1st Edition

Deductive Databases and Their Applications

Edited By Robert Colomb Copyright 1998
276 Pages
by CRC Press

276 Pages
by CRC Press

273 Pages
by CRC Press

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 Prologue before proceeding to analyse the main... Read more
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

Biography

Robert Colomb