PROLOG: Programming for Artificial Intelligence

by Ivan Bratko

The third edition of this best-selling guide to Prolog and Artificial Intelligence has been updated to include key developments in the field while retaining its lucid approach to these topics. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book introduces the programming language Prolog, while the second part teaches Artificial Intelligence using Prolog as a tool for the implementation of AI techniques. Prolog has its roots in logic, however the main aim of this book is to teach Prolog as a practical programming tool. This text therefore concentrates on the art of using the basic mechanisms of Prolog to solve interesting problems. The third edition has been fully revised and extended to provide an even greater range of applications, which further enhance its value as a self-contained guide to Prolog, AI or AI Programming for students and professional programmers alike.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Nonfiction, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Computers, Science

678 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Peter]

An excellent introduction to Prolog programming.: This book is clear and well written. Its an excellent first book on Prolog programming. It also takes you far into the subject, up to a point where you should be able to write useable Prolog programs.

Much more clearly written than "Programming in Prolog" Prolog by Clocksin and Mellish, and it covers the same ground.

Prolog is not for everyone. You have to be quite intelligent to be able to use it effectively. And its not a general-purpose language. But Prolog is excellent for some applications, such as writing Expert Systems, Natural Language Parsers, and other A.I. applications.

This book is best used in combination with a prolog compiler/interpreter, so you can try out Prolog as you read about it. There are some free ones available on the Web.

[Koen Crolla]

A solid introduction to Prolog aimed (perhaps subconsciously) at people coming from the more traditional imperative programming languages, and a good overview of a lot of basic concepts in AI. The two main things I got out of this book were

1. Prolog itself is very impressive piece of technology and a great accomplishment of the field of Artificial Intelligence, and
2. Actually using Prolog for anything in AI (or outside it) probably isn't worth the effort in the overwhelming majority of cases.

I doubt that was entirely what was intended, but I'm still glad I read it, even if the price I paid for it is a bit steep for a student's budget.

[Emre Sevinç]

Great book for showing many different applications of Prolog. I wish I could also praise its exercises and the pedagogical effort spent on them, but beware, because there's no gradual build-up of difficulty. It's more like throwing you into to the sea of a very different programming paradigm and saying "swim or drown".

[Alftheo Potgieter]

Well ja, its a book about prolog. Then it becomes a book about search/optimization techniques

[Aymen Nadeem]

i want to read online