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In this work we define a schematic language to concisely describe classes of logic programs. We show how our proposed formalism can be profitably employed to represent opportunities for program optimisation: we schematically specify commonly occurring inefficient portions of code and how these can be altered to improve the performance of programs. We have defined a fully automated approach to exploit these opportunities for the analysis and transformation of logic programs.
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Weber-Vasconcelos, W., Xavier Meneses, E. (2000). A Practical Approach for Logic Program Analysis and Transformation. In: Cairó, O., Sucar, L.E., Cantu, F.J. (eds) MICAI 2000: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1793. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10720076_8
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