cs.PLJul 23, 2026

GLP: A Grassroots, Multiagent, Concurrent, Logic Programming Language for AI

Authors: Ehud Shapiro

Organizations: London School of Economics · London School of Economics and Weizmann Institute of Science

Abstract

A grassroots platform is a multiagent distributed system in which multiple independent instances can form and operate independently of each other and of any global resource, yet may coalesce into ever larger instances, possibly resulting in a single global instance. Grassroots platforms aim to offer an egalitarian/democratic alternative to centralised/autocratic and decentralised/plutocratic global platforms. Here, we present Grassroots Logic Programs (GLP), a multiagent concurrent logic programming language designed for the implementation of grassroots platforms: we recall the standard operational semantics of logic programs; introduce the concurrent operational semantics of GLP as its restriction; recall multiagent atomic transactions; use them to introduce a multiagent operational semantics of GLP; and prove multiagent GLP to be grassroots. The grassroots social graph—the foundational grassroots platform on which all others are based—serves as a GLP programming example.

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