Foundations of Probabilistic Logic Programming: Languages, Semantics, Inference and Learning

This book aims at providing an overview of probabilistic logic programming with a special emphasis on languages under the distribution semantics, and presents the main ideas for semantics, inference, and learning and highlights connections between the methods.

Fabrizio Riguzzi is Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Ferrara. He was previously Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the same university. He obtained his Masters and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Bologna. Fabrizio Riguzzi is Editor in Chief of Intelligenza Artificiale, the official journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of more than 200 peer reviewed papers in the areas of machine learning, inductive logic programming and statistical relational learning. His aim is to develop intelligent systems by combining in novel ways techniques from artificial intelligence, logic and statistics.