Prolog The Standard

Author : Pierre Deransart,AbdelAli Ed-Dbali,Laurent Cervoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642614118

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Prolog: The Standard by Pierre Deransart,AbdelAli Ed-Dbali,Laurent Cervoni Pdf

From the viewpoint of an "industrial" this book is most welcome, as one of the most significant demonstrations of the maturity of Prolog. Logic programming is a fascinating area in computer science, which held for years - and still does - the promise of freeing ourselves from programming based on the "Von Neumann" machine. In addition computer programming has long been for solid theoretical foundations. While conventional engineering, dealing mainly with "analogical complexity", developed over some hundred years a complete body of mathematical tools, no such toolset was available for "digital complexity". The only mathematical discipline which deals with digital complexity is logic and Prolog is certainly the operational tool which comes closest to the logical programming ideal. So, why does Prolog, despite nearly twenty years of development, still appear to many today to be more of a research or academic tool, rather than an industrial programming language? A few reasons may explain this: First, I think Prolog suffers from having been largely assimilated into - and thus followed the fate of - Artificial Intelligence. Much hype in the late 1980 created overexpectations and failed to deliver, and the counterreaction threw both AI and Prolog into relative obscurity. In a way, maybe this is a new chance for the Prolog community: the ability to carry out real work and progress without the disturbance of limelights and the unrealistic claims of various gurus. Second, programming in Prolog is a new experience for computer professionals.

Author : W. F. Clocksin,C. S. Mellish
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642966613

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Programming in Prolog by W. F. Clocksin,C. S. Mellish Pdf

The computer programming language Prolog is quickly gaining popularity throughout the world. Since Its beginnings around 1970. Prolog has been chosen by many programmers for applications of symbolic computation. including: D relational databases D mathematical logic D abstract problem solving D understanding natural language D architectural design D symbolic equation solving D biochemical structure analysis D many areas of artificial Intelligence Until now. there has been no textbook with the aim of teaching Prolog as a practical programming language. It Is perhaps a tribute to Prolog that so many people have been motivated to learn It by referring to the necessarily concise reference manuals. a few published papers. and by the orally transmitted 'folklore' of the modern computing community. However. as Prolog is beginning to be Introduced to large numbers of undergraduate and postgraduate students. many of our colleagues have expressed a great need for a tutorial guide to learning Prolog. We hope this little book will go some way towards meeting this need. Many newcomers to Prolog find that the task of writing a Prolog program Is not like specifying an algorithm in the same way as In a conventional programming language. Instead. the Prolog programmer asks more what formal relationships and objects occur In his problem.

Author : Michael A. Covington,Donald Nute,André Vellino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Prolog (Computer program language)
ISBN : 013138645X

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Prolog Programming in Depth by Michael A. Covington,Donald Nute,André Vellino Pdf

Appropriate for courses in artificial intelligence, computer science, logic programming, and expert systems. Can be used as supplemental text in courses in computational linguistics (natural language processing). This text covers the Prolog programming language thoroughly with an emphasis on building practical application software, not just theory. Working through this book, students build several types of expert systems, as well as natural language processing software and utilities to read foreign file formats. This is the first book to cover ISO Standard Prolog, but the programs are compatible with earlier dialects of the language. Program files are available by FTP from The University of Georgia.

Author : William F. Clocksin,Christopher S. Mellish
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642554810

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Programming in Prolog by William F. Clocksin,Christopher S. Mellish Pdf

Originally published in 1981, this was the first textbook on programming in the Prolog language and is still the definitive introductory text on Prolog. Though many Prolog textbooks have been published since, this one has withstood the test of time because of its comprehensiveness, tutorial approach, and emphasis on general programming applications. Prolog has continued to attract a great deal of interest in the computer science community, and has turned out to be a basis for an important new generation of programming languages and systems for Artificial Intelligence. Since the previous edition of Programming in Prolog, the language has been standardised by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and this book has been updated accordingly. The authors have also introduced some new material, clarified some explanations, corrected a number of minor errors, and removed appendices about Prolog systems that are now obsolete.

Author : Max Bramer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781846282126

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Logic Programming with Prolog by Max Bramer Pdf

Written for those who wish to learn Prolog as a powerful software development tool, but do not necessarily have any background in logic or AI. Includes a full glossary of the technical terms and self-assessment exercises.

