Disjunctive Logic Programming and Databases: Non-monotonic Aspects 1 a Note from the Organizers

to meet the growing interest in this area of research. It brought together about forty researchers from various countries. Dagstuhl, a place being developed exclusively for research activities in Computer Science, provides an excellent atmosphere for researchers to meet and exchange ideas. During the ve days of the seminar, there were vaious talks, panel discussions, and system demonstrations. This report summarizes all these activities. An on-line version of this report is available at the URL Non-monotonic reasoning plays a fundamental role in knowledge representation , diagnosis, reasoning about action, logic programming and deductive