[mercury-users] ICLP'99: Call for Participation
Michael Leuschel
mal at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 9 19:22:40 AEST 1999
16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Nov. 29 -- Dec. 4
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99
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!!!!! CALL FOR ATTENDANCE !!!!!!!
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!!!!! 16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING !!!!!!!
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!!!!! LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO !!!!!!!
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!!!!! NOV. 29 -- DEC. 4 !!!!!!!
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!!!!! http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99 !!!!!!!
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Contents: 1. Message from the General Chair
2. Conference Program
3. Registration Information
4. Hotel Information
5. Sight-seeing trip to
White Sands National Monument
MESSAGE FROM THE ICLP'99 GENERAL CHAIR
Escape the Northern winter, come to ICLP'99!
I would like to personally invite you to attend the
16th International Conference on Logic Programming, in
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. There are several reasons
why you should attend ICLP'99, some of which I would like
to point out to you:
1. The program chair, Danny De Schreye, and the program
committee have assembled an excellent program that
contains papers on diverse topics, ranging from theory to
applications. Listening to these papers will give
you a chance to come abreast with state-of-the-art
research in Logic Programming. We in the logic programming
community believe that logic programming is an important
area of research within Computer Science; attending the
16th ICLP'99 will give you the opportunity to meet the
dynamic researchers who are active in Logic Programming
as well as the chance to appreciate the potential and
versatility of the Logic Programming paradigm. There are
several satellite workshops that will also interest you.
2. Special discount rates have been negotiated with the
hotels. You can stay for as little as $25 per night
in one of the (quite decent) conference hotels, provided
you pair up with someone. A message area has been provided
at the ICLP web-site where you can communicate with others
to find a room-mate. The registration has been kept to
the minimum possible. Just registering for ICLP
allows you to attend any one of the 7 ICLP'99 satellite
workshop that, for the first time, are being held concurrently
with the main program thanks to Danny's vision.
Special student registration rate has been provided, which
includes the conference proceedings as well as the Banquet.
3. The conference will be held in Las Cruces, a small desert
town in southern New Mexico; famous for its red and green
Chiles, hot New Mexican food, and its old western traditions.
Las Cruces and its surrounding areas have numerous tourist
attractions, most of which are listed on the ICLP'99
web-site. Possible 1/2, 1, 2 or 3 day trips are also
shown. I hope that you will have the time to visit some
of these attractions during your stay. The weather
in Las Cruces during the winter is quite mild. If you live
in the Northern latitudes, ICLP'99 gives a chance to escape
the winter in your homeland, at least for a few days.
4. ICLP'99 is being colocated with the 5th International
Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic
Reasoning (located in El Paso, just 40 miles away)
as well as the 1999 Workshop on Natural Language
Understanding and Logic Programming (located in Las
Cruces). Special discounts are available if you
attend any one of these events together with ICLP'99.
5. A sightseeing trip is planned to the world renowned
White Sands National Monument on Friday, Dec. 3rd.
(visit the ICLP'99 web-site for more details).
Gopal Gupta
ICLP'99 General Chair
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Sunday Nov. 28:
19:00 h: Reception and Registration
Monday Nov. 29:
Main Program:
8:15 h: Continental Breakfast
9.00 h: Conference Opening.
9.10 h: Invited talk 1: Fernando Pereira:
Declarative Programming for a Messy World
10.10 h: Break
10.30 h: Session 1: Knowledge representation:
Disjunctive Logic Programs with Inheritance,
F. Buccafurri, W. Faber, N. Leone.
Event, Property and Hierarchy in Order-Sorted Logic,
K. Kaneiwa, S. Tojo.
Temporal Probabilistic Logic Programs,
A. Dekhtyar, M.I. Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian.
An Optimized Prolog Encoding of Typed Feature Structures,
G. Penn
12.30 h: Lunch
14.00 h: Session 2: Environments:
