[net.lang.prolog] Schedule -- 1985 Symposium on L.P.

conery@uoregon.UUCP (conery) (05/17/85)

			-- Preliminary Schedule --

		  -- 1985 Symposium on Logic Program --

For more information, contact:
	John Conery  (jc@uoregon.csnet)    503-686-4408
	Jacques Cohen (jc@brandeis.csnet)  617-647-3370

MONDAY, July 15

Tutorials  (Two parallel sessions, 9:00 - 4:30) (Two more tutorials on Friday)

"Expert Systems Using Prolog", Bob Kowalski, Imperial College
"Parallel Logic Programming", Gary Lindstrom, Univerity of Utah

8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.  Early Registration and Reception

TUESDAY, July 16, 1985

  8:00 a.m. -  9:00 a.m.  Registration

  9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert Kowalski, Imperial College
                          London, England

 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  PARALLELISM
                          Semi-intelligent Backtracking of Prolog Based on a
                          Static Data Dependency Analysis, Jung-Herng Chang 
                          and Alvin M. Despain, University of California,
                          Berkeley

                          User-defined Parallel Control Strategies, J. I. 
                          Glasgow, M. A. Jenkins, and C. D. McCrosky,
                          Queen's University, Canada

                          AND-parallelism with Intelligent Backtracking for
                          Annotated Logic Programs, J. Maluszynski, Linkoping
                          University and P. Dembinski, Chalmbers University of
                          Technology, Sweden   

12:30 p.m. -   2:00 p.m.  Lunch

 2:00 p.m. -   3:30 p.m.  EXTENSIONS
                          An experiment in Programming with Full First-Order
                          Logic, Zerkis D. Umrigar and Vijay Pitchumani,
                          Syracuse University

                          A Meta-Level Extension of Prolog, Kenneth A. Bowen,
                          Syracuse University, and Tobias Weinberg, Digital
                          Equipment Corporation

                          Logic Programming Cum Applicative Programming, Nachum
                          Dershowitz and David Plaisted, University of 
                          Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  3:30 p.m. -  4:00 p.m.  Coffee Break

  4:00 p.m. -  5:30 p.m.  LANGUAGE ISSUES
                          On the Treatment of Cuts in Prolog Source-Level
                          Tools, R. A. O'Keefe, University of Edinburgh,
                          United Kingdom

                          All Solutions Predicates in Prolog, Lee Naish,
                          University of Melbourne, Australia

                          Unification-free Execution of Logic Programs,
                          Jan Komorowski, Aiken Computation Laboratory,
                          Harvard University and Jan Maluszynski,
                          Linkoping University, Sweden


Wednesday, July 17, 1985

 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  INVITED SPEAKER
                         Dr. Herve Gallaire, European Computer Research
                         Center, Munich, West Germany

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.  Coffee break

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  CONCURRENT PROLOG
                         Concurrent Prolog in a Multi-process Environment,
                         Rosanna Lee and Randy Goebel, University of
                         Waterloo, Canada

                         A sequential Implementation of Concurrent Prolog
                         Based on the Shallow Binding Scheme, Toshihiko
                         Miyazaki, Akikazu Takeuchi and Takashi Chikayama,
                         ICOT, Japan

12:30 p.m. -  2:00 p.m.  Lunch

 2:00 p.m. -  3:30 p.m.  SEMANTICS
                         The Declarative Semantics of Logical Read-only
                         Variables, G. Levi and C. Palamidessi, 
                         Universita'di Pisa, Italy

                         Narrowing as the Operational Semantics of Functional
                         Languages, Uday Reddy, University of Utah

                         Towards an Algebra for Constructing Logic Programs,
                         R.A. O'Keefe, University of Edinburgh, United
                         Kingdom

 3:30 p.m. -  4:00 p.m.  Coffee Break

 4:00 p.m. -  5:30 p.m.  IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES
                         A Microcoded Unifier for Lisp Machine Prolog, Mats
                         Carlssn, Uppsala University, Sweden

                         SLOG: A Logic Programming Language Interpreter Based
                         on Clausal Superposition and Rewriting, Laurent 
                         Fribourg, Laboratoires de Marcoussis, France

                         A Real Time Garbage Collector for Prolog, Edwin
                         Pittombils and Maurice Bruynooghe, K.U. Leuven, 
                         Belgium


Evening Banquet
Speaker                  Dr. Maurice Wilkes, Digital Equipment Corporation

Thursday, July 19, 1985

 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  THEORY
                         Recursive Unsolvability of Determinacy, Solvable
                         Cases of Determinacy, and Their Applications to
                         Prolog Optimization, Jajime Sawamura and Taku
                         Takeshima, International Institute for Advanced
                         Study of Social Information Science, Japan

                         Graph-based Logic Programming Interpreters, Jean
                         Gallier and Stan Raatz, University of Pennsylvania

                         Surface Deduction: A Uniform Mechanism for Logic
                         Programming, P. T. Cox and T. Pietrzykowski,
                         Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.  Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. -  1:00 p.m.  SPECIAL TOPICS
                         Towards a Programming Environment for Large
                         Prolog Programs, Jan Chomicki and Naftaly H.
                         Minsky, Rutgers University

                         Modular Logic Programming of Compilers, Harald
                         Ganzinger and Michael Hanus, University Dortmund,
                         West Germany

                         An(other) Integration of Logic and Functional
                         Programming, Amitabh Srivastava, Don Oxley and
                         Aditya Srivastava, Central Research Laboratories,
                         Texas Instruments, Inc.

                         A Technique for Doing Lazy Evaluation in Logic,
                         Sanjai Narain, Rand Corp.

FRIDAY July 19  

Tutorials:  (Two concurrent sessions, 9:00 - 4:30)

"Concurrent Logic Programming Techniques", Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute
"Prolog and Software Engineering", Susan Gerhart, Wang Institute.