xnppb1826clipdiafiupmes apologies multiple postings second call papers ninth international symposium functional logic programming flops 2008 april 1416 2008 ise japan submission deadline october 10 2007 keynotes peter dybjer naoki kobayashi torsten schaub httpwwwmathnagoyauacjpgarrigueflops2008 flops forum research issues concerning declarative programming including functional programming logic programming aims promote crossfertilization integration two paradigms previous flops meetings held fuji susono 1995 shonan village 1996 kyoto 1998 tsukuba 1999 tokyo 2001 aizu 2002 nara 2004 fuji susono 2006 topics flops solicits original papers areas functional logic programming including limited declarative pearls new excellent declarative programs illustrative applications language issues language design constructs programming methodology integration paradigms interfacing languages type systems constraints concurrency distributed computing foundations logic semantics rewrite systems narrowing type theory proof systems implementation issues compilation techniques memory management program analysis transformation partial evaluation parallelism applications case studies realworld applications graphical user interfaces internet applications xml databases formal methods model checking proceedings expected published lncs volume proceedings previous meeting flops2006 published lncs 3945 invited speakers peter dybjer chalmers sweden naoki kobayashi tohoku japan torsten schaub potsdam germany pc cochairs jacques garrigue nagoya japan manuel hermenegildo madrid spain new mexico usa pc members maria alpuente valencia spain sergio antoy portland usa matthias blume tti chicago usa tyngruey chuang academia sinica taiwan zhenjiang hu tokyo japan oleg kiselyov fnmoc monterey usa herbert kuchen muenster germany dale miller inria palaiseau france atsushi ohori tohoku japan enrico pontelli new mexico usa kristoffer rose ibm watson usa kazunori ueda waseda japan peter van roy louvainlaneuve belgium benjamin werner inria palaiseau france local chair shoji yuen nagoya japan submission submissions must unpublished submitted publication elsewhere work already appeared unpublished informally published workshops proceedings may submitted submissions fall one following categories regular research papers describe new results judged originality correctness significance system descriptions contain link working system judged originality usefulness design submissions must written english 15 proceedings pages long authors strongly encouraged use latex2e springer llncs class file available httpwwwspringerdecomplncsauthorshtml regular research papers supported proofs andor experimental results case lack space supporting information made accessible otherwise eg link web page appendix submission webbased please visit httpwwweasychairorgflops2008 important dates submission deadline october 10 2007 author notification december 21 2007 cameraready copy january 21 2008 conference april 1416 2008 place ise japan previous flops flops 2006 fuji susono httphagiissutokyoacjpflops2006 flops 2004 nara httplogiccstsukubaacjpflops2004 flops 2002 aizu httpwwwipltutokyoacjpflops2002 flops 2001 tokyo httpwwwuedainfowasedaacjpflops2001 sponsor japan society software science technology jssst sigppl cooperation asian association foundation software aafs association logic programming alp acm sigplan pending inquiries thu 07 aug 2008 153954 0200 uai flops 2008 second call papers deadline october 10