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AITEC Contract Research Projects in FY1996 : Software
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(8) Extended Features of a Deductive Object-Oriented
Database Language Quixote for Practical Use
Dr. Kazumasa Yokota, Associate Professor, Kyoto University
(Currently - Professor, Okayama Prefectural University)
Research Theme：
| Extended Features of a Deductive Object-Oriented |
| Database Language Quixote for Practical Use |
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| Representative： |
| Kazumasa Yokota |
| (Faculty of Computer Science and System Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University) |
| (former affiliation was the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University |
Quixote is a deductive object-oriented database (DOOD) language
and also a knowledge representation language for various advanced
applications, such as legal reasoning and natural language processing.
In this research project, we extend the language to provide facilities
for deductive object-oriented multi-database systems and extended
mediator systems in wide-area network environments. Especially in
such extensions, we can emphasize the following features:
- maintenance of the consistency of subsumption relations of
multiple information sources and
- automatic navigation of information sources to search for more
appropriate answers by using extended abduction mechanisms, and data
dictionaries and directories (DD/D).
This new language is called QUIK (Quixote in Kyoto),
implemented in Java.
This software is under development in Java, and will work in any
machine which supports Java and C, because some parts of the software
include native codes.
A prototype sysmtem which has a part of functionality is released. For
more detail, please refer to Readme file in the released file.
mail：
Kazumasa Yokota,
yokota@c.oka-pu.ac.jp
[FTP]
- README
- Program and Documents[341K]
www-admin@icot.or.jp