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[Sam Staton <sam.staton AT cs.ox.ac.uk>]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thirty-Sixth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS)

June / July 2021 (Rome)
Co-located with ITP 2021 and ICTCS 2021
http://easyconferences.eu/lics2021/cfp/


SCOPE

The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and 
practical topics in computer science that relate to logic, broadly construed. 
We invite submissions on topics that fit under that rubric.

Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, 
automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and 
distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, 
database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, 
finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, 
foundations of computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, knowledge 
representation and reasoning, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, 
logic programming, logical aspects of AI, logical aspects of bioinformatics, 
logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum 
computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal 
logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming 
language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security 
and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification.


COVID-19

The organizers are carefully monitoring the development of the COVID-19 
pandemic, and take guidance from the health authorities, to determine whether 
LICS 2021 will be held physically, virtually or in a hybrid manner.


IMPORTANT DATES

Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 
100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The 
exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE).

Titles and Short Abstracts Due: 20 January 2021
Full Papers Due: 25 January 2021
Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: 10-14 March 2021
Author Notification: 31 March 2021
Workshops: 27 June -- 28 June 2021
Conference: 29 June -- 2 July 2021 (tentative)

Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All
submissions will be electronic via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2021.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Every paper must be submitted in the IEEE Proceedings 2-column 10pt format 
(IEEEtran.cls V1.8b) and may be at most 12 pages, excluding references. Paper 
selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of 
accepted papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program 
committee are not allowed. Please see the website for further formatting and 
submission instructions. 

LICS 2021 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following 
this process means that reviewers will not see the authors’ names or 
affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors’ names will then 
be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted. 
Please see the website for further details and requirements from the 
double-blind process.


LICS DISTINGUISHED PAPERS (NEW)

Starting 2021, around 10% of accepted LICS papers will be selected as 
distinguished papers. These are papers that, in the view of the LICS program 
committee, make exceptionally strong contribution to the field and should be 
read by a broad audience due their relevance, originality, significance and 
clarity.


KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER

An award in honour of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best 
student paper(s), as judged by the program committee.


SPECIAL ISSUES

Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program 
committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. 
Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical 
Methods in Computer Science.


PUBLICATION

The official publication date may differ from the first day of the 
conference. The official publication date may affect the deadline for any 
patent filings related to published work. We will clarify the official 
publication date in due course.