Beschreibung:
The database industry is a multi-billion, world-wide, all-encompassing part of the software world.Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantification in Query, Logical and Natural Languagesintroduces a query language called GQs-Generalized Quantification in Query. Most query languages are simply versions of First Order Logic (FOL). GQs are an extension of the idea of quantifier in FOL. GQs are a perfect example of a practical theory within databases.
First book to focus exclusively on Generalized Quantification in Query, from both a practical and theoretical point of view
Basic Concepts.- Generalized Quantifiers.- QLGQ: A Query Language with Generalized Quantifiers.- Implementation and Optimization of Standard GQs.- Quantifier Prefixes.- Cooperative Query Answering.- Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language.- Extensions.- Conclusion.