[DL] Call For Papers - 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)

[Miguel Areias]

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The 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)

https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/

Fully virtual event organized by the Department of Computer Science of
the University of Porto.

Besides the main track, ICLP 2021 will host additional tracks and
special sessions. In attach, follows the CFP for the Applications
Track and for the Recently Published Research Track.

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Scope
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Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been
the premier international event for presenting research in logic
programming.  Contributions are sought in all areas of logic
programming, including but not restricted to:

** Foundations:Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic reasoning,
    Knowledge representation.

** Languages issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility,
    Higher order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Modules, Meta-programming,
    Logic-based domain-specific languages, Programming techniques.

** Programming support: Program analysis, Transformation, Validation,
    Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing, Execution
    visualization.

** Implementation: Compilation, Virtual machines, Memory management,
    Parallel/distributed execution, Constraint handling rules, Tabling,
    Foreign interfaces, User interfaces.

** Related Paradigms and Synergies: Inductive and coinductive logic
    programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming,
    Interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, Theorem proving,
    Argumentation, Probabilistic programming, Machine learning.

** Applications: Databases, Big data, Data integration and federation,
    Software engineering, Natural language processing, Web and semantic
    web, Agents, Artificial intelligence, Computational life sciences,
    Cybersecurity, Robotics, Education.

Tracks and Special Sessions
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Besides the main track, ICLP 2021 will host additional tracks:

** Applications Track: this track invites submissions of papers on
    emerging and deployed applications of LP, describing all aspects of
    the development, deployment, and evaluation of logic programming
    systems to solve real-world problems, including interesting case
    studies and benchmarks, and discussing lessons learned.

** Recently Published Research Track: this track provides a forum to
    discuss important results related to logic programming that
    appeared recently (from January 2019 onwards) in selective journals
    and conferences, but have not been previously presented at ICLP.

Each track will have its own dedicated chairs, PC and evaluation
criteria. The attached CFPs specify the submission details.

ICLP 2021 will also host:

** MentorLP - Mentoring Workshop on Logic Programming: the purpose of
    MentorLP is to support students and newcomers to pursue careers in
    logic programming research. This workshop will hold technical
    sessions on cutting-edge research in logic programming, and
    mentoring sessions on how to prepare and succeed for a research
    career. We will have leaders in logic programming research from
    academia and industry to give talks on their research areas. We
    will also have live discussions among participants on how to
    overcome challenges and make contributions to the research
    community. MentorLP is dedicated to fostering and supporting
    diversity, equity, and inclusion. We especially encourage members
    of underrepresented groups to attend.

** Fall School on Logic and Constraint Programming: the school is
    suited for those who wish to learn advanced topics in logic
    programming and constraint programming. It will consist of a serie
    of half-day tutorials.

** Doctoral Consortium: the Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic
    Programming provides students with the opportunity to present and
    discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both
    peers and experts in the field. The best paper from the DC will be
    given the opportunity to make a presentation in a session of the
    main ICLP conference.

** Tutorials and Co-located Workshops.


Important Dates
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** Abstract registration (regular papers): May 3, 2021
** Paper submission (regular paper): May 10, 2021
** Notification to authors (regular paper): June 27, 2021
** Paper Submission (short papers): July 4, 2021
*+ Revision submission (TPLP papers): July 14, 2021
** Final notifications (all paper kinds): July 30, 2021
** Camera-ready copy due (all paper kinds): August 10, 2021
** Conference: September 20--27, 2021


Submission Details
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Expected submissions to the main track (for the additional tracks,
please follow the specific CFP):

** Regular papers (14 pages in TPLP format, including references) must
    describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not
    simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These
    restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers
    with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. The
    accepted regular papers will be published in TPLP, along with the
    selected ICLP-TPLP papers. The program committee may recommend some
    regular papers to be published as technical communications (TCs),
    along with the selected ICLP-TC papers. The authors of the TCs can
    also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts (2
    or 3 pages) for inclusion in the proceedings. This should allow
    authors to submit a long version elsewhere.

** Short papers (7 pages in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org/),
    including references) can describe published research. The accepted
    short papers that describe original and previously unpublished work
    will be published as TCs, along with the selected ICLP-TC
    papers. The accepted short papers that describe published research
    will be made available at the conference webpage, with the
    permission of the authors.

All accepted regular papers and technical communications will be
presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by
default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who
will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter
at no cost. All submissions must be written in English.

