Logic Programming 25th International Conference, ICLP 2009, Pasadena

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2009, held in Pasadena, CA, USA, in July2009. The 29 revised full papers together with 9 short papers, 4 invited talks, 4 invited tutorials, and

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Patricia M. Hill David S. Warren (Eds.)

Logic Programming 25th International Conference, ICLP 2009 Pasadena, CA, USA, July 14-17, 2009 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Patricia M. Hill University of Leeds, School of Computing Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK E-mail: [email protected] David S. Warren Stony Brook University, Department of Computer Science Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): D.1.6, I.2.3, F.4, F.3, D.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 2 – Programming and Software Engineering ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume contains the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2009). The conference took place in Pasadena, California during July 14–17, 2009. The ICLP series of conferences is aimed at providing a technical forum for presenting and disseminating innovative research results in the field of logic programming. The conference, which was co-located with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), featured technical presentations, tutorials, invited talks, and a number of special events, including: – The 5th ICLP Doctoral Student Consortium – The Second Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computi