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A theoretical perspective of coinductive logic programming ios. Theory and practice of logic programming cambridge core. This volume presents 20 revised full papers and 6 application papers together with 2 invited talks, 2 tutorials and special interest papers, as well as 17 poster presentations and the abstracts of 7 doctoral consortium articles. Popular logic programming books showing of 30 programming in prolog. Logic programming applies to all areas of artificial intelligence and computer science and is fundamental to them. Inductive logic programming is a new research area formed at the intersection of machine learning and logic programming. Inductive logic programming includes a definition of the basic ilp problem and its variations incremental, with queries, for multiple predicates and predicate invention capabilities, a description of bottomup operators and techniques such as least general generalization, inverse resolution, and inverse implication, an analysis of topdown methods mainly mis and foillike systems, and a survey of methods and languages for specifying inductive bias. We introduce negation into coinductive logic programming colp via what we term coinductive sldnf cosldnf resolution. Foundations of deductive databases and logic programming. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda.
Coinductive logic programming and its applications request pdf. N2 coalgebra may be used to provide semantics for sldderivations, both finite and infinite. In programming, co logic programming colp for brevity is a natural generalization of logic programming and coinductive logic programming, which in turn generalizes other extensions of logic programming, such as infinite trees, lazy predicates, and concurrent communicating predicates. Execution of a logic program is a theorem proving process. Extending logic programming with coinduction the university of. The resulting coinductive logic programming language is syntactically identical to, yet semantically subsumes logic programming with rational terms and lazy evaluation. Latest advances in inductive logic programming programming book.
What is prologs and mls counterpart of circular linked lists that we covered in c. Motivation there was a talk at types08 ancona, lagorio, et al. Whilst inheriting various positive characteristics of the parent subjects of logic programming and machine learning, it is hoped that inductive logic programming will overcome many of the limitations of its forbears. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd international conference on logic programming, iclp 2007, held in porto, portugal, september 8, 2007. We present declarative and operational semantics of cosldnf resolution and present their equivalence under the restriction of. Computer scientists paper from 2006 stands the test of. Coinductive logic programming brie y, colp shares with lp the same syntax, but the least xpoint semantics is replaced by the greatest xpoint one, and, consequently, the standard herbrand model is extended 1. However, the intended meaning declarative semantics of a. We discuss applications of coinductive logic programming to verification and model checking, lazy evaluation, concurrent logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. The aim of this paper is to explain why coinductive definitions and proofs by. Extending coinductive logic programming with cofacts arxiv. Citeseerx coinductive constraint logic programming. That development drew our attention to the semantic significance of existential variables. Coinductive logic programming and its application to boolean sat richard min and gopal gupta department of computer science the university of texas at dallas richardson, texas, usa abstract coinduction has recently been introduced into logic programming by simon et al.
The book will be useful to mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists and will also be of interest to mathematical physicists, biologists and economists. Logic programming 22nd international conference, iclp 2006, seattle, wa, usa, august 1720, 2006, proceedings. Its second goal is to introduce guarded lazy corecursion akin to functional theorem provers into logic programming. Coinductive logic programming and its applications. This book describes the theory, implementations and applications of this field. Executing a logic program then involves using coinduction to check inclusion in the. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th international symposium on functional and logic programming, flops 2012, held in kobe, japan, in may 2012. We extend logic programming s semantics with the semantic dual of traditional herbrand semantics by using greatest fixedpoints in place of least fixedpoints. In computer science, coinduction is a technique for defining and proving properties of systems. From logic to logic programming foundations of computing. Inductive logic programming by stephen muggleton editor. In programming, cologic programming colp for brevity is a natural generalization of.
Jan 30, 2018 the following list is reproduced from frequently asked questions at comp. The relation of and the transition from logic to logic programming are analysed. Colp is a natural generaliza tion of logic programming and coinductive logic programming, which in turn generalizes other extensions of logic programming, such as innite trees, lazy predicates. Ideal for mastering foundational programming, this popular book takes a unique, languageindependent approach to programming with a distinctive emphasis on modern conventions. Logic programming 22nd international conference, iclp. Logic coinduction and infinite computation microsoft. Latest advances in inductive logic programming book is available in pdf formate. Coinductive logic programming and its applications springerlink. Book title logic programming book subtitle 23rd international conference, iclp 2007, porto, portugal, september 8, 2007, proceedings. Previous observations by hermida and jacobs identify coinductive predicates as suitable final coalgebras in a fibrationa categorical abstraction of predicate logic. Gupta was a great mentor who helped me bridge the gaps between theory and practical applications and between functional programming and logic programming, simon said. Productive corecursion in logic programming theory and. Corecursive featherweight java proceedings of the 14th. Book title logic programming book subtitle 22nd international conference, iclp 2006, seattle, wa, usa, august 1720, 2006, proceedings.
