Meta-logics and logic programming

Author(s)

• Apt, Krzysztof R.
• Turini, Franco

Bibliographic Information

Meta-logics and logic programming

edited by Krzysztof R. Apt and Franco Turini

（Logic programming）

MIT Press, c1995

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Investigating meta-programming within the logic programming paradigm, Meta-Logics and Logic Programming presents original research on an important extension of logic programming that makes it more amenable for knowledge representation and programming in general. The 12 contributions, many written especially for this book, explore the foundations, language design issues, and applications of meta-programming in logic programming. Meta-programming-the process of writing computer programs that can manipulate representations of other programs-has been key both in the foundations of computer science and in its practical developments. Examples of meta-programs include compilers, interpreters, program analyzers, and partial evaluators. The choice of logic programming as a basis for meta-programming offers several practical and theoretical advantages: among them, the possibility of tackling critical foundational problems of meta-programming within a strong theoretical framework, and the surprising ease of programming. The usual framework of logic programming (and more generally first-order logic), however, has to be modified and extended to formally deal with meta-programs, extensions the editors call "meta-logics." Along with an exploration of meta-programming in logic programming, the definitions, formal properties, and use of these extensions constitute one of the book's main themes. The first part of the book, Foundations, focuses on the representation problem-how object programs are represented within meta-programs. The second part, Language Support for Meta-Logics, is concerned with language extensions that make meta-programming easier and more elegant. The third part, Meta-Logics for Knowledge Management, deals with the use of meta-logic for advanced knowledge representation purposes.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Foundations: correctness of the vanilla meta-interpreted and ambivalent syntax, M. Kalsbeek
• a vademecum of ambivalent logic, M. Kalsbeek and Y. Jiang
• two semantics for definite meta-programmes, using the non-ground representation, B. Martens and D. De Schreye
• meta-logic for programme composition - semantics issues, A. Brogi and F. Turini
• comparing negation in logic programming and in Prolog, K.R. Apt and F. Teusink. Part 2 Language support for meta-logics: towards fast and declarative meta-programming, A.F. Bowers and C.A. Gurr
• composing logic programmes by meta-programming in Godel, A. Brogi and S. Contiero
• meta-programming with theory systems, J. Barklund et al. Part 3 Meta-logics for knowledge management: using meta-logic to reconcile reactive with rational agents, R.A. Kowalski
• modal and meta languages - consistency and expressiveness, L. Carlucci Aiello et al
• model-based diagnosis preferences and strategies representation with logic meta-programming, C.V. Damasio et al
• the generalized chronoBase temporal data model, S.M. Sripada and P. Moller.

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Details

• NCID: BA26027210
• ISBN:
  • 0262011522
• LCCN: 95018954
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 339 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA76.63
  • DC20 : 005.13/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Logic programming
  • LCSH : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07047811