Title :
A declarative approach to active databases
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abstract :
A general description is provided of the field of active databases, focusing on the main problems yet to be solved. The author suggests that deductive databases may contribute to the understanding of some of these problems. Classes of applications that can be specified in a declarative manner are indicated. Important classes of active database applications can have a declarative interface supporting the designer during rule generation, resulting in collections of rules with an efficient and well-understood behavior
Keywords :
deductive databases; knowledge engineering; active databases; declarative interface; deductive databases; rule generation; Deductive databases; Delay; Expert systems; Information retrieval; Production systems; Prototypes; Transaction databases;
Conference_Titel :
Data Engineering, 1992. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tempe, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2545-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICDE.1992.213164
