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• You can download the final program booklet here.
• The main conference room will be Conference Building 106; click to find out the facility information in the Pasadena Convention Center and the layout in the Conference Building.
• An ICLP'09 Reception will be held in the Conference Building 107 on July 13th, 7:30pm - 9:00pm. Registration Check-in starts from 5:30pm before the reception
• Breakfast will be served from 7:30am to 8:30am, every day,  in the Conference Building 107.
• For those who are going to travel to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program, you may follow the link for more information.

Pasadena, California

Located at the base of the beautiful San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena's central location serves as a gateway to all that Southern California has to offer. Pasadena itself offers a surprising combination of sophisticated charm, culture, history, and fun. Pasadena is Southern California's premier dining and entertainment destination, with over 500 restaurants. The city consists of several districts, including "Old Town", an historic 22-block area, offering more than 120 specialty shops, retail stores and boutiques, 80 restaurants, and an array of entertainment opportunities. Several world-class museums, including the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Pacific Asia Museum are located here, as well as several extensive botanical gardens at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, the Huntington Library, and Descanso Gardens, reflecting Pasadena's association with the "Rose". The city has a rich architectural heritage, which includes an unusual concentration and diversity of landmark-quality buildings dating from the late 1880s. Be sure to visit the recently renovated City Hall --- only steps away from the Pasadena Convention Center --- an exquisite 1927 landmark exhibiting Italian Renaissance and Spanish influences. Pasadena has a lively arts scene, with such diverse offerings as the famous Pasadena Playhouse or Ice House Comedy Club, which has played host to the comedic talents of Steve Martin, Robin Williams, and Lily Tomlin. Pasadena has long been considered a premier center for science and technology, serving as the home to the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as several high-profile industry partners. For more information, please visit http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/visitors.asp.

Here are the two convenient airports to get to Pasadena, California:

• Burbank Airport (BUR): highly recommended; fast check-out from the airport, 15 miles to Pasadena convention center, about $45 cab fare or $20 shuttle bus to Pasadena.
• Los Angeles International Airport (LAX): 28 miles to Pasadena convention center; it could take about one hour to get to Pasadena depending on the traffic.

Besides the conference designated hotels, you may follow this link to find a CHEAP hotel near the Pasadena convention center.

Conference Description

Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions (papers and posters) are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to:

• Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation.
• Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines, Parallelism.
• Environments: Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and Verification, Debugging, Profiling.
• Language Issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Programming Techniques.
• Related Paradigms: Abductive Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Alternative Inference Engines and Mechanisms.
• Applications: Deductive Databases, Data Integration, Software Engineering, Natural Language, Web Tools, Internet Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics.

The three broad categories for submissions are: (1) technical papers, where specific attention will be given to work providing novel integrations of the areas listed above, (2) application papers, where the emphasis will be on their impact on the application domain as opposed to the advancement of the the state-of-the-art of logic programming, and (3) short papers, ideal for presenting and discussing current work not yet ready for publication, for PhD thesis summaries and research project overviews.

In addition to papers and posters, the technical program will include invited talks, tutorials, a Doctoral Consortium, and workshops.

ICLP 2009 will be held in Pasadena Convention Center, 10 miles from Los Angeles downtown, California, USA. You can also check previous ICLP conferences.

Call for Papers Flier

Important Dates

Program Committee

Submission Guidelines

All papers must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. They must be written in English. Technical and application papers must not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format. The limit for short papers is 5 pages in the same format. The proceedings, which is expected to be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, will include all accepted papers.

Submissions must be in the Springer LNCS format via the Easychair submission system.

Workshops

The ICLP 2009 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Workshops also provide a venue for presenting specialized topics and opportuni- ties for intensive discussions and project collaboration in any areas related to logic programming, including cross-disciplinary areas. Workshop proposals are due by February 9th, 2009. Please click here to find more information on call for workshops.

• Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP)
• Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules (CHR)
• Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems (CICLOPS)
• Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming and Software Engineering (CLPSE)
• Workshop on Commercial Users of Logic Programming (CULP)
• Workshop on ISO Prolog --- WG17
• Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments (WLPE)

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium on Logic Programming is the 5th doctoral consortium to be offered as a part of ICLP conference series. The DC aims to provide doctoral students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research directions and to obtain feedbacks from peers as well as world-renown experts in the field. The Doctoral Consortium will also offer invited speakers and panels discussions. Please click here to find more information on the doctoral consortium.

Organization

• General Chairs:
  Gopal Gupta (University of Texas at Dallas)
  Hai-Feng Guo (University of Nebraska at Omaha) 
  
• Program Chairs:
  Patricia Hill (University of Leeds)
  David S. Warren (Stony Brook University) 
  
• Workshop Chair:
  Manuel Carro (Technical University of Madrid) 
  
• Publicity Chair:
  Ricardo Rocha (University of Porto) 
  
• Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
  Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs) 
  Tom Schrijvers (KULeuven) 
  
• Prolog Programming Contest Chair:
  Tom Schrijvers (KULeuven) 
  

Sponsored by

Association for Logic Programming	University of Texas at Dallas