[TYPES] CICLOPS 2004: Extended deadline [May 7th]
Manuel Carro
mcarro at fi.upm.es
Thu Apr 22 22:31:53 EDT 2004
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
CICLOPS 2004
Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems
to be held at Saint-Malo (France) at the occasion of ICLP'04
September, 2004
http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Conferences/CICLOPS-2004
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Important dates
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* submission deadline: May 7 [EXTENDED]
* notification of acceptance: June 7
* final version: June 28
* workshop dates: still to be decided (they depend on the
organization of ICLP 2004)
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.)
* Interaction between high-level optimizations / transformations
/ specialization and low-level issues.
* Compile-time analysis and its application to code generation.
* Low-level cost models to guide high-level optimizations.
* Memory management, indexing, and garbage collection issues.
* Balance between compile-time effort and run-time machinery.
* Implementation of parallel and concurrent logic and constraint
programming systems.
* Implementation techniques for declarative programming paradigms
with basis on, or extending, logic and constraint programming,
such as non-monotonic reasoning, inductive logic programming,
etc.
* Implementation of systems closely related to, or based on,
logic, such as theorem provers and natural language processing
systems.
* Performance evaluation of logic and constraint programming
systems.
* User oriented tools for performance evaluation and profiling.
* Software design with and for LP/CP systems: components,
patterns, 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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The last years have witnessed continuous progress in the technology
available both for academic and commercial computing environments.
Examples include more processor performance, increased memory
capacity and bandwidth, faster networking technology, and operating
system support for cluster computing. These improvements, combined
with recent advances in compilation and implementation
technologies, are causing high-level languages to be regarded as
good candidates for programming complex, real world
applications. Techniques aiming at achieving flexibility in the
language design make powerful extensions easier to implement; on
the other hand, implementations which reach good performance in
terms of speed and memory consumption make declarative languages
and systems amenable to develop non-trivial applications.
Logic Programming and Constraint Programming, in particular, seem
to offer one of the best options, as they couple a high level of
abstraction and a declarative nature with an extreme flexibility in
the design of their implementations and extensions and of their
execution model. This adaptability is key to, for example, the
implicit exploitation of alternative execution strategies tailored
for different applications (e.g., for domain-specific languages)
without jeopardizing efficiency unnecessarily.
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), and Mumbai
(2003), and the CoLogNet Workshops on Implementation Technology for
Computational Logic Systems held in Madrid (2002) and Pisa (2003).
Submission Information
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Authors are invited to submit papers written in English and not
exceeding 12 pages. To speed up the process of refereeing, authors
are requested to submit their paper in Postscript or PDF form. Hard
copies may be sent to the contact address below only if access to
electronic media is not available; please contact the organizers
beforehand if that is the case. Submissions should contain full
return mail and email address (if applicable) and FAX number (if
applicable) of the contact author. Prospective authors are kindly
requested to first send an indication of interest together with a
paper title and abstract, in plain text format, to the organizers
at the e-mail address at the bottom of the page.
LaTeX style files are available via WWW at the Workshop web
site. We strongly encourage their use, both in the preparation of
submissions and, specially, for the final version. In order to
obtain homogeneous workshop proceedings, authors of accepted papers
will be requested to send the sources to the organizers. 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:
* Manuel Carro (Spain)
* Ricardo Lopes (Portugal)
* José F. Morales (Spain)
* Enrico Pontelli (USA)
* Vítor Santos (Brazil)
* Tom Schrijvers (Belgium)
* Christian Schulte (Sweden)
* Paul Tarau (USA)
* Neng-Fa Zhou (USA)
Workshop Coordinators:
Manuel Carro (contact person)
http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcarro
Phone: +34-91-3367455
Fax: +34-91-3366595
José F. Morales
http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~jfran
Phone: +34-91-3367448
Fax: +34-91-3366595
Invited Speaker:
To be announced
Contact
Please address any question regarding the workshop organization to the
address ciclops-org at clip.dia.fi.upm.es
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