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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2020.4
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119284
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2020/11928/
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Aamer, Heba ; Bogaerts, Bart ; Surinx, Dimitri ; Ternovska, Eugenia ; Van den Bussche, Jan

Executable First-Order Queries in the Logic of Information Flows

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Abstract

The logic of information flows (LIF) has recently been proposed as a general framework in the field of knowledge representation. In this framework, tasks of a procedural nature can still be modeled in a declarative, logic-based fashion. In this paper, we focus on the task of query processing under limited access patterns, a well-studied problem in the database literature. We show that LIF is well-suited for modeling this task. Toward this goal, we introduce a variant of LIF called "forward" LIF, in a first-order setting. We define FLIF^io, a syntactical fragment of forward LIF, and show that it corresponds exactly to the "executable" fragment of first-order logic defined by Nash and Ludäscher. The definition of FLIF^io involves a classification of the free variables of an expression into "input" and "output" variables. Our result hinges on inertia and determinacy laws for forward LIF expressions, which are interesting in their own right. These laws are formulated in terms of the input and output variables.

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@InProceedings{aamer_et_al:LIPIcs:2020:11928,
  author =	{Heba Aamer and Bart Bogaerts and Dimitri Surinx and Eugenia Ternovska and Jan Van den Bussche},
  title =	{{Executable First-Order Queries in the Logic of Information Flows}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2020)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-139-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{155},
  editor =	{Carsten Lutz and Jean Christoph Jung},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/11928},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119284},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2020.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Logic of Information Flows, Limited access pattern, Executable first-order logic}
}

Keywords: Logic of Information Flows, Limited access pattern, Executable first-order logic
Collection: 23rd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2020)
Issue Date: 2020
Date of publication: 11.03.2020
Supplementary Material: Video of the Presentation: https://doi.org/10.5446/46839

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