Deductive Databases and Their Applications

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 deductive database paradigm - the data-log model. The final chapters are dedicated to closely related topics such as prepositional expert systems, integrity constraint specification and evaluation, and update propagation. Particular attention is paid to CASE tool repositories.

List 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

About the author

Robert Colomb

Summary

Targetted at intermediate undergraduates, this text is designed for students of computer science who have already been introduced to databases and are beginning to specialize at the senior level.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Colomb
• Assisted by: Robert Colomb (Editor), Robert (University of Queensland Colomb (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780748407972
• ISBN: 978-0-7484-0797-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Weight: 671 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; COMPUTERS / Programming / Games, computer science, Databases, COMPUTERS / Database Administration & Management