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Applying Prolog to develop distributed systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2010

NUNO P. LOPES ,
JUAN A. NAVARRO ,
ANDREY RYBALCHENKO  and
ATUL SINGH
NUNO P. LOPES
Affiliation:
INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
JUAN A. NAVARRO
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
ANDREY RYBALCHENKO
Affiliation:
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
ATUL SINGH
Affiliation:
NEC Research Labs, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Abstract

Development of distributed systems is a difficult task. Declarative programming techniques hold a promising potential for effectively supporting programmer in this challenge. While Datalog-based languages have been actively explored for programming distributed systems, Prolog received relatively little attention in this application area so far. In this paper we present a Prolog-based programming system, called DAHL, for the declarative development of distributed systems. DAHL extends Prolog with an event-driven control mechanism and built-in networking procedures. Our experimental evaluation using a distributed hash-table data structure, a protocol for achieving Byzantine fault tolerance, and a distributed software model checker—all implemented in DAHL—indicates the viability of the approach.

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distributed systemslogic programmingProlog

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 10 , Special Issue 4-6: 26th International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2010 , pp. 691 - 707
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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