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Deductive database theories*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

John Grant  and
Jack Minker
John Grant
Affiliation:
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland 21204, USA
Jack Minker
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Abstract

This paper surveys a variety of deductive database theories. Such theories differ from one another in the set of axioms and metarules that they allow and use. The following theories are discussed: relational, Horn, and stratified in the text; protected, disjunctive, typed, extended Horn, and normal in the appendix. Connections with programming in terms of the declarative, fixpoint, and procedural semantics are explained. Negation is treated in several different ways: closed world, completed database, and negation as failure. For each theory examples are given and implementation issues are considered.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 1989 , pp. 267 - 304
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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