The Prolog Programming Contest has celebrated its sixth edition this year: the zeroth time it was organised was at the occasion of PAP'94 and was a complete failure with zero participants (and consequently only loosers). But from then on, the ILPS'94, ILPS'95, JICSLP'96, ICLP'97 and JICSLP'98 editions, were quite successful and participants, however reluctant to participate before the contest, always got carried away by the frantic atmosphere during the contest.
In the past, a team from Melbourne won this contest three times and you might think they are invincible, but in Bonn, the Munich team proved this to be wrong ! And last year, a north-american team won. So, whether you are an experienced programmer or a novice, whether Prolog is your native language or not, you had nothing to loose by participating and much to gain !
There was a novelty this year: you could participate in any LP language (approved by the organisers: me and Gopal Gupta). Only the Oz team did not use a Prolog system.
The Sixth annual Prolog Programming contest was organised at the occasion of ICLP'99 at Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The teams can be seen here
No team had correct solutions for 3 problems (or more). So this year, there was no winner. Maybe the questions were too difficult ? Try them out yourself - see later this page.
Most of the speech at the banquet - announcing the result
All the questions are available at this place
Comments ? Questions ? Please let me know.
Bart Demoen