Publisher's Synopsis
Reflecting Alan Robinson's fundamental contribution to computational logic, this book brings together seminal papers in inference, equality theories, and logic programming. It is an exceptional collection that ranges from surveys of major areas to new results in more specialized topics.
Contents
Inference Subsumption, A Sometimes Undervalued Procedure, Larry Wos, Ross Overbeek, and Ewing Lusk The Markgraf Karl Refutation Procedure, Hans Jürgen Ohlbach and Jörg H. Siekmann Modal Logic Should Say More than it Does, Melvin Fitting Interactive Proof Presentation, W. W. Bledsoe Intelligent Backtracking Revisited, Maurice Bruynooghe A Science of Reasoning, Alan Bundy Inductive Inference of Theories from Facts, Ehud Y. Shapiro Equality. Solving Equations in Abstract Algebras: A Rule-based Survey of Unification, Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and Claude Kirchner Disunification: A Survey, Hubert Comon A Case Study of the Completion Procedure: Proving Ring Commutativity Problems, Deepak Kapur and Hantao Zhang Computations in Regular Rewriting Systems I and II, Girard Huet and JeanJacques Lévy Unification and ML Type Reconstruction, Paris Kanellakis, Harry Mairson, and John Mitchell Automatic Dimensional Analysis, Mitchell Wand Logic Programming. Logic Programming Schemes and Their Implementations, Keith Clark A Near-Horn Prolog for Compilation, Donald Loveland and David Reed Unfold/Fold Transformations of Logic Programs, P. A. Gardner and J. C. Shepherdson An Algebraic Representation of Logic Program Computations, Andrea Corradini and Ugo Montanari Theory of Disjunctive Logic Programs, Jack Minker, Arcot Rajasekar, and Jorge Lobo Bottom-Up Evaluation of Logic Programs, Jeffrey Naughton and Raghu Ramakrishnan Absys, the First Logic Programming Language: A View of the Inevitability of Logic Programming, E. W. Elcock
