Querying a polynomial object-relational constraint database in model-based diagnosis

  • Authors:
  • M. T. Gómez-López;R. M. Gasca;C. Del Valle;F. T. de la Rosa

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

  • Venue:
  • DEXA'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Many papers related to Constraint Databases (CDBs) theories exist, including proposals that present frameworks for the treatment of constraints as a new data type. Our proposal presents a new way of storing and manipulating constraints as a usual data, and of making queries about the constraint variables derived from an Object-Relational Constraint Database (ORCDB). In this work, the constraints stored in an ORCDB are only polynomial equality constraints. The proposal is based on Gröbner bases, constraint consistency and constraint optimisation techniques. Most works in CDB use spatial-temporal data as a case study, however this work presents an emergent engineering domain, that of fault diagnosis.