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Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming
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Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming

by Jack Minker
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
752 pages
35h 3m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
Content preview from Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming
Chapter
10: A
Logic-based
Language
for
Database
Updates
367
the notion of tables proposed by Imielinski and Lipski [1984]. We do not dis-
cuss updates on incomplete-information databases in any detail in this paper.
However, their semantics for updates is related to the semantics of DLP, and
some of their ideas are applicable to its implementation. Wilkins [1986] also
has a theory of updates based on a possible world semantics. Her assumptions
and development are considerably different from ours—for example, she sup-
ports the insertion of arbitrary formulas in the database. Abiteboul and Vianu
[1987] have proposed a procedural language for writin ...
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ISBN: 9781483221120