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AIList Digest Wednesday, 17 Sep 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 181
Today's Topics:
Conferences - ACM Office Information Systems &
IEEE Symposium on Logic Programming '86
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 86 23:14:51 edt
From: rba@petrus.bellcore.com (Robert B. Allen)
Subject: Conference on Office Information Systems - Brown U.
ACM CONFERENCE ON OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
October 6-8, 1968, Providence, R.I.
Conference Chair: Carl Hewitt, MIT
Program Chair: Stan Zdonik, Brown University
Keynote Speaker: J.C.R. Licklider, MIT
Distinguished Lecturer: A. van Dam, Brown University
COIS is a major research conference on the design and use of
computing systems for professional and knowledge workers.
At this meeting, sessions and panels emphasize AI and
organizational models of offices as sites for distributed information
processing. Other themes include user interfaces,
graphics, group cooperation, and object-oriented systems.
For more information, call the Conference Registrar at Brown U.
(401-813-1839), or send electronic mail to mhf@brown.CSNET.
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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 86 23:50:34 MDT
From: keller@utah-cs.ARPA (Bob Keller)
Subject: Conference - SLP '86
We have requested, and the IEEE has agreed, that
Symposium registrations be accepted at the "early" fee for a
couple of more days, so please act immediately
if you wish to exploit this rate.
[Sorry for the delay -- AIList doesn't always function in
real time. -- KIL]
Hotel Reservations: phone 801-531-1000, telex 389434
The (nearly) final schedule:
SLP '86
Third IEEE Symposium on
LOGIC PROGRAMMING
September 21-25, 1986
Westin Hotel Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
SUNDAY, September 21
19:00 - 22:00 Symposium and tutorial registration
MONDAY, September 22
08:00 - 09:00 Symposium and tutorial registration
09:00 - 17:30 TUTORIALS (concurrent) Please see abstracts later.
George Luger Introduction to AI Programming in Prolog
University of New Mexico
David Scott Warren Building Prolog Interpreters
SUNY, Stony Brook
John Conery Theory of Parallelism, with Applications to
University of Oregon Logic Programming
12:00 - 17:30 Exhibit set up time
18:00 - 22:00 Symposium registration
20:00 - 22:00 Reception
TUESDAY, September 23
08:00 - 12:30 Symposium registration
09:00 Exhibits open
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and announcements
09:30 - 10:30 INVITED SPEAKER:
W. W. Bledsoe, MCC
Some Thoughts on Proof Discovery
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 1: Applications
(Chair: Harvey Abramson)
The Logic of Tensed Statements in English -
an Application of Logic Programming
Peter Ohrstrom, University of Aalborg
Nils Klarlund, University of Aarhus
Incremental Flavor-Mixing of Meta-Interpreters for
Expert System Construction
Leon Sterling and Randall D. Beer
Case Western Reserve University
The Phoning Philosopher's Problem or
Logic Programming for Telecommunications Applications
J.L. Armstrong, N.A. Elshiewy, and R. Virding
Ericsson Telecom
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 2: Secondary Storage
(Chair: Maurice Bruynooghe)
EDUCE - A Marriage of Convenience:
Prolog and a Relational DBMS
Jorge Bocca, ECRC, Munich
Paging Strategy for Prolog Based Dynamic Virtual Memory
Mark Ross, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
K. Ramamohanarao, University of Melbourne
A Logical Treatment of Secondary Storage
Anthony J. Kusalik, University of Saskatchewan
Ian T. Foster, Imperial College, London
16:00 - 17:30 SESSION 3: Compilation
(Chair: Richard O'Keefe)
Compiling Control
Maurice Bruynooghe, Danny De Schreye, Bruno Krekels
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Automatic Mode Inference for Prolog Programs
Saumya K. Debray, David S. Warren
SUNY at Stony Brook
IDEAL: an Ideal DEductive Applicative Language
Pier Giorgio Bosco, Elio Giovannetti
C.S.E.L.T., Torino
17:30 - 19:30 Reception
20:30 - 22:30 Panel (Wm. Kornfeld, moderator)
Logic Programming for Systems Programming
Panelists: Steve Taylor, Weizmann Institute
Steve Gregory, Imperial College
Bill Wadge
A researcher from ICOT
(sorry this is incomplete)
WEDNESDAY, September 24
09:00 - 10:00 INVITED SPEAKER:
Sten Ake Tarnlund, Uppsala University
Logic Programming - A Logical View
10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 4: Theory
(Chair: Jean-Louis Lassez)
A Theory of Modules for Logic Programming
Dale Miller
University of Pennsylvania
Building-In Classical Equality into Prolog
P. Hoddinott, E.W. Elcock
The University of Western Ontario
Negation as Failure Using Tight Derivations
for General Logic Programs
Allen Van Gelder
Stanford University
13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 5: Control
(Chair: Jacques Cohen)
