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There is a growing interest in the development of advanced applications, i.e. applications making use of the paradigms and tools developed within the Artificial Intelligence community. On the other hand standard tools for Data Base management are needed to operative handle data for the traditional operative tasks. Therefore, in the near future, the advanced applications and the traditional ones will share the same Data Base.
For a number of reasons, explained in the paper, the authors believe that the Data Base will be handled by standard tools, while the advanced applications will be written with the proper Advanced Programming tools.
The paper examines some of the problems emerging from interfacing Advanced Programming tools with standard Data Base tools. A survey of existing approaches is presented; an original component (Conceptual Adapter) is proposed.
Although the issues are presented in general, the conclusions are supported by the experimental data obtained with a first implementation of the interface, implemented at the Politecnico of Milan. The current version implements an interface between Prolog and SQL Data Bases. The design and the implementation of other interfaces is planned.
This work has been partially supported by the INDOC project, of the ESPRIT program, financed by the Commission of the European Community.
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Caloini, A., Mainetti, S., Paolini, P. (1989). Prolog programs and standard data bases. In: Litwin, W., Schek, HJ. (eds) Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms. FODO 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51295-0_138
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