Call for Papers =============== 13th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2011) http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/PADL-2011 Austin, Texas, USA, January 24-25, 2011 Co-located with ACM POPL'11 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 PADL'11 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, January 26-28. The symposium will be held in Austin, Texas, USA. Important Dates and Submission Guidelines ========================================= Abstract Submission: September 1, 2010 Paper Submission: September 8, 2010 Notification: October 11, 2010 Camera-ready: November 1, 2010 Symposium: January 24-25, 2011 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 chairs 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. PADL'11 will accept both technical and application papers: * Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 15 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 3 pages in Springer LNCS format. Most Practical Paper Award ========================== The Most Practical Paper award will be given to the submission that is judged by the program committee to be the best in terms of practicality, originality, and clarity of presentation. The program committee may choose not to make an award, or to make multiple awards. Program Committee ================= Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal (co-chair) John Launchbury, Galois, USA (co-chair) Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy André Santos, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Bryan O'Sullivan, Serpentine Green Design, USA Byron Cook, Microsoft Research, UK C. R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Germán Puebla, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Konstantinos Sagonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Maria Garcia de la Banda, Monash University, Australia Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA Neal Glew, Intel Corporation, USA Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College, USA Salvador Abreu, University of Évora, Portugal Sukyoung Ryu, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Tom Schrijvers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Xavier Leroy, INRIA, France Yitzhak Mandelbaum, AT&T Labs Research, USA Contacts ======== For additional information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chairs: Ricardo Rocha CRACS @ INESC-Porto LA & University of Porto, Portugal Email: ricroc@dcc.fc.up.pt John Launchbury Galois, USA Email: john@galois.com With the Cooperation of ======================= The University of Texas at Dallas ACM SIGPLAN ===================================