# PPDP'19 Call for papers

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Hello SWI-Prolog group,

I am trying to reach to SWI-Prolog community with the below conference announcement.  
If this is the wrong place, I apologise, and I would appreciate if you forward this message to the correct address/forum/mailing list (if such exist).

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS – PPDP 2019

21st International Symposium on  
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming

7–9 October 2019, Porto, Portugal

Collocated with FM’19

[http://ppdp2019.macs.hw.ac.uk](http://ppdp2019.macs.hw.ac.uk)

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## Important Dates

Title and abstract registration 26 April 2019 (AoE)  
Paper submission 3 May 2019 (AoE)  
Rebuttal period (48 hours) 3 June 2019 (AoE)  
Author notification 14 June 2019  
Final paper version 15 July 2019  
Conference 7–9 October 2019

## About PPDP

The PPDP 2019 symposium brings together researchers from the declarative  
programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic,  
answer-set, and constraint handling programming paradigms. The goal is to  
stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing,  
performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms  
for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification.

## Invited Speakers

Amal Ahmed Northeastern University, USA  
Naoki Kobayashi The University of Tokyo, Japan

## Scope

Submissions are invited on all topics related to declarative programming, from  
principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest  
include, but are not limited to

- Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency,  
parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive  
languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages  
with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming.

- Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time  
and run-time optimization; memory management.

- Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and effects; semantics.

- Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation;  
control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource  
analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation;  
debugging; testing.

- Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification  
tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers;  
certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and  
outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports  
and industrial application; education.

## Submission Categories

Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System  
Descriptions, and Experience Reports.

Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is  
unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style  
2-column (including figures, but excluding bibliography). Work that already  
appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be  
submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Research papers  
will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and  
readability.

Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose  
description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed  
10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must  
be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality,  
significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published,  
refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional,  
logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must  
not exceed 5 pages **including references**. Experience Reports must be marked  
as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results.  
They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Supplementary material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix beyond the  
above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study any material  
beyond the respective page limit.

## Format of a Submission

For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the “Current  
ACM Master Template” which is available at  
[https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template](https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). The most recent version  
at the time of writing is 1.48. You must use the LaTeX sigconf proceedings  
template as the conference organizers are unable to process final submissions in  
other formats.

## Requirements for Publication

At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to  
attend and present the work at the conference. The pc chair may retract  
a paper that is not presented. The pc chair may also retract a paper if  
complaints about the paper’s correctness are raised which cannot be  
resolved by the final paper deadline.

## Program Committee Chair

Ekaterina Komendantskaya Heriot-Watt University, UK

## Program Committee

Henning Basold CNRS, ENS de Lyon, France  
Jasmin Christian Blanchette Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Maria Paola Bonacina University of Verona, Italy  
Dmitry Boulytchev JetBrains, Russia  
William Byrd University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA  
Ornela Dardha University of Glasgow, UK  
Marco Gaboardi University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA  
Arie Gurfinkel University of Waterloo, Canada  
Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan  
Moa Johansson Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden  
Neelakantan Krishnaswami University of Cambridge, UK  
Ralf Lämmel University of Koblenz · Landau, Germany  
Anthony Widjaja Lin University of Oxford, UK  
Christopher Mieklejohn Carnegie Mellon University, USA  
Aart Middeldorp University of Innsbruck, Austria  
Gopalan Nadathur University of Minnesota, USA  
Keisuke Nakano Tohoku University, Japan  
Dominic Orchard University of Kent, UK  
Alberto Pardo University of the Republic, Uruguay  
Aleksy Schubert University of Warsaw, Poland  
Peter J. Stuckey The University of Melbourne, Australia  
Tarmo Uustalu Reykjavik University, Iceland

## Local Chair

José Nuno Oliveira INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal

For any queries about local issues please contact the local organiser, José Nuno  
Oliveira.
