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- Editors:
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Kung-Kiu Lau
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Department of Computer Science, The University, Manchester, UK
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Timothy Paul Clement
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Department of Computer Science, The University, Manchester, UK
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Table of contents (18 papers)
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- Ina Kraan, David Basin, Alan Bundy
Pages 1-14
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- Daniele Nardi, Riccardo Rosati
Pages 15-29
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- Laurent Fribourg, Hans Olsén
Pages 46-60
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- Maurizio Proietti, Alberto Pettorossi
Pages 82-98
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- Dmitri Boulanger, Maurice Bruynooghe
Pages 99-117
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- Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello
Pages 118-131
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- J. Gallagher, D. A. de Waal
Pages 151-167
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- Kristof Verschaetse, Stefaan Decorte, Danny De Schreye
Pages 168-183
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- Torben Æ. Mogensen, Anders Bondorf
Pages 214-227
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- Anne Parrain, Philippe Devienne, Patrick Lebègue
Pages 228-241
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- José Andrés Jiménez-Martín, Julio Mariño-Carballo, Juan José Moreno-Navarro
Pages 253-270
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Back Matter
Pages 271-273
About this book
Logic program synthesis and transformation are topics of central importance to the software industry. The demand for software can not be met by the current supply, in terms of volume, complexity, or reliability. The most promising solution seems to be the increased automation of software production: programmer productivity would improve, and correctness could be ensured by the application of mathematical methods. Because of their mathematical foundations, logic programs lend themselves particularly well to machine-assisted development techniques, and therefore to automation. This volume contains the proceedings of the second International Workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 92), held at the University of Manchester, 2-3 July 1992. The LOPSTR workshops are the only international meetings devoted to these two important areas. A variety of new techniques were described at the workshop, all of which promise to revolutionize the software industry once they become standard practise. These include techniques for the transformation of an inefficient program into an equivalent, efficient one, and the synthesis of a program from a formal specification of its required behaviour. Among the topics covered in this volume are: optimal transformation of logic programs; logic program synthesis via proof planning; deductive synthesis of programs for query answering; efficient compilation of lazy narrowing into Prolog; synthesis of narrowing programs; Logimix: a self-applicable partial evaluator for Prolog; proof nets; automatic termination analysis. Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation describes the latest advances in machine-assisted development of logic programs. It will provide essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students concerned with these two important areas.
