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Fast learning and invariant object recognition : the sixth-generation breakthrough
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ISBN: 0471574309 9780471574309 Year: 1992 Volume: vol *6 Publisher: New York: Wiley,


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Languages and machines : an introduction to the theory of computer science
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ISBN: 0201157683 Year: 1988 Publisher: Reading, Mass. Menlo Park Bonn Addison-Wesley

Warren's abstract machine : a tutorial reconstruction
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ISBN: 0262510588 0262011239 9780262255585 9780262510585 0262255588 9780262011235 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *8 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,

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"This tutorial demystifies one of the most important yet poorly understood aspects of logic programming, the Warren Abstract Machine or WAM. The author's step-by-step construction of the WAM adds features in a gradual manner, clarifying the complex aspects of the design and providing the first detailed study of WAM since it was designed in 1983. Developed by David H.D. Warren, the WAM is an abstract (nonphysical) computer that aids in the compilation and implementation of the Prolog programming language and offers techniques for compiling and optimizing symbolic computing that can be generalized beyond Prolog. Although the benefits of the WAM design have been widely accepted, few have been able to penetrate the WAM. This lucid introduction defines separate abstract machines for each conceptually separate part of the design and refines them, finally stitching them together to make a WAM. An index presents all of the critical concepts used in the WAM. It is assumed that readers have a clear understanding of the operational semantics of Prolog, in particular, of unification and backtracking, but a brief summary of the necessary Prolog notions is provided."

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