CHR 2006: call for papers

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                      Call for Papers

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Thid Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules CHR 2006

July 9, 2006
S. Servolo, Venice, Italy 

         Co-located with the International Colloquium on
         Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2006)
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             http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~toms/CHR2006/

Introduction
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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) and in October 2005 in Sitges (Spain).


 Topics of Interest
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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


 Awards
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 The best paper receives the CHR Best Paper Award. It is chosen
 among all submissions for its outstanding quality in both
 presentation and scientific contribution and for its impact on
 the field of CHR.

 Submission Information
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 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 chrworkshop@xxxxxxxxx and mention
 'CHR 2006 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
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   * submission: 			May 7, 2006
   * notification of acceptance: 	June 9, 2006
   * final version due: 		June 23, 2006
   * workshop date: 			July 9, 2006


 Organization
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Program Committee:
* Alessandra Raffaeta, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia
* François Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt
* Gregory Duck, NICTA Victoria Laboratory
* Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University
* Jacques Robin, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
* Martin Sulzmann, National University of Singapore
* Maurizio Gabbrielli, Universita di Bologna
* Thom Fruehwirth, Universitaet Ulm
* Tom Schrijvers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Workshop Coordinators:

 chrworkshop@xxxxxxxxx

Tom Schrijvers (contact person)
Department of Computer Science
K.U.Leuven
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~toms/

Thom Fruehwirth
Fakultaet fuer Informatik
Universitaet Ulm
http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/pm/fileadmin/pm/home/fruehwirth/ .