Abstract
Program slicing is a process by means of which subparts of a program with a collective meaning are automatically obtained. When the slicing takes into account the actual execution of the program, it is said to be dynamic. We show how some techniques for dynamic slicing of procedural languages can be adapted to logic programming.
Work partially carried out while the first author was a Visiting Researcher at the Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
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Weber Vasconcelos, W., Aragão, M.A.T. (1998). An Adaptation of Dynamic Slicing Techniques for Logic Programming. In: de Oliveira, F.M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. SBIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1515. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10692710_16
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