CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
GDE'21: An ICLP'21 (Virtual) Workshop
Goal-directed Execution of Answer Set Programs
Sep 20th, 2021, 2PM-7PM CEST (7AM-12Noon US CDT)
(for zoom meeting link, please visit the workshop page here<https://utdallas.edu/~gupta/gde21/>)
Program (Times given are in CEST):
* 14:00-14:10: Welcome Remarks & Introduction to the Workshop
- Gopal Gupta, Joaquin Arias & Elmer Salazar
* 14:10-14:45: The s(CASP) Goal-directed System for ASP: A Tutorial Introduction
- Joaquin Arias (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
* 14:45-15:15: Industrial Applications of Goal-directed ASP (invited)
- Brendan Hall & Kevin Driscoll (Honeywell Advanced Technology)
* 15:15-15:45: Goal-directed ASP for Legal Reasoning (invited)
- Jason Morris (University of Alberta)
* 15:45-16:15: Solving B Constraints with Goal-directed Answer Set Programming (invited)
- Alexandros Efremidis (Heinrich Heine Universitat, Dusseldorf)
* 16:15-16:45: The s(CASP) system in SWI-Prolog (invited)
- Jan Wielemaker, SWI Prolog-Solutions and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
* 16:45-17:05: Building Health Policy Enforcement Solution Based on HL7 FHIR
- Alexey Koptsovich & Dmitrii Velikii (Eastbanc Technologies)
* 17:05-17:25: Theory Revision with Goal-directed ASP
- Elmer Salazar (The University of Texas at Dallas)
* 17:25-17:45: Natural Language Question Answering with Goal-directed ASP
- Kinjal Basu (The University of Texas at Dallas)
* 17:45-18:05: AUTO-DISCERN: Autonomous Driving Using Common Sense Reasoning
- Suraj Kothawade (The University of Texas at Dallas)
* 18:05-18:25: Modeling and Verification of Timed Systems with the Event Calculus & s(CASP)
- Sarat Varanasi (The University of Texas at Dallas)
* 18:25-18:45: Graph-based Implementation of ASP
- Fang Li (The University of Texas at Dallas)
* 18:45-19:05: Formalizing Informal Logic and Natural Language Deductivism with s(CASP)
- Gopal Gupta (The University of Texas at Dallas)
* 19:05-19:10: Closing:
- Gopal Gupta, Joaquin Arias, Elmer Salazar
Hi,
Logtalk 3.50.0 is now available for downloading at:
https://logtalk.org/
This release focus on improved documentation, developer tools, and test suites. The Handbook includes improved sections on documenting and testing applications, directives, and multi-threaded features. The testing automation script have been updated with support for passing base URLs to generate reports that link to the tests source code. The documenting and diagrams include more versatile helper scripts with new options. A significant number of new tests have been added to the Prolog standards compliance suite for better coverage. This release also includes fixes and updates to libraries and examples plus portability updates for JIProlog, LVM, and SICStus Prolog. For details and a complete list of changes, please consult the release notes at:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
You can show your support for Logtalk continued development and success at GitHub by giving us a star and a symbolic sponsorship:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3
Happy logtalking!
Paulo
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Second Call for Workshops- FLoC 2022 — The 2022 Federated Logic Conference
July 31 - August 12, 2022
Haifa, Israel
http://www.floc2022.org/
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
The Eighth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2022) will host the following ten
conferences and affiliated workshops.
LICS (37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science)
http://lics.rwth-aachen.de/
Workshop chair: Frederic Blanqui Frederic.Blanqui(a)inria.fr
FSCD (7th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction)
http://fscd-conference.org/
Workshop chair: Nachum Dershowitz nachumd(a)tau.ac.il
ITP (13th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving)
https://itp-conference.github.io/
Workshop chair: Cyril Cohen cyril.cohen(a)inria.fr
IJCAR (International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning)
http://www.ijcar.org
Workshop chairs: Simon Robillard simon.robillard(a)imt-atlantique.fr
Sophie Tourret stourret(a)mpi-inf.mpg.de
CSF (35th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium)
http://www.ieee-security.org/CSFWweb/
Workshop chair: Musard Balliu musard(a)kth.se
CAV (34th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification)
http://i-cav.org/
Workshop chair: TBD
KR (19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning)
http://www.kr.org/
Workshop chair: Stefan Borgwardt stefan.borgwardt(a)tu-dresden.de
ICLP (38th International Conference on Logic Programming)
https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/conferences/
Workshop chair: Daniela Inclezan inclezd(a)miamioh.edu
SAT (25th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing)
http://www.satisfiability.org
Workshop chair: Alexander Nadel alexander.nadel(a)intel.com
CP (25th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming)
http://a4cp.org/events/cp-conference-series
Workshop chair: TBD
SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on
topics in the field of computer science, related to logic in the broad sense.
