Essentials of Logic Programming

by Christopher John Hogger

Overview

Logic programming has developed into a broad discipline within computing science, contributing to such fields as artificial intelligence, new-generation computing, software engineering and deductive databases. This new book presents the fundamentals of logic programming from both practical and theoretical viewpoints. It also covers various extensions of the formalism, its relationship to Prolog, its formal semantics and its applications to program analysis and transformation. The text is illustrated throughout with numerous diagrams. The material is organized into sixty modular themes, permitting many kinds of course to be based upon it; and it includes nearly seventy pages of detailed answers to all of the exercises.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198538325
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/21/1991
Series:	Graduate Texts in Computer Science , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.13(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Imperial College, London

Table of Contents

1. Background2. Overview3. First-Order Logic4. Clausal-Form Logic5. Problem Solving6. The Herbrand Domain7. Resolution8. Programming with SLD-Resolution9. Semantics of Definite Problems10. Transforming and Completing Programs11. Programming with Finite Failure12. Verifying Programs

Editorial Reviews

"The organization of this textbook is . . . highly effective. The book does an excellent job of introducing [its] ideas in the context of logic programming." —Computing Reviews

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