Product Description: This book represents a selection of papers presented at the Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) workshop held at Cumberland Lodge, Great Windsor Park. The collection marks two decades since the first ILP workshop in 1991. During this period the area has developed into the main forum for work on logic-based machine learning...read more

Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, Third Edition provides the beginning programmer with a guide to developing structured program logic. This textbook assumes no programming experience and does not focus on any one particular language. It introduces programming concepts and enforces good style and logical thinking. New elements found in this edition include a complete program example in each chapter; key terms and 20 review questions at the end of every chapter; more thorough coverage of modularization, object-oriented concepts, and event handling; earlier coverage of style and design issues; and a new appendix on numbering systems.

The premise behind developing powerful declarative database languages is compelling: by enabling users to specify their queries (and their integrity constraints) in a clear, non-operational way, they make the user's task easier, and provide the database system with more opportunities for optimization. Relational database systems offer a striking proof that this premise is indeed valid. The most popular relational query language, SQL, is based upon relational algebra and calculus, i.e., a small fragment of first-order logic, and the ease of writing queries in SQL (in comparison to more navigational languages) has been an important factor in the commercial success of relational databases. It is well-known that SQL has some important limitations, in spite of its success and popUlarity. Notably, the query language is non-recursive, and support for integrity constraints is limited. Indeed, recognizing these problems, the latest standard, SQL-92, provides increased support for integrity constraints, and it is anticipated that the successor to the SQL-92 standard, called SQL3, RECURSIVE UNION operation [1]. Logic database systems have will include a concentrated on these extensions to the relational database paradigm, and some systems (e.g., Bull's DEL prototype) have even incorporated object-oriented features (another extension likely to appear in SQL3).

Product Description: In conjunction with the 1993 International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'93), held in Budapest Hungary, two workshops were held concerning the implementations of logic programming systems: Practical Implementations and Sys­ tems Experience in Logic Programming Systems, and Concurrent, Distributed, and Parallel Implementations of Logic Programming Systems...read more

Product Description: In Logic Programming, as in many other areas, Theory is often best tested by Application and attempted Application frequently necessitates advances in Theory, so both theoretical and practical work is essential for effective progress...read more

Product Description: Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems provides an in-depth introduction to the issues and techniques surrounding the integration and control of diverse and independent software components. Organizations increasingly rely upon diverse computer systems to perform a variety of knowledge-based tasks...read more

Product Description: In this era of heterogeneous and distributed data sources, ranging from semistructured documents to knowledge about coordination processes or workflows, logic provides a rich set of tools and techniques with which to address the questions of how to represent, query and reason about complex data...read more

Product Description: Multiprocessor Execution of Logic Programs addresses the problem of efficient implementation of logic programming languages, specifically Prolog, on multiprocessor architectures. The approaches and implementations developed attempt to take full advantage of sequential implementation technology developed for Prolog (such as the WAM) while exploiting all forms of control parallelism present in logic programs, namely, or-parallelism, independent and-parallelism and dependent and-parallelism...read more

Product Description: Constraint Logic Programming (CLP), an area of extreme research interest in recent years, extends the semantics of Prolog in such a way that the combinatorial explosion, a characteristic of most problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence, can be tackled efficiently...read more

Book by T. P. Martin

Product Description: For the first time in book form, this comprehensive and systematic monograph presents methods for the reversible synthesis of logic functions and circuits. It is illustrated with a wealth of examples and figures that describe in detail the systematic methodologies of synthesis using reversible logic...read more

Logic for Applications presents a rigorous introduction to classical, intuitionistic, and modal logic. The book emphasizes deduction as a form of computation by examining the logical and mathematical foundations of resolution theorem proving and logic programming. These subjects are important for many areas of applications in computer science and artificial intelligence. Topics covered include soundness, completeness, and undecidability for classical, nonclassical, and computation-based logical systems as well as compactness and the theorems of Herbrand and Skolem-Lowenheim. In context of PROLOG, termination conditions, negation as failure, and the relations to nonmonotonic logic are all discussed.This book is an ideal textbook for presenting classical and non-classical logic as well as logic programming to advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in computer science or mathematics. It contains a historical appendix and an extensive list of references for further studies in the field. No advanced mathematical background is required.

Product Description: Program synthesis is a solution to the software crisis. If we had a program that develops correct programs from specifications, then program validation and maintenance would disappear from the software life-cycle, and one could focus on the more creative tasks of specification elaboration, validation, and maintenance, because replay of program development would be less costly...read more

Product Description: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2012, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in September 2012. The 28 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book...read more

Product Description: At least four research fields detennine the theoretical background of specification and deduction in computer science: recursion theory, automated theorem proving, abstract data types and tenn rewriting systems. As these areas approach each other more and more, the strong distinctions between functional and relational views, deductive and denotational approaches as well as between specification and programming are relieved in favour of their integration...read more

Product Description: A logic view of 0-1 integer programming problems, providing new insights into the structure of problems that can lead the researcher to more effective solution techniques depending on the problem class. Operations research techniques are integrated into a logic programming environment...read more