title: A Denotational Semantics for the Starburst Production Rule Language
creator: Widom, J.
subject: Computer Science
description: Researchers often complain that the behavior of database production rules is diffcult to reason about and understand, due in part to the lack of formal declarative semantics. It has even been claimed that database production rule languages inherently cannot be given declarative semantics, in contrast to, e.g., deductive database rule languages. In this short paper we dispute this claim by giving a denotational semantics for the Starburst database production rule language.
date: 1992
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/14/1/1992-6.pdf
identifier: Widom, J. (1992) A Denotational Semantics for the Starburst Production Rule Language. In: SIGMOD.
relation: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/14/