Foundations of Logic and Functional Programming: Workshop Trento, Italy, December 15–19, 1986 Proceedings

Carolyn Talcott (auth.), Mauro Boscarol, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Giorgio Levi (eds.)9783540191292, 3540191291

This volume consists of some of the papers that were delivered during the workshop on “Foundations of Logic and Functional Programming” held in Trento, Italy, from December 15th to 19th, 1986. The meeting centered on themes and trends in Functional Programming and in Logic Programming. This book contains five papers contributed by the invited speakers and five selected contributions.

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Table of contents :
Rum an intensional theory of function and control abstractions….Pages 1-44
Typechecking dependent types and subtypes….Pages 45-57
Reducing recursion to iteration by means of pairs and N-tuples….Pages 58-66
Unification revisited….Pages 67-113
Rule rewriting methods for efficient implementations of horn logic….Pages 114-139
PAP: a logic programming system based on a constructive logic….Pages 141-156
A completeness result for E-unification algorithms based on conditional narrowing….Pages 157-167
Representing domain structure of many-sorted Prolog knowledge bases….Pages 168-183
Horn: An inference engine prototype to implement intelligent systems….Pages 184-200
Hints for the design of a set calculus oriented to Automated Deduction….Pages 201-218