Conference Overview

The 14th International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming will take place in September 2012 in Leuven, Belgium.

PPDP 2012 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declaratrive programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and functional programming paradigms, but also embracing languages, database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, including mechanisms for mobility, modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Functional programming
• Logic programming
• Answer-set programming
• Functional-logic programming
• Declarative visual languages
• Constraint Handling Rules
• Parallel implementation and concurrency
• Monads, type classes and dependent type systems
• Declarative domain-specific languages
• Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs
• Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages
• Language extensions for security and tabulation
• Probabilistic modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity
• Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems
• Practical experiences and industrial application

This year the conference will be co-located with the 22st International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2012) and held in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN.

The conference will be held in Leuven, Belgium Previous symposia were held at Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria), Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa (Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence (Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France). You might have a look at the contents of past PPDP symposia.

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published by ACM press.

Important Dates

Submission Guidelines

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).

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP 2012.

Papers should consist of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with formatting templates or style files.

Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been accomplished and why it is significant.

Authors who wish to provide additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read such appendices.

Special Issue

After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The papers are expected to include at least 30% extra material over and above the PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by Elsevier of 2013.

Invited Speakers

Torsten Schaub	University of Potsdam, Germany		slides
Jürgen Giesl	RWTH Aachen, Germany	shared with Lopstr	slides

Program Committee

Contacts

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

Andy King
School of Computing
University of Kent
CT2 7NF Kent, UK
Email: A.M.King@kent.ac.uk

Symposium Co-Chairs:

Danny De Schreye and Gerda Janssens
Department of Computer Science
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 200 A
B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

Organizing Committee:

Danny De Schreye
Gerda Janssens
Dimitar Shterionov
Jon Sneyers

Call for Papers

You can view or download the Call for Papers as

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Anti-harassment Policy

PPDP is committed to holding a conference that reflects the diversity of its community and provides a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, disability, physical appearance or gender. It is important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one.

Harassment of PPDP participants will not be tolerated in any form. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to ethnicity, religion, disability, physical appearance, gender, or sexual orientation in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant or speaker engages in harassing behaviour, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, ranging from a simple warning the offender to immediate expulsion from the conference.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the programme chair.