CICLOPS 2009
9th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic
Programming Systems
July, 2009

Co-located with ICLP 2009 and IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, California, USA

http://www.cse.unt.edu/~tarau/ciclops09

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:     April 20
Notification of authors: May 13
Camera-ready copy due:   May 25
Workshop dates:          TBD July 14-17

Submission will be done through EasyChair using the URL
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciclops09 .

Topics of interest
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This workshop aims at discussing and exchanging experience on the
design, implementation, and optimization of logic, constraint (logic)
programming systems, and other systems based on logic as a means to
express computations. Experience backed up by real implementations and
their evaluation will be given preference, as well as descriptions of
work in progress in that direction.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

    * Sequential implementation schemes (abstract machines,
translation to other languages, etc.).
    * Implementation of concurrent and distributed logic and
constraint programming systems.
    * Implementation of type inference and type checking systems for
logic and constraint programming languages.
    * Compile-time analysis and its application to code generation.
    * Balance between compile-time effort and run-time machinery,
dynamic compilation.
    * Interaction between high-level optimizations / transformations /
specialization and low-level issues.
    * Memory management and garbage collection issues.
    * Indexing techniques and optimizations for large size programs.
    * Optimizations for program generated logic and constraint
programs.
    * Implementation of logic engines in functional and object
oriented languages.
    * Embedding of logic and constraint programming engines in multi-
paradigm systems.
    * Implementation techniques for alternative logic engines and
inference mechanisms (ASP, SAT, QSAT, DL etc.).
    * Implementation of theorem provers, proof assistants and logic
based natural language processing systems.
    * Implementation of object and agent-oriented extensions to logic
and constraint programming languages.
    * Object and module systems.
    * Design and implementation of declarative I/O concepts for logic
and constraint programming languages.
    * Implementations and ports of logic and constraint programming
systems for mobile phones and netbooks.
    * Documenting, debugging, testing, and profiling tools for logic
and constraint programming systems.

Workshop Goals
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Our intent is to bring together, in an informal setting, people
involved in research on sequential and parallel implementation
technologies for logic and constraint programming languages and
systems, in order to promote the exchange of ideas and feedback on
recent developments. We hope that the workshop will provide a meeting
point for people working on implementation technology for different
aspects of logic and constraint-based languages and systems.

History
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CICLOPS'09 continues a tradition of successful workshops on
Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, previously held 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
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 in Paphos (Cyprus, 2001),
Copenhagen (2002), Mumbai (2003), Saint Malo (France, 2004), Sitges
(Spain, 2005), Seattle (U.S.A., 2006), Porto (Portugal, 2007), Udine
(Italy, 2008).

Submission Information
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Authors are invited to submit PDF files of papers written in English
and not exceeding 15 pages using LNCS LaTeX format.

Program Committee
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Mats Carlsson      (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Manuel Carro       (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
Bart Demoen        (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Gopal Gupta        (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Michael Hanus      (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
Paulo Moura        (CRACS - INESC Porto and University of Beira
Interior, Portugal)
Ulrich Neumerkel   (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Enrico Pontelli    (New Mexico State University, USA)
Kostis Sagonas     (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Vitor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Tom Schrijvers     (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Peter Szeredi      (Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Hungary)
Paul Tarau         (University of North Texas, USA)
David S. Warren    (Stony Brook University, USA)
Jan Wielemaker     (University of Amsterdam)
Neng-Fa Zhou       (Brooklyn College, USA)

Workshop Coordinator
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Paul Tarau
University of North Texas