Can you be more specific about what logic you need to improve and what level of skill you feel you have. Pdf coinductive logic programming and its application to. Coalgebraic logic programming coalp is a dialect of logic programming designed to bring a more precise compiletime and runtime analysis of termination and productivity for recursive and corecursive functions in logic programming. Answer set programming asp is a powerful paradigm based on logic programming for nonmonotonic reasoning. Interest in inductive logic programming has waxed and waned over the last decade, but never fallen to zero. We prove that this new operational semantics is equivalent to the declarative. A theoretical perspective of coinductive logic programming. While the influence of logic programming has encouraged the development of strong theoretical foundations, this new area is inheriting its experimental orientation from machine learning. Recently coinduction 1 has been introduced into logic programming by simon et al 14 to overcome this problem. Workshop on constraint logic programming and software engineering, lpse2000. Coinductive logic programming and its application to.
The selection first elaborates on negation in logic programming and towards a theory of declarative knowledge. Coinductive sldnf and its applcation to predicate answer set programming paperback december 20, 2010 by richard min author see all 3 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Coinductively defined types are known as codata and are typically infinite data structures. Computer scientists paper from 2006 stands the test of time. It can however still serve as an introduction to the field of inductive logic programming. Gopal guptas paper from 2006 stands the test of time. It is studied in many disciplines, including process theory and concurrency, modal logic and automata theory. Theory and practice of logic programming emphasises both the theory and practice of logic programming. Outline 1 recursion and corecursion inductive and coinductive types in coq terminative and productive functions recursion and corecursion without types 2 coalgebraic logic programming 3 parallelism 4 future directions. It can however still serve as an introduction to the field of inductive logic programming, in spite of its publication date. In section 3, we give semantics for variablefree logic programs. Program cochair, 21st international conference on logic programming. Coinduction is the mathematical dual to structural induction.
Theory and practice of logic programming miroslaw truszczynski. Cofounder and director 19922000 of the laboratory for logic, databases, and advanced programming. Operational semantics of resolution and productivity in horn clause logic. Combining traditional and coinductive logic programming, in proc. Lp in type inference katya dundee coalp for type inference lyon14 2 56. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd international conference on logic programming, iclp 2006, held in seattle, wa, usa, in august 2006.
This book describes the theory, implementations and applications of. Programs are written in the language of some logic. Mar 08, 2017 a paper written in 2006 by ut dallas computer science department head dr. We formally define the operational semantics of cofj, and provide a handful of examples showing the expressive power of regular corecursion. We prove that this new operational semantics is equivalent to the declarative semantics. Recently, coinductive logic programming has been proposed as a powerful extension of logic programming for handling rational infinite objects and. Any program written in a logic programming language is a set of sentences in logical form, expressing facts and rules about some problem domain. Logic programming, a class of programming languages based on firstorder logic, provides simple and efficient tools for goaloriented proofsearch. Book title logic programming book subtitle 23rd international conference, iclp 2007, porto. Smith 2 1 computer laboratory, university of cambridge, cambridge cb2 3qg, england 2 harlequin limited, barrington, cambridge cb2 5rg, england.
What are the best books for improving programming logic. Luke simon, ajay mallya, ajay bansal, and gopal gupta. Gopal gupta and three of his phd students received a 10year test of time award from the association for logic programming alp at the 32nd international conference on logic programming iclp in new york. Part of the lecture notes in computer science book series lncs, volume 4670. Colp is a natural generalization of logic programming and coinductive logic programming, which in turn generalizes other extensions of logic programming, such as infinite trees, lazy predicates. In computer science, coinduction is a technique for defining and proving properties of systems of concurrent interacting objects. We illustrate the approach by formally defining this. Coinduction has recently been introduced into logic programming by simon et al. The following list is reproduced from frequently asked questions at comp. This book is a summary of what was known in the field in 1994, and much has changed since then. We introduce a generalized logic programming paradigm where programs, consisting of facts and rules with the usual syntax, can be enriched by cofacts, which syntactically resemble facts but have a special meaning.
