Logic Programming 20th International Conference, ICLP 2004, Saint-Malo, France, September 6-10, 2004, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2004, held in Saint-Malo, France in September 2004.
The 28 revised full papers and 16 poster papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on program analysis, constraints, alternative programming paradigms, answer set programming, and implementation.

Invited Talks.- Termination by Abstraction.- Answer Set Programming and the Design of Deliberative Agents.- Regular Talks.- Abstract Domains Based on Regular Types.- Termination of Logic Programs Using Various Dynamic Selection Rules.- Improving Prolog Programs: Refactoring for Prolog.- Smodels with CLP and Its Applications: A Simple and Effective Approach to Aggregates in ASP.- The Refined Operational Semantics of Constraint Handling Rules.- Compiling Ask Constraints.- Constraint Handling Rules and Tabled Execution.- Possible Worlds Semantics for Probabilistic Logic Programs.- Limiting Resolution: From Foundations to Implementation.- Generalised Kernel Sets for Inverse Entailment.- On Programs with Linearly Ordered Multiple Preferences.- Splitting an Operator.- Simplifying Logic Programs Under Answer Set Semantics.- On Acyclic and Head-Cycle Free Nested Logic Programs.- Fast Query Evaluation with (Lazy) Control Flow Compilation.- Speculative Computations in Or-Parallel Tabled Logic Programs.- ?Prolog: A Logic Programming Language with Names, Binding and ?-Equivalence.- Implementation Results in Classical Constructive Negation.- On Hybridization of Local Search and Constraint Propagation.- Arc-Consistency + Unit Propagation = Lookahead.- The period Constraint.- Non-viability Deductions in Arc-Consistency Computation.- Compiling Prioritized Circumscription into Answer Set Programming.- Enhancing the Magic-Set Method for Disjunctive Datalog Programs.- Rectilinear Steiner Tree Construction Using Answer Set Programming.- Adding Domain Dependent Knowledge into Answer Set Programs for Planning.- Multi-agent Coordination as Distributed Logic Programming.- Logic Programs with Annotated Disjunctions.- Poster Presentations.- Abstract Interpretation-Based Mobile CodeCertification.- Labeled Logic Programs.- Xcerpt and XChange – Logic Programming Languages for Querying and Evolution on the Web.- Protein Folding Simulation in CCP.- Applying CLP to Predict Extra-Functional Properties of Component-Based Models.- Main Results of the OADymPPaC Project.- FDBG, the CLP Debugger Library of SICStus Prolog.- Development of Semantic Debuggers Based on Refinement Calculus.- A Tracer Driver to Enable Debugging, Monitoring and Visualization of CLP Executions from a Single Tracer.- Grid Service Selection with PPDL.- Concurrent Constraint Programming and Tree–Based Acoustic Modelling.- MProlog: An Extension of Prolog for Modal Logic Programming.- Probabilistic Choice Operators as Global Constraints: Application to Statistical Software Testing.- Constraint-Based Synchronization and Verification of Distributed Java Programs.- JmmSolve: A Generative Java Memory Model Implemented in Prolog and CHR.- Agent Oriented Logic Programming Constructs in Jinni 2004.