A Generic Approach to Monitor Program Executions,
E. Jahier, M. Ducasse.
Generating Deductive Database Explanations,
S. Mallet, M. Ducasse.
15.00 h: Break
15.30 h: Session 3: Theory:
Computing Large and Small Stable Models
M. Truszczynski.
Algebra of Logic Programming,
S. Seres, M. Spivey, C.A.R. Hoare
Semantic Definitions for Normal Open Programs,
F. Orejas, E. Pino.
Declarative Priority In A Concurrent Logic Language ON,
K. Hirata, K. Yamazaki.
Workshops:
10.30 h: Workshop on Logic Programming Environments
(interrupted for Session 2)
Tuesday Nov. 30:
Main Program:
8:15 h: Continental Breakfast
9.00 h: Invited talk 2: Bernhard Thalheim:
Logics and Database Modeling.
10.00 h: Break
10.30 h: Session 4: Constraints:
Revising Hull and Box Consistency,
F. Benhamou, F. Goualard, L. Granvilliers, J.-F. Puget.
CLAIRE : Combining Sets, Search and Rules to Better Express Algorithms,
Y. Caseau, F.-X. Josset, F. Laburthe.
Herbrand Constraint Solving in HAL
B. Demoen, M. Garcia de la Banda, W. Harvey, K. Marriott, P. Stuckey.
Comparing Trailing and Copying for Constraint Programming,
C. Schulte
12.30 h: Lunch
14.00 h: Invited talk 3: Ken Bowen:
Adventures in the Prolog Trade.
14.40 h: Break
15.00 h: Session 5: Implementation:
Stack-Splitting: a Simple Technique for Implementing
Or-Parallelism and And-parallelism on Distributed Machines,
G. Gupta, E. Pontelli.
Mutable terms in a Tabled Logic Programming System,
B. Cui, D. S. Warren.
Concurrency in Prolog Using Threads and a Shared Database,
M. Carro, M. Hermenegildo.
17.00 h: Prolog Competition.
Workshops:
10.30 h: Workshop on Logical Inference with Artificial Neural Networks.
10.30 h: Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic.
Wednesday Dec. 1:
Main Program:
8:15 h: Continental Breakfast
9.00 h: Session 6: Termination analysis:
Proving Termination of Input-Consuming Logic Programs,
J.-G. Smaus.
Bounded Nondeterminism of Logic Programs,
D. Pedreschi, S. Ruggieri.
Termination Analysis for Abductive General Logic Programs,
S. Verbaeten.
10.30 h: Break
11.00 h: Session 7: Higher-order:
The Relative Complement Problem For Higher-Order Patterns,
A. Momigliano, F. Pfenning.
Extensionality of Simply Typed Logic Programs,
M. Bezem.
Lightweight Lemmas in Lambda Prolog,
A. W. Appel, A. P. Felty.
12.30 h: Lunch
14.30 h: Session 8: Nonmonotonic Reasoning:
Well-Founded Abduction via Tabled Dual Programs,
J. Alferes, L.M. Pereira, T. Swift,
Optimization of Disjunctive Queries,
S. Greco.
Well-Founded Semantics by Transformation: The Non-Ground Case,
U. Zukowski, B. Freitag.
Monotonicity in Rule Based Update,
Y. Zhang.
16.30 h: Break
17.00 h: Invited talk 4: Vladimir Lifschitz:
Answer Set Planning.
19.00 h: Conference Dinner. Banquet Speaker: Frank Harary
Workshops:
9.00 h: Workshop on Parallelism and Implementation Technology for
(Constraint) Logic Programming Languages.
11.00 h: Workshop on Verification in Logic Programs.
Thursday Dec. 2:
Main Program:
8:15 h: Continental Breakfast
9.00 h: Tutorial 1: Peter Van Roy:
Logic and Constraint Programming with Mozart.
10.00 h: Break
10.30 h: (Regular) Posters (and Demonstrations) Session.
12.30 h: Lunch
14.00 h: Tutorial 2: Manuel Hermenegildo:
Program Analysis, Debugging, and Optimization with the
CIAO System Preprocessor.
15.00 h: Break
15.30 h: Session 9: Analysis and Transformation:
Transforming Inductive Definitions,
A. Pettorossi, M. Proietti.
Binding-Time Analysis for Mercury,
W. Vanhoof, M. Bruynooghe.
16.45 h: Meeting of the Association of Logic Programming.
