Programming Languages: Implementations, Logics, and Programs: 8th International Symposium, Plilp '96, Aachen, Germany, September 24 - 27, 1996. Procee (Paperback, 1996)

Calculate polytypically!.- Limits of ML-definability.- Functorial ML.- Parametric polymorphism for typed Prolog and ?Prolog.- GOTA algebras: A specification formalism for inheritance and object hierarchies.- Towards independent and-parallelism in CLP.- Annotated structure shape graphs for abstract analysis of Prolog.- A reactive implementation of Pos using ROBDDs.- Dynamic Attribute Grammars.- Logic program specialisation: How to be more specific.- Controlling conjunctive partial deduction.- Unfold/Fold transformations of concurrent processes.- Semantics-based compiling: A case study in type-directed partial evaluation.- Implementing memoization for partial evaluation.- Higher order deforestation.- Scheduling expression DAGs for minimal register need.- Beyond depth-first: Improving tabled logic programs through alternative scheduling strategies.- Program Sharing: A new implementation approach for Prolog.- Systematic extraction and implementation of divide-and-conquer parallelism.- Functional skeletons generate process topologies in Eden.- ProFun - A Language for executable specifications.- From term rewriting to generalised interaction nets.- Type isomorphisms for module signatures.- Decidability of logic program semantics and applications to testing.- PIDGETS unifying pictures and widgets in a constraint-based framework for concurrent functional GUI programming.- Generalized ?-reduction and explicit substitutions.- Modeling sharing and recursion for weak reduction strategies using explicit substitution.- Context-sensitive computations in confluent programs.- Models for using stochastic constraint solvers in constraint logic programming.- Integrating efficient records into concurrent constraint programming.- The LOL deductive database programming language (extended abstract).- An efficient and precise sharing domain for logic programs.- Cheap tupling in calculational form.- Needed narrowing in Prolog.- Automatic optimization of dynamic scheduling in logic programs.- Oz Explorer: A visual constraint programming tool.