Maintaining distributed logic programs incrementally

  • Authors:
  • Vivek Nigam;Limin Jia;Boon Thau Loo;Andre Scedrov

  • Affiliations:
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practices of declarative programming
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Distributed logic programming languages, that allow both facts and programs to be distributed among different nodes in a network, have been recently proposed and used to declaratively program a wide-range of distributed systems, such as network protocols and multi-agent systems. However, the distributed nature of the underlying systems poses serious challenges to developing efficient and correct algorithms for evaluating these programs. This paper proposes an efficient asynchronous algorithm to compute incrementally the changes to the states in response to insertions and deletions of base facts. Our algorithm is formally proven to be correct in the presence of message reordering in the system. To our knowledge, this is the first formal proof of correctness for such an algorithm.