Each workshop proposal must indicate one affiliated conference of FLoC 2022.
It is strongly suggested that prospective workshop organizers contact the
relevant conference workshop chair before submitting a proposal.
Each proposal should consist of the following two parts.
1) A short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance,
and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a
list of previous or related workshops (if relevant).
2) An organisational part including:
- contact information for the workshop organizers;
- proposed affiliated conference;
- estimate of the number of workshop participants (please note that small workshops, i.e., of less than ~13 participants, will likely be cancelled or merged);
- proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.);
- potential invited speakers (note that expenses of workshop invited speakers are not covered by FLoC);
- procedures for selecting papers and participants;
- plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue);
- duration (which may vary from one day to two days);
- preferred period (pre or post FLoC);
- virtual/hybrid backup plans (including platform preference).
The FLoC Organizing Committee will determine the final list of accepted
workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs of the hosting
conferences and availability of space and facilities.
Proposals should be submitted through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc2022workshops
Please see the Workshop Guidelines page: https://floc2022.org/workshops/ for further details and FAQ.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of workshop proposals deadline: September 27, 2021 (note extended deadline)
Notification: November 1, 2021
Pre-FLoC workshops: Sunday & Monday, July 31–August 1, 2022 (note corrected dates)
Post-FLoC workshops: Thursday & Friday, August 11-12, 2022
CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions regarding proposals should be sent to the workshop chairs of the
proposed affiliated conference. General questions should be sent to:
shaull(a)technion.ac.il
GuillermoAlberto.Perez(a)uantwerpen.be
FLoC 2022 WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Shaull Almagor
Guillermo A. Perez
CALL FOR PAPERS!! CALL FOR PAPERS
ICLP'21 Workshop on Goal-directed Execution of Answer Set Programs
https://utdallas.edu/~gupta/gde21
(Fully Virtual)
located with
ICLP'21: 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (Virtual)
Date: September 20-27, 2021
Workshop Aim: Answer set programming is a successful extension of logic programming
for solving combinatorial problems as well as knowledge representation and reasoning
problems. Most current implementations of ASP work by grounding a program and using
a SAT solver-like technology to find the answer sets. While this approach is extremely
efficient, relying on grounding of the program leads to significant blow-up of the
program size, and computing the whole model makes finding justification of an atom
in the model hard. This limits the applicability of ASP to problems dealing with
large knowledge bases. Goal-directed or query-driven execution strategies have been
proposed that do not require grounding. The goal of this workshop is to foster discussion
around challenges and opportunities that such approaches present.
List of topics includes:
Non-grounding based implementations of ASP
Constructive Negation
Implementation Technology for Goal-directed ASP
Applications of Goal-directed ASP
Query-driven Constraint ASP
System Description
Tabling in goal-directed ASP Systems
Coinductive Logic Programming and ASP
Submission Instructions:
Technical papers, position papers, as well as extended abstracts are welcome.
Papers should be maximum 15 pages long and in LNCS Format.
