by Anna-Lena Johansson, Agneta Eriksson-Granskog, Anneli Edman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1989
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(ix, 297 pages 56 illustrations)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Logic Programs --; Execution of Logic Programs --; Data Structures --; Databases and Expert Systems --; Program Methodology --; Efficient Computation --; Input and Output --; Prolog Implementations --; Sparringpartner --; Appendix A: Answers to Exercises --; Appendix B: Program Traces --; Appendix C: Transformation Rules --; Appendix D: Built-in Predicates --; Appendix E: ASCII Codes --; Index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Prolog Versus You shows how you can take up the gauntlet of the logic programming language Prolog (PROgramming in LOGic) and use it as an obedient programming and problem solving tool. Logic programming emphasizes that programming is a human activity and consequently that programs should be easy for humans to write, understand and manipulate. In a program knowledge about the problem is stated in a logical language without consideration of the underlying machine language. This book has emerged from undergraduate courses in logic programming. The relation to logic is described and the necessary logic is provided continuously. No previous programming experience is assumed and it can be used by beginners as well as by advanced programmers. The book emphasizes the declarative reading of Prolog programs which greatly facilitates the thinking about the problems and yields programs easy to understand. The book covers logic programs, their execution and data structures; databases and expert systems; program synthesis, program correctness and program transformation as well as an efficient computation of Prolog programs. Each chapter ends with some exercises (with solutions). The book also contains a thorough index, appendices and a chapter on Prolog implementations: DECsystem-10 Prolog, Tricia, Quintus Prolog, MProlog, Turbo Prolog, micro-Prolog and LM-Prolog.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Artificial intelligence.
Computer science.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA76
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73
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P76
Book number
B936
1989
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
by Anna-Lena Johansson, Agneta Eriksson-Granskog, Anneli Edman.