Prolog, whose name is from the phrase “PROgramming in LOGic,” is a special–purpose lan-guage. At the heart of Prolog is a logical inference engine that, based on the data supplied by the programmer, …

When trying to answer a query, Prolog parses the program from top to bottom, and within the body of a rule, from left to right. This is important to remember, in order to choose a correct ordering of our …

What is Prolog? an untyped logic programming language programs are rules that define relations on values run a program by formulating a goal or query result of a program: a true/false answer and a …

Prolog defines a set of prefix, infix, and postfix operators that includes the classical arithmetic symbols: “+”, “-”, “*”, and “/”. The Prolog interpreter considers opera-tors as functors and transforms …

mathematical theorem provers. In this tutorial you will be introduced to Prolog, the primary logic programming language, through the interactive S. I-Prolog system (interpreter). You will notice that …

PROLOG is a simple, yet powerful programming language, based on the principles of rst- order predicate logic. The name of the language is an acronym for the French ‘PROgramma- tion en …

1 Introduction Logic programming emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to use mathematical logic (in particular, first-order logic), as a foundation for automated reasoning and …