About WPTE

The aim of WPTE is to bring together researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area.

About This Page

The objective of this webpage is to serve as an entry point into the webpages of the WPTE series and to collect the old webpages of the event.

WPTEs

• WPTE 2025 in Birmingham, UK is part of FSCD 2025.
• WPTE 2023 in Rome was affiliated with FSCD 2023 (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2022 in Haifa was affiliated with FSCD 2022 at FLoC (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2021 held online was affiliated with FSCD 2021 (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2020 held online was affiliated with FSCD-IJCAR 2020 (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2019 in Dortmund was affiliated with FSCD 2019 (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2018 in Oxford was affiliated with FLoC 2018 and FSCD 2018 (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2017 in Oxford was affiliated with FSCD 2017 (the link in unfortunately dead, please use this local backup kindly provided by David Sabel).
• WPTE 2016 in Porto was affiliated with FSCD 2016 (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2015 in Warsaw was affiliated with RDP 2015 (you may also browse the local backup made on 2025-02-06).
• WPTE 2014 in Vienna was affiliated with RTA/TLCA 2014 (the link is unfortunately dead, please use this alternative link or this local backup made on 2025-02-06).

Topics of Interest

• Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations.
• Program transformations for proving termination, confluence, and other properties.
• Correctness of evaluation strategies.
• Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations.
• Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation.
• Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes.
• Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies.
• Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages.
• Program transformations for program inversions and program synthesis.
• Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and rewriting.
• Rewriting-based transformations for bidirectional programming and reversible computation.

Steering Committee

• Ștefan Ciobâcă, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania
• Horatiu Cirstea, LORIA, Université de Lorraine, France
• Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politècnica de València
• Joachim Niehren, Inria, Lille.
• Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University
• David Sabel, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden
• Manfred Schmidt-Schauß, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main