| The three-day one-track conference program combined 8 tutorials, more
than 20 technical papers and posters, a parallel poster and internet
exhibition with an invited talk by Karl Reed and the keynote by Paul Tarau.
The prime forum in Japan to discuss industrial and commercial applications
of Prolog and related advanced software technology attracted a truly
international group of industrial and academic researchers.
Presentations from companies including Boeing, Bull, Ericsson,
Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Mitsubishi Chemical, NTT Data, Origin,
Siemens and many leading universities covered
applications in the automotive, railway, aircraft, electric
appliances, chemical, telecommunications, information processing
and internet industries.
The tutorials introduced advanced languages "April" by Fujitsu,
"Erlang" by Ericsson, "Mercury" by the University of Melbourne,
and provided a glimpse to applications for engineering design,
internet based systems and quality control.
Several technical presentations and displayed commercial products
showed that logic programming and internet technologies combine
very well to build systems for data management, data mining,
and information access.
At the industrial and poster exhibition, among others
IF Computer introduced MINERVA, a commercial prolog compiler into
Java applets; LPA showed its Prolog products for PCs;
Mitsubishi Chemical showed its CLP based production scheduling system;
The Prolog Management Group and Practical Application Company
presented the PAP/PAAM/PACT conferences;
Paul Tarau showed the LogiMOO system for internet based collaboration;
Neng-Fa Zhou showed B-Prolog, a constraint prolog implementation.
The next INAP event is October 1997 at Kobe University,
please join, details at:
http://www.ifcomputer.com/inap97
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