ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore

We present {Kanren} (read: set-Kanren), an extension to miniKanren with constraints for reasoning about sets and association lists. {Kanren} includes first-class set objects, a functionally complete family of set-theoretic constraints (including membership, union, and disjointedness), and new constraints for reasoning about association lists with shadowing and scoped lookup. These additions allow programmers to describe collections declaratively and lazily, without relying on structural encodings and eager search over representation spaces. The result is improved expressiveness and operational behavior in programs that manipulate abstract data - particularly interpreters - by supporting set equality based on contents, enabling finite failure, and allowing more compositional constraint interactions. We describe the design and implementation of {Kanren} in a constraint-enabled miniKanren system and illustrate its use in representative examples.

Fri 17 Oct

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10:30 - 12:15
Extending miniKanren and Relational ProgrammingminiKanren at Peony NW
Chair(s): Ekaterina Verbitskaia JetBrains Research; Constructor University Bremen
10:30
26m
Talk
Beyond Cons: Purely Relational Data Structures
miniKanren
Rafaello Sanna Harvard University, William E. Byrd University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nada Amin Harvard University
Pre-print
10:56
26m
Talk
Committing to the bit: Relational programming with semiring arrays and SAT solving
miniKanren
Dmitri Volkov Indiana University, Yafei Yang Indiana University, Chung-chieh Shan Indiana University
DOI Pre-print
11:22
26m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Rational Tree Unification for miniKanren
miniKanren
Eridan Domoratskiy Saint-Petersburg State University, Dmitrii Kosarev , Dmitri Boulytchev Saint Petersburg State University
Pre-print
11:48
26m
Talk
concurrentKanren: miniKanren for parallel execution
miniKanren
Pre-print