WPTE 2026
12th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation
Lisbon, Portugal
Sunday, 19th July 2026
About
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.
Important Dates
- Submission, in all three categories: 22nd April 2026 (AoE), at https://submissions.floc26.org/wpte/
- Notification of acceptance: 25th May 2026
- Early registration for the workshop: 1st June 2026
- Workshop: 19th July 2026
- Submission to post-proceedings/special issue: autumn 2026 (tbd)
Topics of Interest
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Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations.
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Program transformations for proving termination, confluence, and other properties.
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Correctness of evaluation strategies.
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Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations.
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Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation.
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Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes.
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Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies.
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Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages.
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Program transformations for program inversions and program synthesis.
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Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and rewriting.
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Rewriting-based transformations for bidirectional programming and reversible computation.
For submission guidelines and publication plans, see the Call for Papers.
Program Committee
- Martin Avanzini, Inria Sophia Antipolis
- Carsten Fuhs (co-chair), Birkbeck, University of London
- Jan-Christoph Kassing, RWTH Aachen University
- Thomas Kœhler, ICube Lab, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg
- Misaki Kojima, Nagoya University
- Rubén Rubio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Traian Şerbănuţă, University of Bucharest
- Germán Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Janis Voigtländer (co-chair), University of Duisburg-Essen
Steering Committee
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Ștefan Ciobâcă, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
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Horatiu Cirstea, LORIA, Université de Lorraine
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Santiago Escobar, Universitat Politècnica de València
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Cynthia Kop, Radboud University Nijmegen
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Joachim Niehren, Inria Lille
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Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University
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David Sabel, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden
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Manfred Schmidt-Schauß, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main
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