[comp.lang.prolog] Meta90 program

dannyd@kulcs.uucp (Danny De Schreye) (02/07/90)

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 2nd Workshop on            / \    /        *******************
 Meta-Programming in Logic /   \__/
 4-6 April 1990 Leuven Belgium


All technical sessions are held at the "Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte",
Blijde Inkomststraat 21, Leuven, 8th Floor.

Wednesday, April 4th, 1990:
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 9.00h: REGISTRATION.
 9.45h: OPENING.
10.00h: INVITED TALK:
  Towards meta matters,                                               
    by Robert A. Kowalski
11.00h: COFFEE BREAK.
11.30h: SESSION 1: REFLECTION:
   Semantics of a metalogic programming language,
     by S.Costantini.
   Meta and reflective computation in logic programs and its semantics,
     by H.Sugano.
12.30h: LUNCH.
14.00h: SESSION 2: PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION:
   Compiling bottom-up and mixed derivations into top-down executable
   logic programs,
     by D.De Schreye, B.Martens, G.Sablon and M.Bruynooghe.
   Automatic derivation of logic programs : the synthesis of eureka
   predicates,
     by M.Proietti and A.Pettorossi.
   Constraint relaxation as higher order logic programming,
     by F.Rossi and U.Montanari.
15.30h: COFFEE BREAK.
16.00h: SESSION 3: APPLICATIONS:
   Metaprogramming for representation of legal principles,
     by A.Hamfelt and J.Barklund.
   Explanation-based acceleration of similarity-based learning,
     by M.Numao.
   Debugging Prolog programs declaratively,
     by S.Nadjm-Tehrani.

19.00h: RECEPTION AT THE UNIVERSITY HALL.

Thursday, April 5th, 1990:
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 9.00h: SESSION 4: THEORY:
   Declarative semantics of a meta-programming language,
     by H.Christiansen.
   Non-monotone rule systems, their semantical issues and processing,
     by W.Marek and A.Nerode.
   Combinators in meta logic programming,
     by J.F.Nilsson.
10.30h: COFFEE BREAK.
11.00h: SESSION 5: PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION:
   Transforming interpreters into compilers by goal classification,
     by G.Neumann.
   To PE or not to PE,
     by A.Lakhotia.
   Some low-level source transformations for logic programs,
     by J.Gallagher and M.Bruynooghe.
12.30h: LUNCH.
14.00h: TUTORIAL 1:
   Godel: a logic programming language,
     by J.W.Lloyd.
15.30h: COFFEE BREAK.
16.00h: SESSION 6: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION:
   Cliche programming in PROLOG,
     by D.Barker-Plummer.
   Metaclasses for metaprogramming in logic,
     by J.Malenfant, G.Lapalme and J.Vaucher.
   Metalogic for knowledge representation,
     by J.S.Kim and R.A.Kowalski.

19.00h: CONFERENCE DINNER AT THE FACULTY CLUB.

Friday, April 6th, 1990:
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 9.00h: SESSION 7: CONSTRUCTIVE PROOFS:
   The meta and meta-meta level transformation of constructive proofs,
     by P.Madden.
   The improvement of Prolog program efficiency by compiling control:
   a proof-theoretic view,
     by G.A.Wiggins.
   Plan formation and execution in a uniform architecture of declarative
   metatheories,
     by F.Giunchiglia and P.Traverso.
10.30h: COFFEE BREAK.
11.00h: TUTORIAL 2:
   Metaprogramming,
     by L.Sterling.
12.30h: LUNCH
14.00h: SESSION 8: APPLICATIONS:
   Automatic detection of incomplete message protocols in concurrent
   logic programs,
     by D.Dams, M.Codish and E.Shapiro.
   Using meta-interpreters for polymorphic type checking,
     by T.W.Fruhwirth.
   Extensible unification by metastructures,
     by U.Neumerkel.
15.30h: COFFEE BREAK.
16.00h: SESSION 9: THEORY:
   Unification and constraint solution for metaprogramming: 
   an overview, 
     by R.A.Paterson and J.Staples.
   Hierarchies through basic meta-level operators,
     by A.Brogi, P.Mancarella, D.Pedreschi and F.Turini.


The Meta90 Workshop is sponsored by:

           The Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research
                The Association of Logic Programming
                              B.I.M.