The standard approach to algorithm development is to focus on a specific problem and develop for it a specific algorithm. Codd’s introduction of the relational model in 1970 included two fundamental ideas: (1) Relations provide a universal data representation formalism, and (2) Relational databases can be queried using first-order logic. Realizing these ideas required the development of a meta-algorithm, which takes a declarative query and executes it with respect to a database. In this talk, I will describe this approach, which I call Logical Algorithmics, in detail, and explore its profound ramification.
@InProceedings{vardi:LIPIcs.CSL.2024.6, author = {Vardi, Moshe Y.}, title = {{Logical Algorithmics: From Theory to Practice}}, booktitle = {32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)}, pages = {6:1--6:1}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-310-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {288}, editor = {Murano, Aniello and Silva, Alexandra}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.6}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-196494}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.6}, annote = {Keywords: Logic, Algorithms} }
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