SWI-Prolog is neither a commercial Prolog system nor a purely academic enterprise, but
increasingly a community project. The core system has been shaped to its current form while …

Internet programming languages such as Java present new challenges to garbage-
collection design. The spectrum of garbage-collection schema for linked structures …

Since the early days of logic programming, researchers in the field realized the potential for
exploitation of parallelism present in the execution of logic programs. Their high-level …

SICStus Prolog has evolved for nearly 25 years. This is an appropriate point in time for
revisiting the main language and design decisions, and try to distill some lessons. SICStus …

ECLiPSe is a Prolog-based programming system, aimed at the development and
deployment of constraint programming applications. It is also used for teaching most aspects …

One embodiment of the present invention presents a method and apparatus for efficiently
performing garbage collection on objects de? ned Within an object-oriented programming …

Muse (Mu lti-se quential Prolog engines) is a simple and efficient approach to Or-parallel
execution of Prolog programs. It is based on having several sequential Prolog engines, each …

Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program prod ucts are disclosed describing a
data structure and associated processes that optimize garbage collection techniques. The …

With the continued growth in interest in distributed systems, garbage collection is actively
receiving attention by designers of distributed languages [Bal, 1990]. Distribution adds …

Concurrency is an attractive property of a language to exploit multi-CPU hardware or
perform multiple tasks concurrently. In recent years we see Prolog systems experimenting …