 Extended versions of selected papers of each year's conference appear in renowned international journals such as Logical Methods in Computer Science and ACM Transactions on Computational Logic.LICS was originally sponsored solely by the IEEE, but as of the 2014 founding of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation LICS has become the flagship conference of SIGLOG, under the joint sponsorship of ACM and IEEE.Since the first installment in 1988, the cover page of the conference proceedings has featured an artwork entitled "Irrational Tiling by Logical Quantifiers", by Alvy Ray Smith.