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Concurrent goal-based execution of Constraint Handling Rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2010

EDMUND S. L. LAM  and
MARTIN SULZMANN
EDMUND S. L. LAM
Affiliation:
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, S16 Level 5, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543 (e-mail: lamsoonl@comp.nus.edu.sg)
MARTIN SULZMANN
Affiliation:
Informatik Consulting Systems AG, Sonnenbergstr. 13, 70184 Stuttgart, Germany (e-mail: martin.sulzmann@gmail.com)
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Abstract

We introduce a systematic, concurrent execution scheme for Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) based on a previously proposed sequential goal-based CHR semantics. We establish strong correspondence results to the abstract CHR semantics, thus guaranteeing that any answer in the concurrent, goal-based CHR semantics is reproducible in the abstract CHR semantics. Our work provides the foundation to obtain efficient, parallel CHR execution schemes.

Keywords

multiset rewritingconstraintsconcurrency

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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 11 , Issue 6 , November 2011 , pp. 841 - 879
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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