COMP 3220 Section 2 PROJECT-3 PROLOG DUE: 11PM on 04/06/2018
Instructions
For this programming assignment, we will be writing a program in Prolog that will tell us how to get from one room of a one-story building, to any other room in that building (if it’s possible), by telling us all of the rooms we must go through to get to the destination room. In addition to the previous statement, there will be phones ringing in one or more of the rooms. Our prolog program should ONLY tell us how to get to those rooms. If we attempt to go to a room that does not have a ringing phone, the program should not produce any output.
There are a couple of conditions that we should think about to help us frame the problem and hopefully help us understand how we should approach this problem.
- 1) If I give the program a starting room and an ending room, if there is a phone ringing in the ending room, the program should tell me how to get to that room (which rooms do I need to go through?).
- 2) Alternatively, if I give the program a starting room and an ending room, and there is no phone ringing in that room, the program should not return any output (actually, prolog should just print “no”).
- 3) If I only give the program a starting room. The program should give me every possible sequence of rooms that I could go through, starting from the starting room that I gave it, to reach any room with a phone ringing.
- 4) If I only give the program an ending room, if there is a ringing phone in that room, the program should give me every possible sequence of rooms that I could go through (including multiple starting rooms, and all sequences that start with each of those rooms), to reach that room. If there is no phone ringing, it should simply return “no”.
- 5) Finally, if I don’t give the program any starting or ending room, it should simply return every possible sequence of rooms I must go through to reach all of the rooms with phones ringing (should be a lot!).
For the bonus, in addition to listing the sequences (steps 1 – 5 above), the program should also display how many rooms we had to traverse. There are two parts to the bonus. They are worth 5 points each. In addition to printing how many rooms we had to traverse you should:
1) Only list the shortest sequence of rooms to get to a given room with a phone ringing. That means if there are 3 phones ringing, you should only display 3 sequences; the shortest sequence to get to each of the rooms with a phone ringing.
a. TIP: This only has to work for conditions where you AT LEAST know the starting room (so #4 above doesn’t have to do this correctly).
2) Only list the longest sequence of rooms to get to a given room with a phone ringing. a. TIP: same as tip for the previous bonus.
COMP 3220 Section 2 PROJECT-3 PROLOG DUE: 11PM on 04/06/2018
Below is a picture of the one-story building you MUST base your program off of. In the graphic below, every opening represents a door between one room and another.
In this building, I can go from room 1 to rooms 2 and 7. I can also go from room 7 to many rooms, but I CANNOT go from room 7 to room 16. If I need to get to room 16, I must first go from 7 to 14, then from 14 to 15, then from 15 to 16. So one sequence of rooms prolog should return if I wanted to know how to get from room 1 to room 16 (and if there happened to be a phone ringing in room 16) is: 1, 7, 14, 15, 16.
Below are samples of input you might give to the program and what it should return. (No Bonus)
COMP 3220 Section 2 PROJECT-3 PROLOG DUE: 11PM on 04/06/2018
In the example above, we wanted to know every sequence of rooms we had to go through to get from room 1 to room 5. There also happened to be a phone ringing in room 5.
In the example above, we wanted to know every sequence of rooms we had to go through to get from room 1 to room 4. Although there is a way we could reach room 4 from room 1, there was no phone ringing in room 4, so Prolog just told us “no”.
In the example above, we gave a starting room (room 1), but no ending room. There were phones ringing in room 5, 9, and 16. There were a lot of sequences. These are just some of them.
COMP 3220 Section 2 PROJECT-3 PROLOG DUE: 11PM on 04/06/2018
In the example above, we did not give the program a starting room, and told it to try to get to room 16. There were a lot of sequences. These are just some.
In the example above, we did not give a starting room, but we did give an ending room. Since there is no phone ringing in room 4, Prolog just told us no.
COMP 3220 Section 2 PROJECT-3 PROLOG DUE: 11PM on 04/06/2018 Below are samples of input you might give to the program and what it should return for Bonus. (Bonus)
For all bonus objectives, they only have to work correctly as long as you provide a starting room.
In the example above, we tell Prolog to start at room 1, and give is the shortest sequence of rooms to get to any room with a phone ringing. Recall that there are phones in room 5, 9, and 16. Note that it ONLY returned 3 answers, 1 for each of the rooms.
In the example above, we tell prolog to search for the largest sequence of rooms we have to go through to get from room 1 to room 16 (which has a phone ringing in it).
FINAL NOTE:
Your program MUST use the room layout provided above. Aside from that requirement, there is NO GUARANTEE that phones will always be ringing in rooms 5, 9, and 16. This is arbitrary, and your program should work REGARDLESS of which rooms have phones ringing in them. You may choose to use those values to test your program if you want to ensure that the output is the same as the example screenshots above.
The screenshots were taken using GNU prolog for windows. You can also download the program yourself for Mac or Windows. For this assignment your program MUST WORK in GNU Prolog. There are other variants of Prolog that behave slightly differently and use different syntax. We will grade using GNU Prolog.