Ebook: Logic Programming '88: Proceedings of the 7th Conference Tokyo, Japan, April 11–14, 1988

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Seventh Logic Programming Conference that took place in Tokyo, April 11-14, 1988. It is the successor to the previous conference proceedings published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volumes 221, 264 and 315. The book covers various aspects of logic programming such as foundations, programming languages/systems, concurrent programming, knowledge bases, applications of computer-aided reasoning and natural language processing. The papers on foundations present theoretical results on "narrowing", a proof strategy for proving properties of Prolog programs based on inductionless induction and several issues in nonmonotonic reasoning. Of special interest to mathematicians is the paper on computer-aided reasoning, which describes a system for assisting human reasoning. Natural language application papers treat the lexical analysis of Japanese sentences, a system that generates a summary of a given sentence and a new knowledge representation formalism suited for representing dynamic behavior by extending the frame system.

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Warming to Ecocide begins by exploring the thermodynamic origins of climate change. It demonstrates that equilibrium thermodynamics can provide full explanations for the basic processes of life such as photosynthesis and metabolism, and that non-equilibrium thermodynamics is close to providing an explanation for how life started.

Armed with a solid appreciation of the power of thermodynamics, the second half of Warming to Ecocide discusses whether multinational corporations have convinced the public that climate change is insignificant and thereby neutered any all attempts by governments to espouse environmentally-friendly policies. It then goes on to offer strategies whereby mankind may avoid propelling the global average temperature above the pre-industrial level by more than 2°C, which scientists view as a threshold presaging catastrophic run-away processes.

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Despite scientific evidence that business-as-usual is unsustainable, there is a huge and widespread inertia to ‘greening’ the planet. Warming to Ecocide considers climate change from a thermodynamic perspective and asks whether market-driven organisations have carried us to the point of no return through the flawed economics of endless growth.

Warming to Ecocide begins by exploring the thermodynamic origins of climate change. It demonstrates that equilibrium thermodynamics can provide full explanations for the basic processes of life such as photosynthesis and metabolism, and that non-equilibrium thermodynamics is close to providing an explanation for how life started.

Armed with a solid appreciation of the power of thermodynamics, the second half of Warming to Ecocide discusses whether multinational corporations have convinced the public that climate change is insignificant and thereby neutered any all attempts by governments to espouse environmentally-friendly policies. It then goes on to offer strategies whereby mankind may avoid propelling the global average temperature above the pre-industrial level by more than 2°C, which scientists view as a threshold presaging catastrophic run-away processes.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Completeness of extended unification based on basic narrowing....Pages 1-10
Proving definite clauses without explicit use of inductions....Pages 11-26
Pseudo extension in default reasoning and belief revision by model inference....Pages 27-37
An approach to nonmonotonic inference mechanism in production system KORE/IE....Pages 38-52
Nonmonotonic parallel inheritance network....Pages 53-66
Logic programming debugger using control flow specification....Pages 67-81
ALEX: The logic programming language with explicit control and without cut-operators....Pages 82-95
Lattice programming methodology....Pages 96-107
A simple programming system written in GHC and its reflective operations....Pages 108-121
Implementation of full GHC by communicating processes....Pages 122-135
Inference methods and semantics on or-type knowledge bases....Pages 136-155
Access program to minimize redundant refutations on the network database system....Pages 156-171
EUODHILOS: A general-purpose reasoning assistant system — Concept and implementation —....Pages 172-187
Logic based lexical analyser LAX....Pages 188-216
Extraction of characteristic facts and abstract generation....Pages 217-237
Knowledge representation and reasoning for discourse understanding....Pages 238-251

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Despite scientific evidence that business-as-usual is unsustainable, there is a huge and widespread inertia to ‘greening’ the planet. Warming to Ecocide considers climate change from a thermodynamic perspective and asks whether market-driven organisations have carried us to the point of no return through the flawed economics of endless growth.

Warming to Ecocide begins by exploring the thermodynamic origins of climate change. It demonstrates that equilibrium thermodynamics can provide full explanations for the basic processes of life such as photosynthesis and metabolism, and that non-equilibrium thermodynamics is close to providing an explanation for how life started.

Armed with a solid appreciation of the power of thermodynamics, the second half of Warming to Ecocide discusses whether multinational corporations have convinced the public that climate change is insignificant and thereby neutered any all attempts by governments to espouse environmentally-friendly policies. It then goes on to offer strategies whereby mankind may avoid propelling the global average temperature above the pre-industrial level by more than 2°C, which scientists view as a threshold presaging catastrophic run-away processes.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Completeness of extended unification based on basic narrowing....Pages 1-10
Proving definite clauses without explicit use of inductions....Pages 11-26
Pseudo extension in default reasoning and belief revision by model inference....Pages 27-37
An approach to nonmonotonic inference mechanism in production system KORE/IE....Pages 38-52
Nonmonotonic parallel inheritance network....Pages 53-66
Logic programming debugger using control flow specification....Pages 67-81
ALEX: The logic programming language with explicit control and without cut-operators....Pages 82-95
Lattice programming methodology....Pages 96-107
A simple programming system written in GHC and its reflective operations....Pages 108-121
Implementation of full GHC by communicating processes....Pages 122-135
Inference methods and semantics on or-type knowledge bases....Pages 136-155
Access program to minimize redundant refutations on the network database system....Pages 156-171
EUODHILOS: A general-purpose reasoning assistant system — Concept and implementation —....Pages 172-187
Logic based lexical analyser LAX....Pages 188-216
Extraction of characteristic facts and abstract generation....Pages 217-237
Knowledge representation and reasoning for discourse understanding....Pages 238-251
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