Important dates and other relevant information
- Abstract submission: September 1
- Paper submission: September 8
- Notification of acceptance: October 1
- Final version due: October 17
- Workshop dates: December 12th (morning) and 13th (morning)
- Accepted papers
- Workshop schedule
- Final proceedings
Topics of interest
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
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
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
Authors are invited to submit papers written in English and not exceeding 15 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
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:
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Manuel Carro
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Bart Demoen
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