Abstract: We present DLDB, a knowledge base system that extends a relational database management system with additional capabilities for DAML+OIL inference. We discuss a number of ...
This paper presents database applications of the recently proposed Transaction Logic—an extension of classical predicate logic that accounts in a clean and declarative fashion f...
Anthony J. Bonner, Michael Kifer, Mariano P. Conse...
While reasoners are year after year scaling up in the classical, time invariant domain of ontological knowledge, reasoning upon rapidly changing information has been neglected or f...
Emanuele Della Valle, Stefano Ceri, Davide Frances...
We introduce a declarative approach for a coherent composition of autonomous databases. For this we use ID-logic, a formalism that extends classical logic with inductive definitio...
Bert Van Nuffelen, Ofer Arieli, Alvaro Corté...
We study functional and multivalued dependencies over SQL tables with NOT NULL constraints. Under a no-information interpretation of null values we develop tools for reasoning. We...