After brie y reviewing the basic notions and terminology of active rules and relating them to production rules and deductive rules, respectively, we survey a number of formal appro...
Change computation is an essential component in several capabilities of a deductive database,such as integrity constraints checking, materialized view maintenanceandcondition moni...
It is envisaged that the application of the multilevel security (MLS) scheme will enhance exibility and e ectiveness of authorization policies in shared enterprise databases and w...
This paper examines the problem of adding non-deterministic constructs to a declarative database language based on Horn Clause Logic. We revise a previously proposed approach, the...
We introduce a persistentfunctional languagecalled PFL which adapts functional programming to the area of deductive databases,much as logic-based deductive databaselanguagesadapt ...