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From: cugini@NBS-VMS.ARPA ("CUGINI, JOHN")
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Subject: Reviews
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Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 07:48:00 EDT
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        [Forwarded from the Prolog Digest by Laws@SRI-STRIPE.]

I'm in the middle of reading the Bratko book, and I would give
it a very high rating.  The concepts are explained very clearly,
there are lots of good examples, and the applications covered
are of high interest.  Part I (chapters 1-8) is about Prolog
per se.  Part II (chapters 9-16) shows how to implement many
standard AI techniques:

chap.  9 - Operations on Data Structures
chap. 10 - Advanced Tree Representations
chap. 11 - Basic Problem-solving Strategies
chap. 12 - Best-first: a heuristic search principle
chap. 13 - Problem reduction and AND/OR graphs
chap. 14 - Expert Systems
chap. 15 - Game Playing
chap. 16 - Pattern-directed Programming

Part I has 188 pages, part II has 214.

You didn't mention Programming in Prolog by Clocksin & Mellish -
this is also very good, and covers some things that Bratko
doesn't (it's more concerned with non-AI applications), but all
in all, I slightly prefer Bratko's book.

-- John Cugini