Intelligent query answering in deductive and object-oriented databases

Abstract

In the near future, we believe that we will need much more sophisticated answer-finding schemes in an object-oriented database in order to satisfy the needs of truly intelligent information system. In this paper, we introduce a method to apply the intensional query processing techniques of deductive databases to object-oriented databases. So, we can generate intensional answers to represent answer-set abstractly for a given query in object-oriented databases.