Call for Participation

The goal of the workshop is to bring together the best people and best languages, tools, and ideas to help improve logic languages for the practice of programming and improve the practice of programming with logic and declarative programming. We plan to organize the workshop around a number of “challenge problems”, including in particular expressing a set of system components and functionalities clearly and precisely using a chosen description language.

We will have invited talks by four wonderful people: Adnan Darwiche (UCLA), Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), and Peter Stuckey (U of Melbourne). There will be additional presentations and discussion panels on using well-known description methods and tools. We will aim to group presentations of description methods by the kind of problems that they address, and to allow ample time to understand the strengths of the various approaches and how they might be combined.

Potential participants are invited to submit a position paper (1 or 2 pages in PDF format), and also to state whether they wish to present a talk at the workshop, explaining how they would express the challenge problems. Because we intend to bring together researchers from many parts of logic and declarative languages and practice of programming communities, it is essential that all talks be accessible to non-specialists.

The program committee will invite attendees based on the position paper submissions and will attempt to accommodate presentation requests, but in ways that fit with the broader organizational goals outlined above.

Instructions for preparing a position paper appears below. Please submit your position paper through this EasyChair submission URL.

Preparing your position paper

To streamline the exchange of ideas, you may consider using a challenge software domain: the domain of Role-Based Access Control. It was created for LPOP 2018, as described in http://lpop.cs.stonybrook.edu/preparing-your-position-paper, but it was only solved in part by various groups, as described in http://lpop.cs.stonybrook.edu/lpop2018/workshop-report (also https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07901). We are also working to create RBAC data for running experiments. (see RBAC Challenge)

Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)

Submission Deadline Fri 4 Sep 2020

Workshop Sun 15 Nov 2020

General Chairs

Y. Annie Liu Stony Brook University , United States

David Warren Stony Brook University , United States

Program Chair

Peter Van Roy Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Program Committee

Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Turkey

Martin Gebser University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Seyed Hossein Haeri Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium