VisAll: A universal tool to visualise the parallel execution of logic programs

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 1998

Authors

Fonseca, N (Author) REIT; Costa, VS (Author) FCUP; Dutra, ID (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: LOGIC PROGRAMMING - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1998 JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING

Pages: 100-114

1998 Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming (JICSLP 98)

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, JUN 15-19, 1998

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FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-001-9EG

Abstract (EN): One of the most important advantages of logic programming systems is that they allow the transparent exploitation of parallelism. The different forms of parallelism available and the complex nature of logic programming applications present interesting problems to both the users and the developers of these systems. Graphical visualisation tools can give a particularly important contribution, as they are easier to understand than text based tools, and allow both for a general overview of an execution and for focusing on its important details. Towards these goals, we propose VisAll, anew tool to visualise the parallel execution of logic programs. VisAll benefits from a modular design centered in a graph that represents a parallel execution. A main graphical shell commands the different modules and presents VisAll as an unified system. Several input components, or translators, support the well-known VisAndor and VACE trace formats, plus a new format designed for independent and-parallel plus or-parallel execution in the SEA. Several output components, or visualisers, allow for different visualisations of the same execution.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 15