Foundations of Deductive Data Bases
Published on 28. May 2000
Book
Hardback
746 pages
978-0-934613-40-8 (ISBN)
Description
This landmark volume explores the close relationship between deductive databases and logic programming and the foundational issues they share. A collection of original research, contributed by leading scientists, the book grew out of preliminary work presented at the Workshop on Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming held in Washington, DC, August 1986. All the papers have been extensively refereed and revised. Part 1 introduces and examines the import of stratified databases, and its relationship to circumscription, and provides a comprehensive survey of the problem of negation in logic programming. Part 2 addresses fundamental theoretical and practical issues in developing large-scale deductive databases and treats problems such as informative answers, semantic optimization, updates and computing answers in non-Horn theories. Part 3 provides results concerning logic programs and parallel complexity. An introductory survey offering background material and an overview of research topics, name and subject indexes, and extensive bibliographies complete the work.
Invaluable to graduate students and researchers in deductive databases and logic programming, Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming will also be of interest to those working in automated theorem proving, artificial intelligence, and expert systems.
Invaluable to graduate students and researchers in deductive databases and logic programming, Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming will also be of interest to those working in automated theorem proving, artificial intelligence, and expert systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Weight
1153 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-934613-40-8 (9780934613408)
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05/2014
Morgan Kaufmann
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Content
Introduction, by J. Minker Part I - Negation and Stratified Databases Chapter 1 Negation in Logic Programming, by J.C. Shepherdson Chapter 2 Towards a Theory of Declarative Knowledge, by K.R. Apt, H.A. Blair, and A. Walker Chapter 3 Negation as Failure Using Tight Derivations for General Logic Programs, by A. Van Gelder Chapter 4 On the Declarative Semmantics of Logic Programs with Negation, by V. Lifschitz Chapter 5 On the Declarative Semantics of Deductive Databases and Logic Programs, by T.C. Przymusinski Chapter 6 On Domain Independent Databases, by R.W. Topor and E.A. Sonenberg Part II - Fundamental Issues in Deductive Databases and Implementation Chapter 7 Foundations of Semantic Query Optimization for Deductive Databases, by U.S. Chakravarthy, J. Grant, and J. Minker Chapter 8 Intelligent Query Answering in Rule Based Systems, by T. Imielinski Chapter 9 A Theorem-Proving Approach to Database Integrity, by F. Sadri and R. Kowalski Chapter 10 A Logic-based Language for Database Updates, by S. Manchanda and D.S. Warren Chapter 11 Compiling the GCWA in Indefinite Deductive Databases, by L. Henschen and H. Park Chapter 12 Performance Evaluation of Data Intensive Logic Programs, by F. Bancilhon and R. Ramakrishnan Chapter 13 A Superjoin Algorithm for Deductive Databases, by J.A. Thom, K. Ramamohanarao, and L. Naish Part III - Unification and Logic Programs Chapter 14 Logic Programming and Parallel Complexity, by P.C. Kanellakis Chapter 15 Unification Revisited, by J-L Lassez, M.J. Maher, and K. Marriott Chapter 16 Equivalences of Logic Programs, by M.J. Maher Chapter 17 Optimizing Datalog Programs, by Y. Sagiv Chapter 18 Converting AND-Control to OR-Control by Program Transformation, by M.H. van Emden and P. Szeredi Authors Referees Author Index Subject Index