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Record Nr.

UNISA996465384303316

Autore

Schmidt Helmut

Titolo

Meta-Level Control for Deductive Database Systems [[electronic resource] /] / by Helmut Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1991

ISBN

3-540-47082-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 1991.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 156 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 479

Disciplina

005.74

Soggetti

Data structures (Computer science)

Database management

Artificial intelligence

Data Structures and Information Theory

Database Management

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

A standard deductive database system -- An expert deductive database system -- Discarding irrelevant tuples -- Disregarding irrelevant rules -- Explicit termination of recursion -- Preferring useful rules -- Preferring useful tuples -- Summary and outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

The development of database technology has currently reached the stage of deductive database systems which use Horn clauses for defining relations. An important characteristic of these systems is the clear separation of logic and control. However, the programmer cannot affect the control part of a deductive database system. To eliminate this deficiency, this monograph presents a so-called expert deductive database system that allows explicit control of the deduction process. The system consists of an object-level describing the logical aspects of a problem and of a meta-level that contains application-specific control information affecting the object-level deduction process. For example, object-level rules can be disregarded, and some tuples deduced at the object-level can be preferred to others. Besides the architecture of this system, the book also identifies some important



possibilities of deduction control which are explained by characteristic examples.