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Abstract-Datalog is a database query language based on the logic programming paradigm; it has been designed and intensively studied over the last five years. We present the syntax and semantics of Datalog and its use for querying a relational database. Then, we classify optimization methods for achieving efficient evaluations of Datalog queries, and present the most relevant methods. Finally, we discuss various exhancements of Datalog, currently under study, and indicate what is still needed in order to extend Datalog’s applicability to the solution of real-life problems. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of research performed on Datalog, also addressed to those members of the database community who are not too familiar with logic programming concepts. Zndex Terms-Deductive databases, logic programming, recursive queries, relational databases, query optimization. I.

1. INTRODUCTION. For geometers, Hilbert’s influential work on the foundations of geometry is important. For analysts, Hilbert’s theory of integral equations is just as important. But the address “Mathematische Probleme ” [37] that David Hilbert (1862– 1943) delivered at the second International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Paris has tremendous importance for all mathematicians. Moreover, a substantial part of

Classical logic is the study of ”safe ” formal reasoning. Western Philosophers de-veloped classical logic over a period of thirty-three centuries after its introduction in the form of syllogistic by Aristotle [1] in the third century B. C. Beginning in the nineteenth century with De Morgan [2] and Boole [3], responsibility for the develop-ment of classical logic moved from the philosophical to the mathematical community.

Lee and Plaisted recently developed a new automated theorem proving strategy called hyper-linking. As part of his dissertation, Lee developed a round-by-round implementation of the hyper-linking strategy, which competes well with other automated theorem provers on a wide range of theorem proving problems. However, Lee's round-by-round implementation of hyper-linking is not particularly well suited for the addition of special methods in support of equality. In this dissertation, we describe, as alternative to the round-by-round hyper-linking implementation of Lee, a smallest instance first implementation of hyper-linking which addresses many of the inefficiencies of round-by-round hyper-linking encountered when adding special methods in support of equality. Smallest instance first hyper-linking is based on the formalization of generating smallest clauses first, a heuristic widely used in other automated theorem provers. We prove both the soundness and logical completeness of smallest instance first hyper-linking and show that it always generates smallest clauses first under

In this thesis we study a formal first order system T (tind) in the standard language L, of Gentzen’s LK, see [Tak87]. T (tind) extends LK by the following valid first-order inference rule (A is quantifier-free). Γ, A(a), Λ → ∆, A(s(a)), Θ Γ, A(0), Λ → ∆, A(s n (0)), Θ (tind) This rule is called term induction, it derives a restricted term built from successor s and the constant 0. We call such terms numerals. To characterise the difference between T (tind) and pure logic, we employ proof theoretic methods. Firstly we establish a variant of Herbrand’s Theorem for T (tind). Let ∃¯xF (¯x) be a Σ1 formula; provable by Π. Then there exists a disjunction � N i1 · · · � N il M1(s i1 (0),..., s il(0)) ∨ · · · ∨ Mm(s i1 (0),..., s il(0)), denoted by H that is valid for some N ∈ IN, furthermore the Mi are instances of F (ā). In T (tind) it is not possible to bound the length of Herbrand disjunctions in terms of proof length and logical complexity of the end-formula as usual. The main result is that we can bound the length of the {s, 0}-matrix of the above disjunctions in this way.

The lives of mathematical prodigies who passed away very early after groundbreaking work invoke a fascination for later generations: The early death of Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) from ill health after a sled trip to visit his fiancé for Christmas; the obscure circumstances of Evariste Galois ’ (1811–1832) duel; the deaths of consumption of Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852) (who sometimes lectured his few students from his bedside) and of Gustav Roch (1839–1866) in Venice; the drowning of the topologist Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn (1898–1924) on vacation; the burial of Raymond Paley (1907–1933) in an avalanche at Deception Pass in the Rocky Mountains; as well as the fatal imprisonment of Gerhard Gentzen (1909–1945) in Prague1 — these are tales most scholars of logic and mathematics have heard in their student days. Jacques Herbrand, a young prodigy admitted to the École Normale Supérieure as the best student of the year1925, when he was17, died only six years later in a mountaineering accident in La Bérarde (Isère) in France. He left a legacy in logic and mathematics that is outstanding.

This paper is an attempt to understand the differences between them. I am grateful to Mitsuru Yasuhara for stimulating discussions of this material and for pinpointing errors and obscurities in earlier drafts. I also wish to thank Simon Kochen and Per Martin-Lof for helpful comments.

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