LOPSTR 2022

Submission timeline

• 2 May 2022 Abstract registration AoE
• 9 May 2022 Full paper AoE
• 20 Jun 2022 Notification

• 21 Sep 2022 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

15 pages Springer + references + appendix / 8 pages + references (extended abstract)

Proceedings

Springer LNCS — Paywalled, for-profit

co-located with PPDP 2022 as part of CLAS 2022. A best paper award will be granted, which will include a 1000€ prize provided by Springer. After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Fundamenta Informaticae journal .

Call for papers

• As first published LOPSTR-2022.txt · TXT · shown below

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at lopstr2022.webs.upv.es/.

Call for Papers - LOPSTR 2022 - 32nd International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation
http://lopstr2022.webs.upv.es/
[apologies for multiple copies]
====== CALL FOR PAPERS ======
  32nd International Symposium on
  Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
  LOPSTR 2022
  http://lopstr2022.webs.upv.es/
  Tbilisi, Georgia 
  21-23 September 2022
  (co-located with PPDP 2022 as part of CLAS 2022)
OVERVIEW
============================
The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote 
internationa l research and collaboration on logic-based 
program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in 
logic-based program development in any language paradigm. 
LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum 
for presenting and discussing work in progress.
The 32nd International Symposium on Logic-based Program 
Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2022) will be held at 
the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) in 
Tbilisi, Georgia. Previous symposia were held in Tallin 
(hybrid event), Bologna (as a virtual meeting), Porto, 
Frankfurt am Main, Namur, Edinburgh, Siena, Canterbury, 
Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, 
Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, 
London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa,
Louvain-la-Neuve and Manchester. You might have a look at  
the contents of past LOPSTR symposia at DBLP
(http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/lopstr/index.html), 
and at the Springer LNCS repository for past 
Post-proceedings (https://link.springer.com/conference/lopstr).
LOPSTR 2022 will be co-located with PPDP 2022 as part of the
Computational Logic Autumn Summit 2022. Information about 
venue and travel is available on the CLAS 2022 website
(http://www.viam.science.tsu.ge/clas2022/).
The LOPSTR 2022 proceedings will be published by Springer in 
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series at conference 
time after a single round of reviewing.
Submissions can be made in two categories: Full Papers and 
Extended Abstracts. All submissions must be written in 
English. Submissions of Full Papers must describe original 
work, and must not substantially overlap with papers that  
have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to 
a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed 
proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or 
informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted 
(please contact the PC chair in case of questions). 
Submissions of Extended Abstracts may describe 
work-in-progress research to be presented during the 
conference. These contributions will be published in 
informal proceedings, if enough papers are accepted.
After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be 
invited for submission to a special issue of the Fundamenta 
Informaticae journal (https://fi.episciences.org/). Authors 
of selected original papers will be invited to revise and/or 
extend their submissions to be considered for publication in 
the special issue. The papers submitted to the special issue 
will be subject to the standard reviewing process of the 
journal.
Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program 
development, all stages of the software life cycle, and 
issues of both programming-in-the-small and 
programming-in-the-large, including, but not limited to:
* synthesis; transformation; specialization; composition;
  optimisation
* specification; analysis; verification; testing;
  certification
* program and model manipulation; inversion
* artificial intelligence methods for program development; 
  verification and testing of AI-based systems
* transformational techniques in SE
* applications and tools
Both full papers and extended abstracts describing 
foundations and applications in these areas are welcome. 
Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics 
from a new perspective and papers that describe experience 
with industrial applications are also welcome.
Important Dates
===============================
* Abstract submission: May 2, 2022 
* Paper submission: May 9, 2022 
* Notification to authors: June 20, 2022 
* Final version: July 11, 2022 
* Conference: September 21-23, 2022 
Submission Guidelines
==================================
Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper 
(written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes 
in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on 
its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; 
contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords 
which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate 
reviewers for the paper. Authors should consult Springer's 
authors' instructions at the author's page
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), 
and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX 
(available also in Overleaf) or for Word, for the 
preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to 
include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, upon 
acceptance, the corresponding author of each paper, acting 
on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete 
and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author 
signing the copyright form should match the corresponding 
author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to 
Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers 
cannot be made.
Page numbers (and, if possible, line numbers) should appear
on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their
report. So, for LaTeX, we recommend that authors use:
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{lineno}
\linenumbers
Full papers cannot exceed 15 pages excluding references. 
Extended abstracts cannot exceed 8 pages excluding 
references. Additional pages may be used for appendices not 
intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read 
the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible 
without them.
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2022
Accepted Full Papers will be published in the formal LNCS 
proceedings. Accepted Extended Abstracts will be included in 
the informal proceedings if enough papers are accepted. The 
program committee may recommend some full papers to be 
accepted only for presentation at the symposium and to be 
included in the informal proceedings.
Best paper awards
=====================================
Thanks to Springer's sponsorship, a best paper award, which 
will include a 1000 EUR prize, will be given at LOPSTR 2022. 
The program committee will select the winning paper based on 
relevance, originality and technical quality but may also 
take authorship into account (e.g. a student paper).
Invited Speaker
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TBA
Program Committee
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Elvira Albert -- Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
Roberto Amadini -- University of Bologna (Italy)
Emanuele De Angelis -- IASI, National Research Council (Italy)
Włodzimierz Drabent -- IPI PAN, Poland & Linköping Univers ity (Sweden)
Catherine Dubois -- ENSIIE-Samovar (France)
Fabio Fioravanti -- University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy)
Gopal Gupta -- University of Texas at Dallas (USA)
Geoff Hamilton -- Dublin City University (Ireland)
Michael Hanus -- Kiel University (Germany)
Maja Kirkeby -- Roskilde University (Denmark)
Ekaterina Komendantskaya -- Heriot-Watt University (UK)
Temur Kutsia -- RISC J. Kepler University of Linz (Austria)
Maria Chiara Meo -- University G. D'Annunzio, Chieti Pescara (Italy)
Fred Mesnard -- Université de la Réunion (France)
Alberto Momigliano -- University of Milano (Italy)
Naoki Nishida -- Nagoya University (Japan)
Laura Panizo -- University of Málaga, Spain
Laura Titolo -- National Institute of Aerospace (US)
Wim Vanhoof -- University of Namur (Belgium)
Alicia Villanueva (Chair) -- Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
Organization
=============== ===============================
* Local organization:
  Besik Dundua (chair)
  Tbilisi State University / Kutaisi International University,
  Georgia
* Contact
  For more information, please contact the Program Committee
  Chair: alvilga1@upv.es
* In coorperation with
  Springer
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  Kurt Gödel Society