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RAP: The ROCK & ROLL Active Programming System

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Active Rules in Database Systems

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This chapter describes RAP (ROCK & ROLL Active Programming system), an active rule system embedded within the ROCK & ROLL deductive object-oriented database system. A brief description of ROCK & ROLL is followed by an overview of RAP and a categorization of its Knowledge and Execution Models according to the dimensions introduced in Chapter 1.

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  1. Andrew Dinn
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  2. Norman W. Paton
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  3. M. Howard Williams
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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Norman W. Paton

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Dinn, A., Paton, N.W., Williams, M.H. (1999). RAP: The ROCK & ROLL Active Programming System. In: Paton, N.W. (eds) Active Rules in Database Systems. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8656-6_18

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