Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning : 9th International Conference LPAR 2002 Tbilisi Georgia October 14–18 2002 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning LPAR 2002 held in Tbilisi Georgia in October 2002. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. Among the topics covered are constraint programming formal software enginering formal verification resolution unification proof planning agent splitting binary decision diagrams binding linear logic Isabelle theorem prover guided reduction etc