Prolog Programming for Students: With Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence Topics

by Callear, David

• ISBN13: 9780826454966
• ISBN10: 0826454968
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Cengage High School

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Introduction	1	(6)
Basics	7	(9)
Variables	16	(7)
Facts	23	(8)
Semantic nets	31	(7)
Rules	38	(11)
Using rules to write programs	49	(12)
Test yourself: a Prolog address book project	60	(1)
Backtracking	61	(11)
Input, output and files	72	(9)
Test yourself: Prolog basics	79	(2)
Expert systems	81	(8)
Recursion	89	(7)
More recursion	96	(9)
Expert system shells	105	(11)
Lists in Prolog	116	(8)
More on lists	124	(8)
Quantitative expert systems	132	(15)
Test yourself: a Stock Market expert system project	146	(1)
Natural language	147	(9)
The cut	156	(12)
Test yourself: recursion and lists	163	(5)
Route finding	168	(14)
Structures and structure predicates	182	(10)
Operator definitions	192	(11)
Prolog grammar notation	203	(14)
Test yourself: some sample examination questions	212	(5)
Appendix 1: solutions to programming practice	217	(15)
Appendix 2: test yourself solutions	232	(13)
Bibliography and useful addresses	245	(1)
Index	246