Beschreibung

This book presents a new concurrent logic programming language called Conclog and a methodology for programming in it. Conclog was designed bytaking the ideal features of logic programming as reference, rather than by concentrating directly on operational tricks to ensure efficiency. This leads to quite easy declarative programming. Concern for soundness and completeness ensures that multi-directional and multi-solution correct procedures can be coded quite straightforwardly. Assuming suitable hypotheses on their uses, they can be transformed into very efficient versions thanks to the introduction of appropriate control information. Correctness-preserving properties are given for that purpose. The designof Conclog involves three steps. First, a sound and complete parallel execution model of Horn clause programs is proposed which reduces subgoals of conjunctions independently and uses a calculus for reconciling inconsistent bindings. Second, this is extended to handle negation as completely as possible. Third, a minimal and reasonably complete set of extra-logical features are defined for optimization and practical purposes. The second part of the book presents a methodology for constructing Conclog in a rigorous way. This covers the entire programming process, from informal specifications via logic descriptions to efficient programs. The methodology can be adapted to other languages.

Klappentext

This book presents a new concurrent logic programming
language called Conclog and a methodology for programming in
it.
Conclog was designed bytaking the ideal features of logic
programming as reference, rather than by concentrating
directly on operational tricks to ensure efficiency. This
leads to quite easy declarative programming. Concern for
soundness and completeness ensures that multi-directional
and multi-solution correct procedures can be coded quite
straightforwardly. Assuming suitable hypotheses on their
uses, they can be transformed into very efficient versions
thanks to the introduction of appropriate control
information. Correctness-preserving properties are given for
that purpose.
The designof Conclog involves three steps. First, a sound
and complete parallel execution model of Horn clause
programs is proposed which reduces subgoals of conjunctions
independently and uses a calculus for reconciling
inconsistent bindings. Second, this is extended to handle
negation as completely as possible. Third, a minimal and
reasonably complete set of extra-logical features are
defined for optimization and practical purposes.
The second part of the book presents a methodology for
constructing Conclog in a rigorous way. This covers the
entire programming process, from informal specifications via
logic descriptions to efficient programs. The methodology
can be adapted to other languages.

Inhalt
Logic programming.- A reconciliation calculus.- A basic scheme for concurrent logic programming.- Incorporating negation.- Adding extra-logical features.- Event-driven reconciliation.- Comparison with related work.- Conclusion.- Towards a methodology of concurrent logic programming.- Programming non-behavioral applications.- Programming behavorial applications.- Conclusion.- Conclusion.

Produktinformationen

Titel:	Conclog: A Methodological Approach to Concurrent Logic Programming
Autor:	Jean-Marie Jacquet
EAN:	9783540549383
ISBN:	3540549382
Format:	Kartonierter Einband
Herausgeber:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Anzahl Seiten:	800
Gewicht:	1188g
Größe:	H235mm x B155mm x T42mm
Jahr:	1991
Untertitel:	Englisch
Auflage:	1991