Email the paper in pdf format to the workshop organizers by the deadline date.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: August 12, 2021
Decision Notification: August 22, 2021
Workshop Date: TBA (During one of ICLP'21 Conference days: Sep 20-27)
Invited Speakers: TBA
Organizers:
Gopal Gupta, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Gopal.Gupta(a)utdallas.edu
Joaquin Arias, Joaquin Arias, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Joaquin.Arias(a)urjc.es
Elmer Salazar, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Elmer.Salazar(a)utdallas.edu
Hi,
Logtalk 3.48.0 is now available for downloading at:
https://logtalk.org/
This release provides out of the box support for running parallel Logtalk processes; updates support for Ciao Prolog, CxProlog, GNU Prolog, LVM, SWI-Prolog, and Trealla Prolog; adds new Handbook sections on running parallel processes and on different stages of the multi-pass compiler; improves several Handbook sections; improves documentation of the "lgtunit" tool; improves tests for the "cbor" and "random" libraries; updates the "logtalk_tester" script to print the run time in seconds for each test set; adds a new example contributed by Paul Brown on adding portable application GUIs using Tcl and Tk; improves tests for multiple examples; includes new and improve standards compliance tests; and improves support for the Sublime Text editor. For details and a complete list of changes, please consult the release notes at:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
You can show your support for Logtalk continued development and success at GitHub by giving us a star and a symbolic sponsorship:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3
Happy logtalking!
Paulo
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Logtalk developer
Hello,
I have been unable to find a READY MADE test suite for evaluating the Ciao system.
Is there one somewhere?
I have (successfully?) installed Ciao according the main README.md but it's HUGE BLOB with no obvious "entry point" (some kind of extended "Hello World")
I could not find either any PDF documentatio which would mirror https://ciao-lang.org/documentation.html (willing to browse it offline)
Could you point me to the proper sources?
Thanks for your attention.
Best regards,
Jean-Luc Delatre
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Hi,
Logtalk 3.44.0 is now available for downloading at:
https://logtalk.org/
This release features new and improved linter checks; adds a new Handbook nomenclature section on the differences between Logtalk and Prolog; adds new Handbook glossary entries; adds libraries for CSV files reading/writing, option handling, and term input/output from/to atoms, chars, and codes; improves existing libraries; provides fixes and improvements for several developer tools; adds a shell script for generating Allure reports from test results; adds support for exporting test result in the xUnit.net v2 XML format; improves exporting of results in the JUnit/xUnit format; includes new and improved programming examples; adds new examples to the ToyCHR port; adds tests sets for the de facto standard hyperbolic arithmetic functions; adds additional tests for several arithmetic functions; adds Windows installer experimental support for creating an integration shortcut for Tau Prolog; updates the macOS installer support for users of the zsh shell; removes support for Qu-Prolog and for the multi-threaded version of XSB; and includes portability updates for LVM, SICStus Prolog, SWI-Prolog, Tau Prolog, Trella ProLog, YAP. For details and a complete list of changes, please consult the release notes at:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
You can show your support for Logtalk continued development and success at GitHub by giving us a star and a symbolic sponsorship:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3
Happy logtalking!
Paulo
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Logtalk developer
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Call for Papers
8th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS)
Co-located with ETAPS 2021 <https://etaps.org/>
28 March 2021 - Virtual
https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs21/
Invited speakers:
TBA. Please visit the webpage for updates.
Submission deadlines:
- Paper submission: Jan 28, 2021
- Paper notification: Feb 27, 2021
- Workshop: Mar 28, 2021
Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be
modelled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP
and CAV communities have centred around efficiently solving problems
presented as Horn clauses.
This series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working in the
two communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP),
Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated Deduction
(e.g., CADE, IJCAR), on the topic of Horn clause based analysis,
verification, and synthesis.
Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these
communities at different times and from different perspectives and HCVS is
organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and integration
of experiences.
The workshop follows seven previous meetings: HCVS 2020 in Dublin, Ireland
(ETAPS 2020), HCVS 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic (ETAPS 2019), HCVS 2018
in Oxford, UK (CAV, ICLP and IJCAR at FLoC 2018), HCVS 2017 in Gothenburg,
Sweden (CADE), HCVS 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (ETAPS), HCVS 2015
in San Francisco, CA, USA (CAV), and HCVS 2014 in Vienna, Austria (VSL).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the use of Horn clauses,
constraints, and related formalisms in the following areas:
-Analysis and verification of programs and systems of various kinds (e.g.,
imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, higher-order, concurrent,
transition systems, Petri-nets, smart contracts)
-Program synthesis
-Program testing
-Program transformation
-Constraint solving
-Type systems
-Machine learning and automated reasoning
-CHC encoding of analysis and verification problems
-Resource analysis
-Case studies and tools
-Challenging problems
We solicit regular papers describing the theory and implementation of
Horn-clause based analysis and tool descriptions. We also solicit extended
abstracts describing work-in-progress, as well as presentations covering
previously published results and posters that are of interest to the
workshop.
