Partial evaluation aims to improve the efficiency of a program by specialising it with respect to some known inputs. In this paper, we show that partial evaluation can be an effec...
Huet and Lang (1978) presented a framework of automated program transformation based on lambda calculus in which programs are transformed according to a given program transformati...
We present an overview of the program transformation techniques which have been proposed over the past twenty-five years in the context of logic programming. We consider the appro...
Alberto Pettorossi, Maurizio Proietti, Valerio Sen...
This paper studies the relation between agent specification and agent programming languages. In particular, it shows that an agent programming language obeys some desirable proper...
Mehdi Dastani, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules ...
We present a sound and complete logic for reasoning about SimpleAPL programs. SimpleAPL is a fragment of the agent programming language 3APL designed for the implementation of cog...
Natasha Alechina, Mehdi Dastani, Brian Logan, John...