APPIA-GULP-PRODE'00
                  Call for Papers
  2000 JOINT CONFERENCE ON DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING
                  La Habana, Cuba
                 December 4-7 2000



Following APPIA-GULP-PRODE'99 in  L'Aquila (Italy) the next
joint APPIA, GULP, and PRODE conference will be held in
La Habana (Cuba), in December 4-7, 2000.


The aim of the Conference is to foster scientific
meetings between Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and
Latin America researchers, to improve the knowledge of
the state of the art of declarative programming (through
the invited talks) and to show the ongoing research done
(through presentations of papers).



Invited Speakers

Maurice Bruynooghe     Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Thomas Eiter           Technische Universitaet Wien (Austria)
Jim Lipton             Wesleyan University (USA)


Program Chairs

Luciano Garcia      U. de La Habana (Cu.)
Maria Chiara Meo    U. di L'Aquila (It.)


Program Committee

Joaquim N. Aparicio     (U. Nova de Lisboa, Pt.)
Puri Arenas Sanchez     (U. Complutense de Madrid, Es.)
Roberto Bagnara         (U. di Parma, It.)
Pedro Barahona          (U. Nova de Lisboa, Pt.)
Michele Bugliesi        (U. di Venezia, It.)
Marco Cadoli            (U. di Roma, It.)
Domenico Cantone        (U. di Catania, It)
Carlos Damásio          (U. Nova de Lisboa, Pt.)
Giorgio Delzanno        (U. di Genova, It.)
Alessandra Di Pierro    (U. di Pisa, It.)
Agostino Dovier         (U. di Verona, It.)
José Antonio Frias      (Software AG, Es.)
Laura Giordano          (U. del Piemonte Orientale, It.)
Victor Gulias           (U. de A Coruña, Es.)
Miguel Katrib           (U. de La Habana, Cu.)
Jim Lipton              (Wesleyan University, USA)
Salvador Lucas          (U. Politécnica de Valencia, Es.)
Julio Mariño            (U. Politécnica de Madrid. Es.)
Juan J. Moreno Navarro  (U. Politécnica de Madrid, Es.)
Alberto Oliart          (LANIA, Xalapa, Mex.)
Andrea Omicini          (U. di Bologna, It.)
Sacha  Ossowski         (U. Rey Juan Carlos, Es.)
Olga Padrón             (U. de La Habana, Cu.)
Manuel Palomar          (U. de Alicante, Es.)
Luis Moniz Pereira      (U. Nova de Lisboa, Pt.)
Ernesto Pimentel        (U. de Málaga, Es.)
Salvador Pinto Abrei    (U. de Evora, Pt.)
Elvira Pino             (U. Politécnica de Cataluña, Es.)
Alberto Policriti       (U. Udine, It.)
Maurizio Proietti       (IASI-Roma, It.)
Fernando Saenz Perez    (U. Complutense de Madrid, Es.)
Maria Sessa             (U. di Salerno, It.)
Fernando Silva          (U. do Porto, Pt.)
Miguel Toro             (U. de Sevilla, Es.)


Local Organizing Committee

Alina Ruiz
Eduardo Quesada
Luciano Garcia
Miguel Katrib
Antonio Mesa
Lucina Garcia
Olga Padrón


Topics:
The technical program for the conference will include
four invited lectures and presentations of papers.
Papers will be reviewed and accepted submissions will
be available on WEB.
Please specify whether the submitted paper
is also under consideration (or accepted) for presentation
in other meetings.
Submissions of papers are welcome on all aspects of
declarative programming, including, but not limited to:

Theoretical Foundations
Applications
Implementation Issues
Extensions

Papers must not exceed 15 pages, including references
and figures and must include a cover page
containing the following:
title of the paper, a 200-word abstract, keywords,
postal and electronic mailing addresses,
and voice and fax numbers of one of the authors.
Papers can be written in Italian, Portuguese,
Spanish or, preferably, in English.
A LaTeX style file with the appropriate page size
can be retrieved by the conference web site
(http://w3.dm.univaq.it/agp00/manus.html).
Accepted papers must be presented at the conference.

Authors are invited to submit their papers
electronically in (compressed uuencoded) postscript
version to the following e-mail address:
    agp00@univaq.it

At the time of submission a message containing an
ASCII version of the paper's  cover page
should also be sent by e-mail to the above address.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions:                            June 30
Notification of acceptance/rejection:   September 11
Deadline for final text:                October 3

Conference Site:
The Conference is organized by the University
of La Habana, founded in 1728 in La Habana (Cuba).
La Habana is the capital of Cuba and have one of
the most famous and preserved Spanish colonial sites in
Latin America called the Historical Center.
There you can visit streets, palaces, churches,
castles,fortresses, getting the look and feeling
of the Spanish legacy in Cuba.

For further details consult:
http://www.uh.cu/eventos/agp2000 and http://w3.dm.univaq.it/agp00