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Intro to Prolog

Intro to Prolog. Conventional vs Logic Programming. Prolog = “ Programming with Logic ” Procedural programming – do this, do this, do this, …, execute Declarative programming – this is true, this is true,…, is this true?. Basic idea of Prolog. Describe the situation of interest

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Intro to Prolog

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  1. Intro to Prolog

  2. Conventional vs Logic Programming • Prolog = “Programming with Logic” • Procedural programming – do this, do this, do this, …, execute • Declarative programming – this is true, this is true,…, is this true?

  3. Basic idea of Prolog • Describe the situation of interest • Ask a question • Prolog logically deduces new facts about the situation we described • Prolog gives us its deductions back as answers

  4. Variables, Predicates • Any capitalized letter or word in Prolog is a variable. • Every letter or word not capitalized is a literal – either a constant or a predicate. • A predicate is a fact about the world. • Some predicates are rules for deducing more facts. • Predicates represent relationships between things.

  5. The world of Ann & Sue • Doll is a toy. • Snoopy is a toy. • Ann plays with Snoopy. • It’s Tuesday. • Ann likes every toy she plays with. • Sue likes everything Ann likes.

  6. Translate the world to Prolog.Facts: • Doll is a toy. isToy(doll). • Snoopy is a toy. isToy(snoopy). • Ann plays with Snoopy. plays(ann,snoopy). • It’s Tuesday. tuesday.

  7. Translate the world to Prolog:Rules • Ann likes every toy she plays with. likes(ann,X) :- isToy(X), plays(ann,X). Read as: “Ann likes X if X is a toy and Ann plays with X.” • In logic, this means: To prove that ann likes X, one must first prove that X is a toy and that Ann plays with X. • Sue likes everything Ann likes – translate!

  8. Multiple ways to prove • There can be more than one way to prove something: • Ann likes every toy she plays with, and she also likes every toy Susan plays with. • Two ways to prove Ann likes something: • likes(ann,X):- isToy(X), plays(ann,X). • likes(ann,X):- isToy(X), plays(susan,X). • Semicolon can also be used to express “or”.

  9. Using Prolog • Prolog is interpreted. • Begin by building database. assert(isToy(snoopy)). assert(isToy(doll)). • Ask – Is snoopy a toy? ?- isToy(snoopy). Yes • Ask – What are the toys? ?- isToy(X). X = snoopy;X = doll; No User types “;” to mean – find another answer.

  10. Consult • When you write a program, you will not want to keep “asserting” everything from scratch. • You can write facts to a prolog file and then add all your facts at once. • Traditionally – ?- consult(‘filename’). • Consult may be a menu option.

  11. Unifying Variables • Prolog uses pattern matching to find constants that can be substituted in for variables • Two terms are unifiable if there is a variable substitution which makes the 2 terms have the same value. • isToy(X) unifies with isToy(snoopy) under the assignment X = snoopy.

  12. Proof Search • Now that we know about unification, we are in a position to learn how Prolog searches a knowledge base to see if a query is satisfied. • In other words: we are ready to learn about proof search

  13. Example f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). ?- k(Y).

  14. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). ?- k(Y).

  15. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). ?- k(Y).

  16. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). X=a ?- g(a), h(a). ?- k(Y).

  17. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). X=a ?- g(a), h(a). ?- k(Y). ?- h(a).

  18. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). X=a ?- g(a), h(a). ?- k(Y). ?- h(a). †

  19. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). X=a X=b ?- g(a), h(a). ?- g(b), h(b). ?- k(Y). ?- h(a). †

  20. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). X=a X=b ?- g(a), h(a). ?- g(b), h(b). ?- k(Y). ?- h(a). ?- h(b). †

  21. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). X=a X=b ?- g(a), h(a). ?- g(b), h(b). ?- k(Y). Y=b ?- h(a). ?- h(b). †

  22. Example: search tree ?- k(Y). f(a). f(b). g(a). g(b). h(b). k(X):- f(X), g(X), h(X). Y=X ?- f(X), g(X), h(X). X=a X=b ?- g(a), h(a). ?- g(b), h(b). ?- k(Y). Y=b; no ?- ?- h(a). ?- h(b). †

  23. Another example loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). ?- jealous(X,Y).

  24. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). ?- jealous(X,Y).

  25. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). ?- jealous(X,Y).

  26. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). A=vincent C=mia ?- loves(B,mia). ?- jealous(X,Y).

