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EPSRC Reference: GR/M08769/01
Title: SEMANTIC-BASED SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR CONSTRAINT LOGIC PROGRAMS
Principal Investigator: King, Professor A
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Department: Sch of Computing
Organisation: University of Kent
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 October 1998 Ends: 30 September 2001 Value (£): 146,627
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Artificial Intelligence
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Information Technologies
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The primary aim of this project is to enable more effective exploitation of the constraint logic programming paradigm. Constraint logic programming (CLP) combines the flexibility of logic with the power of search to provide high level constructs for solving computationally hard problems such as resource allocation. Its importance has been demonstrated by the increasing number of industrial applications and commercial CLP systems. What is missing from the existing CLP systems is a suite of reliable tools that aid the construction of successful CLP applications. This project will research and develop the technologies that underpin such tools.The high level and expressive nature of CLP languages make it relatively straightforward to describe a solution to a problem. However, even with an experienced user, this initial version may be very inefficient and rarely scales to deal with large data. Thus the main focus of this project is the development of tools that will analyse CLP programs and determine and advise on their expected run-time behaviour. The analysers will have a sound semantic basis with an implementation that demonstrates their effectiveness and practicality.
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