Query Compilation under the disjunctive well-founded semantics

  • Authors:
  • Chris A. Johnson

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, Portland Square, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, England

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A top-down method is presented for compiling queries in unstratified propositional disjunctive deductive databases under the disjunctive well-founded semantics. Compilation entails the construction of a set of compilation trees, and the run-time processing of the compiled query then amounts to checking that some such tree can be extended within the extensional database to yield a tree that encapsulates a proof of the original query. Issues surrounding the extension of our techniques to the first order level are discussed.