The Art of Prolog
Sterling and Shapiro
The Art of Prolog - 2nd Edition
Advanced Programming Techniques
by Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro
This new edition of The Art of Prolog contains a number of
important changes. Most background sections at the end of
each chapter have been updated to take account of important
recent research results, the references have been greatly
expanded, and more advanced exercises have been added
which have been used successfully in teaching the course.
Part II, The Prolog Language, has been modified to be
compatible with the new Prolog standard, and the chapter on
program development has been significantly altered: the
predicates defined have been moved to more appropriate
chapters, the section on efficiency has been moved to the
considerably expanded chapter on cuts and negation, and a new
section has been added on stepwise enhancement -- a
systematic way of constructing Prolog programs developed by
Leon Sterling.
All but one of the chapters in Part III, Advanced Prolog
Programming Techniques, have been substantially changed,
with some major rearrangements. A new chapter on interpreters
describes a rule language and interpreter for expert systems,
which better illustrates how Prolog should be used to construct
expert systems. The chapter on program transformation is
completely new and the chapter on logic grammars adds new
material for recognizing simple languages, showing how
grammars apply to more computer science examples.
1994 ISBN 0-262-69163-9 $37.50 (paper). MIT Press
Mike Rosner (mros@cs.um.edu.mt)
Last modified: Mon Oct 5 16:34:21 1998