Functional and Logic Programming 6th International Symposium, FLOPS 2002, Aizu, Japan, September 15-17, 2002. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming, FLOPS 2002, held in Aizu, Japan, in September 2002.The 15 revised full papers presented together with 3 full invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on constraint programming, program transformation and analysis, semantics, rewriting, compilation techniques, and programming methodology.

Invited Papers.- Formal Methods in CafeOBJ.- The Essence of XML (Preliminary Version).- To the Gates of HAL: A HAL Tutorial.- Tutorial Paper.- Functional Logic Design Patterns.- Constraints.- On Consistency and Width Notions for Constraint Programs with Algebraic Constraints.- Solving Mixed Quantified Constraints over a Domain Based on eal Numbers and erbrand Terms.- Program Transformation and Analysis.- On the Correctness of the Factoring Transformation.- Lambda-Lifting in Quadratic Time.- Semantics.- The Well-Founded Semantics in Normal Logic Programs with Uncertainty.- Linearly Used Effects: Monadic and CPS Transformations into the Linear Lambda Calculus.- Coinductive Interpreters for Process Calculi.- Rewriting.- Descendants and Head Normalization of Higher-Order Rewrite Systems.- Narrowing Failure in Functional Logic Programming.- Compilation Techniques.- The HiPE/x86 Erlang Compiler: System Description and Performance Evaluation.- Dynamic-Cut with Definitional Trees.- Programming Methodology.- The Head Condition and Polymorphic Recursion.- Structural Abstraction and Application in Logic Programming.- VM?: A Functional Calculus for Scientific Discovery.