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Logic Programming - Datalog

  • Datalog is a syntactic subset of Prolog

    • Originally a rule and query language for deductive databases

  • Considers knowledge bases to have two parts

    • Extensional Database (EDB) consists of facts

    • Intentional Database(IDB) consists of non-ground rules

  • Restrictions:

    1. Datalog disallows function symbols

    2. Imposes stratification restrictions on the use of recursion + negation

    3. Allows only range restricted variables ( safe variables )

  • Safe Variables:
    • Only allows range restricted variables, i.e. each variable in the conclusion of a rule must also appear in a not negated clause in the premise of this rule.

    • This limits evaluation of variables to finitely many possible bindings


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