Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 19th International Symposium, LOPSTR 2009, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2009, Revised Selected Papers

Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofthepaperspresentedatthe19thInternational SymposiumonLogic-BasedProgramSynthesisandTransformation(LOPSTR 2009)heldSeptember 9-11,2009in Coimbra,Portugal. Informationaboutthe conference can be found at http://www. cs. kuleuven. be/conference/ lopstr09+. PreviousLOPSTRsymposiawereheldinValencia(2008),Lyngby (2007),Venice(2006and1999),London(2005and2000),Verona(2004),U- sala(2003),Madrid(2002),Paphos(2001),Manchester(1998,1992,and1991), Leuven(1997),Stockholm(1996),Arnhem(1995),Pisa(1994),andLouvain-la- Neuve(1993). The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international researchandcollaborationonlogic-basedprogramdevelopment. LOPSTRt- ditionally solicits papers in the areas of speci?cation, synthesis, veri?cation, transformation,analysis,optimization,composition,security,reuse,applications andtools,component-basedsoftwaredevelopment,softwarearchitectures,age- basedsoftwaredevelopment,andprogramre?nement. LOPSTRhasareputation forbeingalively,friendlyforumforpresentinganddiscussingworkinprogress. Formalproceedingsareproducedonlyafterthesymposiumsothatauthorscan incorporateanyfeedbackinthepublishedpapers.

IwouldliketothankallthosewhosubmittedcontributionstoLOPSTRinthe categoriesoffullpapersandextendedabstracts. Eachsubmissionwasreviewed byatleastthreeProgramCommitteemembers. Thecommitteedecidedtoaccept threefullpapersforimmediateinclusioninthe?nalproceedings,andtenpapers wereacceptedafterrevisionandanotherroundofreviewing. Inadditiontothe accepted papers, the program also included an invited talk by Germ' an Vidal (TechnicalUniversityofValencia). IamgratefultotheProgramCommitteememberswhoworkedhardtop- duce high-qualityreviewsforthe submitted papersin atight schedule, aswell as all the external reviewers involved in the paper selection. I also would like to thank Andrei Voronkov for his excellent EasyChair system that automates manyofthetasksinvolvedinchairingaconference. LOPSTR2009wasco-locatedwithPPDP2009andCSL2009. Manythanks tothelocalorganizersoftheseevents,inparticular,toAnaAlmeida,theLOP- STR2009LocalOrganizationChair. January2010 DannyDeSchreye Conference Organization Program Chair DannyDeSchreye DepartmentofComputerScience KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven B-3001Heverlee,Belgium Email:danny. deschreye@cs. kuleuven. be Local Organization Chair AnaAlmeida DepartamentodeMatematica FaculdadedeCienciaseTecnologia UniversidadedeCoimbra Coimbra,Portugal Email:amca@mat.

uc. pt Program Committee SlimAbdennadher GermanUniversityCairo,Egypt Mar'?aAlpuenteFrasnedoTechnicalUniversityofValencia,Spain RobertoBagnara UniversityofParma,Italy DannyDeSchreye K. U. Leuven,Belgium(Chair) JohnGallagher RoskildeUniversity,Denmark RobertGluc .. k UniversityofCopenhagen,Denmark MichaelHanus UniversityofKiel,Germany ReinhardKahle UniversidadeNovadeLisboa,Portugal AndyKing UniversityofKent,UK MichaelLeuschel UniversityofDu ..sseldorf,Germany FabioMartinelli IstitutodiInformaticaeTelematicaPisa,Italy Fred Mesnard Universit'edeLaR' eunion,France MarioOrnaghi Universita 'degliStudidiMilano,Italy Germ' anPuebla TechnicalUniversityofMadrid,Spain SabinaRossi Universit' aCa'FoscaridiVenezia,Italy JosepSilva TechnicalUniversityofValencia,Spain PeterSchneider-Kamp UniversityofSouthernDenmark,Denmark TomSchrijvers K. U.

Leuven,Belgium PetrStepanek CharlesUniversityPrague,CzechRepublic WimVanhoof UniversityofNamur,Belgium VIII Organization Organizing Committee AnaAlmeida PedroQuaresma ReinhardKahle External Reviewers JesperLouisAndersen FedericoBergenti UlrichBerger CarlFriedrichBolz PedroCabalar GabrieleCosta Francois , Degrave MarcDenecker CamilloFiorentini SebastianFischer EmilioJesusGallegoArias MichaelGelfond PepeIborra HaythemIsmail LeanidKrautsevich JoaoLeite GiftNuka EtiennePayet PaoloPilozzi FrankRaiser JuanRodriguez-Hortala ' CesarSanchez AntonSetzer MajaTonnesen PeterVanWeert DeanVoets GianluigiZavattaro Table of Contents Towards Scalable Partial Evaluation of Declarative Programs (Invited Talk) ...