Workshops:
10.30 h: Workshop on Distributed and Internet Programming with Logic and
Constraint Languages.
El Paso: International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic
Reasoning begins (Dec.2- Dec 4)
Friday Dec. 3:
Main Program:
8:15 h: Continental Breakfast
9.00 h: Tutorial 3: Ken Kahn:
From Prolog and Zelda to ToonTalk.
10.00 h: Break
10.30 h: Session 10: Constraint applications:
Solving TSP with Time Windows with Constraints,
F. Focacci, A. Lodi, M. Milano.
Finding Fair Allocations for the Coalition Problem with Constraints,
E. Tick, M. J. Maher, R. H.C. Yap.
Constraint-based Round Robin Tournament Planning,
M. Henz.
12.00 h: Lunch
01.30 h: Session 11:Extensions:
Logic Programming with Requests,
S. Etalle, F. van Raamsdonk.
ACI1 Constraints,
A. Dovier, C. Piazza, E. Pontelli, G. Rossi.
Declarative Pruning in a Functional Query Language.
M. Osorio, B. Jayaraman, J.C. Nieves.
15.00 h: Closing.
15:15 h: Departure for a tour of White Sands National Monument
(a small fee may have to be paid for the tour)
Workshops:
10.30 h: Workshop on Optimisation and Implementation of Declarative
Programming Languages.
Co-located: International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and
Logic Programming. (Dec. 3 - 4)
Special event:
10.30 h: Open poster session.
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Register electronically through the ICLP'99 web-site
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99
Non-ALP Members ALP Members
Non Students (Before October 30)
Attending ICLP and Workshops $400 $375
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR $275 $250
Attending NLULP only $100 $80
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP) $50 $40
Attending one ICLP Workshop $50 $40
Students (Before October 30):
Attending ICLP and Workshops $225 $200
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR $175 $150
Attending NLULP (only) $100 $80
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP) $50 $40
Attending one ICLP Workshop $50 $40
Non Students (After October 30):
Attending ICLP and Workshops $450 $425
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR $325 $300
Attending NLULP (only) $150 $130
Attending NLULP (with ICLP) $75 $65
Attending one ICLP Workshop $75 $65
Students (After October 30):
Attending ICLP and Workshops $275 $250
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR $225 $200
Attending NLULP (only) $150 $130
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP) $75 $65
Attending one ICLP Workshop $75 $65
If you are paying by credit card, please add 4% to your total (for the
fee that the bank charges for processing credit cards).
The full conference registration entitles you to attend ICLP sessions and
activities as well as all workshops being held with ICLP except NLULP.
However, you will be given the proceedings of only one workshop of your
choice. Extra proceedings of the other workshops can be bought for $15 each.
For non-ALP members the registration fee also includes free 1 year membership to
Association for Logic Programming. The registration fee includes all
coffee-breaks on all days, the ICLP'99 proceedings and the banquet
(lunches are not included).
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For those attending LPNMR in El Paso there is a special reduced registration
rate. However, you will get this rate only if you register separately with
LPNMR and pay their registration fee as well. The reduced registration rate
includes the Banquet and the proceedings, and entitles you to attend
ICLP'99 sessions and workshops on Monday (Nov 29), Tuesday (Nov 30)
and Wednesday (Dec 1).
Student registration rates include proceedings of ICLP as well as the banquet.
CANCELLATION:
If you cancel before October 30th, you will be refunded 100% of your fee minus
$50 processing fee. If you cancel after October 30th, you'll get 75% of your
money back. However, a minimum of $50 will be charged as processing fee.
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Sleep Inn: 5 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single or Double $47 per night
Comfort Suites: 5 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single or Double $59 per night
Holiday Inn: 25 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single $52; Double $57
Las Cruces Hilton: 1 hour walking from Conference Site: Single $60; Double $70
Days Inn: 30 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single $41; Double $46
Sleep Inn and Comfort Suites are conference recommended hotels. For making your
hotel reservation visit the ICLP'99 web site:
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99.
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