"Lambda" PROLOG : interpretador e unificação de ordem superior

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1992

RESUMO

Efficient Interpreter implementations for Righer Order Logic (ROL) programming language still remain as a challenge that can be splitted into two classes: (a) to make the language friendlier in order to stimulate the user to adopt it, and (b) to provi de the interpreter with a performance that does not damage its usability. This paper resulted from an ROL interpreter prototypation, called À-PROLOG. Only the positive definite sentençes are used in the language. They are similar to those of the First Order Logic (FOL) programing language and present some apropriate mechanization properties. One kind of implementation is discribed and its computational aspects are analysed. They include the knowledgernent base formation, the grarnrnar of the sentences and the P-derivation, which is the method of deriving proofs over the base. The unification is the most important interpreter procedure and has high complexity. Its processing is one of the reazons for the depaupering of system quality. In this paper the analisies of the MATCR and SIMPL algorithms that were developed for this purpose are used to supply a new unification algorithm which, in contrast to MATCR, shows initial performance gains and an easier procedural interpretation oí the unification mechanism.

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engenharia eletrica linguagem de programação (computadores) prolog (linguagem de programação de computador)

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