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======================================================================= Call For Papers

CICLOPS 2006 Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint LOgic Programming Systems

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/lldap/CICLOPS06 August 21, 2006

To be held in conjunction with 22nd International Conference on Logic Programming Seattle, Washington =======================================================================

Workshop Motivation ====================

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 unnecessarily jeopardizing efficiency.

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 (ParImp) 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 (CICLOPS) in Paphos (Cyprus, 2001), Copenhagen (2002), Mumbai (2003), Saint-Malo (France, 2004), and Sitges (Spain, 2005), and the CoLogNet Workshops on Implementation Technology for Computational Logic Systems held in Madrid (2002), Pisa (2003) and Saint-Malo (France, 2004).

Workshop Description ====================

The workshop aims at discussing and exchanging experience on the design, implementation, and optimization of logic and constraint (logic) programming systems, or systems intimately related to logic as a means to express computations. Preference will be given to the analysis and description of implemented (or under implementation) systems and their associated techniques, problems found in their development or design, and steps taken towards the solutions.

The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- Implementation of standard/alternative sequential models (generalization and modification of the WAM, translation to lower-level and/or general-purpose languages, etc.); - Implementation of parallel/concurrent models; - Interaction between high-level optimizations/transformations and lower- level issues; - Compile-time analysis and its application to code generation; - Balance between compile-time effort and run-time machinery; - Memory management, indexing, and garbage collection issues; - Profiling tools and performance evaluation; - Implementation techniques for declarative programming paradigms with basis on, or extending, logic and constraint programming, such as non-monotonic reasoning, inductive logic programming, natural language processing systems, etc; - Software desing with and for (C)LP systems: components, patterns, etc.; - Design and implementation of programming environments; - Experiences from using systems in real-life applications.

Workshop Format =============== The workshop will emphasize discussion and cross-fertilization, so presentations will be balanced with discussion time. In this direction, the workshop is seeking high quality papers that address cutting-edge research in this field, and that can contribute to the discussion. The agenda will include paper presentations, a panel discussion, and possibly an invited speaker. At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend the workshop.

Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2006 (strict) Notifications to Authors: July 1st, 2006 Final Version Deadline: July 20th, 2006 CICLOPS 2006 Workshop: August 21st, 2006

Submission Guidelines ===================== Participants should submit a paper (maximum 15 pages, PDF format), describing their work in topics relevant to the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop. At least one author of an accepted contribution is expected to register for the workshop, and present the paper.

All submissions should include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, and email address.

Authors are requested to prepare their submissions, following the LNCS/LNAI Springer format. Please see: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for further details.

The submission should be submitted through the electronic submission site, accessible via the workshop web page. The deadline for receipt of submissions is June 1, 2006. Papers received after this date may not be reviewed. Eligible papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified via email of the results by July 1, 2006. Authors of accepted papers are expected to improve their paper based on reviewers' comments and to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts by July 20, 2006.

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the participants.

Questions about submissions may be directed to haifengguo <AT> mail <DOT> unomaha <DOT> edu

Organizing Committee ==================== Hai-Feng Guo (University of Nebraska at Omaha) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University)

Program Committee ================= Manuel Carro (Polytechnic University of Madrid) Bart Demoen (KUL Leuven) Michel Ferreira (University of Porto) Hai-Feng Guo (University of Nebraska at Omaha) Gopal Gupta (University of Texas at Dallas) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University) Vitor Santos Costa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Tom Schrijvers (KUL Leuven) Christian Schulte (University of Uppsala) Neng-Fa Zhou (City University of New York)

Contact Information =================== Hai-Feng Guo University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of Computer Science 6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182, USA haifengguo <AT> mail <DOT> unomaha <DOT> edu

Enrico Pontelli New Mexico State University Department of Computer Science Box 30001, MSC CS Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA epontell <AT> cs <DOT> nmsu <DOT> edu

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