# Call for Papers: Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (May 26-28, Akita, Japan) **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** event, call-for-papers\ **Created:** [August 25, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/call-for-papers-symposium-on-functional-and-logic-programming-may-26-28-akita-japan/3921 "2025-08-25T17:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
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## 18th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming ## May 26-28, 2026, Akita, Japan FLOPS aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and implementers of declarative programming, to discuss mutually interesting results and common problems: theoretical advances, their implementations in language systems and tools, and applications of these systems in practice. The scope includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, applications, implementations, and teaching of declarative programming. FLOPS specifically aims to promote cross-fertilization between theory and practice and among different styles of declarative programming. Previous FLOPS meetings were held at Fuji Susono (1995), Shonan Village (1996), Kyoto (1998), Tsukuba (1999), Tokyo (2001), Aizu (2002), Nara (2004), Fuji Susono (2006), Ise (2008), Sendai (2010), Kobe (2012), Kanazawa (2014), Kochi (2016), Nagoya (2018), Akita (2020, online), Kyoto (2022, online), and Kumamoto (2024). ## Scope FLOPS solicits original papers in all areas of declarative programming: - functional, logic, functional-logic programming, rewriting systems, formal methods and model checking, program transformations and program refinements; - developing programs with the help of theorem provers or SAT/SMT solvers, verifying properties of programs using declarative programming techniques, or statistical methods including generative AI (\*); - foundations, language design, implementation issues (compilation techniques, memory management, run-time systems, etc.), applications and case studies. FLOPS promotes cross-fertilization among different styles of declarative programming. Therefore, research papers must be written to be understandable by a wide audience of declarative programmers and researchers. In particular, each submission should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant for its area, and comparing it with previous work. Submission of system descriptions and declarative pearls are especially encouraged. (\*) Note that FLOPS is a Programming Languages conference. Submissions should be accessible to a Programming Languages audience. The Program Committee has been selected from that audience, and it may be unable to gauge the quality of your submission if that requires specialized competencies in statistical methods and/or AI. Special attention should also be paid to the reproducibility of the results from public sources. ## Submission Submissions should fall into one of the following categories: - Regular research papers: they should describe new results and will be judged on originality, correctness, and significance. - System descriptions: they should describe a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. - Declarative pearls: new and excellent declarative programs or theories with illustrative applications. System descriptions and declarative pearls must be explicitly marked as such in the title. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. Authors must follow [Springer’s Code of Conduct](https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/book-authors-code-of-conduct). See also the [ACM SIGPLAN Republication Policy](http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication). At least one author of each accepted paper should plan to attend the conference in person to present the work: there will be no general facility for online or pre-recorded presentation (but we will do our best to accommodate visa issues and similar unavoidable obstacles). Submissions must be written in English and can be up to 15 pages excluding references, though system descriptions and pearls are typically shorter. The formatting has to conform to [Springer’s guidelines](https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Regular research papers should be supported by proofs and/or experimental results. In case of lack of space, this supporting information should be made accessible otherwise (e.g., a link to a web page or an appendix, which does not count towards the page limit). However, it is the responsibility of the authors to guarantee that their paper can be understood and appreciated without referring to this supporting information; reviewers may simply choose not to look at it when writing their review. Papers should be submitted electronically at [`https://meteor.springer.com/FLOPS2026`](https://meteor.springer.com/FLOPS2026) ## Publication The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. We expect to invite the authors of a selection of the best papers to submit an extended version of their FLOPS paper to a special issue which will appear in [Science of Computer Programming](https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming). ## Important Dates All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE = UTC-12). |-------------------------|-------------------| | **Abstracts due** | Dec 8, 2025 | | **Submission deadline** | Dec 16, 2025 | | **Notifications** | Feb 2, 2026 | | **Final versions** | March 2, 2026 | ## Organizers - Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Co-chair), School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS), Heriot-Watt University - Mike Sperber (Co-chair), Active Group - Ryoma Sin’ya (Co-Chair), Department of Mathematical Science and Electrical-Electronic-Computer Engineering, Akita University ## Program Committee - Reynald Affeldt, AIST - Davide Ancona, Genova - Lennart Augustsson, Epic Games - Mutsunori Banbara, Nagoya University - Alessandro Bruni, ITU Copenhagen - William Byrd, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University - Youyou Cong, Institute of Science Tokyo - Matthew Daggitt, U. Western Australia - Jeremy Gibbons, Oxford University - Andrew D. Gordon, Cogna and University of Edinburgh - Gopal Gupta, University of Texas - Jason Hemann, Seton Hall University - Mirai Ikebuchi, Kyoto University - Ranjit Jhala, UC San Diego - Wen Kokke, Well-Typed - Dale Miller, Inria Saclay - Île-de-France and the Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX) - Simon Peyton Jones, Epic Games - Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania - Michael Rawson, Southampton - Takehide Soh, Kobe University - Theresa Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Enrico Tassi, INRIA - Ekaterina Verbitskaia, JetBrains Research - Christina Zeller, Active Group - Neng-Fa Zhou, Brooklyn College - Akimasa Morihata, The University of Tokyo ## Contact Address `flops2026_at_deinprogramm_de` ---
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Note the deadline is Dec 8 - get your submission in shape!