Characterisation of Terminating Logic Programs
Thomas Vasak, The University of New South Wales
John Potter, New South Wales Institute of Technology
An Execution Model for Committed-Choice
Non-Deterministic Languages
Jim Crammond
Heriot-Watt University
Timestamped Term Representation in Implementing Prolog
Heikki Mannila, Esko Ukkonen
University of Helsinki
15:30 - 22:00 Excursion
THURSDAY, September 25
09:00 - 10:30 SESSION 6: Unification
(Chair: Uday Reddy)
Refutation Methods for Horn Clauses with Equality
Based on E-Unification
Jean H. Gallier and Stan Raatz
University of Pennsylvania
An Algorithm for Unification in Equational Theories
Alberto Martelli, Gianfranco Rossi
Universita' di Torino
An Implementation of Narrowing: the RITE Way
Alan Josephson and Nachum Dershowitz
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 7: Parallelism
(Chair: Jim Crammond)
Selecting the Backtrack Literal in the
AND Process of the AND/OR Process Model
Nam S. Woo and Kwang-Moo Choe
AT & T Bell Laboratories
Distributed Semi-Intelligent Backtracking for a
Stack-based AND-parallel Prolog
Peter Borgwardt, Tektronix Labs
Doris Rea, University of Minnesota
The Sync Model for Parallel Execution of Logic Programming
Pey-yun Peggy Li and Alain J. Martin
California Institute of Technology
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 8: Performance
Redundancy in Function-Free Recursive Rules
Jeff Naughton
Stanford University
Performance Evaluation of a Storage Model for
OR-Parallel Execution
Andrzej Ciepelewski and Bogumil Hausman
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
MALI: A Memory with a Real-Time Garbage Collector
for Implementing Logic Programming Languages
Yves Bekkers, Bernard Canet, Olivier Ridoux, Lucien Ungaro
IRISA/INRIA Rennes
16:00 - 17:30 SESSION 9: Warren Abstract Machine
(Chair: Manuel Hermenegildo)
A High Performance LOW RISC Machine
for Logic Programming
J.W. Mills
Arizona State University
Register Allocation in a Prolog Machine
Saumya K. Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook
Garbage Cut for Garbage Collection of Iterative Programs
Jonas Barklund and Hakan Millroth
Uppsala University
EXHIBITS:
An exhibit area including displays by publishers, equipment
manufacturers, and software houses will accompany the Symposium.
The list of exhibitors includes: Arity, Addison-Wesley, Elsevier,
Expert Systems, Logicware, Overbeek Enterprises, Prolog Systems,
and Quintus. For more information, please contact:
Dr. Ross A. Overbeek
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439
312/972-7856
ACCOMODATIONS:
The Westin Hotel Utah is a gracious turn of the century hotel
with Mobil 4-Star and AAA 5-Star ratings. The Temple Square
Hotel, located one city block away, offers basic comforts for
budget-conscious attendees.
MEALS AND SOCIAL EVENTS:
Symposium registrants (excluding students and retired members)
will receive tickets for lunches on September 23, 24, and 25,
receptions on September 22 and 23, and an excursion the afternoon
of September 24. The excursion will comprise a steam train trip
through scenic Provo Canyon, and a barbeque at Deer Valley
Resort, Park City, Utah.
Tutorial registrants will receive lunch tickets for September 22.
TRAVEL:
The Official Carrier for SLP '86 is United Airlines, and the
Official Travel Agent is Morris Travel (361 West Lawndale Drive,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115, phone 1-800-621-3535). Special
airfares are available to SLP '86 attendees. Contact Morris
Travel for details.
A courtesy limousine is available from Salt Lake International
Airport to both symposium hotels, running every half hour from
6:30 to 23:00. The taxi fare is approximately $10.
CLIMATE:
Salt Lake City generally has warm weather in September, although
evenings may be cool. A warm jacket should be brought for the
excursion. Some rain is normal this time of year.
SLP '86 Symposium and Tutorial Registration Coupon:
Advance symposium and tutorial registration is available until
September 1, 1986. No refunds will be made after that date. Send
a check or money order (no currency will be accepted) payable to
"Third IEEE Symposium on Logic Programming" to:
Third IEEE Symposium on Logic Programming
IEEE Computer Society
1730 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-1903
[...]
Symposium Registration: Advance On-Site
IEEE Computer Society members $185 $215
Non-members $230 $270
Full-time student members $ 50 $ 50
Full-time student non-members $ 65 $ 65
Retired members $ 50 $ 50
Tutorial Registration:
("Luger", "Warren", or "Ostlund")
Advance On-Site
IEEE Computer Society members $140 $170
Non-members $175 $215
SLP '86 Hotel Reservation:
Mail or Call: phone 801-531-1000, telex 389434
Westin Hotel Utah
Main and South Temple Streets
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
A deposit of one night's room or credit card guarantee is
required for arrivals after 6pm.
