Abstract

There has been considerable work aimed at enhancing the expressiveness of logic programming languages. To this end logics other than classical first order logic have been considered, including intuitionistic, relevant, temporal, modal and linear logic. Girard's linear logic has formed the basis of a number of logic programming languages. These languages are successful in enhancing the expressiveness of (pure) Prolog and have been shown to provide natural solutions to problems involving concurrency, natural language processing, database processing and various resource oriented problems. One of the richer linear logic programming languages is Lygon. In this paper we investigate the implementation of Lygon. Two significant problems that arise are the division of resources between sub-branches of the proof and the selection of the formula to be decomposed. We present solutions to both of these problems.

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