The state of change: A survey

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

Volumn 1472, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-36

  Bonner, Anthony J ^a   Kifer, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; INTELLIGENT DATABASES; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS; SURVEYS;

DATABASE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATABASE TRANSACTIONS; LOGICAL SEMANTICS; LOGICAL THEORIES; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; PROGRAM VERIFICATION; REASONING ABOUT ACTIONS; SEMANTICS OF LOGIC PROGRAMS AND DEDUCTIVE DATABASE;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 84949236394     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0055494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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