Updating Logical Databases

by Marianne Winslett

Book Overview

This book tackles the problems of update algorithms for databases. How can one construct and maintain a database of facts, capable of incorporating new information and getting rid of all outdated information, and yet in the process not disturb any other information in the database? The author has produced a formal method of specifying the desired change intentionally using a formula-based approach to updating needs rather than a model-based technique...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521619726
• ISBN13: 9780521619721
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"