
Advances in Logic Programming Theory
Giorgio Levi(Editor)
Clarendon Press
Published on 29. December 1994
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-19-853853-0 (ISBN)
Description
Logic programming has emerged over the last 15 years as one of most promising new programming paradigms and as a very active research area.
The PROGLOG experience has shown that relevant problems in areas such as expert systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation, and rapid prototyping can profitably be tackled by logic programming technology. It has also known that the performance of PROGLOG systems can be made comparable with the more traditional programming languages by means of sophisticated optimization and implementation of the design of a new class of languages, the concurrent logic lanuages.
Many recent advances in the theory of logic programs are related to extension of the basic positive logic language and the related semantic problems. The original non-monotonic negation-as-failure rle has been extended in various ways and provided with new declarative characterizations. Other new language constructs are constrainsts (which lead to a very important extension of the paradignm which allows us to compute on new domains), concurrency, and modules and objects.
This volume, written by a team of international experts, goes beyond the classical theory to discuss the many recent advances for the first time in a systematic form.
The PROGLOG experience has shown that relevant problems in areas such as expert systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation, and rapid prototyping can profitably be tackled by logic programming technology. It has also known that the performance of PROGLOG systems can be made comparable with the more traditional programming languages by means of sophisticated optimization and implementation of the design of a new class of languages, the concurrent logic lanuages.
Many recent advances in the theory of logic programs are related to extension of the basic positive logic language and the related semantic problems. The original non-monotonic negation-as-failure rle has been extended in various ways and provided with new declarative characterizations. Other new language constructs are constrainsts (which lead to a very important extension of the paradignm which allows us to compute on new domains), concurrency, and modules and objects.
This volume, written by a team of international experts, goes beyond the classical theory to discuss the many recent advances for the first time in a systematic form.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-853853-0 (9780198538530)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Editor
Professor, Department of InformaticsProfessor, Department of Informatics, University of Pisa
Content
1. A comparison of notions with negation as failure ; 2. From concurrent logic programming to concurrent constraint programming ; 3. Formal bases for dataflow analysis of logic programs ; 4. Modular termination proofs for logic and pure PROLOG programs ; 5. Logic + control revisited ; Index