A Tight, Practical Integration of Relations and Functions 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Boley, Harold (Author) |
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ISBN: 3540666443 ISBN-13: 9783540666448 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | System Administration - Storage & Retrieval - Medical - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics |
Dewey: 005.74 |
LCCN: 99051733 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.6 lbs) 176 pages |
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Publisher Description: As in other fields, in computer science certain objects of study can be synthesized from different basic elements, in different ways, and with different resulting stabilities. In subfields such as artificial intelligence, computational logic, and programming languages various relational and functional ingredients and techniques have been tried for the synthesis of declarative programs. This text considers the notions of relations, as found in logic programming or in relational databases, and of functions, as found in functional programming or in equational languages. We study a declarative integration which is tight, because it takes place right at the level of these notions, and which is still practical, because it preserves the advantages of the widely used relational and functional languages PROLOG and LISP. The resulting relational and functional language, RELFUN, is used here for exemplifying all integration principles. |