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From:     meta94@DI.UniPi.IT (Paolo Mancarella)
Subject:  Complete Programme of META94 - LOPSTR 94 - Compunet Area Meeting
Date:     Tue, 24 May 94 13:51:13 +0200
Please find enclosed the programme of the META 94 and LOPSTR 94 workshops
(June 20-21, 1994) and of the Compunet Program Development Area Meeting
(June 22), and the registration and accommodation forms.
We apologize if you receive this more than once.
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 |                     META 94                       |
 |         Fourth International Workshop on          |
 |           Meta Programming in Logic               |
 |                                                   |
 |                      and                          |
 |                                                   |
 |                   LOPSTR 94                       |
 |         Fourth Workshop on Logic Program          |
 |            Synthesis and Transformation           |
 |                                                   |
 |                  June 20-21                       |
 |                                                   |
 |                                                   |
 |     COMPUNET Program Development Area Meeting     |
 |                                                   |
 |                   June 22                         |
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 |              Palazzo dei Congressi                |
 |                 via Matteotti, 1                  |
 |                  PISA, Italy                      |
 |                                                   |
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                   PROGRAMME
                   ^^^^^^^^^
                MONDAY, JUNE 20
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
META & LOPSTR - Joint Session
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
9:00 - 9:30      Opening
9:30 - 10:30     Invited talk
         G. Levi, Universita' di Pisa
         "Abstract Debugging"
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee break
LOPSTR - Session 1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
11:00 - 11:30
         J. Cook and J.P. Gallagher (University of Bristol),
         "A transformation system for definite programs based on
         termination analysis".
11:30 - 12:00
         N. Bensaou and I. Guessarian (LITP, Paris),
         "Transforming constraint logic programs".
12:00 - 12:30
         C. Solnon and M. Rueher(I3S, Sophia Antipolis),
         "Propagation of inter-argument dependencies in tuple-distributive
         type inference  systems".
12:30 - 13:00
         D. Boulanger and M. Bruynooghe (K.U. Leuven),
         "Using call/exit analysis for logic program transformation".
META - Session 1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
11:00 - 11:40
         F. Van Harmelen (University of Amsterdam),
         "A Model of Costs and Benefits of Meta-Level Computation".
11:40 - 12:20
         J. Barklund, K. Boberg, P. Dell'Acqua (Uppsala University),
         "A Basis for a Multi-Level Meta-Logic Programming Language".
12:20 - 13:00
         M. Mircheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences),
         "Logic Programs with Tests".
13:00 - 14:30      Lunch
META & LOPSTR - Joint Session
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
14:30 - 15:10
         B. Dunin Keplicz (University of Warsaw),
         "An Architecture with Multiple Meta-Levels for the
          Development of Correct Programs".
15:10 - 15:50
         A. Bossi, S. Etalle (Universita' di Padova, CWI Amsterdam),
         "More on Unfold/Fold Transformations of Normal Programs:
          Preservation of Fitting's Semantics".
15:50 - 16:20      Coffee break
16:20 - 16:50
         D. Gilbert, C. Hogger and J. Zlatuska (City University of London,
         Imperial College and Masaryk University, Brno),
         "Transforming specifications of observable behaviour into programs".
16:50 - 17:20
         K.-K. Lau and M. Ornaghi (University of Manchester and
         Universita' degli Studi di Milano),
         "On Specification Frameworks and Deductive Synthesis
         of Logic Programs".
17:20 - 17:50
         F. Esposito, D. Malerba, G. Semeraro, C. Brunk and M. Pazzani
         (Universita' degli Studi di Bari and University of California),
         "Avoiding non-termination when learning logical programs:
          A case study with FOIL and FOCL".
17:50 - 18:20
         P. Flener and L. Popelinsky (Bilkent University, Ankara
         and Masaryk University, Brno),
         "On the use of inductive reasoning in program synthesis:
         prejudice and prospects".
                       TUESDAY, JUNE 21
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
META & LOPSTR - Joint Session
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
9:30 - 10:30    Invited talk
         B. Dreben (Harvard Univeristy),
         Title to be announced
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break
LOPSTR - Session 2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
11:00 - 11:30
         C. Sakama and H. Seki (Research Institute of Kyoto
         and Nagoya Institute of Technology),
         "Partial deduction of disjunctive logic programs:
         a declarative approach".
