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Book SynopsisLogic programming has emerged over the last 15 years as one of most promising new programming paradigms and as a very active research area.The PROGLOG experience has shown that relevant problems in areas such as expert systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation, and rapid prototyping can profitably be tackled by logic programming technology. It has also known that the performance of PROGLOG systems can be made comparable with the more traditional programming languages by means of sophisticated optimization and implementation of the design of a new class of languages, the concurrent logic lanuages.Many recent advances in the theory of logic programs are related to extension of the basic positive logic language and the related semantic problems. The original non-monotonic negation-as-failure rle has been extended in various ways and provided with new declarative characterizations. Other new language constructs are constrainsts (which lead to a very important extension of the
Table of Contents1. A comparison of notions with negation as failure ; 2. From concurrent logic programming to concurrent constraint programming ; 3. Formal bases for dataflow analysis of logic programs ; 4. Modular termination proofs for logic and pure PROLOG programs ; 5. Logic + control revisited ; Index
