Readings in artificial intelligence and databases

✍ Scribed by John Mylopoulos; Michael L Brodie

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, Elsevier Inc
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 684
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The interaction of database and AI technologies is crucial to such applications as data mining, active databases, and knowledge-based expert systems. This volume collects the primary readings on the interactions, actual and potential, between these two fields. The editors have chosen articles to balance significant early research and the best and most comprehensive articles from the 1980s.

An in-depth introduction discusses basic research motivations, giving a survey of the history, concepts, and terminology of the interaction. Major themes, approaches and results, open issues and future directions are all discussed, including the results of a major survey conducted by the editors of current work in industry and research labs. Thirteen sections follow, each with a short introduction.

Topics examined include semantic data models with emphasis on conceptual modeling techniques for databases and information systems and the integration of data model concepts in high-level data languages, definition and maintenance of integrity constraints in databases and knowledge bases, natural language front ends, object-oriented database management systems, implementation issues such as concurrency control and error recovery, and representation of time and knowledge incompleteness from the viewpoints of databases, logic programming, and AI.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page i
Copyright, Page ii
Acknowledgments, Page vii
Introduction, Pages 1-7
Introduction to AI and Databases, Page 9
Database Management: A Survey, Pages 10-34
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING, Pages 35-51
The Programmer as Navigator, Pages 52-59
Relational Database: A Practical Foundation for Productivity, Pages 60-68
Making Believers out of Computers, Pages 69-82
Introduction to Representation and Semantics, Pages 83-84
Limitations of Record-Based Information Models, Pages 85-97
The Entity-Relationship Model—Toward a Unified View of Data, Pages 98-111
Using Semantic Networks for Data Base Management, Pages 112-137
Database Abstractions: Aggregation and Generalization, Pages 138-155
A Language Facility for Designing Database-Intensive Applications, Pages 156-167
The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX, Pages 168-184
On the Design and Specification of Database Transactions, Pages 185-206
An Overview of the KL-ONE Knowledge Representation System, Pages 207-230
Logic and Databases: A Deductive Approach, Pages 231-247
ON CLOSED WORLD DATA BASES, Pages 248-258
LOGIC FOR DATA DESCRIPTION, Pages 259-272
SEMANTICS OF DATA BASES: THE SEMANTICS OF DATA MODELS, Pages 273-292
AN ESSENTIAL HYBRID REASONING SYSTEM: KNOWLEDGE AND SYMBOL LEVEL ACCOUNTS OF KRYPTON, Pages 293-300
Towards a Logical Reconstruction of Relational Database Theory, Pages 301-327
The Logic of Incomplete Knowledge Bases, Pages 328-341
Incomplete Information in Relational Databases, Pages 342-360
Introduction to Performance Issues, Pages 361-362
A Framework for Choosing a Database Query Language, Pages 363-375
An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies, Pages 376-430
DEDUCTIVE QUESTION-ANSWERING ON RELATIONAL DATA BASES, Pages 431-443
Knowledge Retrieval as Limited Inference, Pages 444-451
Knowledge Retrieval Then and Now An Epilogue to “Knowledge Retrieval as Limited Inference”, Pages 452-456
FAST MAINTENANCE OF SEMANTIC INTEGRITY ASSERTIONS USING REDUNDANT AGGREGATE DATA, Pages 457-467
A SOPHISTICATE'S INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE NORMALIZATION THEORY, Pages 468-479
The Programming Language Aspects of ThingLab, a Constraint-Oriented Simulation Laboratory, Pages 480-496
Logic for Improving Integrity Checking in Relational Data Bases, Pages 497-510
Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System, Pages 511-522
The Notions of Consistency and Predicate Locks in a Database System, Pages 523-532
IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS AND VIEWS BY QUERY MODIFICATION, Pages 533-546
Rete: A Fast Algorithm for the Many Pattern/Many Object Pattern Match Problem, Pages 547-559
System R: Relational Approach to Database Management, Pages 560-582
Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model, Pages 583-591
A Modular Tool Kit For Knowledge Management, Pages 592-598
INCLUSION OF NEW TYPES IN RELATIONAL DATA BASE SYSTEMS, Pages 599-606
On the Evaluation Strategy of EDUCE, Pages 607-618
Introduction to Epilogue, Page 621
Future Intelligent Information Systems: AI and Database Technologies Working Together, Pages 623-641
Personal Statement: Computer Science and Concern for Our Planet, Pages 643-644
Bibliography, Pages 645-673
Credits, Pages 675-677
Index, Pages 679-688