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Logic and Data Bases

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. An Overview and Introduction to Logic and Data Bases

      • Herve Gallaire, Jack Minker, Jean Marie Nicolas
      Pages 3-30
  3. Data Bases Viewed Through Formal Logic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. Data Base: Theory vs. Interpretation

      • J. M. Nicolas, H. Gallaire
      Pages 33-54
    3. On Closed World Data Bases

      • Raymond Reiter
      Pages 55-76
    4. Logic for Data Description

      • Robert Kowalski
      Pages 77-103
  4. Knowledge Representation and Deduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Deductive Planning and Pathfinding for Relational Data Bases

      • Charles Kellogg, Philip Klahr, Larry Travis
      Pages 179-200
    3. Nondeterministic Languages Used for the Definition of Data Models

      • Marco Colombetti, Paolo Paolini, Giuseppe Pelagatti
      Pages 237-257
    4. An Axiomatic Data Base Theory

      • Sten-Åke Tärnlund
      Pages 259-289
  5. Negative Information and Data Bases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
    2. Negation as Failure

      • Keith L. Clark
      Pages 293-322
  6. Logic and Data Base Integrity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323
    2. Integrity Checking in Deductive Data Bases

      • J. M. Nicolas, K. Yazdanian
      Pages 325-344
  7. Query Languages and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 345-345
    2. The Application of Prolog to the Development of QA and DBM Systems

      • I. Futó, F. Darvas, P. Szeredi
      Pages 347-376

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Hervé Gallaire

  • University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Jack Minker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Logic and Data Bases

  • Editors: Hervé Gallaire, Jack Minker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3384-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-3386-9Published: 12 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-3384-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 458

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory

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