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A knowledge-based approach to statistical query processing

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Advances in Database Technology — EDBT '92 (EDBT 1992)

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Representation of statistical data is achieved by means of complex data structures. Such a complexity transfers directly to statistical data manipulations. Furthermore, the most meaningful statistical indicator resides in complex data structures. Our work is focused on simplifying manipulations of statistical data structures by means of StEM (Statistical database Expert Manager), a knowledge-based kernel. StEM acts as a deductive query processor between a high level query language and the set of low level DBMS primitives required for query resolution. StEM contains a Prolog knowledge base that provides transparency of complex data manipulations, allowing a real conceptual interaction with a statistical database.

This work has been partially supported by CNR under project MULTIDATA

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  1. Istituto di Studi sulla Ricerca e Documentazione Scientifica (ISRDS), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via C. de Lollis 12, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Carla Basili & Leonardo Meo-Evoli

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Università di Roma II Tor Vergata', Via O. Raimondo, 00173, Roma, Italy

    Roberto Basili

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Alain Pirotte Claude Delobel Goerg Gottlob

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Basili, C., Basili, R., Meo-Evoli, L. (1992). A knowledge-based approach to statistical query processing. In: Pirotte, A., Delobel, C., Gottlob, G. (eds) Advances in Database Technology — EDBT '92. EDBT 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032447

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