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Reasoning about Prolog programs: From modes through types to assertions

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We provide here a systematic comparative study of the relative strength and expressive power of a number of methods for program analysis of Prolog. Among others we show that these methods can be arranged in the following hierarchy: mode analysis ⇒ type analysis ⇒ monotonic properties ⇒ nonmonotonic run-time properties. We also discuss a method allowing us to prove global run-time properties.

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  1. Centrum voor Wiskunde and Computer Science (CWI) and Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Krzysztof R. Apt

  2. CWI, P.O. Box 94079, 1090, GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

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Apt, K.R., Marchiori, E. Reasoning about Prolog programs: From modes through types to assertions. Formal Aspects of Computing 6 (Suppl 1), 743–765 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213601

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