IULP 2015 - 2015 International Workshop on User-Oriented Logic Programming

Since the emergence of the field of logic programming more than 30 years ago, a lot of theoretical work has been done, for example with respect to different semantics and their properties. More recently, implementations and IDEs emerged which have been used for various problem-solving applications. However, user-friendliness is still an issue for both experts and non-experts in logic programming; for example experts benefit from features like debugging and heuristic tuning, non-experts from educational material and intuitive visualisations - all of which are ongoing topics of research.
The International Workshop on User-Oriented Logic Programming (IULP) focuses on discussing different aspects involved in making logic programming more user-friendly/oriented, where the user could be either a logic programming expert, or a non-expert who simply uses logic programming tools in some application. IULP aims to bring together researchers from different sub-areas of logic programming, such as answer set programming, constraint logic programming, probabilistic logic programming, abductive logic programming, inductive logic programming, argumentation etc., as user-friendliness is an important topic in all of these sub-areas.
We solicit the submission of papers broadly centred on issues and research related to user-friendliness in logic programming and related fields. We welcome papers of either theoretical or practical nature including work in progress.
Topics
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
IDEs
debugging
explanations
visualisation
best practice
modularity
usage of natural language
heuristic tuning
logic programming education
language extensions