jwl@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK (John Lloyd) (06/12/89)
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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Department of Computer Science
Research Post in Logic Programming
Applications are invited for a research post associated with an ESPRIT
project: "Computational Logic". The appointee will join the Bristol group
in this project led by Professor John Lloyd.
The appointee will be mainly concerned with the producion of a prototype
implementation of a logic programming language, called Godel, which is
intended to be a declarative successor to Prolog. The major component of
the Bristol contribution to the project will be a complete formal definition
of Godel. In order to do this, an implementation is required to experiment
with various language facilities and, it is hoped, to make the language
available early in the project to other groups. The emphasis of the new
language is an alternative treatment of the troublesome Prolog facilities,
such as var, assert, retract, and cut. The aim is to design a language which
is considerably more declarative than Prolog so as to facilitate program
transformation, abstract interpretation, verification, debugging, and so on.
Applicants should have at least a good honours degree, a strong interest in
the subject of the research, and relevant postgraduate experience, including
experience in Prolog implementation and UNIX. The post is tenable for up
to two and a half years and is available immediately. The appointment and
salary will be according to age and experience.
Anyone interested in the post is asked initially to contact John Lloyd
by email at jwl@compsci.bristol.ac.uk, giving some details of background
and relevant experience.
(N.B. Anyone who previously applied for Professor Warren's research posts
at Bristol need only let me know they are interested in this post, since
the cv's of these applicants are already available here.)
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