Thread-Based Competitive Or-Parallelism

摘要

This paper presents the logic programming concept of thread-based competitive or-parallelism, which combines the original idea of competitive or-parallelism with committed-choice nondeterminism and speculative threading. In thread-based competitive or-parallelism, an explicit disjunction of subgoals is interpreted as a set of concurrent alternatives, each running in its own thread. The subgoals compete for providing an answer and the first successful subgoal leads to the termination of the remaining ones. We discuss the implementation of competitive or-parallelism in the context of Logtalk, an object-oriented logic programming language, and present experimental results.