Prolog Thousand Entry Form

Appeared in Volume 6/1, February 1993

Keywords: thousand.

Prolog is being used all around the world for real programming problems, but the news is not getting out. If you, or your colleagues or friends have written a program which has been used for purposes small or large, why not take five minutes to record the facts, so that others can see what you've done?

We are aiming to create a database of at least one thousand Prolog programs which will:

identify the tasks that Prolog is really being used for
enable analysis of the benefits of the language for practical programming
serve as an information exchange for applications

Entry to the Prolog 1000 database is free and a sweepstake is being organized (prizes to be announced) to which all entrants will be eligible. The initiative is supported by the Association for LP (UK branch) and held in association with the first international conference on Prolog Applications, held in April 1992. The results will be made available to entrants in several ways and will be included in a book to be announced shortly

Entries may be made either by the original authors or those in contact with them who have access to the information asked for (which includes the size of program and time taken). Entries are not limited to commercial programs - shareware, non-distributed and privately used programs are perfectly acceptable, but we are not interested in programming exercises. The results of research projects may be submitted if they have actually been used for their designed end.

An entry only takes a few minutes, so why not do it right away? You'll be advertising your program and this may help to make it available to others too. Pass this announcement on to your friends and get them to enter too!

Send entries to:

Prolog 1000
PO Box 137
Blackpool
Lancashire, FY2 0XY, UK
Email: alroth@cix.compulink.co.uk
Fax: +44 253 53811
Tel: +44 253 58081

Floppy disks for PC or Mac in text form are also welcome, and paper entries may also be sent.

Queries may be addressed to:
Chris Moss (cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk)
Leon Sterling (leon@alpha.ces.cwru.edu)

Entry form

Put your details in place of the description below, leaving the field names in angle brackets in the order given. Do not use angle brackets elsewhere, but free use of spaces and newlines is fine. Several entries may placed after each other in the same file.

<Program Name> what it is conventionally called in the documentation
<Purpose> (up to 20 words)
<Developers> people mainly responsible
<Organization> directing or sponsoring the work
<Country> in which developed
<Domain> the work area and activity to which this is relevant.
Try and be as specific as possible. e.g.: Electronic Design, Financial Analysis, Legal Drafting, Medical Diagnosis. General descriptions such as CAD or Decision Support should be used only if the product is directly useful for several work areas.
<Contact> Name of someone who can answer questions, with
<Address> and
<Telephone> and
<Email> address (or fax number) for the contact (if known)
<Description> (up to150 words)
<Prolog> Name of interpreter/compiler(s) used
<Platform> Hardware / operating system(s) (development / delivery)
<Other Languages> or systems used, with approximate extent
<Lines> Approximate number of lines of Prolog
<Predicates> Approximate number of Prolog predicates
<Development effort> Number of person-months for initial system
<Maintenance effort> Number of person-months since, including enhancements
<Current Status> 1=Prototype, 2=Evaluation, 3=Released, 4=No longer supported, 5=Dead
<Use> 1=Personal use, 2=in-House use, 3=Free/public domain, 4=Licensed, 5=Sold product
<Users> Approximate number
<Date deployed> Month/year of inital practical use of program
<Dated> date to which this information refers
<References> Citations of published or available work, if any
<End> This ends the entry.

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