1. OBJECTIVE Them has been cxtensivc work in query optimization since the enrly '70s. It is
hard to capture the breadth and depth of this large body of work in a short article. Therefore, I …

This book deals with the integration of logic programming and databases to generate new
types of systems, which extend the frontiers of computer science in an important direction …

Smart speakers such as Alexa and Google Home introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) in
millions soon billions of households, making AI an everyday experience. We can now look …

This database theory book provides a focused presentation of the core material on relational
databases, and presents a number of advanced topics in a unified framework. Some of the …

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 …

A multitude of different probabilistic programming languages exists today, all extending a
traditional programming language with primitives to support modeling of complex, structured …

In semistructured data, the information that is normally associated with a schema is
contained within the data, which is sometimes called “self-describing”. In some forms of …

This paper describes how a number of program-analysis problems can be solved by
transforming them to graph-reachability problems. Some of the program-analysis problems …

The job of the constraint programmer is to use mathematical constraints to model real world
constraints and objects. In this book, Kim Marriott and Peter Stuckey provide the first …

Differential privacy is considered a de facto standard for private data analysis. However, the
definition and much of the supporting literature applies to flat tables. While there exist …