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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
5:
Declarative Semantics
of
Deductive
Databases
197
equivalent to the semantics of parallel circumscription (with all predicates
minimized) (McCarthy [1980], Lifschitz [1985a]). This leads to the following
principle, generalizing Principle 1.
PRINCIPLE
2
(PRINCIPLE
OF
MINIMAL MODEL SEMANTICS)
The set MIN(DB) of all minimal models of a positive disjunctive database DB
provides intended semantics of DB, incorporating a suitable form of the closed-
world assumption.
Minimal Model Semantics
Is Not
Sufficient
for
General Databases
The expressive power of positive disjunctive databases is not sufficient for
general databases. In practica ...
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