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Termination Analysis for Tabled Logic Programming

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Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 1997)

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We provide a theoretical basis for studying the termination of tabled logic programs executed under SLG-resolution using a left-to-right computation rule. To this end, we study the classes of quasi-terminating and LG-terminating programs (for a set of atomic goals S). These are tabled logic programs where execution of each call from S leads to only a finite number of different (i.e., non-variant) calls, and a finite number of different calls and computed answer substitutions for them, respectively. We then relate these two classes through a program transformation, and present a characterisation of quasi-termination by means of the notion of quasi-acceptability of tabled programs. The latter provides us with a practical method of proving termination and the method is illustrated on non-trivial examples of tabled logic programs.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    Stefaan Decorte, Danny De Schreye, Michael Leuschel, Bern Martens & Konstantinos Sagonas

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Decorte, S., De Schreye, D., Leuschel, M., Martens, B., Sagonas, K. (1998). Termination Analysis for Tabled Logic Programming. In: Fuchs, N.E. (eds) Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation. LOPSTR 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1463. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49674-2_6

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