Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages [electronic resource] : 4th International Symposium, PADL 2002, Portland, OR, USA, January 19-20, 2002. Proceedings /

Invited Talks -- Using a Declarative Language to Build an Experimental Analysis Tool -- How to Talk to Your Computer so that It Will Listen -- Single-Threaded Objects in ACL2 -- Regular Papers -- Modeling Engineering Structures with Constrained Objects -- Compiler Construction in Higher Order Logic Programming -- Declarative Programming and Clinical Medicine On the Use of Gisela in the MedView Project -- Semantics-Based Filtering: Logic Programming’s Killer App -- Linear Scan Register Allocation in a High-Performance Erlang Compiler -- Compiling Embedded Programs to Byte Code -- Typed Combinators for Generic Traversal -- Event-Driven FRP -- Adding Apples and Oranges -- WASH/CGI: Server-Side Web Scripting with Sessions and Typed, Compositional Forms -- A Better XML Parser through Functional Programming -- Functional Approach to Texture Generation -- Abstract Interpretation over Non-deterministic Finite Tree Automata for Set-Based Analysis of Logic Programs -- A High-Level Generic Interface to External Programming Languages for ECLiPSe -- A Debugging Scheme for Declarative Equation Based Modeling Languages -- Segment Order Preserving and Generational Garbage Collection for Prolog -- Exploiting E.cient Control and Data Structures in Logic Programs -- Suspending and Resuming Computations in Engines for SLG Evaluation.

Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been succe- fully applied to a wide variety of real-world situations including database m- agement, active networks, software engineering, and decision-support systems. New developments in theory and implementation expose fresh opportunities. At the same time, the application of declarative languages to novel problems raises numerous interesting research issues. These well-known questions include scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and imp- mentation of declarative systems, and in turn bene?t from this progress. The International Symposium on Practical Applications of Declarative L- guages (PADL) provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and implementors of declarative languages to exchange ideas on current and novel application - eas and on the requirements for e?ective use of declarative systems. The fourth PADL symposium was held in Portland, Oregon, on January 19 and 20, 2002.