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Objects in a logic programming framework

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Logic Programming

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Some basic notions of object-oriented programming such as objects, messages and inheritance are provided of a clean definition according to the logic programming paradigm. Objects are represented by logic theories, while inheritance mechanisms are expressed through meta-level axioms. The sending of a message is interpreted as a request for the proof of a formula. The main contribution of the paper is to provide a clean semantic characterization for these notions defining both a proof-theory and a compositional model-theory.

Work partially supported by CNR “Progetto Finalizzato Sistemi Informatici e Calcolo Parallelo”.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Corso Italia 40, 56125, Pisa, Italy

    Antonio Brogi

  2. DEIS, Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Evelina Lamma & Paola Mello

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Brogi, A., Lamma, E., Mello, P. (1992). Objects in a logic programming framework. In: Voronkov, A. (eds) Logic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55460-2_8

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