Author : William F. Clocksin,Christopher S. Mellish
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : UCSD:31822025527136

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Programming in Prolog by William F. Clocksin,Christopher S. Mellish Pdf

Here is the book that helped popularize Prolog by making it accessible to a wide range of readers. This edition is an excellent reference for anyone who wants to study and use Prolog. The book concentrates on teaching the "core" Prolog, and all examples conform to this standard and will run on the most widely-used Prolog implementations.

Author : William F. Clocksin,Christopher S. Mellish
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540006788

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Programming in Prolog by William F. Clocksin,Christopher S. Mellish Pdf

Originally published in 1981, this was the first textbook on programming in the Prolog language and is still the definitive introductory text on Prolog. Though many Prolog textbooks have been published since, this one has withstood the test of time because of its comprehensiveness, tutorial approach, and emphasis on general programming applications. Prolog has continued to attract a great deal of interest in the computer science community, and has turned out to be the basis for an important new generation of programming languages and systems for Artificial Intelligence. Since the previous edition of Programming in Prolog, the language has been standardised by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and this book has been updated accordingly. The authors have also introduced some new material, clarified some explanations, corrected a number of minor errors, and removed appendices about Prolog systems that are now obsolete.

Author : Richard O'Keefe
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262512275

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The Craft of Prolog by Richard O'Keefe Pdf

The emphasis in The Craft of Prolog is on using Prolog effectively. It presents a loose collection of topics that build on and elaborate concepts learned in a first course. Hacking your program is no substitute for understanding your problem. Prolog is different, but not that different. Elegance is not optional. These are the themes that unify Richard O'Keefe's very personal statement on how Prolog programs should be written. The emphasis in The Craft of Prolog is on using Prolog effectively. It presents a loose collection of topics that build on and elaborate concepts learned in a first course. These may be read in any order following the first chapter, "Basic Topics in Prolog," which provides a basis for the rest of the material in the book. Richard A. O'Keefe is Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a consultant to Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.Contents: Basic Topics in Prolog. Searching. Where Does the Space Go? Methods of Programming. Data Structure Design. Sequences. Writing Interpreters. Some Notes on Grammar Rules. Prolog Macros. Writing Tokenisers in Prolog. All Solutions.

Author : Patrick Blackburn,Johannes Bos,Kristina Striegnitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1904987176

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Learn Prolog Now! by Patrick Blackburn,Johannes Bos,Kristina Striegnitz Pdf

Prolog is a programming language, but a rather unusual one. Prolog'' is short for Programming with Logic'', and the link with logic gives Prolog its special character. At the heart of Prolog lies a surprising idea: don't tell the computer what to do. Instead, describe situations of interest, and compute by asking questions. Prolog will logically deduce new facts about the situations and give its deductions back to us as answers. Why learn Prolog? For a start, its say what the problem is, rather than how to solve it'' stance, means that it is a very high level language, good for knowledge rich applications such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and the semantic web. So by studying Prolog, you gain insight into how sophisticated tasks can be handled computationally. Moreover, Prolog requires a different mindset. You have to learn to see problems from a new perspective, declaratively rather than procedurally. Acquiring this mindset, and learning to appreciate the links between logic and programming, makes the study of Prolog both challenging and rewarding. Learn Prolog Now! is a practical introduction to this fascinating language. Freely available as a web-book since 2002 (see www.learnprolognow.org) Learn Prolog Now! has became one of the most popular introductions to the Prolog programming language, an introduction prized for its clarity and down-to-earth approach. It is widely used as a textbook at university departments around the world, and even more widely used for self study. College Publications is proud to present here the first hard-copy version of this online classic. Carefully revised in the light of reader's feedback, and now with answers to all the exercises, here you will find the essential material required to help you learn Prolog now.

Author : William F. Clocksin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540629718

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Clause and Effect by William F. Clocksin Pdf

This workbook is for programmers who are new to Prolog and who wish to write useful Prolog programs. The emphasis is on a simplified and disciplined methodology for discerning the mathematical structures related to a problem, and then turning these structures into Prolog programs. A relatively pure subset of Prolog is used and the focus is not on particular features of the language. The presentation is novel. An outline of basic concepts is interleaved with worksheets, which are graduated in scope and give guidance for practising new ideas. Extended examples in the form of case studies then apply the ideas. The book can be a useful companion to two other Springer books, as a sequel to the author's introductory text 'Programming in Prolog' and alongside the reference manual 'Prolog: The Standard'. TOC:Getting Started.- Data Structures.- Mapping.- Choice and Commitment.- Difference Structures.- Case Study: Term Rewriting.- Case Study: Manipulation of Combinational Circuits.- Case Study: Manipulation of Clocked Sequential Circuits.- Case Study: A Compiler for Three Model Computers.- Case Study: The Fast Fourier Transform in Prolog.- Case Study: Higher Order Functional Programming.- Appendix.- References.- Index.

