LogicObjects: Enabling Logic Programming in Java Through Linguistic Symbiosis
Sergio Castro, Kim Mens and Paulo Moura
January 2013
Abstract
While object-oriented programming languages are good at modelling
real-world concepts and benefit from rich libraries and developer
tools, logic programming languages are well suited for declaratively
solving computational problems that require knowledge
reasoning. Non-trivial declarative applications could take advantage
of the modelling features of object-oriented programming and of the
rich software ecosystems surrounding them. Linguistic symbiosis is a
common approach to enable complementary use of languages of different
paradigms. However, the problem of concepts leaking from one paradigm
to another often hinders the applicability of such approaches. This
issue has mainly been reported for object-oriented languages
participating in a symbiotic relation with a logic language. To
address this issue, we present LogicObjects, a linguistic symbiosis
framework for transparently and (semi-) automatically enabling logic
programming in Java, that aims to solve most of the problems of
paradigm leaking reported in other works.
Bibtex
@InProceedings{castro-padl13,
author = {S. Castro and K. Mens and P. Moura},
title = {{LogicObjects: Enabling Logic Programming in Java Through Linguistic Symbiosis}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative
Languages (PADL 2013)},
pages = {26--42},
number = {7752},
series = {LNCS},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {K. Sagonas},
month = {January},
year = {2013},
address = {Rome, Italy},
}
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