Apologies if you receive multiple copies ________________________________________ Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------ Fifth Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules CHR 2008 July 14, 2008 Hagenberg, Austria Co-located with the International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/pm/research/events/chr2008 Introduction ------------ The Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) language has become a major declarative specification and implementation language for constraint reasoning algorithms and applications. Algorithms are often specified using inference rules, rewrite rules, sequents, proof rules or logical axioms that can be directly written in CHR. Its clean semantics facilitates program design, analysis and transformation. See the CHR website (http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dtai/projects/CHR/) for more information. Previous Workshops on Constraint Handling Rules were organized in May 2004 in Ulm (Germany), in October 2005 in Sitges (Spain) at ICLP, in July 2006 in Venice (Italy) at ICALP, and in September 2007 in Porto (Portgual) at ICLP. Topics of Interest ------------------ The workshop calls for full papers and short papers describing ongoing work, on all aspects of CHR, including topics such as: - (Logical) Algorithms - Applications - Comparisons with Related Approaches - Constraint Solvers - Critical Assessment - Expressivity and Complexity - Implementations and Optimization - Language Extensions (Types, Modules) - Program Analysis - Program Transformation and Generation - Programming Environments (Debugging) - Programming Pearls - Retractable Constraints - Semantics - Programming Tools - Language Extensions (Debugging) Submission Information ---------------------- All papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. The authors are encouraged, although not obliged, to submit their papers already in Springer LNCS format. General information about the Springer LNCS series and the LNCS authors' instructions are available at the Springer LNCS/LNAI home page. Submissions should be sent to chr2008@uni-ulm.de and mention 'CHR 2008 Submission' in the subject. Every submission should include the names and e-mail addresses of the authors (with the corresponding author indicated), the paper abstract in ASCII format and the actual paper in postscript or PDF format. The submission should also indicate whether it is a full paper or a short paper. Accepted papers will be published in a technical report. Important dates --------------- * submission: May 5, 2008 * notification of acceptance: June 2, 2008 * final version due: June 16, 2008 * workshop date: July 14, 2008 Organization ------------ Program Committee: * François Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt * Peter J. Stuckey, NICTA Victoria Laboratory * Jacques Robin, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco * Martin Sulzmann, National University of Singapore * Maurizio Gabbrielli, Universita di Bologna * Slim Abdennadher, German University in Cairo * Thom Frühwirth, Universität Ulm * Tom Schrijvers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven * Armin Wolf, Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin * Verónica Dahl, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver * Beata Sarna-Starosta, Michigan State University * Evelina Lamma, Università di Ferrara Workshop Coordinators: chr2008@uni-ulm.de Tom Schrijvers (contact person) Department of Computer Science K.U.Leuven http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~toms/ Thom Frühwirth Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science University Ulm http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/pm/mitarbeiter/fruehwirth/ Frank Raiser Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science University Ulm http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/pm/mitarbeiter/raiser.html