Call for Papers

15th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2013) http://www.it.uu.se/conf/padl2013/

Rome, Italy, January 21-22, 2013 Co-located with ACM POPL 2013

== Conference Description ==

Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many 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 raise 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 practitioners 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, 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 2013 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages. In this occasion PADL is co-located, as traditionally, with ACM POPL, which will be held immediately following PADL. The symposium will be held in beautiful Rome, Italy.

== Important Dates and Submission Guidelines ==

       Abstract Submission:    September 10, 2012
       Paper Submission:       September 17, 2012
       Notification:             October 28, 2012
       Camera-ready:            November 12, 2012
       Symposium:             January 21-22, 2013

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF using the Springer LNCS format. The submission will be done through EasyChair conference system. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program chair long in advance for information on how to submit hard copies. All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify the program chair about the place on which it has previously appeared.

PADL 2013 will accept both technical and application papers:

• Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 16 pages in Springer LNCS format.
• Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag conference proceedings, and will be presented in a separate session. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 6 pages in Springer LNCS format but such papers can also point to sites with supplemental information about the application or the system that they describe.

Program Committee

• Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• Maria Garcia de la Banda, Monash University, Australia
• Adam Chlipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
• Bart Demoen, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
• Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy
• Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Kevin Hammond, University of St. Andrews, U.K.
• Ralf Hinze, University of Oxford, U.K.
• Jacob Howe, City University London, U.K.
• Joxan Jaffar, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Naoki Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Kim Nguyen, LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud, France
• Norman Ramsey, Tufts University, U.S.A.
• Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden; NTUA, Greece (chair)
• Vitor Santos Costa, University of Porto, Portugal
• Terrance Swift, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
• Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Microsoft Research, U.K