Applications of alfred tarski’s ideas in database theory

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2142, Issue , 2001, Pages 20-37

  van den Bussche, Jan ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CALCULATIONS; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING;

CONSTRAINT DATABASES; DATA BASE THEORY; DATABASE QUERIES; GENERICITY; MODERN LOGIC; RELATION ALGEBRAS; RELATIONAL ALGEBRA; RELATIONAL CALCULUS;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 84944200027     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44802-0_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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