LOPSTR 2025: Call for Papers

The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions to logic-based program development in any programming language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress.

LOPSTR 2025 will be held at the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, from September 9-10, 2025. It will be co-located with PPDP 2025 and ICLP 2025. 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 ICLP 2025 website.

Invited Speakers

• Robbert Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• José Meseguer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, US

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large, including, but not limited to:

• Synthesis
• Transformation
• Specialization
• Inversion
• Composition
• Optimization
• Specification
• Analysis and verification
• Testing and certification
• Program and model manipulation
• AI methods for program development
• Verification and testing of AI-based systems
• Transformational techniques in software engineering
• Logic-based methods for security
• Logic-based methods for cyber-physical and distributed systems
• Applications, tools, and industrial practice

Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective and papers that describe experience with industrial applications and case studies are also welcome.

Paper Submission Categories

• Regular Papers: (up to 15 pages max.) Submissions must describe original work. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC Chairs in case of questions).
• Short Papers: (up to 8 pages max.) Submissions may include presentations of exciting if not fully polished research or tool demonstrations that are of academic and industrial interest. Tool demonstrations should describe the relevant system, usability, and implementation aspects of a tool.

References will NOT count towards the page limit. Additional pages may be used for appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them.

Submission Guidelines

• All submissions must be written in English.
• Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers/tools that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings.
• Papers should be submitted in PDF format, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style.
• Authors should consult Springer's author instructions and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX (available also in Overleaf) or for Word.
• Springer encourages authors to include their ORCID identifiers in their papers.
• Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords.
• Page numbers (and, if possible, line numbers) should appear on the manuscript to help reviewers. For LaTeX, use \pagestyle{plain} and \usepackage{lineno}\linenumbers.
• After acceptance, the corresponding author must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form.
• Submissions must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2025

Publication

• All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer as a Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume.
• A selection of the best papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) for rapid publication after revision.

Important Dates (All deadlines are AoE)

1. Abstract submission: May 9 / May 23, 2025
2. Paper submission: May 16 / May 30, 2025
3. Author notification: June 27 / July 10, 2025
4. Camera-ready: July 17, 2025
5. Symposium: September 9-10, 2025

Program Chairs

• Laura Titolo, Code Metal, Inc.
• Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Contact

• Email: lopstr2025@easychair.org