Properties of Input-Consuming Derivations

  • Authors:
  • Annalisa Bossi;Sabina Rossi;Sandro Etalle

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Venezia, via Torino 155, 30172 Venezia, Italy (e-mail: bossi@dsi.unive.it, srossi@dsi.unive.it);Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Venezia, via Torino 155, 30172 Venezia, Italy (e-mail: bossi@dsi.unive.it, srossi@dsi.unive.it);Department of Computer Science, University of Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (e-mail: etalle@cs.unimaas.nl) and (a3) CWI -- Center for Mathematics and Computer Scien ...

  • Venue:
  • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study the properties of input-consuming derivations of moded logic programs. Input-consuming derivations can be used to model the behavior of logic programs using dynamic scheduling and employing constructs such as delay declarations. We consider the class of nicely-moded programs and queries. We show that for these programs a weak version of the well-known switching lemma holds also for input-consuming derivations. Furthermore, we show that, under suitable conditions, there exists an algebraic characterization of termination of input-consuming derivations.