Introduction to the 24th international conference on logic programming special issue

Abstract

The ICLP series of conferences provides a technical forum for presenting and disseminating innovative research in the field of logic programming. The 24th International Conference on Logic Programming took place from December 9–13, 2008 in the city of Udine, Italy. The conference attracted 177 submissions and featured a high-quality program focused on the foundations, developments, and applications of logic programming. Of particular significance was the special session celebrating the 20th anniversary of the seminal paper on the stable model semantics.