The Ninth Exhibition and Symposium on Industrial Applications of Prolog will be held in Tokyo Japan on 16-19 October 1996. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on industrial Prolog applications to exchange research ideas and to share development experiences. INAP consists of technical presentations, keynote address, panel discussion, reception party and the simultaneous exhibition.

Submissions Details

Papers in English or Japanese should not be more than 8 pages A4. Apply by June 20 1996 with the authors' names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers, paper title and abstract. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the conference in English or Japanese.

Important Dates

	20 June  	1996 		 Deadline for application
 	20 July  	1996 		 Notification of acceptance
	20 September 	1996 		 Deadline for camera-ready copies

INAP Target Focus and Audience

Prolog is famous as the first very high level programming language and for its unique potential as a specification, artificial intelligence and general purpose programming language.

Due to the growing number and economic importance of industrial applications of Prolog based systems there is increasing need for information exchange catering to a sophisticated and critical audience in order to discuss achievements, trends, needs and problems of commercial users.

INAP is a forum to discuss results and potential of the application of Prolog in products, production, management, services and software engineering, together with requirements, tools, programming techniques and standards necessary to satisfy technological and economic constraints.

Authors are invited to submit full manuscripts or extended abstracts in English or Japanese on applications of Prolog including but not limited to:

	 - Agents 		 - Concurrent Engineering
	 - Business Processes 	 - Electronic Data Interchange
	 - Design 		 - Documentation
	 - Emotion Engineering 	 - Optimization
	 - Quality Control 	 - Multimedia
	 - Visualization

Address papers and enqiries to:

  Mr. Toshiaki Yagihashi  
  INAP Organizer's Office  
  REN Associates, Inc.  
  2-12-14 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan  
  Tel +81-3-3433-2543 Fax +81-5403-7216 
  internet:  pfe00252@niftyserve.or.jp  
  http://www.ifcomputer.com/inap96/