LPAR 2012 - The 18th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning

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Deadline: November 06, 2011 | Date: March 11, 2012-March 15, 2012

Venue/Country: Merida, Venezuela

Updated: 2011-12-21 22:46:35 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning

Merida, Venezuela - March 11-15, 2012

http://www.lpar-18.info

The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 18th LPAR will be held in Merida, Venezuela.

Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education.

Topics

New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Automated reasoning

Verification

Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants

Model checking

Implementations of logic

Satisfiability modulo theories

Rewriting and unification

Logic programming

Satisfiability checking

Constraint programming

Decision procedures

Logic and games

Logic and the Web

Ontologies and large knowledge bases

Logic and databases

Modal and temporal logics

Program analysis

Foundations of security

Description logics

Non-monotonic reasoning

Uncertainty reasoning

Logics for vague and inconsistent data

Specification using logic

Logic in artificial intelligence

Logic and types

Logical foundations of programming

Logical aspects of concurrency

Logic and computational complexity

Knowledge representation and reasoning

Logic of distributed systems

Programme Chairs

Nikolaj Bjørner

Andrei Voronkov

Conference Chair

Geoff Sutcliffe

Workshops Chair

Laura Kovacs

Local Arrangements Chair

Blanca Abraham

Submission Details

Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

Regular papers that describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures and references, but excluding appendices (that reviewers are not required to read).

Experimental and tool papers that describe implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. They can be up to 8 pages long in the LNCS style.

Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChair. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below).

Proceedings

We plan to publish the LPAR proceedings as part of Springer ARCoSS (Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of LNCS.

Participation

Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 1 November 2011

Paper submission: 6 November 2011

Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2011

Camera-ready papers: 10 January 2012

Conference: 11-15 March 2012