Foundations of Logic Programming

John W. Lloyd

ISBN 10: 3642831915 / ISBN 13: 9783642831911

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Dez 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the two and a half years since the frrst edition of this book was published, the field of logic programming has grown rapidly. Consequently, it seemed advisable to try to expand the subject matter covered in the first edition. The new material in the second edition has a strong database flavour, which reflects my own research interests over the last three years. However, despite the fact that the second edition has about 70% more material than the first edition, many worthwhile topic!! are still missing. I can only plead that the field is now too big to expect one author to cover everything. In the second edition, I discuss a larger class of programs than that discussed in the first edition. Related to this, I have also taken the opportunity to try to improve some of the earlier terminology. Firstly, I introduce 'program statements', which are formulas of the form A+-W, where the head A is an atom and the body W is an arbitrary formula. A 'program' is a finite set of program statements. There are various restrictions of this class. 'Normal' programs are ones where the body of each program statement is a conjunction of literals. (The terminology 'general', used in the first edition, is obviously now inappropriate). 228 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783642831911

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Foundations of Logic Programming
• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Dez 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3642831915
• ISBN-13: 9783642831911
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

This is the second edition of the first book to give an account of the mathematical foundations of Logic Programming. The topics covered include the semantics of various classes of programs, the semantics of perpetual processes, and the foundations of Deductive Database Systems. The book contains many illustrative examples and over 100 problems.

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In the two and a half years since the frrst edition of this book was published, the field of logic programming has grown rapidly. Consequently, it seemed advisable to try to expand the subject matter covered in the first edition. The new material in the second edition has a strong database flavour, which reflects my own research interests over the last three years. However, despite the fact that the second edition has about 70% more material than the first edition, many worthwhile topic!! are still missing. I can only plead that the field is now too big to expect one author to cover everything. In the second edition, I discuss a larger class of programs than that discussed in the first edition. Related to this, I have also taken the opportunity to try to improve some of the earlier terminology. Firstly, I introduce "program statements", which are formulas of the form A+-W, where the head A is an atom and the body W is an arbitrary formula. A "program" is a finite set of program statements. There are various restrictions of this class. "Normal" programs are ones where the body of each program statement is a conjunction of literals. (The terminology "general", used in the first edition, is obviously now inappropriate).