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Call for Nominations: VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS 2019

OVERVIEW The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) at TU Wien (ViennaUniversity of Technology) seeks nominations for the VCLA InternationalStudent Awards 2019. The annually awarded VCLA International StudentAwards for Outstanding Master and Undergraduate Research (Bachelor)Theses (or equivalent) recognize authors…

Promotional access to ICLP 2018 proceedings

Cambridge University press have just launched a promotional access offer to the Volume 18 – Special Issue 3-4 – July 2018 of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. Have a nice reading! Thanks to CUP for the fundamental role for…

Workshop Report: TAASP 2018

Workshop Report: Trends and Applications of Answer Set Programming  (TAASP) 2018 By Stefan Woltran, TUWIEN, Austria The TAASP workshop series is jointly organized by research groups at Alpen-Adria-Universität  Klagenfurt, Technische Universität Wien, and Universität Potsdam. TAASP 2018 was the second…

The SAT Compiler in Picat

By Neng-Fa Zhou (CUNY Brooklyn College & Graduate Center) Abstract SAT solvers’ performance has drastically improved during the past 20 years, thanks to the inventions of techniques from conflict-driven clause learning, backjumping, variable and value selection heuristics, to random restarts.…

Feetbook Profiling (or (bi)simulation in disguise)

By Paolo Baldan   University of Padova Roberto Bruni  Universtity of Pisa   A new social network has become extremely popular. It is called Feetbook. Users share stories, anecdotes and pictures about their feet. What is (especially) peculiar is that posts…

CFP: Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning 2019

15th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2019 http://sju.edu/lpnmr/ Philadelphia, USA June 4-7, 2019 Co-located with Datalog 2.0 Workshop AIMS AND SCOPE  LPNMR 2019 is the fifteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning.…

ALP Elections Results

It’s a pleasure to announce that Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Istanbul) German Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de València) Nicola Leone (UNICAL, Rende) have been elected in the Executive Committee of ALP Newsletter (period 2018-2022). They will work for our favuourite research…

Call for Papers: 12th International Rule Challenge 2018

Call for Papers: 12th International Rule Challenge 2018 http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/challenge.html NOTE: Extended submission deadline: July 31, 2018 Topics The International Rule Challenge 2018 is one of the highlights of the RuleML+RR 2018 conference and seeks to provide competition among innovative rule-oriented…