Paper Publication

All accepted (long) papers will be published in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Cambridge U. Press (CUP), in one or more special issues. In order to ensure the quality of the final version, papers may be subject to more than one round of refereeing (within the decision period) and/or "shepherding". The program committee may also recommend standard papers to be published as technical communications. At the time of the conference CUP will make the web page for this(ese) TPLP issue(s) available including volume and issue numbers, table of contents, page numbers, and the papers themselves. All registered attendants at the conference will get lifetime access to the web site for the online version of the issue(s). Pointers to the arXiv/CoRR versions of these papers will be guaranteed from the ALP website www.logicprogramming.org. Attendants will also receive all the papers in a memory stick at the conference.

The collection of technical communications will appear as a volume of the LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics) series, and published online through the Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server (DROPS). All technical communications will also get space in the program for presentation. The journal issue(s) will also include a listing of the technical communications, with pointers to the LIPIcs/DROPS volume.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English.

The four broad categories for submissions are: (1) technical papers for describing technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of the art of logic programming; (2) application papers, where the emphasis will be on their impact on the application domain; (3) system and tool papers, where the emphasis will be on the novelty, practicality, usability and general availability of the systems and tools described; and (4) technical communications, aimed at describing recent developments, new projects, and other materials that are not ready for main publication as standard papers.

Technical papers, application papers, and system and tool papers must not exceed 15 pages plus bibliography. The limit for technical communications is 10 pages. Submissions of 15-page papers must be made in TPLP format via the Easychair submission system. The formatting instructions for technical communications are available from LIPIcs here.

Workshops

The ICLP 2012 program will include several workshops, held in parallel with the main conference. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, undeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. Workshops also provide a venue for presenting specialized topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration in any areas related to logic programming, including cross-disciplinary areas.

Accepted Workshops

• Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2012) , September 4
• 9th International Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules (CHR 2012) , September 4
• 12th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems (CICLOPS 2012) , September 4
• WG17 , September 4, September 5, morning
• Logics for Component Configuration (LoCoCo) , September 8
• 22nd Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments (WLPE 2012) , September 8
• Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics (WCB'12) , September 8
• Coinductive Logic Programming (Co-LP) , September 8, afternoon

Doctoral Consortium

The 8th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and world-renown experts in the field. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in a special session of the main ICLP conference.

Organization

• General Chair:
  Péter Szeredi (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics)
  
• Program Comittee Chairs:
  Agostino Dovier (Univ. of Udine)
  Vítor Santos Costa (Univ. of Porto) 
  
• Workshop Chair:
  Mats Carlsson (SICS, Sweden)
  
• Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
  Marco Gavanelli (Univ. of Ferrara)
  Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology)
  
• Prolog Programming Contest Chair:
  Tom Schrijvers (Universiteit Gent)
  
• Publicity Chair:
  Gergely Lukácsy (Cisco Systems Inc.)
  
• Web Manager:
  János Csorba (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics)
  

Travel Information

Detailed tourist and travel information can be obtained from here. Hungary is well-served by transport links from abroad. The main international airport is Budapest Ferihegy. Budapest is linked to 15 European capitals by train, directly or indirectly (details); e.g. a Wien-Budapest trip is less than 3 hours.

Sponsors

The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Artificial Intelligence Section of the John von Neumann Computer Society and by AIT, the Aquincum Institute of Technology, Budapest.

Picture Credits

The Budapest pictures were kindly provided by Alessandro Dal Palù.