LPAR-18
CALL FOR PAPERS

The 18th International Conference on
Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning

Merida, Venezuela - March 11-15, 2012
http://www.lpar-18.info

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 logic, 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 18th LPAR will be held in Merida, Venezuela.

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 extreme, 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. Logical techniques 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.

Topics

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:

Programme Chairs

Conference Chair

Workshops Chair

Local Arrangements Chair

Submission Details

Submissions of two kinds are welcome:

Both types of papers can be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChair. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below).

Proceedings

We plan to publish the LPAR proceedings as part of Springer ARCoSS (Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of LNCS.

Participation

Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference.

Important Dates