Executable specifications for hypothesis-based reasoning with Prolog and Constraint Handling Rules

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Abstract

Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) is an extension to Prolog which opens up
a  spectrum of hypotheses-based reasoning in logic programs without
additional interpretation overhead.
Abduction with integrity constraints is one example of hypotheses-based reasoning which can be
implemented directly in Prolog and CHR with a straightforward use of available
and efficiently implemented facilities.

The present paper clarifies the semantic foundations for this way of doing
abduction in CHR and Prolog as well as other examples 
of hypotheses-based reasoning that is possible,
including assumptive logic programming, hypotheses with priority and scope,
and nonmonotonic reasoning.

Examples are presented as executable code so the paper may also serve 
the additional purpose of a practical guide for developing such programs,
and it is demonstrated that the approach provides a seamless  integration
with existing constraint solvers

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Applied Logic
Vol/bind7
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)341-362
ISSN1570-8683
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2009

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