The Eleventh International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP'98) will be held in Tokyo Japan on 14-16 September 1998. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on practical Prolog applications to exchange research ideas and to share development experiences. INAP'98 consists of technical presentations, invited talks, poster presentations, reception party and the simultaneous exhibition.

Submissions Details

Apply by May 20 1998 with the authors' names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers, paper title and abstract (A4 one page in English).

Authors can choose either "full" or "fast track" for their papers. The fast track is intended to facilitate the publication of the latest results of practical and professional applications. Please note that these two categories are shown clearly in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit their camera- ready final papers in English, not exceeding 8 pages A4 for full papers and 6 pages A4 for fast track papers.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the conference in English.

Important Dates

20  May   1998    Deadline for application 
                          (technical/poster presentation,exhibition)
25  May   1998    Confirmation and detailed information from
                           Program Committee
20 June   1998    Deadline for full paper
20 July   1998    Deadline for fast track paper

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 practical 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 users in various fields.

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 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 enquiries 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 +81-3-5403-7216
ren.associates@ma3.justnet.ne.jp

Organized by:

• INAP Organizing Committee
• Prolog Association of Japan

Program Chairman:

Program Committee:

• Yoshihiro Adachi, Toyo University, Japan
• Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer Japan, Japan
• Stephane Bressan, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
• Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Korea
• Hon Wai Chun, City University, Hong Kong
• Andrew Davison, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
• Robin Drogemuller, CSIRO, Australia
• Ulrich Geske, GMD-FIRST, Germany
• Alexander Herold, Siemens Medical, Germany
• Masatomo Inui, Ibaragi University, Japan
• Kohji Ito, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
• Yukio Kaneda, Kobe University, Japan
• Michiko Kimura, Hamamatsu Medical University, Japan
• Nobukuni Kino, ISAC, Japan
• Takao Ozaki, Keizo, Japan
• Alli Roth, Prolog Management Group, UK
• Roger Scowen, National Physical Laboratory, UK
• Naoyuki Tamura, Kobe University, Japan
• Takushi Tanaka, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
• Kuniaki Uehara, Kobe University, Japan
• Masanobu Umeda, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
• Osamu Yoshie, Science University of Tokyo, Japan

In Cooperation with:

• Association of Logic Programming (planned)
• Bit Computer Science Magazine
• EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
• German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
• German National Research Center for Computer Science
• International Society of Applied Intelligence
• Japanese Cognitive Science Society
• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
• Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (planned)
• Practical Application of Prolog
• Prolog Management Group
• Research Institute for Advanced Information Technology,
• Japan Information Processing Development Center
• Robotics Society of Japan (planned)
• The Society of Plant Engineers Japan
• The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan

Local Chairman:

• Osamu Yoshie, Science University of Tokyo, Japan

Local Committee:

• Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer Japan, Japan
• Takao Ozaki, Keizo, Japan
• Naoyuki Tamura, Kobe University, Japan
• Toshiaki Yagihashi, REN Associates, Japan

Conference Office:

• REN Associates, Inc.

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                        INAP'98 Information Request Sheet
                                 Fax +81-3-5403-7216
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TO: INAP
Mr. Toshiaki Yagihashi
REN Associates, Inc.
2nd Nichika Bldg, 2-12-14 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku Tokyo 105, Japan
Tel +81-3-3433-2543  Fax +81-3-5403-7216
ren.associates@ma3.justnet.ne.jp


I AM INTERESTED IN INAP'98

o I may present a paper. Tentative Title:
  ________________________________________________

o I may attend as a delegate. Please keep me informed.

o Our company may want to become a sponsor.
  Please send info on the INAP Sponsor Package

o Our company/institute may want to exhibit.
  Please send info on the INAP Exhibitor Package

o I may be able to hold a workshop on:
  ________________________________________________

o I may be able to chair an organized session on:
  ________________________________________________

o My organization may be able to cooperate with INAP.
  Please contact me on this.

o I would like to suggest the following person to
  join the INAP Program Committee:
  ________________________________________________


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