Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning 14th I

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4790

Nachum Dershowitz Andrei Voronkov (Eds.)

Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning 14th International Conference, LPAR 2007 Yerevan, Armenia, October 15-19, 2007 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Nachum Dershowitz Tel Aviv University School of Computer Science Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978 Israel E-mail: [email protected] Andrei Voronkov University of Manchester School of Computer Science, Kilburn Building Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937099

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.3, I.2, F.4.1, F.3, D.2.4, D.1.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-75558-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-75558-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning (LPAR 2007), held in Yerevan, Armenia on October 15–19, 2007. LPAR evolved out of the 1st and 2nd Russian Conferences on Logic Programming, held in Irkutsk, in 1990, and aboard the ship “Michail Lomonosov”, in 1991. The idea of organizing a conference came largely from Robert Kowalski, who also proposed the creation of the Russian Association for Logic Programming. In 1992, it was decided to extend the scope of the conference. Due to considerable interest in automated reasoning in the former Soviet Union, the conference was renamed Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR). Under this name three meetings were held in 1992–1994: on board the ship “Michail Lomonosov” (1992); in St. Petersburg, Russia (1993); and on board the ship “Marshal Koshevoi” (1994). In 1999, the conference was held in Tbilisi, Georgia. At the suggestion of Michel Parigot, the conference changed its name again to Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (preserving the acronym LPAR!), reflecting an interest in additional areas of logic. LPAR 2000 w