---
title: "A Predicate Connection Graph Based Logic with Flexible Control"
authors:
  - "Richard Whitney"
  - "Darrel J. Van Buer"
  - "Donald P. McKay"
  - "Dan Kogan"
  - "Lynette Hirschman"
  - "Rebecca Davis"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/145"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0145.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "733-735"
track: "Logic Programming"
keywords:
---

# A Predicate Connection Graph Based Logic with Flexible Control

Richard Whitney, Darrel J. Van Buer, Donald P. McKay, Dan Kogan, Lynette Hirschman, Rebecca Davis

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 733-735.

## Abstract

The FDE has been designed to support multiple search strategies for logic programs. This machine represents. the knowledge base in a strategy independent fashion as a pred1cate connection graph which encodes potential unifications between predicates. It facilitates knowledge representation in the language of full first order predicate calculus. Immediate developments include implementation of various database access strategies and addition of evaluable predicates and functions to the language. Long-term research will focus on exploration of search strategies, especially for parallellogic machines.