  27. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). A=vincent C=mia ?- loves(B,mia). ?- jealous(X,Y). X=vincent Y=vincent B=vincent

  28. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). A=vincent C=mia ?- loves(B,mia). ?- jealous(X,Y). X=vincent Y=vincent; X=vincent Y=marsellus B=vincent B=marsellus

  29. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). A=marsellus C=mia A=vincent C=mia ?- loves(B,mia). ?- loves(B,mia). ?- jealous(X,Y). X=vincent Y=vincent; X=vincent Y=marsellus; B=vincent B=marsellus

  30. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). A=marsellus C=mia A=vincent C=mia ?- loves(B,mia). ?- loves(B,mia). …. X=vincent Y=marsellus; X=marsellus Y=vincent B=vincent B=vincent B=marsellus

  31. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). A=marsellus C=mia A=vincent C=mia ?- loves(B,mia). ?- loves(B,mia). …. X=marsellus Y=vincent; X=marsellus Y=marsellus B=vincent B=vincent B=marsellus B=marsellus

  32. Another example ?- jealous(X,Y). loves(vincent,mia). loves(marsellus,mia). jealous(A,B):- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). X=A Y=B ?- loves(A,C), loves(B,C). A=marsellus C=mia A=vincent C=mia ?- loves(B,mia). ?- loves(B,mia). …. X=marsellus Y=vincent; X=marsellus Y=marsellus; no B=vincent B=vincent B=marsellus B=marsellus

  33. Arithmetic • Arithmetic in Prolog: • X is 4 + 2. • add(X,Y,Z) :- Z is X+Y. • “=“ means unifiable. • add(X,Y,Z) :- Z = X+Y. • This sets Z to +(X,Y). • +, -, *, /, // (integer division), mod, <, =<, >, >=, =:=

  34. Recursion • Recursive predicate: Predicate name appears on both sides of rule. • Examples: • ancestor(X,Y) :- parent(Z,Y), ancestor(X,Z). • Must FIRST have base case: • ancestor(X,Y) :- parent(X,Y).

  35. Recursion Practice: Java and Prolog • factorial(+X,-Y) • True when X! = Y • sequence(+N,-X) • True when X is the Nth number of the sequence: 2,6,14,30 The pluses and minuses are for comments only – they aren’t prolog syntax.

  36. Lists • A list is a finite sequence of elements • Examples of lists in Prolog: [mia, vincent, jules, yolanda] [mia, robber(honeybunny), X, 2, mia] [ ] [mia, [vincent, jules], [butch, friend(butch)]] [[ ], dead(z), [2, [b,c]], [ ], Z, [2, [b,c]]]

  37. Important things about lists • List elements are enclosed in square brackets • The length of a list is the number of elements it has • All sorts of Prolog terms can be elements of a list • There is a special list: the empty list [ ]

  38. Head and Tail • A non-empty list can be thought of as consisting of two parts • The head • The tail • The head is the first item in the list • The tail is everything else • The tail is the list that remains when we take the first element away • The tail of a list is always a list

  39. Head and Tail example 1 • [mia, vincent, jules, yolanda]Head: Tail:

  40. Head and Tail example 1 • [mia, vincent, jules, yolanda]Head: miaTail:

  41. Head and Tail example 1 • [mia, vincent, jules, yolanda]Head: miaTail: [vincent, jules, yolanda]

  42. Head and Tail example 2 • [[ ], dead(z), [2, [b,c]], [ ], Z, [2, [b,c]]] Head: Tail:

  43. Head and Tail example 2 • [[ ], dead(z), [2, [b,c]], [ ], Z, [2, [b,c]]] Head: [ ]Tail:

  44. Head and Tail example 2 • [[ ], dead(z), [2, [b,c]], [ ], Z, [2, [b,c]]] Head: [ ]Tail: [dead(z), [2, [b,c]], [ ], Z, [2, [b,c]]]

  45. Head and Tail example 3 • [dead(z)] Head: Tail:

  46. Head and Tail example 3 • [dead(z)] Head: dead(z) Tail:

  47. Head and Tail example 3 • [dead(z)] Head: dead(z) Tail: [ ]

  48. Head and tail of empty list • The empty list has neither a head nor a tail • For Prolog, [ ] is a special simple list without any internal structure • The empty list plays an important role in recursive predicates for list processing in Prolog

  49. The built-in operator | • Prolog has a special built-in operator | which can be used to decompose a list into its head and tail • The | operator is a key tool for writing Prolog list manipulation predicates

  50. The built-in operator | ?- [Head|Tail] = [mia, vincent, jules, yolanda]. Head = mia Tail = [vincent,jules,yolanda] yes ?-

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