Program Development in Computational Logic

1. Front Matter

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2. Specification and Synthesis

   1. Specifying Compositional Units for Correct Program Development in Computational Logic

      • Kung-Kiu Lau, Mario Ornaghi

      Pages 1-29

   2. Synthesis of Programs in Computational Logic

      • David Basin, Yves Deville, Pierre Flener, Andreas Hamfelt, Jørgen Fischer Nilsson

      Pages 30-65

   3. Developing Logic Programs from Specifications Using Stepwise Refinement

      • Robert Colvin, Lindsay Groves, Ian J. Hayes, David Hemer, Ray Nickson, Paul Strooper

      Pages 66-89

3. Semantics

   1. Declarative Semantics of Input Consuming Logic Programs

      • Annalisa Bossi, Nicoletta Cocco, Sandro Etalle, Sabina Rossi

      Pages 90-114

   2. On the Semantics of Logic Program Composition

      • Antonio Brogi

      Pages 115-151

4. Analysis

   1. Analysing Logic Programs by Reasoning Backwards

      • Jacob M. Howe, Andy King, Lunjin Lu

      Pages 152-188

   2. Binding-Time Analysis for Mercury

      • Wim Vanhoof, Maurice Bruynooghe, Michael Leuschel

      Pages 189-232

   3. A Generic Framework for Context-Sensitive Analysis of Modular Programs

      • Germán Puebla, Jesús Correas, Manuel V. Hermenegildo, Francisco Bueno, María García de la Banda, Kim Marriott et al.

      Pages 233-260

5. Transformation and Specialisation

   1. Unfold/Fold Transformations for Automated Verification of Parameterized Concurrent Systems

      • Abhik Roychoudhury, C. R. Ramakrishnan

      Pages 261-290

   2. Transformation Rules for Locally Stratified Constraint Logic Programs

      • Fabio Fioravanti, Alberto Pettorossi, Maurizio Proietti

      Pages 291-339

   3. Specialising Interpreters Using Offline Partial Deduction

      • Michael Leuschel, Stephen J. Craig, Maurice Bruynooghe, Wim Vanhoof

      Pages 340-375

6. Termination

   1. Characterisations of Termination in Logic Programming

      • Dino Pedreschi, Salvatore Ruggieri, Jan-Georg Smaus

      Pages 376-431

   2. On the Inference of Natural Level Mappings

      • Jonathan C. Martin, Andy King

      Pages 432-452

   3. Proving Termination for Logic Programs by the Query-Mapping Pairs Approach

      • Naomi Lindenstrauss, Yehoshua Sagiv, Alexander Serebrenik

      Pages 453-498

7. Systems

   1. Herbrand Constraints in HAL

      • Bart Demoen, María García de la Banda, Warwick Harvey, Kim Marriott, David Overton, Peter J. Stuckey

      Pages 499-538

8. Back Matter

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1 The tenth anniversary of the LOPSTR symposium provided the incentive for this volume. LOPSTR started in 1991 as a workshop on logic program synthesis and transformation, but later it broadened its scope to logic-based program development in general, that is, program development in computational logic, and hence the title of this volume. The motivating force behind LOPSTR has been the belief that declarative paradigms such as logic programming are better suited to program development tasks than traditional non-declarative ones such as the imperative paradigm. Speci?cation, synthesis, transformation or specialization, analysis, debugging and veri?cation can all be given logical foundations, thus providing a unifying framework for the whole development process. In the past 10 years or so, such a theoretical framework has indeed begun to emerge. Even tools have been implemented for analysis, veri?cation and speci- ization. However,itisfairtosaythatsofarthefocushaslargelybeenonprogrammi- in-the-small. So the future challenge is to apply or extend these techniques to programming-in-the-large, in order to tackle software engineering in the real world. Returning to this volume, our aim is to present a collection of papers that re?ect signi?cant research e?orts over the past 10 years. These papers cover the wholedevelopmentprocess:speci?cation,synthesis,analysis,transformationand specialization, as well as semantics and systems.

• computational logic
• declarative programming
• formal methods
• logic
• logic based program development
• logic program synthesis
• logic programming
• program analysis
• program development
• program specification
• program verification
• programming
• proving
• semantics
• verification

• Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

  Maurice Bruynooghe

• School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  Kung-Kiu Lau

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