Call For Participation
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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 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 2008 edition will be held in Doha, Qatar, on the premises of the Qatar campus of Carnegie Mellon University.

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, 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. It is logical techniques that 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.

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
  • Computional interpretations of logic
  • Constraint programming
  • Constructive logic and type theory
  • Decision procedures
  • Description logics
  • Foundations of security
  • Implementations of logic
  • Interactive theorem proving
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning
  • Lambda calculus
  • Logic and automata
  • Logic and computational complexity
  • Logic and databases
  • Logic and games
  • Logic for the semantic web
  • Logical aspects of concurrency
  • Logical foundations of programming
  • Logic in artificial intelligence
  
  • Logic of distributed systems
  • Logic programming
  • Modal and temporal logics
  • Model checking
  • Non-monotonic reasoning
  • Ontologies
  • Program and system verification
  • Proof assistants
  • Proof-carrying code
  • Proof planning
  • Proof theory
  • Propositional satisfiability
  • Reasoning about actions
  • Rewriting and unification
  • Satisfiability modulo theories
  • Static analysis of programs
  • Specification using logics
  • Translation validation

Invited Speakers

It has been a tradition of LPAR to invite some of the most influential researchers in the focus areas to discuss their work and their vision for their fields. We are honored that the following members of the community have accepted this invitation.

Conference Information

Important Dates

Short paper submission deadline:   05 October 2008
Travel grant application deadline:   17 October 2008 (noon GMT+0)
Early registration deadline:   03 November 2008 (23:59 GMT-11)
LPAR'08 Workshops: 22 November 2008
LPAR 2008: 23-27 November 2008

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
QNRF QSTP iHorizons Kurt Goedel Society Microsoft Research

Sponsorship

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