CONTENTS
PREFACE = xv
REFERENCES = xxii
1 APPLICATIONS OF DEDUCTIVE OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES USING DEL / Oris D. Friesen ; Gilles Gauthier-Villars ; Laurent Vieille = 1
1 Introduction = 1
2 Architecture and Language = 2
3 Data Mining = 7
4 Regulatory Applications = 12
5 Concurrent Engineering = 17
6 Conclusion = 21
REFERENCES = 22
2 Q-DATA : USING DEDUCTIVE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE DATA QUALITY / Amit Sheth ; Christopher Wood ; Vipul Kashyap = 23
1 Introduction = 24
2 Related Work = 27
3 Example Application of Data Validation and Cleanup = 27
4 System Architecture and Features = 33
5 Pragmatic and Engineering Experiences = 42
6 Conclusions = 53
REFERENCES = 55
3 A DEDUCTIVE FRONT-END FOR RELATIONAL DATABASES / Brian Livezey ; Evangelos Simoudis = 57
1 Introduction = 57
2 Model Development Using Deductive Databases = 59
3 IDEA = 60
4 Applications = 74
5 Related Work = 77
6 Ongoing Work = 78
7 Conclusions = 79
REFERENCES = 80
4 AN ADITI IMPLEMENTATION OF A FLIGHTS DATABASE / James Harland ; Kotagiri Ramamohanarao = 83
1 Introduction = 83
2 Aditi = 85
3 Flight Information = 88
4 Assembling a Flight Schedule = 91
5 Performance Results = 95
6 Conclusion = 98
REFERENCES = 99
5 USING LDL++ FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE DATABASES / Richard R. Muntz ; Eddie Shek ; Carlo Zaniolo = 101
1 Introduction = 101
2 Geoscience Dataset = 102
3 System Architecture = 105
4 Spatio-Temporal Queries = 107
5 Conclusion = 116
REFERENCES = 117
6 MIMSY : A SYSTEM FOR STOCK MARKET ANALYSIS / William G. Roth ; Raghu Ramakrishnan ; Praveen Seshadri = 121
1 Overview = 121
2 The Language = 123
3 The Translator = 127
4 The Graphical Interface = 131
5 Series Data = 134
6 The Server = 135
7 Extensibility = 137
8 Conclusion = 139
9 Appendix = 140
REFERENCES = 141
7 EFFICIENT EVALUATION OF VISUAL QUERIES USING DEDUCTIVE DATABASES / Dimitra Vista ; Peter T. Wood = 143
1 Introduction = 143
2 An Overview of H$$ y^+ $$ = 145
3 The GraphLog Visual Query Language = 147
4 Translating GraphLog to Factored Datalog = 152
5 Performance Comparisons = 156
6 Conclusions = 158
REFERENCES = 159
8 DEMAND INTERPROCEDURAL PROGRAM ANALYSIS USING LOGIC DATABASES / Thomas W. Reps = 163
1 Introduction = 163
2 Background and Assumptions = 167
3 Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis Poblems = 168
4 Interprocedural Slicing = 177
5 Preliminary Experimental Results = 187
6 Related Work = 189
REFERENCES = 192
9 AMOS : A NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSER IMPLEMENTED AS A DEDUCTIVE DATABASE IN LOLA / Gunther Specht ; Burkhard Freitag = 197
1 Introduction = 197
2 Sketch of the Deductive Database System LOLA = 199
3 Grammars as Logic Programs = 200
4 The AMOS Parsing System = 206
5 AMOS as a Tool for Linguistic Research = 212
6 Conclusion = 214
REFERENCES = 214
10 PROGRAMMING THE PTQ GRAMMAR IN XSB / David S. Warren = 217
1 Introduction = 218
2 PTQ Syntax = 220
3 PTQ Semantics = 225
4 Evaluation and Statistics = 230
5 Conclusion = 231
REFERENCES = 233
11 QUERYING WITH GENERALIZED QUANTIFIERS / Antonio Badia ; Dirk Van Gucht ; Marc Gyssens = 235
1 Introduction = 235
2 Generalized Quantifiers = 238
3 The Query Language ○○○○ = 245
4 The Conjunctive Formulation Thesis = 248
5 Generalized Quantifiers in Existing Query Languages = 250
6 Conclusion = 256
REFERENCES = 257
12 REQUIREMENTS FOR A DEDUCTIVE QUERY LANGUAGE IN A GENOME-MAPPING DATABASE / Nathan Goodman ; Steve Rozen ; Lincoln Stein = 259
1 Overview and Requirements = 259
2 MapBase Design = 261
3 What We Want From a Query Facility = 265
4 A Deductive Solution = 273
REFERENCES = 275
INDEX = 279