familiar with Boolean logic. In Boolean logic, names are given to things t at are either TRUE or FALSE. The operations AND, OR, and NOT then allow us to build a rich set of rules of inference, such as …

What is Prolog? an untyped logic programming language programs are rules that define relations on values run a program by formulating a goal or query result of a program: a true/false answer and a …

It introduces the reader to the fundamentals of traditional Logic Programming and makes clear the benets of using the technology to create runnable specications for complex systems.”

Here, we offer an alternative presentation of the subject by focusing on the or dinary programming concepts (often implicitly) present in logic programming and by relating various of its ideas to those …

60’s and early 70’s Prolog (Programming in logic, 1972) is the most well known representative of the paradigm. Specially designed for theorem proof and artificial intelligence but allows general purpose …

Chapter 12 The Logic Programming Paradigm In this chapter we analyse the other paradigm which, together with functional pro-g. amming, supports declarative programming. The logic programming …

PROLOG A programming language based on Horn clauses and SLD resolution. The good: declarative language ⇒ including industry-strength compilers ⇒ amenable to concurrent execution