Temporal deductive databases and infinite objects

  • Authors:
  • Jan Chomicki;Tomasz Imieliński

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept of Computer Science, Rutgers University;Dept of Computer Science, Rutgers University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

We discuss deductive databases with one fixed occurrence of a monadic function symbol(successor) per predicate Databases of this kind can be used in a natural way to model simple patterns of events repeated in time, and this is why we term them temporal. Temporal deductive databases are also interesting from a theoretical point of view, because they give rise to infinite least fix-points and infinite query answers. We study complexity properties of finite query answers and define the notion of infinite objects which makes some infinite least fixpoints computable in finite time