Cost Analysis of Logic Programs

Saumya K. Debray, Nai Wei Lin

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Abstract

Cost analysis of programs has been studied in the context of imperative and functional programming languages. For logic programs, the problem is comphcated by the fact that programs may be nondeterministic and produce multiple solutions. A related problem is that because failure of execution is not an abnormal situation, it is possible to write programs where irnphclt failures have to be dealt with exphcitly in order to get meaningful results. This paper addresses these problems and develops a method for (semi-)automatlc analysls of the worst-case cost of a large class of logic programs. The prl mary contribution of this paper is the development of techmques to deal with nondeterminism and the generation of multiple solutions via backtracking. Apphcations include program transformation and synthesis, software engineering, and in parallelizing compilers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)826-875
Number of pages50
JournalACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Volume15
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 11 1993

Keywords

  • PROLOG
  • complexity
  • program analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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