(apologies if you receive multiple copies) Dear all, We have finalized the program for the third Ghent FPG Meeting on Tuesday, June 29 in the Technicum building of Ghent University (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent) at 19h. As before, to enter the building, you should go to the automatic sliding door on the far left of the building and dial the phone number provided on the note that is taped to the door. Someone will then open the door for you. The program is as follows: 1. Pierre Carbonnelle - Declarative programming for Business Logic - a new Open-source project Declarative programming has made major inroads in the Presentation and Persistence layers of applications, with HTML, CSS and SQL. Why has it not been popular in the Business Logic layer of applications ? Pierre Carbonnelle, an engineer with 20 years of experience in the IT industry, will present a new open source project, "Yoopf", that aims to fix this gap. It uses the "formula- based" models of spreadsheets for the development of business applications, with a particular emphasis on the Google App Engine platform. Research opportunities will be discussed. 2. Tom Schrijvers - Monadic Constraint Programming A constraint programming system combines two essential components: a constraint solver and a search engine. The constraint solver reasons about satisfiability of conjunctions of constraints, and the search engine controls the search for solutions by iteratively exploring a disjunctive search tree defined by the constraint program. We give a monadic definition of constraint programming where the solver is defined as a monad threaded through the monadic search tree. We are then able to define search and search strategies as first class objects that can themselves be built or extended by composable search transformers. Search transformers give a powerful and unifying approach to viewing search in constraint programming, and the resulting constraint programming system is first class and extremely flexible. This is joint work with Peter Stuckey (University of Melbourne) and Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh). 3. Wouter Kampmann, Lieven Lemiengre - Lightning Talk on Scala Hope to see you there! Bart Coppens (bart.coppens@elis.ugent.be) Jeroen Janssen (jejansse@gmail.com) Jasper Van der Jeugt (jaspervdj@gmail.com) The Ghent FPG organizing committee.