Call for Papers: PADL 2025

PADL is a well-established forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative programming, including functional and logic programming, databases and constraint programming, and theorem proving.

PADL 2025 encourages students to participate in the symposium by providing some student grants to partially cover the registration and travel costs. You can apply by filling out the following form before December 25: https://forms.gle/Xr4HfxgNRxUAy7jv9

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Innovative applications of declarative languages
• Declarative domain-specific languages and applications
• Practical applications of theoretical results
• New language developments and their impact on applications
• Declarative languages and software engineering
• Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications
• Practical experiences and industrial applications
• Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom
• Practical extensions such as constraint-based, probabilistic, and reactive languages

PADL 2025 especially welcomes new ideas and approaches related to applications, design, and implementation of declarative languages going beyond the scope of the past PADL symposia, for example, advanced database languages and contract languages, as well as verification and theorem-proving methods that rely on declarative languages.

Submissions

PADL 2025 welcomes:

• Regular papers (max. 15 pages, excluding references) describing original and previously unpublished research results on complex and/or real-world applications in industry or other areas of research that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages; tools and/or systems developed for such applications, and/or to improve practical aspects of declarative languages; and technical results related to the practical aspects of declarative languages. Application and systems descriptions, engineering solutions, and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are in particular solicited. These papers will be published in the formal proceedings.
• Short papers (max. 8 pages, excluding references) on the same topics as regular papers. These papers will also be published in the formal proceedings.
• Extended abstracts (max. 3 pages) on the topics above, describing new ideas, a new perspective on already published work, or work-in-progress that is not yet ready for a full publication. Extended abstracts will be posted on the symposium website but will not be published in the formal proceedings.

All page limits exclude references. Submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the standard Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

The review process of PADL 2025 is double-anonymous. Please omit your names and institutions in your submission and refer to your prior work in the third person.

Page numbers (and, if possible, line numbers) should appear on the manuscript to help reviewers. For LaTeX, use \pagestyle{plain}\usepackage{lineno}\linenumbers.

Submission Link

Papers should be submitted electronically via EquinOCS: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/padl2025

Important Dates (AoE - UTC-12h)

• Abstract submission: Friday, October 11, 2024
• Paper submission: Friday, October 18, 2024
• Notification to authors: Thursday, November 14, 2024
• Final version: Sunday, November 24, 2024
• Symposium: Monday, January 20 - Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Distinguished Papers

The authors of a small number of distinguished papers will be invited to submit a longer version for journal publication after the symposium (e.g., Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Journal of Functional Programming (JFP)). These submissions should be substantially (roughly 30%) extended.

Awards

• Best Student Paper Award: Zachary Hansen, Yuliya Lierler: “SM-based Semantics for Answer Set Programs Containing Conditional Literals and Arithmetic”
• Best Student Paper Honorable Mention: Kento Takyu, Kazunori Ueda: “Enhancing a Hierarchical Graph Rewriting Language based on MELL Cut Elimination”

Registration for PADL 2025

The registration for PADL 2025 is handled separately from POPL. At least one author of each accepted paper must register specifically to PADL.

• Early registration deadline: December 29, 2024.

Registration Rates for PADL 2025

Type of Registration	Early Rate (British pounds)	Regular Rate (British pounds)
Student	£310	£335
Regular	£420	£500

Registration rate includes the cost of venue, lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks.

Steps for Registering

You can wire a bank transfer to the following account:

• Bank: Natwest (UK)
• Bank address: NatWest Markets Plc is 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, EH2 2YB
• Account name: THE ASSOCIATION FOR LOGIC PROGRAMMING Ltd
• Account holders address: The Association for Logic Programming, Care of Marina De Vos, Dept Computer Science, University of Bath, BA2 7AY
• Sort Code: 60-02-05
• Account Number: 66462738
• BIC: NWBKGB2L
• IBAN: GB74NWBK60020566462738

Transfers usually take a week to complete. Contact Marina De Vos if you have any payment queries.

Once the bank transfer has been made, send a copy of the receipt along with your first name, last name, affiliation, and country to gvidal@dsic.upv.es (Cc: cssmdv@bath.ac.uk).

Programme Chairs

• Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey
• German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Program Committee

• Ozgur Akgun, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
• Nada Amin, Harvard University, United States
• Marcello Balduccini, Saint Joseph's University, USA
• Mutsunori Banbara, Nagoya University, Japan
• Clara Benac Earle, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Malgorzata Biernacka, University of Wrocław
• Manuel Carro, IMDEA Software Institute and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Laura M. Castro, University of A Coruña, Spain
• Martin Gebser, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Gopal Gupta
• Michael Hanus, Kiel University, Germany
• Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, United States
• Yusuf Izmirlioglu, United Kingdom
• Tomi Janhunen, Tampere University, Finland
• Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University and Southampton University, United Kingdom
• Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA
• Michael Leuschel, HHU, Germany
• Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University, Japan
• Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
• Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, United States
• Orkunt Sabuncu, TED University, Turkey
• Zeynep G. Saribatur, TU Wien, Austria
• Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, United States
• Laura Titolo, AMA/NASA LaRC, United States
• Melinda Tóth, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Programming Languages and Compilers & ELTE-Soft Nonprofit Ltd., Hungary
• Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven
• Sam Westrick, New York University, United States
• Jessica Zangari, Università della Calabria, Italy
• Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center

Questions? Use the PADL contact form.