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A buddy worked at the University of Amsterdam (closely associated with swi of swi-prolog fame) and worked on garp, qualitative modeling software.

Their codebase was tens of thousands of lines of code, most of it was pretty readable.

Do not make a gui in prolog though, you will regret it. It was pretty hard to troubleshoot and maintain at scale. The paradigm does not lend itself to that kind of thing.

Prolog is pretty cool for search and symbolic ai though. It was awesome as a first language in uni.




I'd never heard of Garp. Thanks for sharing! Really interesting approach to modeling.

Garp is part of the European NaturNet-Redime Project. The full name of the project is: "New education and decision support model for active behaviour in sustainable development based on innovative web services and qualitative reasoning. Say that 10 times fast!

GARP provodes" a methodology that structures and supports the capture of conceptual knowledge about sustainable development using a qualitative approach. The framework defines a protocol for describing content (knowledge and expertise) that supports the development of conceptual understanding of systems and how they behave. In addition to structuring the work involved in building models, the framework also facilitates easier comparison and evaluation of the results of modelling efforts".

https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/tcs/QRgroup/QRM/documentation/


Garp3 looks really interesting. Of special interest to me is inport/export of OWL.




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