ABSTRACT
The principal goal of this chapter, using the familiar territory of kinship, is to outline how to specify your research requirements in a form suitable for matching up with available computing resources by a research assistant, a computing-centre advisor or yourself. For reasons of space and because of the requirements of research discussed in Section 1.1, a full range of possible techniques cannot be covered. Chapter 7 implements simple, but useful, programs, using the computer programming language Prolog, based on some of the specifications described in this chapter.
