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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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CICLOPS 2008
Colloquium on Implementation
of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems
(URL:
http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Conferences/CICLOPS-2008/)
to be held in Udine (Italy) at the occasion of ICLP'08
December, 2008
Important dates and other relevant information
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* Abstract submission: September 1
* Paper submission: September 8
* Notification of acceptance: October 1
* Final version due: October 17
* Workshop dates: TBD
Submission will be done through EasyChair using the URL
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciclops08 .
Topics of interest
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This workshop aims at discussing and exchanging experience on the
design, implementation, and optimization of logic, constraint (logic)
programming systems, and systems intimately related to logic as a
means to express computations. Experience backed up by real
implementations and their evaluation will be given preference, as well
as descriptions of work in progress in that direction.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Standard and alternative sequential implementation schemes (e.g.,
generalization / modification of the WAM, translation to
lower-level and/or general-purpose languages, etc.)
* Implementation of parallel and concurrent logic and constraint
programming systems.
* Compile-time analysis and its application to code generation.
* Interaction between high-level optimizations / transformations /
specialization and low-level issues.
* Memory management, indexing, and garbage collection issues.
* Balance between compile-time effort and run-time machinery.
* Implementation techniques for declarative programming paradigms
with basis on, or extending, logic and constraint programming,
such as non-monotonic reasoning, inductive logic programming,
co-inductive logic programming, contextual logic programming, etc.
* Implementation of systems closely related to, or based on, logic,
such as theorem provers and natural language processing systems.
* Automatic performance evaluation of logic and constraint
programming systems.
* User-oriented tools for performance evaluation and enhancement.
* Software design with / for LP/CP systems: components, code
patterns and rules, etc.
* Design and implementation of programming environments.
* Experiences from using systems in real-life applications.
Workshop Goals
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Our intent is to bring together, in an informal setting, people
involved in research on sequential and parallel implementation
technologies for logic and constraint programming languages and
systems, in order to promote the exchange of ideas and feedback on
recent developments. We hope that the workshop will provide a meeting
point for people working on implementation technology for different
aspects of logic and constraint-based languages and systems.
Rationale and History
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Progress in computing technology, including the now readily available
multicore processors, increased memory capacity and bandwidth, faster
networking technology, and O.S. support for cluster computing,
combined with recent advances in compilation technologies and the
wider adoption of alternative constraint/logic-based programming
languages, are making high-level languages to be regarded as good
candidates for programming complex, demanding applications. A witness
of this very interesting trend is the interest of Intel with their
sponsorship of the DAMP series of workshops. Logic Programming and
Constraint Programming, in particular, offer one of the best
alternatives, as they couple a very high level of abstraction and a
declarative nature with flexibility its execution model, which can be
adapted to different scenarios.
An orthogonal but synergistic issue in the pursue of high-performance
and high-level languages comes from advances in implementation
techniques for logic and constraint languages. These techniques aim at
achieving both design flexibility and good performance in terms of
speed and memory consumption, thus making those languages and systems
more amenable than ever for real world applications. Maintaining
flexibility without unnecessarily sacrificing performance, and while
retaining a high level which relieves the programmer from burdening
tasks, requires sophisticated technology whose exploration and
development is one the aims of this workshop.
This workshop continues a tradition of successful workshops on
Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, previously held with in
Budapest (1993) and Ithaca (1994), the Compulog Net workshops on
Parallelism and Implementation Technologies held in Madrid (1993 and
1994), Utrecht (1995) and Bonn (1996), the Workshop on Parallelism and
Implementation Technology for (Constraint) Logic Programming Languages
held in Port Jefferson (1997), Manchester (1998), Las Cruces (1999),
and London (2000), and more recently the Colloquium on Implementation
of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems in Paphos (Cyprus, 2001),
Copenhagen (2002), Mumbai (2003), Saint Malo (France, 2004), Sitges
(Spain, 2005), Seattle (U.S.A., 2006) and Porto (Portugal, 2007).
Submission Information
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Authors are invited to submit papers written in English and not
exceeding 12 pages and using LNCS format. Authors who wish to prepare
papers in formats other than LaTeX are kindly requested to contact the
organization beforehand in order to make sure that we have available
the right tools to process the files (if needed), or in order to
receive detailed format instructions otherwise.
Organization
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Program Committee:
* Slim Abdennadher (Egypt)
* Roberto Bagnara (Italy)
* Amadeo Casas (U.S.A.)
* Henning Christiansen (Denmark)
* Gregory Duck (Australia)
* Hai-Feng Guo (U.S.A.)
* Remy Haemmerle (Spain)
* José F. Morales (Spain)
* Ulrich Neumerkel (Austria)
* Phuong-Lan Nguyen (France)
* Ricardo Rocha (Portugal)
* Tom Schrijvers (Belgium)
* Paul Tarau (U.S.A.)
* Jan Wielemaker (The Netherlands)
* Manuel Carro (Spain)
* Bart Demoen (Belgium)
Workshop Coordinators:
Manuel Carro Bart Demoen
http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~mcarro http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~bmd/
Phone: +34-91-3367455 Phone: +32 (0)16 327547
Please address any question regarding the workshop organization to the
address ciclops-org =at= clip.dia.fi.upm.es
Invited Speaker:
TBD
Proceedings
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We plan for the informal workshop proceedings to be available on-line
at the Computing Research Repository after the workshop. An electronic
copy will also be distributed during the conference.
Acknowledgments and Support
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The organizers wish to thank the School of Computer Science of the
UPM, the Computer Science Department of KU Leuven for their support,
and the CLIP Lab of the UPM for the hosting and facilities provided.
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