Essentials of Logic Programming (Graduate Texts in Computer Science) [Hardcover]

Christopher John Hogger (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198538200 | ISBN-13: 978-0198538202 | Publication Date: February 21, 1991

Logic programming has developed into a broad discipline within computing science. Besides its basic role as a declarative programming language, it is also contributing significantly to such fields as artificial intelligence, new-generation computing, software engineering and deductive databases. This book presents the fundamentals of logic programming from both practical and theoretical viewpoints. It covers various extensions of the formalism, its relationship to Prolog, its formal semantics and its applications to program analysis and transformation. The text is illustrated with numerous diagrams. There are two distinguishing features of the book designed to make it adaptable to various forms of usage and accessible to various audiences. The material is organized into sixty modular themes, permitting many kinds of course to be based upon it and it includes nearly seventy pages of detailed answers to all of the exercises posed in the themes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The organization of this textbook is . . . highly effective. The book does an excellent job of introducing [its] ideas in the context of logic programming." --Computing Reviews

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Christopher John Hogger is at Imperial College, London. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 322 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 21, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198538200
• ISBN-13: 978-0198538202
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,193,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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