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From: alan@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Alan Quan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Demons in Prolog
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Date: 3 Dec 90 16:50:05 GMT
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I need to find out if it's possible to implement demons in Prolog in an
efficient manner.  These can be simple triggers which respond to
pre-specified situations in the input data and then initiate a standard
backward-chained Prolog inference (I'm also interested in efficient
Prolog forward chaining in general, but this is not essential).

I'd like to use such a technique for a real-time application so it has
to be relatively fast--- any comments you can provide on suitability of
Prolog for real-time environments (Prolog alone or Prolog in conjuction
with C) will be of considerable interest. 

-- 

Alan Quan
M/S T1704
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
Pasadena, CA 91109-8099
alan@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov
(818) 354-4221


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