LPAR 2008

Call For Short Papers
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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.

Work in progress, system descriptions, and exploratory presentations are welcome. 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.

Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Amir Pnueli, New York University (USA)
Michael Backes, Saarland University and MPI-SWS (Germany)
Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna (Austria)

Submission Instructions

In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are encouraged submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR'08 to another conference or a journal.

Short papers are limited in length to 5 pages in the EasyChair format. The class style may be downloaded here. Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the Web page

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar08short

The short paper proceedings will be available as an EasyChair collection volume.

Participation

Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will be removed from the proceedings.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:	05 October 2008
Notification of acceptance:	19 October 2008
Final version:	26 October 2008
LPAR'08 Workshops:	22 November 2008
LPAR 2008:	23-27 November 2008