PPDP 2002 Fourth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming Pittsburgh, PA, USA October 6-8, 2002 http://ppdp2002.cs.brown.edu Early Registration Deadline: SEPTEMBER 12, 2002 (** Next Thursday!! **) PPDP aims to stimulate research on the use of declarative methods in programming and on the design, implementation and application of programming languages that support such methods. In addition to the 18 regular paper presentations, PPDP 2002 features invited talks by Neil Jones, Catuscia Palamidessi and Janos Sztipanovits. PPDP is part of PLI, a confederation of conferences and workshops aimed at the advancement of high-level programming languages. This year, PLI consists of three conferences: GPCE (Generative Programming and Component Engineering) ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) PPDP (International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming) and seven workshops: Erlang FDPE (Functional and Declarative Programming in Education) Haskell PLAN-X (Programming Languages for XML) Rule (Rule-Based Programming) Scheme VCL (Verification and Computational Logic) The hotel's cut-off date for guaranteed reservations at the group rate is also September 12, 2002, so do register and reserve soon. We look forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh! Claude Kirchner Program Chair PPDP 2002