Call for Papers
ICP 2026: The 42nd International Conference on Logic Programming
Lisbon, Portugal, July 20-23, 2026
Affiliation
This conference is part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2026 to take place in Lisbon, Portugal.
Aims and Scope
Since the first conference In Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to:
Theoretical Foundations:
Formal and operational semantics, Non-monotonic reasoning, Reasoning under uncertainty, Knowledge representation, Semantic issues of combining logic and neural models, Complexity results.
Language Design and Programming Methodologies:
Concurrency and parallelism, Mobility, Interacting with ML, Logic-based domain-specific languages, Hybrid logical and imperative/functional languages, Programming techniques, Answer Set Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Coinductive Logic Programming
Program Analysis and Optimization:
Analysis, Transformation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Visualization, Logic-based validation of generated programs.
Implementation Methodologies:
Compilation, Parallel/distributed execution, Constraint implementation, Tabling, Logic-based prompt engineering, User interfaces.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome two categories of submissions:
Regular papers:
These will appear in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP).
Short papers:
These will be published via Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS).
Paper submission will be handled electronically by FLoC. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. The submission system can be found here.
Important Dates
All dates Anywhere-on-Earth (UTC-12).
- Paper registration (regular papers): January 24, 2026
- Paper submission (regular papers): January 31, 2026
- Notification (regular papers): March 5, 2026
- Paper submission (short papers): March 27, 2026
- Revision submission (regular papers): March 27, 2026
- Final notification: April 17, 2026
- Conference dates: July 20-23, 2026
Venue
The conference will be held at iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. See FLoC 2026.
Organizers
General Chairs:
- Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal
- VĂtor Santos Costa, University of Porto, Portugal
Program Chairs:
- Wolfgang Faber, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- Laura Giordano, UniversitĂ del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Workshop Chair:
- Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal
Publicity Chairs:
- Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy
- Zachary Hansen, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA
Web Chair:
- Michael Morak, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Program Committee
See here.