Email Gateway (Mar 21 2025 at 18:26): Email Gateway (Mar 21 2025 at 18:26):From: Florian Frohn <florian.frohn@cs.rwth-aachen.de>
12th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS)
Call for Papers
22 July 2025, Zagreb, Croatia
Co-located with CAV 2025
https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs25/
Paper submission deadline: 16 May 2025
Paper notification: mid June 2025
Workshop: 22 July 2025
Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be
modeled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP
and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving problems
presented as Horn clauses.
This series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working in
the communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP),
Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated
Deduction (e.g., CADE, IJCAR), on the topic of Horn clause based
analysis, verification, and synthesis.
Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these
communities in different times and from different perspectives and HCVS
is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and
integration of experiences.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn
clauses, constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas:
Analysis and verification of programs and systems of various kinds
(e.g., imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, higher-order,
concurrent, transition systems, petri-nets, smart contracts)
Program synthesis
Challenging problems
Submission Guidelines *
We solicit regular papers describing theory and implementation of
Horn-clause based analysis and tool descriptions. We also solicit
extended abstracts describing work-in-progress, as well as presentations
covering previously published results, extended abstracts of doctoral
theses, and overviews of research projects that are of interest to the
workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to
attend the workshop to present the contribution.
Submission has to be done in one of the following formats:
Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe
work in progress or aim to initiate discussions.
Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented
at a conference or another workshop. Such papers can be submitted in any
format, and will not be included in the workshop post-proceedings.
Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography in EPTCS
(http://www.eptcs.org/) format), which should present previously
unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of
research, tools, and applications.
Tool papers (up to 4 pages in EPTCS format), including the papers
written by the CHC-COMP participants, which can outline the theoretical
framework, the architecture, the usage, and experiments of the tool.
All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and will
be selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee reports. If
enough regular papers are accepted, both regular papers and extended
abstracts will be published electronically. The publication of a paper
is not intended to preclude later publication. Full versions of extended
abstracts, or substantial revisions, may later be published elsewhere.
Program Chairs:
Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy
Florian Frohn, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Program Committee:
TBA
HCVS 2025 is planning to host the 8th competition on constraint Horn
clauses (CHC-COMP https://chc-comp.github.io/), which will compare
state-of-the-art tools for CHC solving for performance and effectiveness
on a set of publicly available benchmarks.
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