Essentials of Logic Programming

Christopher John Hogger

ISBN 10: 0198538324 / ISBN 13: 9780198538325

Published by OUP Oxford, 1991

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Logic programming has developed into a broad discipline within computing science. Besides its basic role as a declarative programming language, it is also contributing significantly to such fields as artificial intelligence, new-generation computing, software engineering and deductive databases. This new book presents the fundamentals of logic programming from both practical and theoretical viewpoints. It covers various extensions of the formalism, its relationship to Prolog, its formal semantics and its applications to program analysis and transformation. The text is illustrated with numerous diagrams. There are two distinguishing features of the book designed to make it adaptable to various forms of usage and accessible to various audiences. The material is organized into sixty modular themes, permitting many kinds of course to be based upon it; and it includes nearly seventy pages of detailed answers to all of the exercises posed in the themes. Seller Inventory # 9780198538325

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Logic programming has developed into a broad discipline within computing science, contributing to such fields as artificial intelligence, new-generation computing, software engineering and deductive databases. This new book presents the fundamentals of logic programming from both practical and theoretical viewpoints. It also covers various extensions of the formalism, its relationship to Prolog, its formal semantics and its applications to program analysis and transformation. The text is illustrated throughout with numerous diagrams. The material is organized into sixty modular themes, permitting many kinds of course to be based upon it; and it includes nearly seventy pages of detailed answers to all of the exercises.

Product Description: Essentials of Logic Programming Presents the fundamentals of logic programming from both practical and theoretical viewpoints, covering various extensions of the formalism, its relationship to Prolog, its formal semantics and its applications to program analysis and transformation. Full description

Bibliographic Details

Title: Essentials of Logic Programming
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu