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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
2:
Towards
a
Theory
of
Declarative Knowledge
that this theory can have other applications in the area of nonmonotonic reason-
ing.
The declarative meaning of a stratified program is given by exhibiting a par-
ticular supported minimal model that can be defined in a simple way by using
the Τ operator of van Emden and Kowalski [1976]. This provides a logical in-
terpretation of negation that also works procedurally.
The procedural reading of knowledge written in a form of a stratified
program is provided by defining a top-down interpreter that makes rather
simple use of bottom-up information. We define it in a recursive fashion and
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ISBN: 9781483221120