Applications of Alfred Tarski's Ideas in Database Theory

  • Authors:
  • Jan Van den Bussche

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CSL '01 Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Computer Science Logic
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Many ideas of Alfred Tarski - one of the founders of modern logic - find application in database theory. We survey some of them with no attempt at comprehensiveness. Topics discussed include the genericity of database queries; the relational algebra, the Tarskian definition of truth for the relational calculus, and cylindric algebras; relation algebras and computationally complete query languages; real polynomial constraint databases; and geometrical query languages.