25th International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2015

Siena, IT
July 13-15, 2015

Co-located with PPDP 2015

o  Conference Description
o  Important Dates
o  Submissions Guidelines
o  Proceedings
o  Invited Speakers
o  Program Committee
o  Journal Special Issue
o  Contacts
o  Call for Papers
o  Conference Program
o  Integrated PPDP+LOPSTR Symposium Programs
o  Registration & Venue
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Conference Description

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 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2015) will be held at the University of Siena, Siena, Italy; previous symposia were held in Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve and Manchester (you might have a look at the contents of past LOPSTR symposia). LOPSTR 2015 will be co-located with PPDP 2015 (International ACM SIGPLAN 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. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to:
  • synthesis
  • transformation
  • specialization
  • composition
  • optimization
  • inversion
  • specification
  • analysis and verification
  • testing and certification
  • program and model manipulation
  • transformational techniques in SE
  • applications and tools
Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application 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 chair in case of questions).

Important Dates

    Abstract submission:          April 6,2015     April 26, 2015
    Paper submission:        April 13, 2015     May 2, 2015
    Notification (for pre-proceedings):     May 25, 2015     June 2, 2015
    Camera-ready (for pre-proceedings):     June 15, 2015     June 20, 2015
    Symposium:     July 13-15, 2015

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science 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 should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them.
Paper should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2015.

Proceedings

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. 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 in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings.

Journal Special Issue

After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Formal Aspects of Computing journal. The submissions to the special issue must be substantial extensions of the proceedings versions and will undergo the usual journal reviewing process.

Invited Speakers

Patrick Cousot (New York University, USA) (jointly with PPDP)
Gilles Barthe (IMDEA Software Institute , Madrid, Spain)
Dale Miller (INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Program Committee

Slim Abdennadher German University of Cairo, Egypt
María Alpuente Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy
Olaf Chitil University of Kent, UK
Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy (Program Chair)
Jérôme Feret INRIA and École Normale Supérieure, France
Maurizio Gabbrielli University of Bologna, Italy
Jürgen Giesl RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Arnaud Gotlieb SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway
Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Manuel Hermenegildo IMDEA, Spain
Viktor Kuncak EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Luigi Liquori INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France
Alexei Lisitsa University of Liverpool, UK
Narciso Martí-Oliet Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jorge Navas NASA, USA
Kazuhiro Ogata JAIST, Japan
Carlos Olarte ECT, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Catuscia Palamidessi INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France
Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy
Albert Rubio Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium

Contacts

Program and Symposium Chair (contact him for additional information about papers and submissions):

Moreno Falaschi
Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena
Via Roma, 56, Siena, Italy
Email: moreno.falaschi@unisi.it
Organizing Committee
Andrea Machetti, Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy
Simonetta Palmas, Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy
Alessandro Rossi, Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy
Elisa Tiezzi, Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy
Guillermo Román-Díez, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Sara Ugolini, Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa, Italy

Call for Papers

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In Cooperation with EATCS

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