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The Declarative Side of Magic

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Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond

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In this paper, we combine a novel method for proving partial correctness of logic programs with a known method for proving termination, and apply them to the study of the magic-sets transformation. As a result, a declarative reconstruction of efficient bottom-up execution of goal-driven deduction is accomplished, in the sense that the obtained results of partial and total correctness of the transformation abstract away from procedural semantics.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Siena, via del Capitano 15, Siena, Italy

    Paolo Mascellani

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Corso Italia 40, Pisa, Italy

    Dino Pedreschi

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos St., 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Antonis C. Kakas

  2. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    Fariba Sadri

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Mascellani, P., Pedreschi, D. (2002). The Declarative Side of Magic. In: Kakas, A.C., Sadri, F. (eds) Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45632-5_4

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