Advances in integrative statistics for logic programming

作者：Angelopoulos Nicos; Abdallah Samer; Giamas Georgios

来源：International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2016, 78: 103-115.

DOI：10.1016/j.ijar.2016.06.008

• R statistical computing
• Logic programming
• Visualisation
• Machine learning
• Graph drawing
• bioinformatics

We present recent developments on the syntax of Real, a library for interfacing two Prolog systems to the statistical language R. We focus on the changes in Prolog syntax within SWI-Prolog that accommodate greater syntactic integration, enhanced user experience and improved features for web-services. We recount the full syntax and functionality of Real as well as presenting a full application and sister packages which include Prolog code interfacing a number of common and useful tasks that can be delegated to R. We argue that Real is a powerful extension to logic programming, providing access to a popular statistical system that has complementary strengths in areas such as machine learning, statistical inference and visualisation. Furthermore, Real has a central role to play in the uptake of semantic web, computational biology and bioinformatics as application areas for research in logic programming.

• 出版日期2016-11