Transactions and Change in Logic Databases [electronic resource] : International Seminar on Logic Databases and the Meaning of Change Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, September 23–27, 1996 and ILPS'97 Post-Conference Workshop on (Trans)Actions and Change in Logic Programming and Deductive Databases, (DYNAMICS'97) Port Jefferson, NY, USA, October 17, 1997 Invited Surveys and Selected Papers / edited by Burkhard Freitag, Hendrik Decker, Michael Kifer, Andrei Voronkov.

The state of change: A survey -- Specification of dynamics for knowledge-based systems -- On active deductive databases: The statelog approach -- Active-U-Datalog: Integrating active rules in a logical update language -- Logical transactions and serializability -- Results on reasoning about updates in Transaction Logic -- The dynamics of database views -- Inductive definability and the situation calculus -- Some notes on knowledge assimilation in deductive databases -- Applications of belief revision -- Analysing rational properties of change operators based on forward chaining -- A practical approach to hypothetical database queries -- From extensional to intensional knowledge: Inductive logic programming techniques and their application to deductive databases.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised post-workshop proceedings of two international meetings devoted to deductive databases and logic programming. The technical papers presenting original research results were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the present book, together with several survey articles summarizing the state of the art in the area. Thus, the book is the ultimate reference for anybody interested in the theory and application of deductive databases and logic programming.