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Teaching Prolog with Active Logic Documents
Teaching materials for programming languages, and Prolog in particular, classically include textbooks, slides, notes, and exercise sheets, together with some Prolog programming environment. However, modern web...
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Chapter
Types, Modes and so Much More – The Prolog Way
We present in a tutorial way some ideas developed in the context of the Ciao Prolog system that we believe could be useful for the future evolution of Prolog. We concentrate primarily on one area: the use of a...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Static Analysis
30th International Symposium, SAS 2023, Cascais, Portugal, October 22–24, 2023, Proceedings
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Chapter
Some Thoughts on How to Teach Prolog
Prolog, and (Constraint) Logic Programming in general, represent a unique programming paradigm. Prolog has many characteristics that are not present in other styles of programming, and this is one of the reaso...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Testing Your (Static Analysis) Truths
Static analysis is nowadays an essential component of many software development toolsets. Despite some notorious successes in the validation of compilers, comparatively little work exists on the systematic val...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integrated Approach to Assertion-Based Random Testing in Prolog
We present an approach for assertion-based random testing of Prolog programs that is tightly integrated within an overall assertion-based program development scheme. Our starting point is the Ciao model, a framew...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A General Framework for Static Cost Analysis of Parallel Logic Programs
The estimation and control of resource usage is now an important challenge in an increasing number of computing systems. In particular, requirements on timing and energy arise in a wide variety of applications s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computing Abstract Distances in Logic Programs
Abstract interpretation is a well-established technique for performing static analyses of logic programs. However, choosing the abstract domain, widening, fixpoint, etc. that provides the best precision-cost ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Incremental Analysis of Logic Programs with Assertions and Open Predicates
Generic components are a further abstraction over the concept of modules, introducing dependencies on other (not necessarily available) components implementing specified interfaces. They have become a key concept...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multivariant Assertion-Based Guidance in Abstract Interpretation
Approximations during program analysis are a necessary evil, as they ensure essential properties, such as soundness and termination of the analysis, but they also imply not always producing useful results. Aut...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Inferring Energy Bounds via Static Program Analysis and Evolutionary Modeling of Basic Blocks
The ever increasing number and complexity of energy-bound devices (such as the ones used in Internet of Things applications, smart phones, and mission critical systems) pose an important challenge on techniques t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploiting Term Hiding to Reduce Run-Time Checking Overhead
One of the most attractive features of untyped languages is the flexibility in term creation and manipulation. However, with such power comes the responsibility of ensuring the correctness of these operations....
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
26th International Symposium, LOPSTR 2016, Edinburgh, UK, September 6–8, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Energy Consumption Analysis of Programs Based on XMOS ISA-Level Models
Energy consumption analysis of embedded programs requires the analysis of low-level program representations. This is challenging because the gap between the high-level program structure and the low-level energ...
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Article
A sharing-based approach to supporting adaptation in service compositions
Data-related properties of the activities involved in a service composition can be used to facilitate several design-time and run-time adaptation tasks, such as service evolution, distributed enactment, and in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reversible Language Extensions and Their Application in Debugging
A range of methodologies and techniques are available to guide the design and implementation of language extensions and domain-specific languages on top of a base language. A simple yet powerful technique to t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Supporting Pruning in Tabled LP
This paper analyzes issues which appear when supporting pruning operators in tabled LP. A version of the once/1 control predicate tailored for tabled predicates is presented, and an implementation analyzed and ev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modular Extensions for Modular (Logic) Languages
We address the problem of developing mechanisms for easily implementing modular extensions to modular (logic) languages. By (language) extensions we refer to different groups of syntactic definitions and trans...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Segment-Swapping Approach for Executing Trapped Computations
We consider the problem of supporting goal-level, independent and-parallelism (IAP) in the presence of non-determinism. IAP is exploited when two or more goals which will not interfere at run time are schedule...