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History and Organization
GULP is the Italian Association for Logic
Programming (Gruppo Utenti e ricercatori di Logic
Programming)
It is a non-profit organization founded in 1985
in Pisa
GULP is affiliated to ALP
The activities of GULP are coordinated by an
elected Executive Board, composed by a President,
a Vice-President, a Secretary and up to ten
Members. The EB is in charge for three years
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GULP Executive Board
Current Executive Board
Past Presidents
President Gianfranco Rossi Vice Alberto
Pettorossi Secretary Paolo Torroni Members Stef
ania Costantini Giorgio Delzanno Agostino
Dovier Andrea Formisano Marco Gavanelli
Laura Giordano Nicola Leone Enrico Pontelli
Francesca Rossi Giovanni Semeraro
Giorgio Levi Roberto Barbuti Maurizio
Martelli Maurizio Gabbrielli
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Major activities

• Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC)

• Doctoral Schools

• One-day Workshops (with tutorials)

• Best Italian PhD Dissertation Award in
  Computational Logic

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Past Conferences
I. GULP (1986), Genova (Italy) II. GULP (1987),
Torino (Italy) III. GULP (1988), Rome
(Italy) IV. GULP (1989), Bologna (Italy) V. GULP
(1990), Padova (Italy) VI. GULP (1991), Pisa
(Italy) VII. GULP (1992), Tremezzo (Italy) VIII.
GULP (1993), Gizzeria (Italy)
IX. I GULP-PRODE (1994), Peñiscola (Spain) X. II
GULP-PRODE (1995), Vietri (Italy) XI. III
APPIA-GULP-PRODE (1996), San Sebastian
(Spain) XII. IV APPIA-GULP-PRODE (1997), Grado
(Italy) XIII. V APPIA-GULP-PRODE (1998), La
Coruña (Spain) XIV. VI APPIA-GULP-PRODE (1999),
L'Aquila (Italy) XV. VII APPIA-GULP-PRODE (2000),
La Habana (Cuba) XVI. VIII APPIA-GULP-PRODE
(2001), Évora (Portugal) XVII. IX
APPIA-GULP-PRODE (2002), Madrid (Spain) XVIII. X
APPIA-GULP-PRODE (2003), Rende (Italy)
AGP, Joint Conference on Declarative
Programming
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Past Conferences cont'd
XIX. I CILC (2004), Parma (Italy) XX. II CILC
(2005), Rome (Italy) XXI. III CILC (2006), Bari
(Italy) XXII. IV CILC (2007), Messina
(Italy) XXIII. V CILC (2008), Perugia
(Italy) XXIV. V CILC (2009), Ferrara (Italy)
Average figures 20-40 presentations 30-70
participants

• Last edition CILC08 in Perugia
• 2-and-a-half-day event
• 3 invited speakers (Faber, Piazza, Pontelli)
• 45 participants
• 22 long presentations
• 6 short presentations

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Doctoral Schools
1988 Advanced School on Foundations of Logic
Programming (Alghero, Sardinia, org Maurizio
Martelli) 1990 Advanced School on Foundations of
Logic Programming. (Alghero, Sardinia) 1996
Int'l Summer School on Advances in Logic
Programming (Alghero, Sardinia, org Nicoletta
Cocco Gianfranco Rossi) 1998 Int'l Summer
School on Logic Programming Perspectives in
Hot Research Areas (Maratea, Basilicata, org
Patrizia Asirelli Piero Bonatti) 2000 First
Int'l Summer School in Computational Logic ISCL
2000 (Maratea, Basilicata, org Sandro Etalle
Maurizio Gabbrielli) 2002 Second Int'l Summer
School in Computational Logic ISCL 2002 (Maratea,
Basilicata, org Roberto Bagnara Patricia Hill)
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GULP Members

• GULP currently has about 60 members
• Membership annual fees 40 euro - 10 euro
  students
• Members can
• vote for the election of the GULP EB
• attend events organized by GULP, like
  conferences, workshops, ...
• receive GULP news and use the GULP mailing list
• participate to GULP best PhD thesis award
• All GULP members are affiliated to ALP
• Spread over the whole country and abroad

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LP in Italy

• RESEARCH
• GULP ca. 30 universities and research centers
• TEACHING
• 20 universities
• 13 regions
• 50 courses
• 1500 students
• 30,000 student-hour
• Main areas IA, KRR, Languages, TCS, Logics

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Forthcoming activities

• CILC 2009 in Ferrara
• Organized by Marco Gavanelli Fabrizio Riguzzi
• CILC 2010 in Rende
• Organized by Nicola Leone
• Book 25 years of LP in Italy
• Edited by Agostino Dovier Enrico Pontelli
• GULP 2008 Best PhD Dissertation Award
• 2006 edition
• 2 awards (600 euro each)
• International committee (26 researchers from
  Italy, Belgium, Portugal, UK, Sweden, France,
  Austria, Switzerland, US, Japan)
• 2008 edition open call (candidates reviewers)

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