Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited you to participate in

19th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2017)

http://bit.ly/PADL-2017

Paris, France

16th and 17th January 2017

Co-located with ACM POPL 2017 (http://conf.researchr.org/home/POPL-2017)

Registration site: http://popl17.sigplan.org/attending/registration
Early registration deadline: December 17th, 2016

Program posted: http://bit.ly/PADL-2017

Program Description
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The 16th of January:

8:50- 9 Opening Remarks

9-10 Applications I

Henrik Nilsson and Guerric Chupin. Funky Grooves: Declarative Programming of Full-Fledged Musical Applications

Stefania Costantini, Giovanni De Gasperis and Giulio Nazzicone. DALI for Cognitive Robotics: Principles and Prototype Implementation

10 -10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12 Answer Set Programming

Joost Vennekens. Lowering the learning curve for declarative programming: a Python API for the IDP system

Christoph Redl. Extending Answer Set Programs with Interpreted Functions as First-class Citizens

Jakob Rath and Christoph Redl. Integrating Answer Set Programming with Object-oriented Languages

12-14 Lunch

14-15:30 Testing and Games:

Jonathan Fowler and Graham Hutton. Failing Faster: Overlapping Patterns for Property-Based Testing

Maciej Bendkowski, Katarzyna Grygiel and Paul Tarau. Boltzmann Samplers for Closed Simply-Typed Lambda Terms (Best Student Paper Award)

Paulo Oliva, Jules Hedges, Viktor Winschel, Philipp Zahn and Evguenia Shprits. Selection Equilibria of Higher-Order Games

15:30 -16 Coffee Break

16-17:30 Applications II and Inference

Geoffrey Mainland. A Domain-Specific Language for Software-Defined Radio

Felix Klock. A Declarative DSL for Customized Rendering of Text-Based Art

Theofrastos Mantadelis and Ricardo Rocha. Using Iterative Deepening for Probabilistic Logic Inference


The 17th of January:

9-10 Invited Talk TBA

10 -10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12 Programming languages
Sergio Antoy and Michael Hanus. Eliminating Irrelevant Non-determinism in Functional Logic Programs

Neng-Fa Zhou and Jonathan Fruhman. Canonicalizing High-Level Constructs in Picat (Most Practical Paper Award)

Besik Dundua, Temur Kutsia and Klaus Reisenberger-Hagmayer. An Overview of PrhoLog

12 Closing Remarks

Conference Description
==============

Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide
attractive frameworks for application development. These languages
have been successfully applied to many different real-world
situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to
software engineering to decision support systems.

New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new
application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative
languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research
issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability,
language extensions for application deployment, and programming
environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress
as well.

PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present
original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation
techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including,
functional, logic, constraints, etc.

Program Committee
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Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University
Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University
Lars Bergstrom, Mozilla Research
Bart Bogaerts, Aalto University
Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews
Martin Brain, University of Oxford
Mats Carlsson, SICS
Manuel Carro, Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Stefania Costantini, University dell'Aquila
Marc Denecker, KU Leuven
Thomas Eiter, TU Wien Esra Erdem, Sabanci University
Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm
Marco Gavanelli, University of Ferrara
Martin Gebser, University of Potsdam
Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford
Hai-Feng Guo, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Jurriaan Hage, Universiteit Utrecht
Geoffrey Mainland, Drexel University
Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham
Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University
Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto
Peter Schüller, Marmara University
Peter Sestoft, IT University of Copenhagen
Martin Sulzmann, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Paul Tarau, University of North Texas
Kazunori Ueda, Waseda University
Niki Vazou, University of California, San Diego
Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh
Daniel Winograd-Cort, University of Pennsylvania
Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center
Lukasz Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo

Program Chairs:
Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska Omaha
Walid Taha, Halmstad University

Contacts
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For additional information about papers and submissions, please
contact the Program Chairs:

Yuliya Lierler
University of Nebraska Omaha, USA
http://faculty.ist.unomaha.edu/ylierler/

Walid Taha
Halmstad University, Sweden http://www.effective-modeling.org/p/walid-taha.html

email: padl17@easychair.org

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