Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages [electronic resource] : 7th International Symposium, PADL 2005, Long Beach, CA, USA, January 10-11, 2005. Proceedings / edited by Manuel V. Hermenegildo, Daniel Cabeza.

Invited Talks -- Building the World from First Principles: Declarative Machine Descriptions and Compiler Construction -- Code Compression -- Papers -- Functional Framework for Sound Synthesis -- Specializing Narrowing for Timetable Generation: A Case Study -- Character-Based Cladistics and Answer Set Programming -- Role-Based Declarative Synchronization for Reconfigurable Systems -- Towards a More Practical Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Programming Framework -- Safe Programming with Pointers Through Stateful Views -- Towards Provably Correct Code Generation via Horn Logical Continuation Semantics -- A Provably Correct Compiler for Efficient Model�Checking of Mobile�Processes -- An Ordered Logic Program Solver -- Improving Memory Usage in the BEAM -- Solving Constraints on Sets of Spatial Objects -- Discovery of Minimal Unsatisfiable Subsets of Constraints Using Hitting Set Dualization -- Solving Collaborative Fuzzy Agents Problems with CLP( ) -- Improved Fusion for Optimizing Generics -- The Program Inverter LRinv and Its Structure -- A Full Pattern-Based Paradigm for XML Query Processing -- Type Class Directives.