The Deductive Spreadsheet
This book describes recent multidisciplinary research at the confluence of the fields of logic programming, database theory and human-computer interaction. The goal of this effort was to develop the basis of a deductive spreadsheet, a user productivity ap
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Iliano Cervesato
The Deductive Spreadsheet
Cognitive Technologies Managing Editors: D.M. Gabbay
J. Siekmann
Editorial Board: A. Bundy J.G. Carbonell M. Pinkal H. Uszkoreit M. Veloso W. Wahlster M.J. Wooldridge
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Iliano Cervesato
The Deductive Spreadsheet
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Iliano Cervesato Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Doha, Qatar
Managing Editors Dov M. Gabbay Augustus De Morgan Professor of Logic Department of Computer Science King’s College London London, UK
J¨org Siekmann Forschungsbereich Deduktions- und Multiagentensysteme DFKI Saarbr¨ucken, Germany
ISSN 1611-2482 Cognitive Technologies ISBN 978-3-642-37746-4 ISBN 978-3-642-37747-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37747-1 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013943471 ACM Computing Classification (1998): H.2, I.2, H.1, D.1 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Preface
Nowadays, data are more easily accessible than ever, yet support for deriving interesting consequences from base data is often unavailable, too expensive, or too technical for many users. For example, a student may have access to prerequ
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