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WEB-ACE: A Parallel Logic Programming Framework for Internet Programming
Description
The development of the World Wide Web (WWW)
has been considerably delayed due to the excessive complexity
of developing advanced and intelligent applications for
the Internet. An average application may require the use of
different languages, an in-depth understanding of various
communication protocols and low-level communication mechanisms, etc.
In this paper we propose a logic programming
system, called WEB-ACE, extended with various features to
support natural, effective, and efficient development of
Internet tools. The nature of the constructs introduced in the
language makes it particularly suitable to support intelligent
Internet applications (knowledge-based systems, agents, etc.).
WEB-ACE covers various issues in supporting knowledge-based handling
of the World Wide Web, allowing structured and constraint-based
management of WWW information, passive and active view of WWW,
as well as a powerful support for concurrent applications.
The resulting system offers a general
and unified framework for Internet programming, in which
the flexibility and high abstraction of logic programming is
coupled with general Internet-related mechanisms.
Various examples of complex intelligent applications are presented,
to underline the simplicity and the power of the proposed ideas.
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