Deductive Databases and Their Applications

by Robert Colomb (Editor)

Overview

Deductive Databases and their Applications is an introductory text aimed at undergraduate students with some knowledge of database and information systems. The text comes complete with exercises and solutions to encourage students to tackle problems practically as well as theoretically. The author presents the origins of deductive databases in Prol

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040178287
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/30/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	273
File size:	4 MB

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Summary of Prolog 3. Prolog and Databases 4. Datalog and Bottom-up Evaluation 5. Knowledge Design 6. Building and Knowledge Base 7. Knowledge Quality 8. Magic Sets 9. Unfolding and Folding 10. Propositional Deductive Databases 11. Integrity Constraints 12. Non-monotonic Reasoning

Editorial Reviews

In this advanced undergraduate text in computer information systems, Colomb (U. of Queensland, Australia) introduces deductive databases which have emerged from relational databases in light of the growing number of applications not suitable for the latter, the origins of deductive databases in Prolog, and the dialog model and query optimization techniques underpinning the deductive database paradigm. Later chapters treat the related topics of propositional expert systems, integrity constraint specification and evaluation, and update propagation<-->with a particular focus on Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. Includes exercises. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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