Backward chaining
backward chaining
algorithm
an algorithm for proving a goal by recursively breaking it down into sub-goals and trying to prove these until facts are reached. facts are goals with no sub-goals which are therefore always true. backward training is the program execution mechanism used by most logic programming language like prolog.
opposite: forward chaining.
(2004-01-26)
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