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Programming with Logical Queries, Bulk Updates, and Hypothetical Reasoning
July-August 1997 (vol. 9 no. 4)
pp. 587-599
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Weidong Chen, "Programming with Logical Queries, Bulk Updates, and Hypothetical Reasoning," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 587-599, July-August, 1997.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/69.617052,
author = {Weidong Chen},
title = {Programming with Logical Queries, Bulk Updates, and Hypothetical Reasoning},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
volume = {9},
number = {4},
issn = {1041-4347},
year = {1997},
pages = {587-599},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/69.617052},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Abstract—This paper presents a language of update programs that integrates logical queries, bulk updates and hypothetical reasoning in a seamless manner. There is no syntactic or semantic distinction between queries and updates. Update programs extend logic programs with negation in both syntax and semantics. They allow bulk updates in which an arbitrary update is applied simultaneously for all answers of an arbitrary query. Hypothetical reasoning is naturally supported by testing the success or failure of an update. We describe an alternating fixpoint semantics of update programs and show that it can express all nondeterministic database transformations.

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Index Terms:
Bulk updates, hypothetical reasoning, logical queries, alternating fixpoint semantics, database languages.
Citation:
Weidong Chen, "Programming with Logical Queries, Bulk Updates, and Hypothetical Reasoning," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 587-599, July-Aug. 1997, doi:10.1109/69.617052
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