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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
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Chapter
15
Unification Revisited
J-L.
Lassez
M.J.
Maher
IBM Thomas
J.
Watson Research Center,
Yorktown
Heights,
NY
K.
Marriott
Department
of
Computer Science,
University
of
Melbourne,
Parkville,
Australia
Abstract
In the literature, unification is often treated as a simple and straightforward
matter, even though it is recognized as a deep and fundamental concept.
However when a thorough presentation is attempted, it is realized then that the
matter is fairly subtle and treacherous. For instance, the notion of most general
unifier and its property of being unique up to renaming are open to different in-
terpretations. In fact, there are severa ...
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ISBN: 9781483221120