About the Book
ThisvolumecontainsselectedpapersofLOPSTR2000,theTenthInternational 1 WorkshoponLogic-basedProgramSynthesisandTransformation. Inadep- turefrompreviousyears,LOPSTR2000constitutedtheProgramDevelopment streamatCL2000,theFirstInternationalConferenceonComputationalLogic, heldatImperialCollege,London,on24-28July2000. ThismeantthattheLOPSTR2000ProgramCommitteewasalsotheCL2000 ProgramCommitteeforProgramDevelopment,andassuchhadtherespon- bilityforallProgramDevelopmentsubmissionstoCL2000,inadditiontothe usualLOPSTRabstracts. Asaresult,therewere18talksattheworkshop,with 2 fourpapersappearingintheproceedingsofCL2000, and14abstractsinthe 3 LOPSTR2000pre-proceedings. Inthisvolumewehavepapersbasedontenof theabstracts. So,paradoxically,thisvolumeisslimmerthanpreviousLOPSTRproce- ings,whilstthisyear'sProgramCommitteehavehadtodealwithmoresubm- sionsandmorecategoriesthanusual!Myheartfeltthanksgotoallthemembers oftheProgramCommitteefortheirhardandconscientiousworkinreviewing andselectingthe papersatvariousstages. Iwouldalsoliketo thankallthe additionalreviewersfortheire?ortsandprofessionalism.
FororganizingCL2000,IwouldliketothanktheconferencechairMarek Sergot,theprogramchairJohnLloyd,andthelocalorganizersFrankKriwaczek andFrancescaToni. Theire?ortswerepivotalforthesuccessofCL2000. Finally, I would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers and alltheworkshopattendees. Yourcontinuedsupportiscrucialtothefutureof LOPSTR. ThenextLOPSTRworkshopwillbeheldinCyprus,withICLP2001 andCP2001. ItwillmarkthetenthanniversaryofLOPSTR,soIhopetosee manyofyouthere! March2001 Kung-KiuLau 1 http://www. cs. man. ac. uk/~kung-kiu/lopstr 2 J. W. Lloyd,V. Dahl,U. Furbach,M. Kerber,K. -K. Lau,C. Palamidessi,L. M. - reira,Y. Sagiv,P. Stuckey,editors,ComputationalLogic-CL2000,LectureNotes inArti?cialIntelligence 1861, Springer-Verlag,2000. 3 K. -K. Lau,editor, Pre-Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Log- basedProgramSynthesisandTransformation, Technical Report UMCS-00-6-1, - partment of Computer Science, University of Manchester, June 2000. ISSN 1361- 6161. (Electronic version at: http://www. cs. man. ac. uk/cstechrep/Abstracts/ UMCS-00-6-1. html. ) Program Chair Kung-KiuLau UniversityofManchester,UK Program Committee DavidBasin Albert-Ludwigs-Universit..atFreiburg,Germany AnnalisaBossi Universit'aCa'FoscaridiVenezia,Italy AntonioBrogi Universit'adiPisa,Italy MauriceBruynooghe KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium MireilleDucass'e IRISA/INSA,France SandroEtalle UniversiteitMaastricht,TheNetherlands PierreFlener UppsalaUniversity,Sweden MichaelHanus Christian-Albrechts-Universit.
.atzuKiel,Germany IanHayes UniversityofQueensland,Australia ManuelHermenegildo TechnicalUniversityofMadrid,Spain PatriciaHill UniversityofLeeds,UK BaudouinLeCharlier UniversityofNamur,Belgium MichaelLeuschel UniversityofSouthampton,UK MichaelLowry NASAAmesResearchCenter,USA AliMili WestVirginiaUniversity,USA TorbenMogensen UniversityofCopenhagen,Denmark AlbertoPettorossi UniversityofRomeTorVergata,Italy DonSannella UniversityofEdinburgh,UK DougSmith KestrelInstitute,USA ZoltanSomogyi UniversityofMelbourne,Australia Additional Referees JamieAndrews IanGreen Germ'anPuebla AlessandroAvellone DavidHemer OlivierRidoux YvesBekkers BrahimHnich DaveRobertson FranciscoBueno EdKazmierczak SabinaRossi NicolettaCocco ZeynepK?z?ltan SalvatoreRuggieri RobertColvin ElviraPino JudithUnderwood MauroFerrari MaurizioProietti Germ'anVidal Table of Contents Synthesis AFormalFrameworkforSynthesisandVeri?cationofLogicPrograms ...1 AlessandroAvellone,MauroFerrariandCamilloFiorentini ProtocolsbetweenProgramsandProofs ...18 ImanPoernomoandJohnN. Crossley ATechniqueforModularLogicProgramRe?nement...38 RobertColvin,IanHayesandPaulStrooper Transformation Higher-OrderTransformationofLogicPrograms ...5
7 SilvijaSeresandMichaelSpivey Analysis Non-transformationalTerminationAnalysisofLogicPrograms, BasedonGeneralTerm-Orderings...69 AlexanderSerebrenikandDannyDeSchreye Specialisation AModelforInter-moduleAnalysisandOptimizingCompilation...86 FranciscoBueno,Mar'?aGarc'?adelaBanda,ManuelHermenegildo, KimMarriott,Germ'anPueblaandPeterJ. Stuckey MeasuringtheE?ectivenessofPartialEvaluation inFunctionalLogicLanguages...103 ElviraAlbert,SergioAntoyandGerm'anVidal AutomatedStrategiesforSpecializingConstraintLogicPrograms ...125 FabioFioravanti,AlbertoPettorossiandMaurizioProietti Abstract Interpretation MeasuringthePrecisionofAbstractInterpretations...147 AlessandraDiPierroandHerbertWiklicky VIII TableofContents Debugging SpecifyingPrologTraceModelswithaContinuationSemantics ...165 ErwanJahier,MireilleDucass'eandOlivierRidoux Author Index...
Table of Contents:
Synthesis.- A Formal Framework for Synthesis and Verification of Logic Programs.- Protocols between Programs and Proofs.- Protocols between Programs and Proofs.- A Technique for Modular Logic Program Refinement.- A Technique for Modular Logic Program Refinement.- Transformation.- Higher-Order Transformation of Logic Programs.- Analysis.- Non-transformational Termination Analysis of Logic Programs, Based on General Term-Orderings.- Specialisation.- A Model for Inter-module Analysis and Optimizing Compilation.- Measuring the Effectiveness of Partial Evaluation in Functional Logic Languages.- Automated Strategies for Specializing Constraint Logic Programs.- Abstract Interpretation.- Measuring the Precision of Abstract Interpretations.- Debugging.- Specifying Prolog Trace Models with a Continuation Semantics.
