short papers will be published in the formal 
proceedings.

PADL 2025 also welcomes extended abstracts (max. 3 pages) on the topics 
above, that describe new ideas, a new perspective on already published 
work, or work-in-progress that is not yet ready for a full publication. 
Extended abstracts will be posted on the symposium website but will not 
be published in the formal proceedings.

All page limits exclude references. Submissions must be written in 
English and formatted according to the standard Springer LNCS style, 
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The review process of PADL 2025 is double-anonymous. In your submission, 
please, omit your names and institutions; refer to your prior work in 
the third person, just as you refer to prior work by others; do not 
include acknowledgments that might identify you.

Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in 
the final version -for example, details of proofs- may be placed in 
a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. 
Reviewers are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be 
understandable without them.

Page numbers (and, if possible, line numbers) should appear on the 
manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their reports. So, for 
LaTeX, we recommend that authors use:

  \pagestyle{plain}
  \usepackage{lineno}
  \linenumbers

The conference proceedings of PADL 2025 will be published by 
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. 
Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published 
Workshop proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify 
the program chairs where it has previously appeared. Previous PADL 
proceedings can be found on SpringerLink.

Papers should be submitted electronically via EquinOCS (registration 
is required if you do not have an account):
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Distinguished Papers
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The authors of a small number of distinguished papers will be 
invited to submit a longer version for journal publication after 
the symposium. For papers related to logic programming, that will 
be in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), 
and for papers related to functional programming, in Journal of 
Functional Programming (JFP). The extended journal submissions 
should be substantially (roughly 30%) extended: explanations for 
which there was no space, illuminating examples and proofs, 
additional definitions and theorems, further experimental results, 
implementational details and feedback from practical/engineering 
use, extended discussion of related work, and so on. These 
submissions will then be subject to the usual peer review process 
by the journal, although with the aim of a swifter review process 
by reusing original reviews from PADL.

PADL 2025 PC Co-Chairs
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- Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey
- German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Programme Committee
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TBD

Contact Addresses
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esraerdem _AT_ sabanciuniv.edu
gvidal _AT_ dsic.upv.es