Room Rates:
Westin Hotel Utah Temple Square Hotel
single room $60 $30
double room $70 $36
Reservations must be made mentioning SLP '86 by August 31, 1986
to guarantee these special rates.
SLP '86 TUTORIAL ABSTRACTS
IMPLEMENTATION OF PROLOG INTERPRETERS AND COMPILERS
DAVID SCOTT WARREN
SUNY AT STONY BROOK
Prolog is by far the most used of various logic programming
languages that have been proposed. The reason for this is the
existence of very efficient implementations. This tutorial will
show in detail how this efficiency is achieved.
The first half of this tutorial will concentrate on Prolog
compilation. The approach is first to define a Prolog Virtual
Machine (PVM), which can be implemented in software, microcode,
hardware, or by translation to the language of an existing
machine. We will describe in detail the PVM defined by D.H.D.
Warren (SRI Technical Note 309) and discuss how its data objects
can be represented efficiently. We will also cover issues of
compilation of Prolog source programs into efficient PVM
programs.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PROLOG:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THEORETICAL
ISSUES IN AI WITH PROLOG EXAMPLES
GEORGE F. LUGER
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
This tutorial is intended to introduce the important concepts of
both Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming. To
accomplish this task, the theoretical issues involved in AI
problem solving are presented and discussed. These issues are
exemplified with programs written in Prolog that implement the
core ideas. Finally, the design of a Prolog interpreter as
Resolution Refutation system is presented.
The main ideas from AI problem solving that are presented
include: 1) An introduction of AI as representation and search.
2) An introduction of the Predicate Calculus as the main
representation formalism for Artificial Intelligence. 3) Simple
examples of Predicate Calculus representations, including a
relational data base. 4) Unification and its role both in
Predicate Calculus and Prolog. 5) Recursion, the control
mechanism for searching trees and graphs, 6) The design of search
strategies, especially depth first, breadth first and best first
or "heuristic" techniques, and 7) The Production System and its
use both for organizing search in a Prolog data base, as well as
the basic data structure for "rule based" Expert Systems.
The above topics are presented with simple Prolog program
implementations, including a Production System code for
demonstrating search strategies. The final topic presented is an
analysis of the Prolog interpreter and an analysis of this
approach to the more general issue of logic programming.
Resolution is considered as an inference strategy and its use in
a refutation system for "answer extraction" is presented. More
general issues in AI problem solving, such as the relation of
"logic" to "functional" programming are also discussed.
PARALLELISM IN LOGIC PROGRAMMING
JOHN CONERY
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
The fields of parallel processing and logic programming have
independently attracted great interest among computing
professionals recently, and there is currently considerable
activity at the interface, i.e. in applying the concepts of
parallel computing to logic programming and, more specifically
yet, to Prolog. The application of parallelism to Logic
Programming takes two basic but related directions. The first
involves leaving the semantics of sequential programming, say
ordinary Prolog, as intact as possible, and uses parallelism,
hidden from the programmer, to improve execution speed. This has
traditionally been a difficult problem requiring very intelligent
compilers. It may be an easier problem with logic programming
since parallelism is not artificially made sequential, as with
many applications expressed in procedural languages. The second
direction involves adding new parallel programming primitives to
Logic Programming to allow the programmer to explicitly express
the parallelism in an application.
This tutorial will assume a basic knowledge of Logic Programming,
but will describe current research in parallel computer
architectures, and will survey many of the new parallel machines,
including shared-memory architectures (RP3, for example) and
non-shared-memory architectures (hypercube machines, for
example). The tutorial will then describe many of the current
proposals for parallelism in Logic Programming, including those
that allow the programmer to express the parallelism and those
that hide the parallelism from the programmer. Included will be
such proposals as Concurrent Prolog, Parlog, Guarded Horn Clauses
(GHC), and Delta-Prolog. An attempt will be made to partially
evaluate many of these proposals for parallelism in Logic
Programming, both from a pragmatic architectural viewpoint as
well as from a semantic viewpoint.
Conference Chairperson
Gary Lindstrom, University of Utah
Program Chairperson
Robert M. Keller, University of Utah
Local Arrangements Chairperson
Thomas C. Henderson, University of Utah
Tutorials Chairperson
George Luger, University of New Mexico
Exhibits Chairperson
Ross Overbeek, Argonne National Lab.
Program Committee
Francois Bancilhon, MCC
John Conery, U. of Oregon
Al Despain, U.C. Berkeley
Herve Gallaire, ECRC, Munich
Seif Haridi, SICS, Stockholm
Lynette Hirschman, SDC
Peter Kogge, IBM, Owego
William Kornfeld, Quintus Systems
Gary Lindstrom, University of Utah
George Luger, University of New Mexico
Rikio Onai, ICOT/NTT, Tokyo
Ross Overbeek, Argonne National Lab.
Mark Stickel, SRI International
Sten Ake Tarnlund, Uppsala University
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