Overview of WFLP 2018

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The international Workshop on Functional and (constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP) aims at bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners interested in functional programming, logic programming, and their integration. WFLP has a reputation for being a lively and friendly forum, and it is open for presenting and discussing work in progress, technical contributions, experience reports, experiments, reviews, and system descriptions.

The 26th International Workshop on Functional and (constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2018) will be held at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Previous WFLP editions were WFLP 2017 (Würzburg, Germany), WFLP 2016 (Leipzig, Germany), WFLP 2014 (Wittenberg, Germany), WFLP 2013 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2012 (Nagoya, Japan), WFLP 2011 (Odense, Denmark), WFLP 2010 (Madrid, Spain), WFLP 2009 (Brasilia, Brazil), WFLP 2008 (Siena, Italy), WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain), WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg, Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany).

WFLP 2018 will be co-located with PPDP 2018 (International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming) and LOPSTR 2018 (International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation.

The topics of interest cover all aspects of functional and logic programming. They include (but are not limited to):

• Functional programming
• Logic programming
• Constraint programming
• Deductive databases, data mining
• Extensions of declarative languages, objects
• Multi-paradigm declarative programming
• Foundations, semantics, nonmonotonic reasoning, dynamics
• Parallelism, concurrency
• Program analysis, abstract interpretation
• program and model manipulation
• Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming
• Specification, verification
• Debugging, testing
• Knowledge representation, machine learning
• Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms (e.g., agents, XML, Java)
• Implementation of declarative languages
• Advanced programming environments and tools
• Software techniques for declarative programming
• Applications

The primary focus is on new and original research results, but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and experience reports are also welcome.

Papers must be written and presented in English. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions).

The program is available here.

Important Dates

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Abstract submission:	June 27, 2018
Paper submission:	July 2, 2018
Notification:	July 27, 2018
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings):	August 24, 2018
Workshop:	September 6, 2018

Submission Guidelines

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Submission is via Easychair submission website for WFLP 2018.

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

• regular research paper
• work-in-progress report
• system description

Regular research papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been formally published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with formal proceedings. They will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. For work-in-progress reports and system descriptions, less formal rules apply, and presentation-only submissions (talk and discussion, but no paper in the formal proceedings) are possible. Please contact the PC chair with any questions.

All submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. However, all submissions (especially work-in-progress reports and system descriptions) may be considerably shorter than 15 pages.

Accepted Papers

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• Transpiling Programming Computable Functions to Answer Set Programs
  Ingmar Dasseville and Marc Denecker
   
• Synthesizing Set Functions
  Sergio Antoy, Michael Hanus and Finn Teegen
   
• When You Should Use Lists in Haskell (Mostly, You Should Not)
  Johannes Waldmann
   
• Measuring Coverage of Prolog Programs Using Mutation Testing
  Alexandros Efraimidis, Joshua Schmidt, Sebastian Krings and Philipp Körner
   
• Towards a constraint solver for proving confluence with invariant and equivalence of realistic CHR programs
  Henning Christiansen and Maja Kirkeby
   
• Code Generation for Higher Inductive Types
  Paventhan Vivekanandan
   
• Runtime verification in Erlang by using contracts
  Lars-Åke Fredlund, Julio Mariño, Sergio Pérez and Salvador Tamarit
   
• Functional Federated Learning in Erlang (ffl-erl)
  Gregor Ulm, Emil Gustavsson and Mats Jirstrand
   
• Reference Type Logic Variables in Constraint-logic Object-oriented Programming
  Jan C. Dageförde
   
• Enhancing POI testing approach through the use of additional information
  Sergio Pérez and Salvador Tamarit
   
• Making Bubbling Practical
  Steven Libby and Sergio Antoy
   
• Towards an algebraic theory of analogical reasoning in logic programming
  Christian Antic
   
• FMS: Functional Programming as a Modelling Language
  Ingmar Dasseville and Gerda Janssens
   

Proceedings

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All papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published in informal proceedings publicly available at the Computing Research Repository.

According to the program committee reviews, submissions can be directly accepted for publication in the formal post-conference proceedings. The formal post-conference proceedings will be published in both electronic and paper formats by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, all authors accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the conference. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings.

Therefore, all accepted papers will be published in open-access, and the authors can also decide to publish their work in the Springer LNCS formal proceedings.

The Springer LNCS formal proceedings are available here.