=======================================================================                            Call for papers Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice                             LFMTP 2018 Oxford, UK, 7 July 2018                  Affiliated with FSCD 2018 (part of FLoC) http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2018/ =======================================================================                     Abstract submission deadline:  8 April 2018                         Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2018 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 2018 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,   logical systems and related formally specified systems. * 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, 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. Invited Speakers * Delia Kesner (Université Paris Diderot, France) * Kuen-Bang Hou, alias Favonia (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) * Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Sunday   April  8th Submission deadline:          Sunday   April 15th Notification to authors:      Tuesday  May   15th Final version due:            Friday   May   25th Workshop date:                Saturday July   7th Submission In addition to regular papers, we accept the submission of "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense.  Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be of interest for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS style guidelines. The length is restricted to 15 pages for regular papers and 8 pages for "Work in Progress" papers.  Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp18. Proceedings Accepted regular papers will be included in the proceedings of LMFTP 2018, whose mode of publication will be determined shortly. Program Committee * María Alpuente (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) * Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) * Frédéric Blanqui (Inria, France), co-chair * Ana Bove (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Stéphane Graham-Lengrand (CNRS, France) * Makoto Hamana (Gunma University, Japan) * Chantal Keller (Université Paris-Sud, France) * Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Norte, Brazil) * Giselle Reis (CMU Qatar), co-chair * Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) * Yuting Wang (Yale University, USA)