Submissions will be done via EasyChair. The submission Web page for
ICLP2021 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2021


Organization
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** General Chair
    Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal

** Program Chairs
    Andrea Formisano, University of Udine, Italy
    Y. Annie Liu, Stony Brook University, USA

** Organizing and Publicity Chair
    Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal

** Applications Track
    Alex Brik, Google Inc., USA
    Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium

** Recently Published Research Track
    Gian Luca Pozzato, University of Genova, Italy
    Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA

** MentorLP - Mentoring Workshop on Logic Programming
    Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada
    Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA

** Workshop Chair
    Nicos Angelopoulos, Cardiff University, UK

** Doctoral Consortium and Fall School Chairs
    Bart Bogaerts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria, Italy

** Programming Contest Chair
    Mario Alviano, University of Calabria, Italy


Program Committee
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TO BE ANNOUNCED

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Any additional question can be directed towards ICLP Chairs:

iclp2021 at easychair.org

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The 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)
Recently Published Research Track

https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/

Fully virtual event organized by the Department of Computer Science of
the University of Porto.

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Objectives
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The program committee of the 37th International Conference on Logic
Programming (ICLP) invites submissions of published journal papers and
papers presented at related conferences for the Recently Published
Research Track. The track is designed to provide a forum to discuss
important results related to logic programming that appeared since
2019 in selective journals or were presented at related conferences,
but that have not been previously presented at ICLP.

The goals of this track are:

** To provide authors an opportunity to present at the conference
   important results published in journals that might otherwise not be
   submitted to the conference due to their length and
   complexity. Papers that differ from traditional ICLP format and
   topics are welcome.
 
** To broaden the program with lines of work at the intersection
   between logic programming and related fields such as for example
   constraint programming, operations research, control, knowledge
   representation and reasoning, machine learning, multi-agent
   systems, robotics, computer games, and cognitive science. Papers
   that use logic programming in some innovative way are welcome.


Paper Presentation
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All accepted submissions will be presented orally during the
conference - at least one author is expected to register to ICLP 2021
and to present the paper in person. Complete citations and URLs of the
original papers (if available from the publisher) will be published on
the ICLP 2021 web site as a permanent reference. A 2-page extended
abstract summarizing the line of research leading to the presented
results can optionally be submitted for presentation in the technical
communications of ICLP.


Submission Requirements
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Submissions must meet the following criteria:

** Candidate papers must be published in a journal such as (but not
   limited to) AIJ, ACM TOCL, JAIR, or other leading journals or in
   the proceedings of related conferences such as KR, LPNMR, AAMAS,
   AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, ICAPS, SAT, ICML, ICDT, PODS, VLDB, WWW, ISWC,
   ESWC, DL, JELIA, SAT, POPL, PADL, LICS, etc.

** Candidate papers must have appeared since 2019.
 
** Papers that are in press may be submitted as long as the final
   camera-ready version is available at some URL (such as, ArXiv).

** Extensions of papers that have been previously presented at ICLP
   (or co-located Workshops) are not eligible for this track.


Submission Process
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All submissions will be done via EasyChair.  The submission Web page
for ICLP2021 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2021

The submission will be in the following format:

** Title and authors of the work for the ICLP Recently Published
   Research Track (to be published on the Web - see note below about
   title and authors),

** An accompanying letter containing:

  ** Complete bibtex reference of the original paper (only 1
     reference!) (to be published on the Web) + a URL where the paper
     can be downloaded from the publisher (if available) (to be
     published on the Web);
  
  ** An explanation of why this paper is interesting to the logic
     programming community (at most 1 page in PDF).
     
** The original paper (in PDF) (for reviewers only, it will not be
   posted on the Web because of copyright issues) because some
   reviewers could be at universities that don’t have contracts with
   publishers, such as, Elsevier, Cambridge Publishing, ACM, etc.
 
** Optional: only if the authors wish to publish an extended abstract
   in the technical communications of ICLP2021 please submit a 2-page
   extended abstract of the paper (PDF in EPTCS format
   http://style.eptcs.org/) for the ICLP Recently Published Research
   Track (note: we will ask for LaTex sources and HTML sources after
   the notification).

Note: the 2 pages abstract should not contain new material since this
is just a report of a publication in a related conference. The title
should be a bit different than the original publication (since it
would look odd to have a paper with the same title, but much shorter
after the original publication), such as, add Report or Summary in the
title. It is not necessary to radically change it. The authors should
be the same and in the same order with respect to the original
publication.

The papers in this track will be grouped under a subsection Recently
Published Research Track, so other researchers can see that this is a
report on the original publication. We advise authors to start the
paper with a sentence stating that this abstract is a report or
summary of the original publication (with immediately citing that
work).


Evaluation criteria
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Submissions will go through a peer review selection process. Selection
criteria include significance of the results and relevance to the
logic programming community.


