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Programmer Passport: Prolog Chapter 3 is coming soon from our friends at Grox.io! It covers the interesting topic and application of graphs. Graphs are a computer science concept increasing in importance because of the growth in machine learning, interest in mapping, and the explosion of social networks.

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Also this week, our friends at Grox.io have a new entry on graphs using Prolog. Read on for details.

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Programmer Passport: Prolog

Graphs represent the concept of connection. In math, graphs are collections of nodes (also called vertices) and the connections, called edges, between them. A node might be a city on a map or a person in a social network. An edge might be the route between two subway stations, or a follows relationship in social media.

Representing connections is important, but what makes graph theory so powerful are the analysis tools a knowledgeable programmer can bring to bear. Think of it this way: Knowing all of the airports a carrier uses is interesting. Knowing the data about the flights between them is infinitely more important. Scheduling flights to minimize fuel costs and maximize customer load is the difference between profitability and bankruptcy.

Prolog is the ideal language for dealing with graphs because the database works that way. You can often think of a Prolog fact as an edge in a database. That makes it easy to envision what’s happening in a graph.

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