Temporal Annotated Constraint Logic Programming with Multiple Theories

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Mancarella;Alessandra Raffaetà;Franco Turini

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '99 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Database & Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The paper aims at building a framework that provides basic operators, with a clear semantics, for combining different knowledge bases and allowing the representation and the handling of temporal information. Our approach stems from two separate lines of research: the general studies on meta-level operators on logic programs introduced by Brogi et al. [1] and Temporal Annotated Constraint Logic Programming (TACLP) defined by Fruehwirth [2]. We propose a language MuTACLP that integrates the above mentioned approaches. Atoms are annotated with temporal information and such annotations are managed via a constraint theory as in TACLP. Mechanisms for structuring programs and combining separate knowledge bases are provided through meta-level operators. A top-down semantics of MuTACLP is given by exploiting meta-logic.