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Hanus, Michaeldblp
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Hanus95ICLP
Title, Booktitle
Title*:
On Extra Variables in (Equational) Logic Programming
Booktitle*:
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Logic Programming
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Kanagawa, Japan
Language:
English
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June 13-17
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Event Start Date:
14 May 2024
Event End Date:
14 May 2024
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MIT Press
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Cambridge, USA
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Pages:
665-679
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1995
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(LaTeX) Abstract:
Extra variables in a clause are variables which occur in the body but
not in the head. It has been argued that extra variables are necessary
and contribute to the expressive power of logic languages. In the
first part of this paper, we show that this is not true in general. For
this purpose, we provide a simple syntactic transformation of each
logic program into a logic program without extra variables, and
we show a strong correspondence between the original and the
transformed program. In the second and main part of this paper, we use a
similar technique to provide new completeness results for equational
logic programs with extra variables. In equational logic programming
it is well known that extra variables cause problems since narrowing,
the standard operational semantics for equational logic programming,
may become incomplete in the presence of extra variables.
Using a simple syntactic transformation, we derive a number
of new completeness results for narrowing.
In particular, we show the completeness of narrowing strategies
in the presence of nonterminating functions and extra variables
in right-hand sides of rewrite rules.
Using these results, current functional logic languages can be
extended in a practically useful way.
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BibTeX Entry:
@INPROCEEDINGS{Hanus95ICLP,
AUTHOR = {Hanus, Michael},
 TITLE = {On Extra Variables in (Equational) Logic Programming},
 BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Logic Programming},
 PUBLISHER = {MIT Press},
 YEAR = {1995},
 PAGES = {665--679},
 ADDRESS = {Kanagawa, Japan},
}

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