Parallel and Distributed Logic Programming: Towards the Design of a Framework for the Next Generation Database Machines by Alakananda Bhattacharya , Amit Konar , Ajit K. Mandal
English | PDF(True) | 2006 | 302 Pages | ISBN : 3540334580 | 1.84 MB
Foundation of logic historically dates back to the times of Aristotle, who pioneered the concept of truth/falsehood paradigm in reasoning. Mathematical logic of propositions and predicates, which are based on the classical models of Aristotle, underwent a dramatic evolution during the last 50 years for its increasing applications in automated reasoning on digital computers. The subject of Logic Programming is concerned with automated reasoning with facts and knowledge to answer a user's query following the syntax and semantics of the logic of propositions/predicates. The credit of automated reasoning by logic programs goes to Professor Robinson for his well-known resolution theorem that provides a general scheme to select two program clauses for deriving an inference.