Strategy for integrating object-oriented and logic programming

摘要

Logic programming and object-oriented programming have made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, particularly as knowledge-based system development tools. Both these tools are extremely powerful and have several interesting features for application developers to exploit. The paper examines the potential benefits of integrating these two technologies to develop large knowledge-based applications, using each for what it does best. The salient features of the object-oriented and logic programming paradigms are summarized, and the advantages of combining them are discussed. A possible strategy is also provided for implementing the object-oriented paradigm within the logic-programming environment.