CICLOPS 2011 - Last Call for Papers

[Salvador Abreu]

[apologies for multiple postings]

                           Call for Papers
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                             CICLOPS 2011
          11th International Colloquium on Implementation of
               Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems

               http://www.di.uevora.pt/~spa/ciclops11/
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         Co-located with ICLP 2011, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

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                           Important Dates

   Submission deadline: April 30, 2011 (*EXTENDED*)
   Notification of authors: May 20, 2011
   Camera-ready copy due: May 28, 2011
   Workshop dates: Sunday July 10, 2011

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                          Topics of interest

This workshop aims at discussing and exchanging experience on the
design, implementation, and optimization of logic, constraint (logic)
programming systems, and other systems based on logic as a means to
express computations. Experience backed up by real implementations and
their evaluation will be given preference, as well as descriptions of
work in progress in that direction.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Sequential implementation schemes (abstract machines, translation to
  other languages, etc.).
- Implementation of concurrent and distributed logic and constraint
  programming systems.
- Implementation of type inference and type checking systems for logic
  and constraint programming languages.
- Compile-time analysis and its application to code generation.
- Balance between compile-time effort and run-time machinery, dynamic
  compilation.
- Interaction between high-level optimizations / transformations /
  specialization and low-level issues.
- Memory management and garbage collection issues.
- Indexing techniques and optimizations for large size programs.
- Optimizations for program generated logic and constraint programs.
- Implementation of logic engines in functional and object oriented
  languages.
- Embedding of logic and constraint programming engines in
  multi-paradigm systems.
- Implementation techniques for alternative logic engines and
  inference mechanisms (ASP, SAT, QSAT, DL etc.).
- Implementation of theorem provers, proof assistants and logic based
  natural language processing systems.
- Implementation of object and agent-oriented extensions to logic and
  constraint programming languages.
- Object and module systems.
- Design and implementation of declarative I/O concepts for logic and
  constraint programming languages.
- Implementations and ports of logic and constraint programming
  systems for mobile phones and netbooks.
- Documenting, debugging, testing, and profiling tools for logic and
  constraint programming systems.

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                            Workshop Goals

Our intent is to bring together, in an informal setting, people
involved in research on sequential and parallel implementation
technologies for logic and constraint programming languages and
systems, in order to promote the exchange of ideas and feedback on
recent developments. We hope that the workshop will provide a meeting
point for people working on implementation technology for different
aspects of logic and constraint-based languages and systems.

The workshop will feature an invited presentation, to be announced.

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                               History

CICLOPS'11 continues a tradition of successful workshops on
Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, previously held in
Budapest (1993) and Ithaca (1994), the Compulog Net workshops on
Parallelism and Implementation Technologies held in Madrid (1993 and
1994), Utrecht (1995) and Bonn (1996), the Workshop on Parallelism and
Implementation Technology for (Constraint) Logic Programming Languages
held in Port Jefferson (1997), Manchester (1998), Las Cruces (1999),
and London (2000), and more recently the Colloquium on Implementation
of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems in Paphos (2001),
Copenhagen (2002), Mumbai (2003), Saint Malo (2004), Sitges (2005),
Seattle (2006), Porto (2007), Udine (2008), Pasadena (2009), Edinburgh
(2010) - together with WLPE.

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                        Submission Information

Authors are invited to submit PDF files of papers written in English
and not exceeding 15 pages using LNCS LaTeX format. Submissions are
handled by the EasyChair system at the URL
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciclops11.

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                          Program Committee

Bart Demoen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Daniel Diaz (Université de Paris-I, France)
Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University, USA)
Gopal Gupta (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Jan Wielemaker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kostis Sagonas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Manuel Carro (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
Mats Carlsson (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Michael Hanus (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
Neng-Fa Zhou (Brooklyn College, USA)
Paulo Moura (CRACS - INESC Porto and University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Paul Tarau (University of North Texas, USA)
Peter Szeredi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Salvador Abreu (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Terrance Swift (CENTRIA, USA/Portugal)
Ulrich Neumerkel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Vitor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

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                        Workshop Coordinators

Salvador Abreu (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Vitor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

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                             Proceedings

We plan for the informal workshop proceedings to be available on-line
at the Computing Research Repository after the workshop. An electronic
copy will also be distributed during the conference.