Our friend, colleague and mentor Jan Małuszyński, age 79, passed away in his home on June 27th, 2020, after an extended battle with cancer. Our thoughts go, in particular, to Jan’s wife Gizela and their children Ania and Chris and…
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In Memoriam: Jan Maluszynski
It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Professor Jan Maluszynski and passed away after fighting a fatal illness for over a year. Prof. Maluszynski was one of the pioneers of logic programming, with important contributions in a…
The ILASP System for Inductive Learning of Answer Set Programs
By Mark Law, Alessandra Russo, Krysia BrodaILASP Limited and Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Abstract The goal of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is to learn a program that explains a set of examples in the context of some…
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…
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…
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…
Dynamic and Temporal Answer Set Programming on Linear Finite Traces
By Pedro Cabalar and Torsten Schaub,University of Corunna, Spain and University of Potsdam, Germany Download Paper
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…
Flattering Tax
by Paolo Baldan and Roberto Bruni
Universities of Padova and Pisa
Italy