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Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.

Dieser Band enthalt die Beitrage zur Osterreichischen Artificial Intelligence - Tagung 1985, die vom 24. bis 27. September 1985 in Wien stattgefunden hat. Es war die erste Tagung dieser Art in Osterreich und ihr Ziel war es, Gber Forschungsaktivitaten auf dem immer wichtiger werdenden Gebiet der Artificial Intelligence in Osterreich zu informieren. Dies wurde auch erreichtj von den insgesamt 23 Beitragen des Bandes stammen 14 von Wissenschaftern aus Osterreich. Die Beitrage befassen sich mit folgenden Teil­ gebieten der AI: Expertensysteme, Naturlichsprachige Systeme, Wis­ senserwerb und Learning, AI-Tools, Automatisches Beweisen und Programmieren, Spiele, Auswirkungen der AI. 1m Vorprogramm wurden Tutorials zu den Themen "Einfuhrung in die AI", "Expertensysteme", "LISP und AI-Tools", "Roboter/ Flexible Automation" sowie "Naturlichsprachige Datenbank­ Interfaces" durchgefuhrt. Der rege Besuch bestatigte das all­ gemeine Interesse. Insgesamt zeigen die Beitrage dieses Bandes, daG die Forschung durchaus auf internationalem Niveau steht, was angesichts der kleinen Anzahl von Wissenschaftern und der beschrankten Mittel positiv uberrascht. Wir mochten an dieser Stelle allen, die mit Ihren Beitragen diese Tagung ermoglicht haben, herzlich danken. Besondere An­ erkennung gilt auch allen Mitgliedern der OGAI und Mitar­ beitern, die zum Erfolg beigetragen haben.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third Conference on Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture held in Portland, Oregon, September 14-16, 1987. This conference was a successor to two highly successful conferences on the same topics held at Wentworth, New Hampshire, in October 1981 and in Nancy, in September 1985. Papers were solicited on all aspects of functional languages and particularly implementation techniques for functional programming languages and computer architectures to support the efficient execution of functional programs. The contributions collected in this volume show that many issues regarding the implementation of Functional Programming Languages are now far better understood.

This book offers a comprehensive view of the best and the latest work in functional programming. It is the proceedings of a major international conference and contains 30 papers selected from 126 submitted. A number of themes emerge. One is a growing interest in types: powerful type systems or type checkers supporting overloading, coercion, dynamic types, and incremental inference; linear types to optimize storage, and polymorphic types to optimize semantic analysis. The hot topic of partial evaluation is well represented: techniques for higher-order binding-time analysis, assuring termination of partial evaluation, and improving the residual programs a partial evaluator generates. The thorny problem of manipulating state in functional languages is addressed: one paper even argues that parallel programs with side-effects can be "more declarative" than purely functional ones. Theoretical work covers a new model of types based on projections, parametricity, a connection between strictness analysis and logic, and a discussion of efficient implementations of the lambda-calculus. The connection with computer architecture and a variety of other topics are also addressed.