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Logic Programming and Databases

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Stefano Ceri

    1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Modena, Modena, Italy

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  2. Georg Gottlob

    1. Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Systemanalyse, Abteilung für Verteilte Datenbanken und Expertensysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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  3. Letizia Tanca

    1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Logic Programming and Databases: An Overview

    1. Logic Programming and Databases: An Overview

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 1-15

  3. A Review of Relational Databases and Prolog

    1. A Review of Relational Databases and Prolog

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 16-26

  4. Coupling Prolog to Relational Databases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Prolog as a Query Language

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 29-39

    3. Coupling Prolog Systems to Relational Databases

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 40-64

    4. Overview of Systems for Coupling Prolog to Relational Databases

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 65-74

  5. Foundations of Datalog

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Syntax and Semantics of Datalog

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 77-93

    3. Proof Theory and Evaluation Paradigms of Datalog

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 94-122

  6. Optimization Methods for Datalog

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Classification of Optimization Methods for Datalog

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 124-144

    3. Evaluation Methods

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 145-162

    4. Rewriting Methods

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 163-207

    5. Extensions of Pure Datalog

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 208-245

    6. Overview of Research Prototypes for Integrating Relational Databases and Logic Programming

      • Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca
      Pages 246-266

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 267-284
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The topic of logic programming and databases. has gained in­ creasing interest in recent years. Several events have marked the rapid evolution of this field: the selection, by the Japanese Fifth Generation Project, of Prolog and of the relational data model as the basis for the development of new machine archi­ tectures; the focusing of research in database theory on logic queries and on recursive query processing; and the pragmatic, application-oriented development of expert database systems and of knowledge-base systems. As a result, an enormous amount of work has been produced in the recent literature, coupled with the spontaneous growth of several advanced projects in this area. The goal of this book is to present a systematic overview of a rapidly evolving discipline, which is presently not described with the same approach in other books. We intend to introduce stu­ dents and researchers to this new discipline; thus we use a plain, tutorial style, and complement the description of algorithms with examples and exercises. We attempt to achieve a balance be­ tween theoretical foundations and technological issues; thus we present a careful introduction to the new language Datalog, but we also focus on the efficient interfacing of logic programming formalisms (such as Prolog and Datalog) with large databases.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Modena, Modena, Italy

    Stefano Ceri

  • Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Systemanalyse, Abteilung für Verteilte Datenbanken und Expertensysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Georg Gottlob

  • Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Letizia Tanca

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