Introduction

Academic research in Logic Programming goes back at least as far as the early 1970s -- that is already more than 35 years. During most of that time, ICLP has been the premier venue for presenting academic research, and many more related workshops and symposia exist. At the same time, Logic Programming is being used widely in industry. However, it has enjoyed at lot less visibility there, and until now it has lacked a designated forum that brings together industrial practitioners and researchers.

The goal of the Commercial Users of Logic Programming (CULP) workshop is to put the commercial and practical use (and users) of Logic Programming in the spotlight. It aims at providing professionals with an opportunity to share their experience, and to enable contacts with other commercial users and academics.

The first and quite successful CULP workshop was organized in Pasadena (USA) at the occasion of ICLP 2009. The CULP Google group hosts commercial user discussions the whole year round, as well as the slides of the past CULP workshops.

Format

CULP is organized as a workshop co-located with the 26th International Conference on Logic Programming and the Federated Logic Conference. The workshop takes place on July 21, 2010, in Edinburgh, UK.

Presentations will have 25 minute slots, of which at least 5 are reserved for discussion. They inform participants about the use of logic programming in an industrial setting.

Insights and reflections on many aspects are sought. For example, but not exclusively:

• Logic Programming in the different stages and styles of commercial development,
• Engineering, scalability and usability issues,
• Success stories and (non-)viability of Logic Programming in particular application areas,
• Aspects not directly related to application development, such as marketing, recruitment, management,...,
• ...

Novel research results are not expected. Of course, novel fields of application and novel approaches will be very welcome.

Submission

If you are interested in presenting at CULP 2010, please submit an abstract of your talk in plain text (max. 500 words).

The EasyChair submission site will be open soon.

Important Dates

• Abstracts due: April 10, 2010
• CULP workshop: July 21, 2010

Organization

The CULP workshop is organized by Tom Schrijvers. For any questions on CULP, contact tom -dot- schrijvers -at- cs -dot- kuleuven -dot- be.