Data Sciences: From First-Order Logic to the Web

Data Sciences: From First-Order Logic to the Web

Title: Data Sciences: From First-Order Logic to the Web
Author: Serge Abiteboul
Release: 2013-01-23
Kind: ebook
Genre: Computers, Books, Computers & Internet
Size: 3883339
Relational database management systems, using as foundations a formal language, first-order logic, serve as mediators between individuals and machines. With the increase in the volume of data disseminated on the Web, a “collective intelligence” is currently emerging, shaped by large search engines whose monopoly raises ethical and political questions. One of the main challenges for the coming years is the development of technologies that will make it possible to find, evaluate, validate, verify and rank information, and thus to build tomorrow’s “Web of knowledge”.

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