CHC Competition:
HCVS 2021 will host the 4th competition on constraint Horn clauses (
CHC-COMP <https://chc-comp.github.io/>), which will compare
state-of-the-art tools for CHC solving for performance and effectiveness on
a set of publicly available benchmarks. A report on the 4th CHC-COMP will
be part of the workshop's proceedings. The report also contains tool
descriptions of the participating solvers.
Program Committee:
-
Bishoksan Kafle <https://bishoksan.github.io/>, IMDEA Software
Institute, Madrid, Spain (co-chair)
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Hossein Hojjat <https://www.cs.rit.edu/~hh/>, Rochester Institute of
Technology, NY, USA (co-chair)
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Gopal Gupta <https://utdallas.edu/chairs/profiles/dr-gopal-gupta/>,
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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John Gallagher <http://webhotel4.ruc.dk/~jpg/>, Roskilde University,
Denmark
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Philipp Ruemmer <https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N11-35>, Uppsala
University, Sweden
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Andrey Rybalchenko
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/rybal/>, Microsoft
Research, Cambridge, UK
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Pedro Lopez-Garcia <https://software.imdea.org/people/pedro.lopez/>,
CSIC and IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
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Emanuele De Angelis <http://saks.iasi.cnr.it/emanuele/>, IASI-CNR, Italy
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Fabio Fioravanti <https://www.sci.unich.it/~fioravan/>, University of
Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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Daniel Neider <https://www.mpi-sws.org/people/neider/>, Max Planck
Institute for Software Systems, Germany
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Arie Gurfinkel <https://arieg.bitbucket.io/>, University of Waterloo,
Canada
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Ranjit Jhala <https://ranjitjhala.github.io/>, University of California
San Diego, USA
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Martin Schäf <https://www.martinschaef.de/>, SRI International, USA
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He Zhu <https://herowanzhu.github.io/>, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, USA
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Steven Ramsay
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/people/steven-j-ramsay/index.html>,
University of Bristol, UK
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Grigory Fedyukovich <https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~grigory/>, Florida State
University, USA
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Gidon Ernst <https://www.sosy-lab.org/people/ernst/>, Ludwig Maximilian
University of Munich, Germany
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David Monniaux <http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~monniaux/>, CNRS, VERIMAG,
France
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Jorge A. Navas <https://jorgenavas.github.io/>, SRI International, USA
The submission has to be done in one of the following formats:
-Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography in EPTCS
<http://www.eptcs.org/> (http://www.eptcs.org/) format), which should
present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including
descriptions of research, tools, and applications.
-Tool papers (up to 4 pages in EPTCS format), including the papers written
by the CHC-COMP participants, which can outline the theoretical framework,
the architecture, the usage, and experiments of the tool.
-Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe work in
progress or aim to initiate discussions.
-Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a
conference or another workshop. Such papers can be submitted in any format,
and will not be included in the workshop post-proceedings.
-Posters that are of interest to the workshop
All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and will be
selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee reports. Accepted
regular papers and extended abstracts will be published electronically as a
volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
(EPTCS) series, see http://www.eptcs.org/ (provided that enough regular
papers are accepted).
Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2021
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Hi,
Logtalk 3.43.0 is now available for downloading at:
https://logtalk.org/
This release
focus once again on improved testing support and improved test suites for both Logtalk features and Prolog standards compliance of supported backends. It also provides compiler improvements and bug fixes, provides experimental support for Trealla ProLog; updates support for LVM and Tau Prolog; improves the top-level shortcut for loading files; includes a new "git" library; adds new predicates to the "queues" library; provides portability fixes for the "os" library; provides new predicates, improvements, and fixes for the "lgtunit" tool; provides fixes for the "debugger" and "lgtdoc" tools; improves the portability of the "bench" and "metainterpreters" examples; provides UltiSnips support for the Vim text editor, kindly contributed by Paul Brown; and includes other portability updates for most of the supported backends. For details and a complete list of changes, please consult the release
notes at:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
You can show your support for Logtalk continued development and success at GitHub by giving us a star and a symbolic sponsorship:
https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3
Happy logtalking!
Paulo
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Logtalk developer