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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

31st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2015)
-- colocated with CP 2015 --

Cork, Ireland, August 31 -- September 4, 2015
http://booleconferences.ucc.ie/iclp2015

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Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been
the premier international conference for presenting research in logic
programming. ICLP 2015 will be co-located with the 21st International
Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP
2015) and is part of "The Year of George Boole", a celebration of the
life and work of George Boole who was born in 1815 and worked at the
University College of Cork.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstracts due: April 20, 2015
Papers due: April 27, 2015
Notification to authors: June 5, 2015
Camera ready versions due: July 21, 2015
Conference: August 31-September 4, 2015

CONFERENCE SCOPE
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Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including
but not restricted to:

Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning,
Knowledge Representation.

Implementation: Compilation, Virtual Machines, Parallelism, Constraint
Handling Rules and Tabling.

Environments: Program Analysis, Transformation, Validation,
Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing.

Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher
Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Programming Techniques.

Related Paradigms: Inductive and Coinductive Logic Programming,
Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming, SAT,
Constraints, Computational Argumentation, Abductive Logic Programming,
Functional Logic Programming.

Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software
Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web,
Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Social Networks and
Social Choice.

In addition to the presentations of accepted papers, the technical
program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, the doctoral
consortium, the LP/CP contest and several workshops.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
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There are two categories for submissions:

-- Regular papers, including: (1) technical papers for describing
technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of
logic programming; (2) application papers, with emphasis on impact
on some application domains; (3) system and tool papers, with
emphasis on novelty, practicality, usability and availability of
the systems and tools described.

-- Technical communications aimed at describing recent developments,
new projects, and other materials not ready for publication as
regular papers.

All regular papers and technical communications will be presented
during the conference. All submissions must be written in English and
describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not
simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere.

Regular papers must not exceed 12 pages plus bibliography: however the
papers may include appendices beyond 12 pages. Technical
communications must not exceed 10 pages. Submissions must be made in
the TPLP format (see
http://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/images/tlp_ifc_MAY2014.pdf)
via the EasyChair submission system, available at
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2015.

PAPER PUBLICATION
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All accepted regular papers will be published in the journal Theory
and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge University Press
(CUP), in one or more special issues. In order to ensure the quality
of the final version, papers may be subject to two rounds of
refereeing (within the decision period). Accepted technical
communications will be published in archival form. The program
committee may also recommend papers submitted as regular to be
published as technical communications.

ICLP 2015 ORGANIZATION
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General Co-Chairs:
Barry O'Sullivan University College Cork, Ireland
Roland Yap National University of Singapore

Program Co-Chairs:
Thomas Eiter TU Wien, Austria
Francesca Toni Imperial College London, UK

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
Barry O'Sullivan University College Cork, Ireland
Ken Brown University College Cork, Ireland

Workshops Chair:
Mats Carlsson SICS, Uppsala, Sweden

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK
Yuliya Lierler University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

LP/CP Programming Contest Chair:
Neng-Fa Zhou, City University of New York, USA
Peter Stuckey, NICTA and the University of Melbourne, Australia

Publicity Chair:
Ian Miguel University of St Andrews, UK

Program Committee:

Slim Abdennadher, German University in Cairo
Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
Francois Bry, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna
Manuel Carro, Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
and IMDEA Software Institute
Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze
dell'Informazione, e Matematica, Univ. di L'Aquila
Alessandro Dal Palu', Universita' degli Studi di Parma
Marina De Vos, University of Bath
Marc Denecker, K.U. Leuven
Agostino Dovier, Universita di UDINE
Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
Esra Erdem, Sabanci University
Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield
Francois Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt
Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology
Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm
Sarah Alice Gaggl, Technische Universitaet Dresden
Maria Garcia De La Banda, Monash University
Laura Giordano, Dipartimento di Informatica,
Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas
Michael Hanus, CAU Kiel
Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University
Michael Kifer, Stony Brook University
Angelika Kimmig, KU Leuven
Evelina Lamma, ENDIF, University of Ferrara
Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University
Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Michael Leuschel, University of Dusseldorf
Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Universita degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Dept of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Michael Maher, University of New South Wales, Canberra
Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Barry O'Sullivan, Insight Centre for Data Analytics,
University College Cork, Ireland
Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University
Mauricio Osorio, UDLAP
Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy
Francesco Ricca, Department of Mathematics, University of Calabria
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London
Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University
Victor Santos Costa, Universidade do Porto
Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam
Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven
Yi-Dong Shen, Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guillermo R. Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca
Francesca Toni, Imperial College London
Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna
Irina Trubitsyna, University of Calabria, DEIS
Mirek Truszczynski, Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky
Kewen Wang, Griffith University
Jan Wielemaker, Vrije University Amsterdam
Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology
Roland Yap, National University of Singapore
Jia-Huai You, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center

SPONSOR
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The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP)

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
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The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially
disadvantaged participants and, in particular, students in order to be
able to attend the conference.

CONFERENCE VENUE
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University College Cork, Ireland

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