The Craft of Prolog

The Craft of Prolog
Author: Richard O'Keefe
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2009-12-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262512270

The emphasis in The Craft of Prolog is on using Prolog effectively. It presents a loose collection of topics that build on and elaborate concepts learned in a first course. Hacking your program is no substitute for understanding your problem. Prolog is different, but not that different. Elegance is not optional. These are the themes that unify Richard O'Keefe's very personal statement on how Prolog programs should be written. The emphasis in The Craft of Prolog is on using Prolog effectively. It presents a loose collection of topics that build on and elaborate concepts learned in a first course. These may be read in any order following the first chapter, "Basic Topics in Prolog," which provides a basis for the rest of the material in the book. Richard A. O'Keefe is Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a consultant to Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.Contents: Basic Topics in Prolog. Searching. Where Does the Space Go? Methods of Programming. Data Structure Design. Sequences. Writing Interpreters. Some Notes on Grammar Rules. Prolog Macros. Writing Tokenisers in Prolog. All Solutions.

The Art of Prolog, second edition

The Art of Prolog, second edition
Author: Leon S. Sterling
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 1994-03-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262691639

This new edition of The Art of Prolog contains a number of important changes. Most background sections at the end of each chapter have been updated to take account of important recent research results, the references have been greatly expanded, and more advanced exercises have been added which have been used successfully in teaching the course. Part II, The Prolog Language, has been modified to be compatible with the new Prolog standard, and the chapter on program development has been significantly altered: the predicates defined have been moved to more appropriate chapters, the section on efficiency has been moved to the considerably expanded chapter on cuts and negation, and a new section has been added on stepwise enhancement—a systematic way of constructing Prolog programs developed by Leon Sterling. All but one of the chapters in Part III, Advanced Prolog Programming Techniques, have been substantially changed, with some major rearrangements. A new chapter on interpreters describes a rule language and interpreter for expert systems, which better illustrates how Prolog should be used to construct expert systems. The chapter on program transformation is completely new and the chapter on logic grammars adds new material for recognizing simple languages, showing how grammars apply to more computer science examples.

Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation

Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
Author: Germán Puebla
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 354071409X

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2006, held in Venice, Italy, July 2006 in conjunction with ICALP 2006, PPDP 2006, and CSFW 2006. The 14 revised full papers cover tools for program development, partial evaluation and program transformation, security and synthesis, debugging and testing, as well as termination and analysis.

Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming

Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming
Author: Pierre Deransart
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1990-08-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540530107

This volume consists of the papers accepted for presentation at the second international workshop on Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming (PLILP '90) held in Linköping, Sweden, August 20-22, 1990. The aim of the workshop was to identify concepts and techniques used both in implementation of programming languages, regardless of the underlying programming paradigm, and in logic programming. The intention was to bring together researchers working in these fields. The volume includes 26 selected papers falling into two categories. Papers in the first category present certain ideas from the point of view of a particular class of programming languages, or even a particular language. The ideas presented seem to be applicable in other classes of languages. Papers in the second category directly address the problem of integration of various programming paradigms. The proceedings of the predecessor workshop PLILP '88, held in Orléans, France, May 16-18, 1988, are available as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 348.

High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing
Author: Constantine Polychronopoulos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1999-05-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540659693

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on High-Performance Computing, ISHPC'99, held in Kyoto, Japan in May 1999. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 61 submissions. Also included are the abstracts of several invited talks and 12 reviewed short papers corresponding to the poster presentations given at the symposium. The papers address many current issues in high-performance computing and communication, regarding hardware and network architectures as well as regarding software and theoretical foundations; also advanced applications are studied in a variety of fields including modeling, visualisation, and computational science.

Logic Programming '86

Logic Programming '86
Author: Eiiti Wada
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1987-06-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540180241

This volume contains the papers presented, and subsequently submitted for publication, at the 5th Logic Programming Conference, held June 23-26, 1986 in Tokyo. Topics covered include Prolog machine architecture, Prolog processors, variations of Prolog language, and applications of Prolog to natural language understanding, and expert systems. Most of the works reported in the volume are related to the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer Project allowing readers to compare results from this project with those from similar projects currently being conducted in other countries.

Logic Programming

Logic Programming
Author: Lee Naish
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 1997
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262640350

Covers the latest research in areas such as theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases,language design and implementation, non-monotonic reasoning, and logicprogramming and the Internet. 8-12 July 1997, Leuven, Belgium The International Conference on Logic Programming is the main annual conference sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming. It covers the latest research in areas such as theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases, language design and implementation, non-monotonic reasoning, and logic programming and the Internet.

Logic Programming

Logic Programming
Author: Sandro Etalle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2006-08-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540366369

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2006, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in August 2006. This volume presents 20 revised full papers and 6 application papers together with 2 invited talks, 2 tutorials and special interest papers, as well as 17 poster presentations and the abstracts of 7 doctoral consortium articles. Coverage includes all issues of current research in logic programming.

Programming in Prolog

Programming in Prolog
Author: W. F. Clocksin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642966616

The computer programming language Prolog is quickly gaining popularity throughout the world. Since Its beginnings around 1970. Prolog has been chosen by many programmers for applications of symbolic computation. including: D relational databases D mathematical logic D abstract problem solving D understanding natural language D architectural design D symbolic equation solving D biochemical structure analysis D many areas of artificial Intelligence Until now. there has been no textbook with the aim of teaching Prolog as a practical programming language. It Is perhaps a tribute to Prolog that so many people have been motivated to learn It by referring to the necessarily concise reference manuals. a few published papers. and by the orally transmitted 'folklore' of the modern computing community. However. as Prolog is beginning to be Introduced to large numbers of undergraduate and postgraduate students. many of our colleagues have expressed a great need for a tutorial guide to learning Prolog. We hope this little book will go some way towards meeting this need. Many newcomers to Prolog find that the task of writing a Prolog program Is not like specifying an algorithm in the same way as In a conventional programming language. Instead. the Prolog programmer asks more what formal relationships and objects occur In his problem.