Prolog Versus You: An Introduction to Logic Programming

by Anna-Lena Johansson, Agneta Eriksson-Granskog, Anneli Edman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540175773
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	08/25/1989
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Round 1. Logic Programs.- 1.1 World Descriptions.- 1.2 Clauses.- 1.2.1 Horn Clauses.- 1.2.2 Clausal Form.- 1.3 Definitions.- 1.3.1 Introduction.- 1.3.2 Definitions — Programs.- 1.3.3 Construction of Definitions.- 1.4 Exercises.- Round 2. Execution of Logic Programs.- 2.1 Horn Clause Proof Procedure.- 2.1.1 Resolution.- 2.1.2 Unification.- 2.1.3 Search Space.- 2.1.4 Proof Trees.- 2.2 Prolog Proof Procedure.- 2.2.1 Derivations in Prolog.- 2.2.2 Proof Trace.- 2.2.3 Alternative Answers.- 2.2.4 Incomplete Proof Strategy.- 2.3 Predefined Relations.- 2.4 An Example.- 2.5 Exercises.- Round 3. Data Structures.- 3.1 Constructed Terms.- 3.2 List Structures.- 3.3 Tree Structures.- 3.4 Difference Lists.- 3.5 Array Structures.- 3.6 Exercises.- Round 4. Databases and Expert Systems.- 4.1 Metalevels.- 4.1.1 Open and Closed World.- 4.1.2 Negation.- 4.1.3 All Answers.- 4.2 Databases.- 4.2.1 Introduction.- 4.2.2 Data as Relations.- 4.2.3 Data as Terms.- 4.3 Expert Systems.- 4.3.1 Introduction.- 4.3.2 Prolog for Expert Systems.- 4.4 An Example.- 4.5 Exercises.- Round 5. Program Methodology.- 5.1 Derivation of Programs.- 5.1.1 Specifications — Programs.- 5.1.2 Natural Deduction.- 5.1.3 A Programming Calculus.- 5.2 Proof of Program Properties.- 5.2.1 Completeness.- 5.2.2 Termination.- 5.2.3 Partial Correctness.- 5.2.4 Other Properties.- 5.3 Program Transformation.- 5.4 An Example.- 5.5 Exercises.- Round 6. Efficient Computation.- 6.1 Search Space Reduction.- 6.1.1 The Cut Construction.- 6.1.2 The Cases Construction.- 6.2 Ordering of Conditions.- 6.3 Parallelism.- 6.4 Procedural Interpretation of Logic Programs.- 6.5 An Example.- 6.6 Exercises.- Round 7. Input and Output.- 7.1 Input.- 7.2 Output.- 7.3 Examples.- 7.4 Exercises.- Round 8. Prolog Implementations.- 8.1 DECsystem-10 Prolog.- 8.2 Tricia.- 8.3 Quintus Prolog.- 8.4 MProlog.- 8.5 Turbo Prolog.- 8.6 micro-Prolog.- 8.7 LM-Prolog.- Round 9. Sparringpartner.- 9.1 Simple Exercises.- 9.2 Structures.- 9.3 Miscellaneous Exercises.- 9.4 Games.- Appendix A. Answers to Exercises.- A.1 Round 1.- A.2 Round 2.- A.3 Round 3.- A.4 Round 4.- A.5 Round 5.- A.6 Round 6.- A.7 Round 7.- Appendix B. Program Traces.- B.1 Trace of Sum of triads.- B.2 Trace of Knights tour.- Appendix C. Transformation Rules.- Appendix D. Built-in Predicates.- Appendix E. ASCII Codes.