This volume is the first of the ESPRIT Basic Research Series. It contains papers presented at the Symposium on Computational Logic held during the 7th ESPRIT Conference. A major theme of the symposium was the likely future impact of computational logic.

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Problems and Promises of Computational Logic.- An Introduction to Prolog III.- On Open Defaults.- On Asking What a Database Knows.- Two Kinds of Program Specifications.- Exploration with Mathematica.- Composition Operators for Logic Theories.- The Synthesis of Logic Programs from Inductive Proofs.- Studies in Pure Prolog: Termination.- Concept Logics.- Position papers for the panel session Programming in 2010: The Role of Computational Logic.- Programming in 2010? A scientific and industrial challenge.- Perspective on Computational Logic.- Programming in the year 2010.- It's Past Time for Practical Computer Checked Proofs of Program Correctness.- Computational Logic needs Symbolic Mathematics.