Subject: VOID N 4229 - Business Plan and Convener's Report for WG 19

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:38:33 -0400

Please note that this document contains the wrong report, and is therefore
voided.  The WG 19 report is contained in N 4230. 

My apologies.

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces 
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI) 
  
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N4229 
  
TITLE: 
Business Plan and Convener's Report for WG 19 

DATE ASSIGNED: 
2007-07-31 
  
SOURCE: 
WG 19 Convener (R. Scowen) 

BACKWARD POINTER: 
N/A 
  
DOCUMENT TYPE: 
Officer's Contribution 

PROJECT NUMBER: 
N/A 
  
STATUS: 
This document is circulated for review and consideration.  It will be
discussed under agenda item 8.8 at the September 2007 JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary in
Singapore.  

ACTION IDENTIFIER: 
ACT 
  
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DISTRIBUTION: 
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Sally Seitz 
Program Manager 
American National Standards Institute 
25 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10036 
Tel: 212 642 4918 
Fax: 212 840 2298 

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Business Plan and Convener's Report 
JTC1/SC22/WG17 - Programming Language Prolog 
2006/08/01 

Period Covered: 
September 2006 - August 2007 
Submitted by: 
Jonathan Hodgson 
Convener, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 17 
St. Joseph's University, 
Philadelphia. PA 19131 
USA 
Email: [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> >

1.        Management Summary 

1.1        JTC1/SC22/WG17 Statement of Scope 

Development and maintenance of ISO/IEC standards related to programming
language Prolog 

1.2        Project Report 

1.2.1        Completed Projects 

ISO/IEC 13211-2. Programming language Prolog-part 2 Modules 

1.2.2        Projects Underway 

Consideration of proposed drafts on Definite clause grammar, 
and global variables and arrays. Review of technical corrigenda 
to ISO/IEC 13211. 

1.2.3        Canceled Projects 

None 

1.3        Cooperation and Competition 

2.        Period Review 

2.1        Market Requirements 

Prolog is a niche language. It is extensively used by a small number of
users mainly for applications in configuration, web and CGI generation,
constraint handling and natural language.  It is taught in a significant
number of universities.

2.2        Achievements 

A draft of a Technical report on Definite Clause Grammars was approved in
2006. It is hoped to ballot the final version by the end of 2007. Paulo
Moura is  the editor. 

Roger Scowen  submitted in a set of defect reports and corrigenda  a first
part was successfully balloted in 2006. The second set is to be discussed at
the WG17 meeting in Oporto with a ballot to follow.   

2.3        Resources 

WG17 meets as needed, usually once a year, and works by electronic 
correspondence between meetings. Four countries are regular participants  in
meetings: Germany, Japan, the UK, and the USA. More recently Hungary,
Portugal and Spain have participated.

3.        Focus Next Work Period 
Completion of the TR on DCGs 
Completion of the TCs. 
Further consideration of the Japanese proposal on globals and arrays. 

3.1        Deliverables 
Paulo Moura. Draft document on Threads in ISO Prolog N191 
Roger Scowen. Defect Reports and Corrigenda for ISO/IEC 13211-1 N192 
3.2        Strategies 

To proceed by producing a number of TR's on topics deemed of interest to the
Prolog community. 

3.2.1        Risks 

WG17 has suffered from a decline in interest in supporting standardization
efforts, however holding meetings in conjunction with the ICLP meetings has
proved to be effective in increasing participation.

3.2.2        Opportunities 

Portugal has taken a more active role in Prolog standardization. 
Locating the 2005 meeting with ICLP in Sitges was a success. The 2006
meeting was colocated with FLoC (which includes ICLP) in Seattle and was
well attended. The 2007 meeting will be in Oporto, Portugal 

colocated with ICLP. 

3.3        Work Program Priorities 

The current priorities are the completion of the technical report on DCGs .
There are also a number of  issues with defects in part 1 that need to be
resolved. Further work on globals and arrays is underway. 

A discussion of threads has begun on an informal basis. 

4.        Other Items 

This section includes items that are part of the Convener's Report, but not
part of the business plan. 

Holding the meetings colocated with ICLP (the International conference Logic
Programming) seems to be effective in increasing participation.

4.1        Action Requests at the Forthcoming Plenary 

None 

4.2        Schedule 

A schedule for additional work was  set at the meeting in Seattle. This
included: 
Resolution of the comments on the Draft TR on DCG's 
Further discussion of corrigenda to part 1. 
Exploration of additional topics for work. 
4.3        WG17 Meetings 

Recent Meetings 

October 5th 2005 Sitges, Spain. 
August 21st 2006, Seattle, Washington 
September 12th 2007 Oporto, Portugal 

None. 

4.3.2        Future Meetings 
  
To be scheduled, depending on the timing and location of ICLP 2008. 

Sally Seitz 
Program Manager 
American National Standards Institute 
25 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10036 
Tel: 212 642 4918 
Fax: 212 840 2298