Temporal logic programming

Abstract

Temporal logic, often used as a specification language for programs, can serve directly as a programming language. We propose a specific programming language TEMPLOG, which extends the classical PROLOG-like languages to include temporal operators. PROLOG progams are collections of classical Horn clauses and they are efficiently interpreted by SLD-resolution. Similarly, TEMPLOG programs are collections of temporal Horn clauses and we interpret them with temporal SLD-resolution, a restricted form of a general temporal resolution method