CT-1998-06: van Eijck, Jan (1998) Programming with Dynamic Predicate Logic. [Report]
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Abstract
We propose to bring together two research traditions, computation with first
order logic from computer science, and dynamic interpretation of first order
logic from natural language semantics. We define a new executable process
interpretation for first order logic, and show that it is a faithful
approximation of the dynamic interpretation procedure for first order
formulas. We then demonstrate the dynamic logic programming alternative to
destructive assignment and show how to obtain a versatile logic programming
language by adding constructs for bounded choice and for bounded and
unbounded iteration. Finally, we show that the operational semantics for
first order logic given in Apt and Bezem [1] is an approximation of our
executable semantics. It follows that the operational semantics is faithful
to the dynamic interpretation of first order logic. Our results relate a
recent turn in executable computational interpretation of FOL formulas to a
research tradition from natural language semantics, and suggest a new
paradigm of dynamic logic programming that combines imperative power with
dynamic declarative semantics.
1991 CR Subject Classification: F.3.1, F.3.2, F.4.1, I.2.4, I.2.7.
Keywords and Phrases:} dynamic semantics, declarative programming,
first order logic, logic programming.
| Item Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Report Nr: | CT-1998-06 |
| Series Name: | Computation and Complexity Theory (CT) |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2016 14:39 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2016 14:39 |
| URI: | https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/1081 |
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