Dear LPers, welcome to the December issue of Your newsletter. As we approach the joyous holiday season, we wish to contribute to the festivities by bringing you some exciting news from the logic programming world. First of all, we are…
What is the Semantics of Your SPARQL Extension?
By Harald Beck, Minh Dao-Tran, and Thomas Eiter Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology Abstract We argue for the importance of formal semantics for the exploration and study of new SPARQL extensions; in particular, for RDF stream…
OOASP: Connecting Object-oriented and Logic Programming
By Andreas Falkner, Siemens AG Österreich, Vienna, Austria Anna Ryabokon, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Gottfried Schenner,Siemens Österreich, Vienna, Austria Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Abstract Most of contemporary software systems are implemented using an object-oriented approach. Modeling phases – during which software engineers specify requirements…
From the Editor-in-Chief of TPLP
…The year 2016 will bring some changes to TPLP. First, we will switch to three-year term appointments for area editors and editorial advisors. Second, in January 2016 we will launch an on-line paper management system, with the goal to have all accepted papers published no later than 12 months after they were submitted… By Mirek Truszczynski, editor in chief of TPLP
CFP: Special Issue of TPLP
SPECIAL ISSUE OF THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING ON
NEW TRENDS OF CONSTRAINT LOGIC PROGRAMMING, guest editor Agostino Dovier
Book Announcement: Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat
Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat By Neng-Fa Zhou Håkan Kjellerstrand, Jonathan Fruhman Abstract The book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial…