A Tight, Practical Integration of Relations and Functions

1999
ISBN: 978-3-540-66644-8
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

As in other fields, in computer science certain objects of study can be synthesized from different basic elements, in different ways, and with different resulting stabilities. In subfields such as artificial intelligence, computational logic, and programming languages various relational and functional ingredients and techniques have been tried for the synthesis of declarative programs.
This text considers the notions of relations, as found in logic programming or in relational databases, and of functions, as found in functional programming or in equational languages. We study a declarative integration which is tight, because it takes place right at the level of these notions, and which is still practical, because it preserves the advantages of the widely used relational and functional languages PROLOG and LISP. The resulting relational and functional language, RELFUN, is used here for exemplifying all integration principles.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boley, Harold

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmierung: Methoden und Allgemeines
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An overview of the relational-functional language RELFUN.- Extended logic-plus-functional programming.- A direct semantic characterization of RELFUN.- Finite domains and exclusions as first-class citizens.- Multiple-valued Horn clauses and their WAM compilation.