Logics for Databases and Information Systems
By: edited by Jan Chomicki, Gunter Saake
Contributors: Saake, Gunter
Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science -- 436; International series in engineering and computer science -- 436.
Publisher: Springer US
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781461375821; 9781461556435
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems; Data structures (Computer science); Computer science; Artificial intelligence
Description: The designers and users of present-day information systems deal with more and more complex applications that have to meet stringent quality requirements. In this context, logic offers a wide variety of formalisms that can be applied to the specification, analysis, and prototype implementation of information systems. Such formalisms, e.g., temporal logic, provide a sound semantic basis for further extensions and for the development of practical database languages. Logics for Databases and Information Systems addresses novel applications of logical frameworks to the problems of database integrity and dynamics, handling time and change, concurrency, incomplete information, data modeling, and property inheritance. Each topic is discussed by leading researchers in the field. Logics for Databases and Information Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on Databases and Information Systems, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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