Extending coinductive logic programming with cofacts. It provides clear mathematical explanations, with many examples and exercises involving deterministic and nondeterministic automata, transition systems, streams, markov chains and. Advanced topics bisimulation and coinduction distributed. In this paper we discuss the introduction of coinduction into logic programming. Programming semantics, twentyninth annual conference mfps xxix, 2325 june 20, tulane. Towards predicate answer set programming via coinductive logic programming richard min, ajay bansal, gopal gupta department of computer science the university of texas at dallas, richardson, texas, u. Coinductive logic programming proceedings of the 22nd. Inductive logic programming will be an invaluable text for all students of computer. A tutorial on coinduction and functional programming. Logic programming is a programming paradigm which is largely based on formal logic.
Where induction corresponds to least fixed point semantics, coinduction corresponds to greatest. Where induction corresponds to least fixed point semantics, coinduction corresponds to greatest fixed point semantics. We propose a novel approach to constraintbased type inference based on coinductive logic. The book does not contain description of any particular logic programming language, but gives mathematical foundations of logic programming, such as, herbrand interpretations, unification, resolution, sldnfresolution, the least herbrand models and fixpoints, computability. Coinductive predicates and final sequences in a fibration. Recently, coinductive logic programming has been proposed as a powerful extension of logic programming for handling rational infinite objects and reasoning about their. Logic programming blends seamlessly, more seamlessly than other paradigms, with constraints, resulting in a framework called constraint logic programming. We present a novel formal operational semantics that is based on synthesizing a coinductive hypothesis for this coinductive logic programming language. Readers prepare for programming success with the fundamental principles of developing structured program logic found in farrell.
We discuss applications of coinductive logic programming to verification and. As in coinductive logic programming, interpretations are subsets of the complete herbrand basis, including infinite terms. Citeseerx type inference by coinductive logic programming. None of them are programming focused, programmers tend to learn this stuff by example or practice debugging is a great causeeffect based teacher and if you practice you will learn. Inductive logic programming will be an invaluable text for all students of computer science, machine learning and logic programming at an advanced level. An algorithm of an ilp system consists of two parts. The resulting coinductive logic programming language is syntactically. Techniques and applications ellis horwood series in artificial intelligence lavrac, nada, dzeroski, saso on. Proof relevant corecursive resolution heriotwatt university. Download inductive logic programming pdf books pdfbooks. Current asp implementations are restricted to grounded rangerestricted functionfree normal programs and use an evaluation strategy that is. In section 2, we set logic programming terminology, explain the relationship between termrewriting and sldresolution, and introduce the notion of coinductive tree. Constraint generation corresponds to translation into a conjunction of horn clauses p, and constraint satisfaction is defined in terms of the coinductive herbrand model of p. Coinductive logic programming and its application to boolean sat.
Prolog programming in logic is a representative logic language. Conference, mpc 2008, marseille, france, july 1518, 2008. Someone else recommended learning math from the precalc up. Computations involving circular and infinite structures run forever, but they often have a pattern, gupta said.
Pdf coinductive logic programming and its applications. Abstract answer set programming asp is a powerful paradigm based on logic programming for nonmonotonic reasoning. Part of the lecture notes in computer science book series lncs, volume 4079. Logic programming 23rd international conference, iclp 2007. It is through the inference rule of resolution that both proofs and computations can be manipulated on computers, and this book contains. Pdf extending coinductive logic programming with cofacts. Inductive logic programming is a new research area emerging at present. With the use and the development of computers in the beginning of the 1950s, it soon became clear that computers could be used, not only for arithmetical computation, but also for symbolic computation. Saeedloei n and gupta g coinductive constraint logic programming proceedings of the 11th international conference on functional and logic programming, 243259 albert e, arenas p, puebla g and hermenegildo m 2018 certificate size reduction in abstractioncarrying code, theory and practice of logic programming, 12. We introduce a generalized logic programming paradigm where programs, consisting of facts and rules with the usual syntax, can be. Coinductive predicates express persisting safety specifications of transition systems. But you can follow any of the programming books and there you will get better logic.
This mathematically oriented introduction to the theory of logic programming presents a systematic exposition of the resolution method for propositional, firstorder, and horn clause logics, together with an analysis of the semantic aspects of the method. Coinductive logic programming 11, 12, 4 extends standard logic programming with the ability of reasoning about in. Functional and logic programming springer for research. This volume presents 20 revised full papers and 6 application papers together with 2 invited talks, 2 tutorials and special interest. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. In this paper we follow the spirit of a seminal work by worrell and study final sequences in a fibration. Logic programming 23rd international conference, iclp 2007, porto, portugal, september 8, 2007, proceedings. First a hypothesis is searched with an inductive logic. In coinductive logic programming, instead, terms are coinductively defined, that is, can be infinite, and predicates are coinductively defined as well.
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