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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      June 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511569753
      9780521602747
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511569753
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      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.386kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Algorithmics, Complexity, Computer Algebra, Computational Geometry, Computer Science, Programming Languages and Applied Logic
      Series:
      Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science (8)
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    Subjects:
    Algorithmics, Complexity, Computer Algebra, Computational Geometry, Computer Science, Programming Languages and Applied Logic
    Series:
    Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science (8)
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    This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the success of efforts to incorporate more 'real world' semantics into database models. This idea is a relatively recent concern of database research but it is receiving growing interest. The book begins with a discussion of database querying which motivates the use of the paradigm of Montague Semantics and discusses the details of the intensional logic ILs. This is followed by a description of the author's own model, the Historical Relational Data Model (HRDM) which extends the RDM to include a temporal dimension. Finally the database querying language QEHIII is defined and examples illustrate its use. A formal model for the interpretation of questions is presented in this work which will form the basis for much further research.

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