The 22nd International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative LanguagesPADL 2020

The 22nd International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2020)

https://popl20.sigplan.org/home/PADL-2020

20-21 January 2020, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Co-located with ACM POPL 2020 (https://popl20.sigplan.org/)

Declarative languages is an umbrella term that include functional, logic, and constraint programming languages. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from database management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems.

New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to challenging problems raise intriguing research questions, such as scalable design and implementation, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well.

PADL is a well-established forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative programming, including functional and logic programming, database and constraint programming, and theorem proving. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Innovative applications of declarative languages
• Declarative domain-specific languages and applications
• Practical applications of theoretical results
• New language developments and their impact on applications
• Declarative languages for software engineering
• Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications
• Practical experiences and industrial applications
• Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom
• Practical languages and extensions such as probabilistic and reactive languages

PADL 2020 especially welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications, design and implementation of declarative languages going beyond the scope of the past PADL symposia, for example, advanced database languages and contract languages, as well as verification and theorem proving methods that rely on declarative languages.

Important Dates and Submission Guidelines:

• Abstracts due: 11 October 2019
• Papers due: 18 October 2019
• Notification to authors: 18 November 2019
• Camera-ready: 29 November 2020
• Symposium dates: 20 - 21 January 2020

Highlights

Supporters

Invited Speakers

Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft Research

Adnan Darwiche, UCLA

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Invited Experience and Direction Session

Invited Speakers

Molham Aref, Relational AI

Mayur Naik, University of Pennsylvania

Grant Passmore, Imandra Inc. and Cambridge University

Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh

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List of All Talks and Events

Call for Papers

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF using the Springer LNCS format. The submission will be done through EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl2020

All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify the program chair about the place on which it has previously appeared.

PADL 2020 will accept both technical and application papers:

Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 15 pages (plus one page of references).

Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 8 pages (plus one page of references) but such papers can also point to sites with supplemental information about the application or the system that they describe.

The proceedings of PADL 2020 will appear in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs.

Journal Publication for Best Papers

The best papers (as selected by the PC chairs) will be invited to submit a longer version for journal publication after the symposium. For papers related to logic programming, in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theory-and-practice-of-logic-programming, and for papers related to functional programming, in Journal of Functional Programming (JFP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming.

The authors of these papers will be invited to submit a journal version containing at least 30% new material. This will be reviewed by the PC and/or the respective journal editors for a swifter reviewing process of the journal version.

Such extensions could be explanations for which there was no space, illuminating examples and proofs, additional definitions and theorems, further experimental results, implementational details and feedback from practical/engineering use, extended discussion of related work and such like.

The proceedings of PADL 2020 will appear in the Springer LNCS series: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs

Free access to the proceedings (LNCS 12007) will be granted to all conference participants for 4 weeks through the following link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-39197-3

PADL has 4 Discussion Panels this year:

Panel 1: Programming with logic for the masses Panelists: Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft Research; Paul Tarau, University of North Texas; Kinjal Basu; Farhad Shakerin; Gopal Gupta; Alex Brik, Jeffrey Xu, UCLA; Vinh The Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Yuanlin Zhang; Kwanghee Jung; Wanli Xing; Tommy Dang, Texas Tech University

Panel 2: Memory and real-time programming in practice Panelists: Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Niels Hallenberg; Bhargav Shivkumar; Jeffrey Murphy; Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo, USA; David Janin, Bordeaux INP / CNRS LaBRI / Bordeaux University

Panel 3: Reasoning for machine learning at large Panelists: Adnan Darwiche, UCLA; Johannes K. Fichte, TU Dresden; Markus Hecher; Patrick Thier; Stefan Woltran; Farhad Shakerin; Gopal Gupta; Martin Erwig, Oregon State University; Prashant Kumar; Alan Fern; Johannes Eriksson; Masoumeh Parsa; Ramy Shahin; Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Konstantinos Sagonas

Panel 4: Experience and Direction Panelists: Molham Aref, Relational.ai; Mayur Naik, University of Pennsylvania; Grant Passmore, Imandra Inc.; Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh, UK

All attendees are invited to add their questions to the panelists following this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIPQU9jjLw1COdhCPZ8wz1w3nF8kupj5X48d_DDMDVk/edit#