Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management: 17th International Conference, Inap 2007, and 21st Workshop on Logic Programming, Wl

ISBN-13: 9783642006746 / Holenderski / Miękka / 2009 / 264 str.

Dietmar Seipel

Opis

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 17th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge M- agement INAP 2007 and the 21st Workshop on Logic Programming WLP 2007, which were held jointly in Wu ]rzburg, Germany, during October 4-6, 2007. Declarative programming is anadvancedparadigmforthe modelingandso- ing of complex problems. This speci?cation method has become more and more attractiveoverthelastyears, e.g., inthedomainsofdatabases, fortheprocessing of natural language, for the modeling and processing of combinatorial problems, and for establishing knowledge-based systems for the Web. The INAP conferences provide a forum for intensive discussions of appli- tions of important technologies around logic programming, constraint problem solving, and closely related advanced software. They comprehensively cover the impactof programmablelogic solversin the Internetsociety, its underlying te- nologies, and leading-edge applications in industry, commerce, government, and societal services. The WorkshopsonLogicProgrammingarethe annualmeeting of the Society for Logic Programming (GLP e.V.). They bring together researchers interested in logic programming, constraint programming, and related areas like databases and arti?cial intelligence. Previous workshops have been held in Germany, A- tria and Switzerland. The topics of the selected papers of this year's joint conference concentrated on three currently important ?elds: constraint programming and constraint solving, databases and data mining, and declarative programming with logic languages. Duringthelastcoupleofyearsalotofresearchhasbeenconductedonthe- ageof declarativeprogrammingfor databases and data mining. Reasoning about knowledgewrappedinrules, databases, ortheWeballowsonetoexploreintere- ing hidden knowledge.Declarativetechniques for the transformation, deduction, induction, visualization, or querying of knowledge, or data mining techniques for exploring knowledge have the advantage of high transparency and better maintainability compared to procedural approaches.

Spis treści

Invited Talk.- A Guide for Manual Construction of Difference-List Procedures.- Constraints.- Linear Weighted-Task-Sum – Scheduling Prioritized Tasks on a Single Resource.- Efficient Edge-Finding on Unary Resources with Optional Activities.- Encoding of Planning Problems and Their Optimizations in Linear Logic.- Constraint-Based Timetabling System for the German University in Cairo.- Databases and Data Mining.- Squash: A Tool for Analyzing, Tuning and Refactoring Relational Database Applications.- Relational Models for Tabling Logic Programs in a Database.- Integrating XQuery and Logic Programming.- Causal Subgroup Analysis for Detecting Confounding.- Using Declarative Specifications of Domain Knowledge for Descriptive Data Mining.- Extensions of Logic Programming.- Integrating Temporal Annotations in a Modular Logic Language.- Visual Generalized Rule Programming Model for Prolog with Hybrid Operators.- The Kiel Curry System KiCS.- Narrowing for First Order Functional Logic Programs with Call-Time Choice Semantics.- Java Type Unification with Wildcards.- System Demonstrations.- Testing Relativised Uniform Equivalence under Answer-Set Projection in the System cc???.- spock: A Debugging Support Tool for Logic Programs under the Answer-Set Semantics.

Blurb

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2007, and the 21st Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2007, held in Würzburg, Germany, during October 4-6, 2007.

The 16 thoroughly revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are constraints; databases and data mining; extensions of logic programming; and system demonstrations.