Abstract: This volume covers query optimization in database systems, and integrates the major trends in database systems -- knowledge systems and object-oriented systems -- with classical database concepts.
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Title: Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems, Volume 2
Author: Jeffrey D. Ullman
Publisher: W H Freeman
Date Published: November 1990
ISBN: 071678162X
Pages: 1137
Bibliography: approximately 600 entries.
Figures: 172
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CONTENTS

Chapter 11: Query Optimization for Database Systems

Chapter 12: More About Logic

Chapter 13: Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up Logic Evaluation

Chapter 14: Optimization for Conjunctive Queries

Chapter 15: Optimizations for Linear Recursions

Chapter 16: Some Experimental Knowledge-Base Systems

Chapter 17: The Universal Relation as a User Interface

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Author:        Ullman, Jeffrey D., 1942-
Title:         Principles of database and knowledge-base systems
                  / Jeffrey D. Ullman.
Published:     Rockville, MD. : Computer Science Press,
                  c1988-c1989.
Description:   2 v. (xi, 1137 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series:        Principles of computer science series, 0888-2096
LC Call No.:   QA76.9.D3U443 1988
Dewey No.:     005.74 19
ISBN:          088175188X (v. 1)
               071678162X (v. 2)
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects:      Database management.
               Expert systems (Computer science)
Control No.:   87038197 //r942

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