Data bases
Raymond Reiter · 1980
My work in data base theory is a natural outgrowth of my longstanding concern with the problem of representing and reasoning with domain specific knowledge, a problem of major concern in Artificial Intelligence. In data base terminology this is the conceptual modelling issue. My own methodological bias favours logic as a representation language for conceptual modelling, a bias which historically arose within AI in response to AI's emphasis on the ability to reason deductively with representations. In this position paper I shall argue that logic has other advantages for data base theory. Specifically my objective is to provide the outline of a logical reconstruction of certain aspects of conventional data base theory.