Important Dates
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** Paper Submission: July 4, 2021
** Final Notification: July 30, 2021
** Camera-ready copy due: August 10, 2021
** Conference: September 20--27, 2021

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Any additional questions can be directed towards the Recently
Published Research Track Chairs:

Gian Luca Pozzato, University of Genova, Italy
Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA
iclp2021RPR at easychair.org

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The 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)
Applications Track

https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/

Fully virtual event organized by the Department of Computer Science of
the University of Porto.

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Objectives
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Logic programming (LP) has been widely adopted as a powerful
declarative programming paradigm to build a variety of applications
from research projects to industrial products, including
bioinformatics, natural language understanding, robotics, maritime
situational awareness, etc. Motivated by such a wide range of
applications, ICLP will have a special track dedicated to Applications
of LP, to bring together LP researchers and practitioners from both
academia and industry, to share the recent advancements, challenges
and insight for LP applications.

The goal of the Application Track is two-fold. On the one side, it
aims at providing a fresh impulse for the LP community to recast its
interests towards solving practical problems and applications. On the
other side, its goal is to attract representatives from the wider
academia and industrial communities to discuss their challenges
related to using LP in practical problems, applications and industrial
products, and their expectations from the development of theory and
tools from the LP community.


Expected Contributions
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The Applications Track at ICLP 2021 invites submissions of papers on
emerging and deployed applications of LP, describing all aspects of
the development, deployment, and evaluation of LP systems to solve
real-world problems, including interesting case studies and
benchmarks, and discussing lessons learned.

We welcome LP applications in a wide range of areas, including but not
limited to:

** stream reasoning
** composite event recognition
** industrial applications
** commonsense reasoning, knowledge representation
** declarative problem solving
** education
** bioinformatics, computational biology
** life sciences, genetics, medicine, pharmacology
** cognitive robotics, social robotics, human-robot interactions
** intelligent transportation, logistics, maritime situational awareness
** computer vision, sensing, internet of things
** data analysis, machine learning
** creative computing
** digital forensics, cybersecurity, blockchain
** economics, game theory, social choice
** software engineering, intelligent user interfaces
** multi-agent systems, argumentation, epistemic reasoning
** constraint programming, SAT, SMT
** natural language understanding, story telling, question answering
** explanation generation, diagnosis
** spatial/temporal/probabilistic reasoning
** planning and scheduling
** databases, ontologies, knowledge bases, Semantic Web


Evaluation Criteria
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In addition to the usual evaluation criteria concerning the quality of
the presentation, for the Applications track the criteria will
include:

** Significance of the real-world problem being addressed.
** Importance and novelty of using LP technologies to solve this problem.
** Evaluation and applicability of the system in the real world. 
** Clear evidence of the potential benefits of applying and improving
   LP tools and techniques. 
** Reproducibility of the empirical analysis.

Concerning reproducibility, whenever possible, datasets, case studies,
knowledge repositories and benchmarks must be made public. If this is
not possible (e.g, because it would reveal trade secrets of industrial
partners), the paper should clearly describe which assets cannot be
made reusable and why.


Important Dates
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** Abstract registration (regular papers): May 3, 2021
** Paper submission (regular paper): May 10, 2021
** Notification to authors (regular paper): June 27, 2021
** Paper Submission (short papers): July 4, 2021
** Revision submission (TPLP papers): July 14, 2021
** Final notifications (all paper kinds): July 30, 2021
** Camera-ready copy due (all paper kinds): August 10, 2021
** Conference: September 20--27, 2021


Submission Details
******************

All submissions must be written in English. 

** Regular papers (14 pages in TPLP format, including references) must
   describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not
   simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These
   restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers
   with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. The
   accepted regular papers will be published in TPLP, along with the
   selected ICLP-TPLP papers.  The program committee may recommend
   some regular papers to be published as technical communications
   (TCs), along with the selected ICLP-TC papers. The authors of the
   TCs can also elect to convert their submissions into extended
   abstracts (2 or 3 pages) for inclusion in the proceedings. This
   should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere.

** Short papers (7 pages in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org/),
   including references) can describe published research. The accepted
   short papers that describe original and previously unpublished work
   will be published as TCs, along with the selected ICLP-TC
   papers. The accepted short papers that describe published research
   will be made available at the conference webpage, with the
   permission of the authors.

All accepted regular papers and technical communications will be
presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by
default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who
will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter
at no cost.

All submissions will be done via EasyChair. The submission Web page
for ICLP2021 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2021


Applications Track Program Committee  
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TO BE ANNOUNCED

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Any additional questions can be directed towards the Application Track
Chairs:

Alex Brik, Google Inc., USA
Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium
iclp2021applications at easychair.org

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