Logic Programming [electronic resource] : 17thInternational Conference, ICLP 2001 Paphos, Cyprus, November 26 – December 1, 2001 Proceedings / edited by Philippe Codognet.

Invited Speakers -- Solving the Multiplication Constraint in Several Approximation Spaces -- Is Logic Really Dead or Only Just Sleeping? -- Design of Syntactic Program Transformations by Abstract Interpretation of Semantic Transformations -- X-tegration — Some Cross-Enterprise Thoughts -- Tutorials -- Building Real-Life Applications with Prolog -- Natural Language Tabular Parsing -- A Close Look at Constraint-Based Concurrency -- Probabilistic Databases and Logic Programming -- Conference Papers -- Understanding Memory Management in Prolog Systems -- PALS: An Or-Parallel Implementation of Prolog on Beowulf Architectures -- On a Tabling Engine That Can Exploit Or-Parallelism -- Revisiting the Cardinality Operator and Introducing the Cardinality-PathConstraint Family -- Optimizing Compilation of Constraint Handling Rules -- Building Constraint Solvers with HAL -- Practical Aspects for a Working Compile Time Garbage Collection System for Mercury -- Positive Boolean Functions as Multiheaded Clauses -- Higher-Precision Groundness Analysis -- Speculative Beats Conservative Justification -- Local and Symbolic Bisimulation Using Tabled Constraint Logic Programming -- A Simple Scheme for Implementing Tabled Logic Programming Systems Based on Dynamic Reordering of Alternatives -- Fixed-Parameter Complexity of Semantics for Logic Programs -- Ultimate Well-Founded and Stable Semantics for Logic Programs with Aggregates -- Alternating Fixed Points in Boolean Equation Systems as Preferred Stable Models -- Fages’ Theorem for Programs with Nested Expressions -- Semantics of Normal Logic Programs with Embedded Implications -- A Multi-adjoint Logic Approach to Abductive Reasoning -- Proving Correctness and Completeness of Normal Programs — A Declarative Approach -- An Order-Sorted Resolution with Implicitly Negative Sorts -- Logic Programming in a Fragment of Intuitionistic Temporal Linear Logic -- A Computational Model for Functional Logic Deductive Databases -- A Logic Programming Approach to the Integration, Repairing and Querying of Inconsistent Databases.