The logic programming paradigm

The aim of the whole meeting, organized by Krzysz of Apt (president of the Association of Logic Programming), Wiktor Marek, Mirek Truszczynski and David Warren, was to get a clear picture of the current activities in Logic Programming and its role in the coming years. In the organizers' words: The aim of the meeting was: to present current research directions in Logic Programming worldwide, to analyse future research directions, to boost Logic Programming in North America, and to discuss the relation between Logic Programming and related fields. There were 13 regular talks, each scheduled for 45 minutes and followed by a fifteen-minute discussion chaired by an expert of the topic of the presentation. Sometimes very lively discussions, stimulated by the chairs who started the discussion with some comments, emerged. In addition to the talks, there were two panels, one on the past and one on the future of Logic Programming. One evening was devoted to the idea of founding a north american chapter of the Association of Logic Programming: an idea that found enough support and will eventually lead to such a subchapter. Among the participants in the workshop 23 were from North America, 9 from Europe, 2 from Japan and 1 from Australia, constituing a total of 35 participants. Additionally, local participants, from Lexington and Cincinnati were present. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: RO 6844(1998,16) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman