WORKSHOP ON LOGIC AND SEARCH - LaSh 2014
       Representing and Solving Computational Search Problems

                   Final Call For Submissions

With Revised Submission Deadline (May 15), Final PC, Confirmed Speakers

                 Vienna, Austria, July 18, 2014
                    http://vsl2014.at/lash/

        A FLoC 2014 Workshop, Associated with SAT and ICLP

OVERVIEW

The purpose of the LaSh workshops is to foster scientific exchange on subjects related to languages for representing, and methods for solving, computationally challenging search problems. The scope includes study of relevant logics, algorithms, and logic-based systems, and also study of other languages and systems from the viewpoint of logic, broadly construed.

Hard combinatorial search and optimization problems abound in science, engineering, and other areas. Examples include planning, scheduling and configuration problems. Several communities have developed general purpose solving technologies for such problems, supported by declarative modelling or specification languages. These include answer set programming (ASP) from knowledge representation (KR), constraint solvers and modelling languages from constraint programming (CP), and integer linear programming (ILP) solvers and algebraic modelling languages from mathematical programming. Other relevant areas include propositional satisfiability (SAT), satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), and representation languages based on classical logic and FO(ID).

Differences in emphasis notwithstanding, these share the same purpose. Indeed, there are many similarities in solving technologies, and increasing exchange between the areas both in solving and representational issues. From a logical point of view, whether a given language or system is described in logical terms or not, we have languages which define some class of structures, and systems whose purpose is to compute structures in the class. Logic may be seen as an explicit basis for building systems, as an analytic tool, or as a formal approach to viewing the diversity of systems more uniformly.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Logics relevant to the study of search and optimization problems
* Languages for specifying or modelling search or optimization problems
* Reasoning about or with specifications of search problems
* Grounding and related language transformation methods
* Expressiveness and complexity of logics and languages
* Ground Solvers and their languages: SAT, ASP, SMT, FlatZinc, etc.
* New or extended ground solver languages: SAT+Cardinality, SAT+TC, etc.
* Design of systems, solvers, and related tools
* Approximation, tractable problem classes, etc.
* Proof systems and inference methods underlying solvers.
* Comparisons of different languages or methods
* Interesting applications, either as case studies or challenges
* Benchmark problems and instance collections

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Konstantin Korovin (“Plenary”) Tomi Janhunen Stefan Woltran

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: May 15 (Extended) Notification: May 21 (Revised) Final Versions: May 27 (Revised) Workshop: July 18

ORGANIZERS

  • Marc Denecker, KU Leuven
  • David Mitchell, Simon Fraser University
  • Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  • David Bergman (University of Connecticut)
  • Marc Denecker (K.U.Leuven) - chair
  • Alan Frisch (University of York)
  • Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield)
  • Marijn Heule (The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Tomi Janhunen (Aalto University)
  • Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki)
  • Ian Miguel (University of St Andrews)
  • David Mitchell (Simon Fraser University) - chair
  • Emilia Oikarinen (Aalto University) - chair
  • Shahab Tasharrofi (Simon Fraser University)
  • Eugenia Ternovska (Simon Fraser University)
  • Mirek Truszczynski (Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky)

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

To encourage communication across areas, LaSh is a non-archival meeting. In addition to new technical work, we welcome presentation of relevant material which has appeared at conferences area-specific meetings or general conferences, and also position papers, challenges, system descriptions and speculative work.