Deductive Databases

December 27, 2002 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments

href="http://www.andrerestivo.com/files/deductivedb.pdf">Paper.
Abstract:

Logic programming has proven its merits in a variety of
application areas including diagnostic expert systems, natural
language processing and agent-based control systems. Prolog, as a
logic programming language, has lots of advantages over more
conventional procedural ones but it also has some drawbacks.
Performance is the main problem this type of languages face. On the
other hand Relational Databases are all about performance and
surprisingly have lots of similarities with logic programming
languages. Joining together this two fields resulted in a new one
that we call Deductive Databases and that is what we’ll discuss in
this article.



Middle Earth Secret Diaries

December 27, 2002 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments

The secret diaries, or should I call them weblogs, of the most
important characters of The LOTR. From Gandalf’s Diary:

Day Twelve: Went to Saruman for advice about Ring but
he had become evil. Nobody tells me anything. Apparently there was
a memo. Radagast the Brown probably stealing paper out of my inbox
again.

From href="http://diaries.diagon.org/">diaries.diagon.org.