The 26th International Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming

Part of FM 2024 and co-located with LOPSTR 2024, FACS 2024, FMICS 2024,
and TAP 2024.

September 9-11, 2024 - Milan, Italy

https://ppdp2024.github.io/

Important dates:

- Title and abstract registration: 06 May 2024 (AoE)
- Paper submission: 13 May 2024 (AoE)
- Rebuttal period (48 hours): 22-23 June 2024 (AoE)
- Author notification: 3 July 2024
- Final paper version: 24 July 2024

OVERVIEW

The PPDP 2024 symposium brings together researchers from the
declarative programming communities, including those working in the
functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint handling programming
paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical
formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and
reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency,
security, static analysis, and verification.

PPDP 24 will be held at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy and,
as part of FM 2024. At least one of the authors of an accepted
paper is expected to attend the conference and present the paper.
Information about venue and travel will be available on the FM 2024
website.

Submissions are invited on all topics related to declarative
programming, from principles to practice, from foundations to
applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability;
concurrency, parallelism and distribution; modules; functional
languages; reactive languages; languages with objects; languages for
quantum computing; languages inspired by biological and chemical
computation; metaprogramming.

- Declarative languages in artificial intelligence: logic programming;
database languages; knowledge representation languages;
probabilistic languages; differentiable languages.

- Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation;
compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management.

- Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and effects;
semantics.

- Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract
interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow;
termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type
checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing.

- Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments;
verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive
theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative
programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming
pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application;
education.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions can be made in three categories:

- Regular Research Papers,
- System Descriptions, and
- Experience Reports.

Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is
unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages
ACM style 2-column (including figures, but excluding bibliography).
Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally
published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC
chair in case of questions). Research papers will be judged on
originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability.

Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose
description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must
not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working
system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of
submission and will be judged on originality, significance,
usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of
published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming
such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc.,
is used in practice. They must not exceed 5 pages **including references**.
Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time
of submission and need not report original research results. They will
be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability.

Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to:

- insights gained from real-world projects using declarative
programming

- comparison of declarative programming with conventional
programming in the context of an industrial project or a
university curriculum

- curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming
in education

- real-world constraints that created special challenges for an
implementation of a declarative language or for declarative
programming in general

- novel use of declarative programming in the classroom

- programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or
programming technique.

Supplementary material may be provided via a link to an extended
version of the submission (recommended), or in a clearly marked appendix
beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to
study extended versions or any material beyond the respective page
limit. Material beyond the page limit will not be included in the
final published version.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the
"Current ACM Master Template" which is available at
(https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). You must use
the LaTeX sigconf proceedings template as the conference organizers
are unable to process final submissions in other formats.

Authors should note ACM's statement on author's
rights (http://authors.acm.org/) which apply to final papers.
Submitted papers should meet the requirements of ACM's plagiarism
policy] http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy).

The reviewing is single-blind, with a two-days rebuttal phase.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Alessandro Bruni, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark,
Alberto Momigliano, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Amy Felty University of Ottawa
Kaustuv Chaudhuri INRIA
Cristina Matache University of Edinburgh
Małgorzata Biernacka University of Wroclaw
Gabriele Vanoni Università di Bologna and INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Niccolò Veltri Tallinn University of Technology
Marco Gavanelli Università di Ferrara
Marino Miculan Università di Udine
Roberto Casadei Università di Bologna
Yannick Zakowski Inria
Carlos Olarte Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University
Anders Schlichtkrull Aalborg University
Paola Giannini Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Wen Kokke University of Strathclyde
Paul Rowe The MITRE Corporation
Xuejing Huang University of Hong Kong