1. :- gulp!

2. 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

3. Current Executive Board
GULP Executive Board
Current Executive Board
Past Presidents
President: Gianfranco Rossi
Vice: Alberto Pettorossi
Secretary: Paolo Torroni
Members:
Stefania 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

4. Major activities Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC)
Doctoral Schools
One-day Workshops (with tutorials)
Best Italian PhD Dissertation Award in Computational Logic

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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)

8. GULP Members GULP currently has about 60 members
Membership annual fees: 40 euro 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

9. 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, KR&R, Languages, TCS, Logics

10. 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)