Author: Editors

In Memoriam: Christian Schulte

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Christian Schulte – an amazing researcher whose work has impacted many of us in the logic programming community. Maria Garcia de la Banda wrote a nice note about Christian for ACP…

CFP: WOA 2020

21st Workshop “From Objects to Agents Bologna, Italy, 22-24 June 2020 http://woa2020.apice.unibo.it Call for Papers The twenty-first edition of the Workshop “From Objects to Agents” (WOA) will be held in Bologna to serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners…

Postdoc and PhD Positions: TU Wien

The Institute of Logic and Computation at TU Wien is hiring a postdoc and a PhD student for a research collaboration with industry in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning. The goal of this collaboration is to advance the use of logic-based…

Polyvariant program specialisation and its application in program analysis and verification

By John P. Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, [email protected] Abstract: Specialisation is a program transformation that transforms a program with respect to given constraints that restrict its behaviour. Typically, the goal is to optimise a program, but specialisation can also…

CFP: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming: The 20th Anniversary Issue

Following the example of a highly successful and influential special issue of the Journal of Logic Programming, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the journal in 1994, the Editorial and Advisory Boards of TPLP propose to publish a special issue of…

Call for Participation: ICLP 2019

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – ICLP 2019 – https://logicprogramming.org/iclp2019/ The 35th International Conference on Logic Programming September 20-25, 2019, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA ———————————————————- Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international event…

Editorial, Volume 32, No. 2, August 2019

Are you back in office after vacation? Or are your still holding your feet into the sea or climbing mountains? In both cases, you can enjoy reading the contents of your favorite newsletter.  We have three feature articles: Dynamic and…

An Arboriculture Approach for Parallel SMT and Symbolic Model Checking

by M. Marescotti, A.E.J. Hyvärinen, N. SharyginaFormal Verification and Security LabUniversità della Svizzera ItalianaSwitzerland FULL PAPER Abstract: The inherent complexity of parallel computing makes development, resource monitoring, and debugging for parallel constraint-solving-based applications difficult. This paper presents SMTS, a framework for parallelizing sequential constraint…