Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WLP 2006 20th Workshop on Logic Programming February 22 - 24, 2006 Vienna University of Technology, Austria ***Submission deadline: November 14, 2005*** http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/wlp06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE WORKSHOP ============ The series of workshops on (constraint) logic programming serve as the annual meeting of the Society of Logic Programming (GLP, Gesellschaft für Logische Programmierung e.V.) and bring together researchers interested in logic programming, constraint programming, and related areas like databases and artificial intelligence. Previous workshops have been held in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The workshops provide a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge representation, and facilitate interactions between research in theoretical foundations and in the design and implementation of logic-based programming systems. The technical program of the workshop will include invited talks, presentations of refereed papers, and system demonstrations. TOPICS ====== Contributions are welcome on all theoretical, experimental, and application aspects of constraint and logic programming, including, but not limited to the following areas (the order does not reflect any priorities): * Theoretical aspects: o foundations of constraint programming (CP) and logic programming (LP); o constraint solving and optimization; o extensions: functional logic programming, objects; o deductive databases, data mining; o nonmonotonic reasoning; o dynamics, updates, states, transactions; o interaction of CP/LP with other formalisms like agents, XML, JAVA; o program analysis, program transformation, program verification, meta pogramming; o parallelism and concurrency; o rule-based systems; o abductive and inductive logic programming; o answer-set programming; o complexity and expressive power. * Implementation of systems: o system descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; o benchmarks; o implementation techniques; o software techniques (e.g., types, modularity, design patterns, debugging). * Application of logic programming: o logic programming in production, management, environment, education, medicine, internet, etc.; o CP/LP for Semantic Web applications and reasoning on the Semantic Web; o data modelling for the Web, semistructured data, and Web query languages; o knowledge representation and reasoning. The primary focus is on new and original research results but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of papers: November 14, 2005 Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2005 Camera-ready papers: January 23, 2006 Workshop: February 22-24, 2006 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (no longer than 10 pages including figures and references) or a system description (no longer than 3 pages) in PDF or Postscript format (11pt). Submissions should include the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail information. All submissions must be written in English. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file (in A4 format), available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html. More information about the submission procedure will be available at the workshop homepage. PROGRAM CHAIR ============= Hans Tompits (TU Wien) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Slim Abdennadher (German University Cairo) Gerd Brewka (University of Leipzig) Francois Bry (University of Munich) Marc Denecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology) Thom Fruehwirth (University of Ulm) Ulrich Geske (FhG FIRST) Michael Hanus (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel) Steffen Hoelldobler (Dresden University of Technology) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund) Axel Polleres (University of Innsbruck) Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research) Dietmar Seipel (University of Wuerzburg) Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology) Armin Wolf (FhG FIRST) LOCAL ORGANIZATION ================== Michael Fink Hans Tompits (Chair) Stefan Woltran CONTACT ======= Hans Tompits Knowledge-Based Systems Group E184/3 Institute of Information Systems Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11 A-1040 Vienna Austria Email: wlp06@kr.tuwien.ac.at WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE ================= http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/wlp06