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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICLP.2016.20
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67520
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Vandenbroucke, Alexander

The Functional Perspective on Advanced Logic Programming

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Abstract

The basics of logic programming, as embodied by Prolog, are generally well-known in the programming language community. However, more advanced techniques, such as tabling, answer subsumption and probabilistic logic programming fail to attract the attention of a larger audience. The cause for the community's seemingly limited interest lies with the presentation of these features: the literature frequently focuses on implementations and examples that do little to aid the understanding of non-experts in the field. The key point is that many of these advanced logic programming features can be characterised in more generally known, more accessible terms. In my research I try to reconcile these advanced concepts from logic programming (Tabling, Answer subsumption and probabilistic programming) with concepts from functional programming (effects, monads and applicative functors).

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@InProceedings{vandenbroucke:OASIcs:2016:6752,
  author =	{Alexander Vandenbroucke},
  title =	{{The Functional Perspective on Advanced Logic Programming}},
  booktitle =	{Technical Communications of the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2016)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:8},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-007-1},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{52},
  editor =	{Manuel Carro and Andy King and Neda Saeedloei and Marina De Vos},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6752},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67520},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ICLP.2016.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Tabling, Answer Subsumption, Effect Handlers, Functional Programming, Logic Programming, Probabilistic Programming}
}

Keywords: Tabling, Answer Subsumption, Effect Handlers, Functional Programming, Logic Programming, Probabilistic Programming
Collection: Technical Communications of the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 11.11.2016

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