Author : Leon Sterling,Ehud Y. Shapiro
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262193388

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The Art of Prolog by Leon Sterling,Ehud Y. Shapiro Pdf

This second edition contains revised chapters taking into account recent research advances. More advanced exercises have been included, and "Part II The Prolog Language" has been modified to be compatible with the new Prolog standard. This is a graduate level text that can be used for self-study.

Author : Leon S. Sterling,Ehud Y. Shapiro
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262691635

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The Art of Prolog, second edition by Leon S. Sterling,Ehud Y. Shapiro Pdf

This new edition of The Art of Prolog contains a number of important changes. Most background sections at the end of each chapter have been updated to take account of important recent research results, the references have been greatly expanded, and more advanced exercises have been added which have been used successfully in teaching the course. Part II, The Prolog Language, has been modified to be compatible with the new Prolog standard, and the chapter on program development has been significantly altered: the predicates defined have been moved to more appropriate chapters, the section on efficiency has been moved to the considerably expanded chapter on cuts and negation, and a new section has been added on stepwise enhancement—a systematic way of constructing Prolog programs developed by Leon Sterling. All but one of the chapters in Part III, Advanced Prolog Programming Techniques, have been substantially changed, with some major rearrangements. A new chapter on interpreters describes a rule language and interpreter for expert systems, which better illustrates how Prolog should be used to construct expert systems. The chapter on program transformation is completely new and the chapter on logic grammars adds new material for recognizing simple languages, showing how grammars apply to more computer science examples.

Author : Dennis Merritt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461234265

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Adventure in Prolog by Dennis Merritt Pdf

Not long ago" Dennis Merritt wrote one of the best books that I know of about implementing expert systems in Prolog, and I was very glad he published it in our series. The only problem is there are still some unfortunate people around who do not know Prolog and are not sufficiently prepared either to read Merritt's book, or to use this extremely productive language, be it for knowledge-based work or even for everyday programming. Possibly this last statement may surprise you if you were under the impression that Prolog was an "artificial intelligence language" with very limited application potential. Please believe this editor's statement that quite the opposite is true: for at least four years, I have been using Prolog for every programming task in which I am given the option of choosing the language. Therefore, I 'am indeed happy that Dennis Merritt has written another good book on my language of choice, and that it meets the high standard he set with his prior book, Building Expert Systems in Prolog. All that remains for me to do is to wish you success and enjoyment when taking off on your Adventure in Prolog.

Author : Bjarne Stroustrup
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780133522853

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The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup Pdf

The new C++11 standard allows programmers to express ideas more clearly, simply, and directly, and to write faster, more efficient code. Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of C++, has reorganized, extended, and completely rewritten his definitive reference and tutorial for programmers who want to use C++ most effectively. The C++ Programming Language, Fourth Edition, delivers meticulous, richly explained, and integrated coverage of the entire language—its facilities, abstraction mechanisms, standard libraries, and key design techniques. Throughout, Stroustrup presents concise, “pure C++11” examples, which have been carefully crafted to clarify both usage and program design. To promote deeper understanding, the author provides extensive cross-references, both within the book and to the ISO standard. New C++11 coverage includes Support for concurrency Regular expressions, resource management pointers, random numbers, and improved containers General and uniform initialization, simplified for-statements, move semantics, and Unicode support Lambdas, general constant expressions, control over class defaults, variadic templates, template aliases, and user-defined literals Compatibility issues Topics addressed in this comprehensive book include Basic facilities: type, object, scope, storage, computation fundamentals, and more Modularity, as supported by namespaces, source files, and exception handling C++ abstraction, including classes, class hierarchies, and templates in support of a synthesis of traditional programming, object-oriented programming, and generic programming Standard Library: containers, algorithms, iterators, utilities, strings, stream I/O, locales, numerics, and more The C++ basic memory model, in depth This fourth edition makes C++11 thoroughly accessible to programmers moving from C++98 or other languages, while introducing insights and techniques that even cutting-edge C++11 programmers will find indispensable. This book features an enhanced, layflat binding, which allows the book to stay open more easily when placed on a flat surface. This special binding method—noticeable by a small space inside the spine—also increases durability.

Author : Michael A. Covington,Donald Nute,André Vellino
Publisher : Pearson Scott Foresman
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033110656

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Prolog Programming in Depth by Michael A. Covington,Donald Nute,André Vellino Pdf