In this report we introduce a new proof-theoretic approach to the semantics of Constraint Logic Programming, based on an intuitionistic first-order modal logic, called QLL. The distinguishing feature of this new approach is that the logic calculus of QLL is used not only to capture the usual extensional aspects of Logic Programming, i.e. "which queries are successful, " but also some of the intensional aspects, i.e. "what is the answer constraint and how is it constructed." It provides for a direct link between the model-theoretic and the operational semantics following a formulas-as-programs and proofs-as-constraints principle. This approach makes use of logic in a different way than other approaches based on logic calculi. On the one side it is to be distinguished from the well-known provability semantics which is concerned merely with what is derivable as opposed to how it is derivable, paying attention to the fact that it is the how that determines the answer constraint. ...

We prove the equivalence between the ternary circuit model and a notion of intuitionistic stabilization bounds. The results are obtained as an application of the timing interpretation of intuitionistic propositional logic presented in [12]. We show that if one takes an intensional view of the ternary model then the delays that have been abstracted away can be completely recovered. Our intensional soundness and completeness theorems imply that the extracted delays are both correct and exact; thus we have developed a framework which unifies ternary simulation and functional timing analysis. Our focus is on the combinational behaviour of gate-level circuits with feedback.

We present an overview of some sequent calculi organised not for "theorem-proving" but for proof search, where the proofs themselves (and the avoidance of known proofs on backtracking) are objects of interest. The main calculus discussed is that of Herbelin [1994] for intuitionistic logic, which extends methods used in hereditary Harrop logic programming; we give a brief discussion of some similar calculi for other logics. We also point to some related work on permutations in intuitionistic Gentzen sequent calculi that clarifies the relationship between such calculi and natural deduction. 1 Introduction It is widely held that ordinary logic programming is based on classical logic, with a Tarski-style semantics (answering questions "What judgments are provable?") rather than a Heyting-style semantics (answering questions like "What are the proofs, if any, of each judgment?"). If one adopts the latter style (equivalently, the BHK interpretation: see [35] for details) by regardi...