LPOP: Challenges and Advances in Logic and Practice of Programming

Abstract: This article describes the work presented at the first Logic and Practice of Programming (LPOP) Workshop, which was held in Oxford, UK, on July 18, 2018, in conjunction with the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2018. Its focus is challenges and advances in logic and practice of programming. The workshop was organized around a challenge problem that specifies issues in role-based access control (RBAC), with many participants proposing combined imperative and declarative solutions expressed in the languages of their choice.