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September 10, 2011

A Uniform Fixpoint Approach to the Implementation of Inference Methods for Deductive Databases

Filed under: Database,Deductive Databases,Inference — Patrick Durusau @ 6:00 pm

A Uniform Fixpoint Approach to the Implementation of Inference Methods for Deductive Databases by Andreas Behrend.

Abstract:

Within the research area of deductive databases three different database tasks have been deeply investigated: query evaluation, update propagation and view updating. Over the last thirty years various inference mechanisms have been proposed for realizing these main functionalities of a rule-based system. However, these inference mechanisms have been rarely used in commercial DB systems until now. One important reason for this is the lack of a uniform approach well-suited for implementation in an SQL-based system. In this paper, we present such a uniform approach in form of a new version of the soft consequence operator. Additionally, we present improved transformation-based approaches to query optimization and update propagation and view updating which are all using this operator as underlying evaluation mechanism.

This one will take a while and discussions with people more familiar than I am with deductive databases.

But, having said that, it looks important. The approach has been validated for stock market data streams and management of airspace. Not to mention:

EU Project INFOMIX (IST-2001-33570)

Information system of University “La Sapienza” in Rome.

  • 14 global relations,
  • 29 integrity constraints,
  • 29 relations (in 3 legacy databases) and 12 web wrappers,

More than 24MB of data regarding students, professors and exams of the University.

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