A variable is local if it occurs in a clause body but not in its head. Local variables appear naturally in practical logic programming, but they complicate several aspects such as ...
Programming paradigms are often skewed towards a particular domain of problems, thus one effective way to utilize them is through a multiparadigm approach to software development....
The notion of assumption-based framework generalises and re nes the use of abduction to give a formalisation of non-monotonic reasoning. In this framework, a sentence is a non-mon...
Andrei Bondarenko, Francesca Toni, Robert A. Kowal...
While logic programming languages offer a great deal of scope for parallelism, there is usually some overhead associated with the execution of goals in parallel because of the wor...
Saumya K. Debray, Nai-Wei Lin, Manuel V. Hermenegi...
Recently, several approaches for updating knowledge bases represented as logic programs have been proposed. In this paper, we present a generic framework for declarative specifica...
Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Giuliana Sabbatini, Ha...