11:30 - 12:00
         Michael Leuschel (K. U. Leuven),
         "Partial Evaluation of the Real Thing".
12:00 - 12:30
         P. Tarau and V. Dahl (Universite de Moncton and
         Simon Fraser University),
         "Logic Programming and Logic Grammars with
         First-Order Continuations".
12:30 - 13:00
         Sadegh Saidi (Ecole Centrale de Lyon),
         "Transformation of a class of two-levels grammars into
         Prolog programs".
META - Session 2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
11:00 - 11:40
         W. van der Hoek, J-J. Meyer, J. Treur (Utrecht Univ, Free Univ.
         Amsterdam),
         "Formal Semantics of Temporal Epistemic Reflection".
11:40 - 12:20
         J. Treur (Free Univ. Amsterdam),
         "Temporal Semantics of Meta-Level Architectures for
          Dynamic Control".
13:00 - 14:00      Lunch
LOPSTR - Session 3
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
14:00 - 14:30
         E. Marakakis and J.P. Gallagher (University of Bristol),
         "Schema-Based Top-Down Design of Logic Programs
         Using Abstract Data Types".
14:30 - 15:00
         Sophie Renault (INRIA, Rocquencourt),
         "Generalizing the extended execution for normal programs".
15:00 - 15:30
         H. Vandecasteele and D. De Schreye (K.U. Leuven),
         "Implementing a finite-domain CLP-language on top of Prolog:
         a transformational approach".
META - Session 3
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
14:00 - 14:40
        A. Brogi, S. Contiero (Universita' di Pisa),
        "Godel as a Meta-Language for Composing Logic Programs".
14:40 - 15:20
         P.M. Hill (University of Leeds),
         "Modular Programming and the Non-Ground Representation".
15:30 - 16:00     Coffee Break
LOPSTR - Session 4
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
16:00 - 16:30
        Jinsei Yamaguchi (Kanagawa University),
        "Semantically Transforming Logic Programs".
16:30 - 17:00
         David A. Basin (Max-Planck-Institut, Saarbrucken),
         "Logic Frameworks for Logic Programs".
17:00 - 17:30
         G. Wiggins (University of Edinburgh),
         "Whelk Type Theory".
17:30 - 18:00
         L. Fribourg and H. Olsen (LIENS, Paris and Linkoping University),
         "Direct, dual and contrapositive proofs by induction".
META - Session 4
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
16:00 - 16:40
         G. Attardi, M. Simi (Universita' di Pisa),
         "Proofs in context".
16:40 - 17:20
         F. Giunchiglia, A. Cimatti (IRST, Universita' di Trento),
         "Introspective Meta-Theoretic Reasoning".
20:00   SOCIAL DINNER
                    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        COMPUNET Program Development Area Meeting
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
9:00 - 9:30
         J.-M Jacquet (U. Namur),
         "Verifying logic programs from metrics semantics".
9:30 - 10:00
         B. Martens, M. Bruynooghe and D. De Schreye (K.U. Leuven),
         "Automatic weight based unfolding with a satisfactory
          treatment of meta-interpreters".
10:00 - 10:30
         J. Komorowski (U. Trondheim),
         "Towards a refinement calculus for logic programs
          and the PAL environment".
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
         J. Maluszynski (U. Linkoping),
         "Using dependency relations for analysis of logic programs".
11:30 - 12:00
         A. Bossi, N. Cocco and S. Etalle (U. Padova, U. Venezia-Ca'
          Foscari, CWI),
         "Preserving termination while transforming programs".
12:00 - 12:30
         D. Boulanger, M. Bruynooghe and M. Denecker (K.U. Leuven),
         "Abstracting s-semantics using a model-theoretic approach".
12:30 - 14:00      Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
         M. Proietti and A. Pettorossi (IASI-CNR, U. Roma),
         "Total correctness of a goal replacement rule based on the
          unfold/fold proof".
14:30 - 15:00
         M. Bruynooghe, M. Codish and A. Mulkers (K.U. Leuven, Ben-Gurion U.),
         "Abstract unification for a composite domain deriving sharing and
          freeness properties".
15:00 - 15:30
         G. Semeraro (U. Bari),
         "Logical and algebraic foundations of machine learning".
15:30 - 16:00
         L. Fribourg and M. Veloso Peixoto (LIENS-CNRS),
         "Bottom-up evaluation of datalog programs with arithmetical
         constraints".
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