CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS LPAR'08 15th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning November 23-27, 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08 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 * Logic of distributed systems * Computional interpretations of logic * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Modal and temporal logics * Constructive logic and type theory * Model checking * Decision procedures * Non-monotonic reasoning * Description logics * Ontologies * Foundations of security * Program and system verification * Implementations of logic * Proof assistants * Interactive theorem proving * Proof-carrying code * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Proof planning * Lambda calculus * Proof theory * Logic and automata * Propositional satisfiability * Logic and computational complexity * Reasoning about actions * Logic and databases * Rewriting and unification * Logic and games * Satisfiability modulo theories * Logic for the semantic web * Static analysis of programs * Logical aspects of concurrency * Specification using logics * Logical foundations of programming * Translation validation * Logic in artificial intelligence 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 from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. 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 --------------- Short paper submission deadline 5 October 2008 - STRICT! Notification of acceptance 19 October 2008 Final version of papers 26 October 2008 LPAR'08 Workshops: 22 November 2008 LPAR 2008: 23-27 November 2008 Program Committee ----------------- * Franz Baader, TU Dresden (Germany) * Matthias Baaz, TU Vienna (Austria) * Peter Baumgartner, National ICT (Australia) * Josh Berdine, MSR Cambridge (UK) * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University (Austria) * Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair * Sagar Chaki, Carnegie Mellon SEI (US) * Hubert Comon-Lundh, ENS Cachan (France) * Javier Esparza, TU Munich (Germany) * Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona (Italy) * Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen (Germany) * Orna Grumberg, Technion (Israel) * Thomas Henzinger, EPFL (Switzerland) * Joxan Jaffar, NUS (Singapore) * Claude Kirchner, INRIA & LORIA (France) * Stephan Kreutzer, Oxford University (UK) * Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel) * Alexander Leitsch, TU Vienna (Austria) * Nicola Leone, University of Calabria (Italy) * Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt (Germany) * Cathy Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory (US) * Aart Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck (Austria) * John Mitchell, Stanford University (US) * Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg (Germany) * Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi (India) * Alexander Razborov, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) * Riccardo Rosati University of Rome 1 (Italy) * Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS (Germany) * Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK) * Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam (Germany) * Carsten Schürmann, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark) * Helmut Seidl, TU Munich (Germany) * Henny Sipma, Stanford University (US) * Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami (US) * Ashish Tiwari, SRI (US) * Helmut Veith, TU Darmstadt (Germany) - chair * Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester (UK) - chair Contact Information ------------------- Email: lpar08@qatar.cmu.edu Web page: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/lpar08