CALL FOR PAPERS

Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2020

Paris, France29 June 2020

Affiliated with FSCD 2020 and IJCAR 2020

https://lfmtp.org/workshops/2020/

Abstract submission deadline: 18 May 2020

**UPDATES: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, LFMTP 2020 will be held as an online workshop. 

ABOUT LFMTP

Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common substrate for representing, implementing and reasoning about a wide variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer science. Their design, implementation and their use in reasoning tasks, ranging from the correctness of software to the properties of formal systems, have been the focus of considerable research over the last two decades. This workshop will bring together designers, implementors and practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable binding, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques and the expressiveness and lucidity of the reasoning process.

LFMTP 2020 will provide researchers a forum to present state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the following:
* Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming languages, process calculi and related formally specified systems.
* Formalisation of model-theoretic and proof-theoretic semantics of logics.
* Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures.
* Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and associated reasoning techniques, including inductive types of higher dimension in homotopy type theory.
* Graphical languages for building proofs and their applications in geometry, equational reasoning and category theory.
* New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy and cubical type theory.
* Applications of logical frameworks: proof-carrying architectures, proof exchange and transformation, program refactoring, etc.
* Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml or Agda, and logic programming languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog.
* Design and implementation of systems and tools related to meta-languages and logical frameworks

IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are established as the end of day (23:59) AoE.

* Submission deadline: 18 May 2020

* Notification to authors: 1 June 2020 

* Workshop: 29 June  2020

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

We solicit submissions of long abstracts describing original research results or descriptions of work in progress. The topics of the submissions should be of interest to the LFMTP community at large. 

Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS LaTeX style. The length is restricted to 2 pages.

Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lfmtp2020 

All submissions will undergo a light peer-review process and the authors of those accepted will be invited to present their papers at the workshop.

POST-PROCEEDINGS

After the workshop we will publish post-proceedings in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. 

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit the full versions of their papers for publication in the post-proceedings, subject to another round of review. 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David Baelde, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris
Frédéric Blanqui, INRIA
Alberto Ciaffaglione, University of Udine
Dennis Müller, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Michael Norrish, Data61
Carlos Olarte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norde
Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna (PC Co-Chair)
Ulrich Schöpp, fortiss GmbH
Alwen Tiu, Australian National University (PC Co-Chair)
Tjark Weber, Uppsala University