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A Logic Framework for P2P Deductive Databases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2019

LUCIANO CAROPRESE  and
ESTER ZUMPANO
LUCIANO CAROPRESE
Affiliation:
Department of Computer, Modelling, Electronics and Systems Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy (e-mails: l.caroprese@dimes.unical.it, e.zumpano@dimes.unical.it)
ESTER ZUMPANO
Affiliation:
Department of Computer, Modelling, Electronics and Systems Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy (e-mails: l.caroprese@dimes.unical.it, e.zumpano@dimes.unical.it)
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Abstract

This paper presents a logic framework for modeling the interaction among deductive databases in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment. Each peer joining a P2P system provides or imports data from its neighbors by using a set of mapping rules, that is, a set of semantic correspondences to a set of peers belonging to the same environment. By using mapping rules, as soon as it enters the system, a peer can participate and access all data available in its neighborhood, and through its neighborhood it becomes accessible to all the other peers in the system. A query can be posed to any peer in the system and the answer is computed by using locally stored data and all the information that can be consistently imported from the neighborhood. Two different types of mapping rules are defined: mapping rules allowing to import a maximal set of atoms not leading to inconsistency (called maximal mapping rules) and mapping rules allowing to import a minimal set of atoms needed to restore consistency (called minimal mapping rules). Implicitly, the use of maximal mapping rules states it is preferable to import as long as no inconsistencies arise; whereas the use of minimal mapping rules states that it is preferable not to import unless a inconsistency exists. The paper presents three different declarative semantics of a P2P system: (i) the Max Weak Model Semantics, in which mapping rules are used to import as much knowledge as possible from a peer’s neighborhood without violating local integrity constraints; (ii) the Min Weak Model Semantics, in which the P2P system can be locally inconsistent and the information provided by the neighbors is used to restore consistency, that is, to only integrate the missing portion of a correct, but incomplete database; (iii) the Max-Min Weak Model Semantics that unifies the previous two different perspectives captured by the Max Weak Model Semantics and Min Weak Model Semantics. This last semantics allows to characterize each peer in the neighborhood as a resource used either to enrich (integrate) or to fix (repair) the knowledge, so as to define a kind of integrate–repair strategy for each peer. For each semantics, the paper also introduces an equivalent and alternative characterization, obtained by rewriting each mapping rule into prioritized rules so as to model a P2P system as a prioritized logic program. Finally, results about the computational complexity of P2P logic queries are investigated by considering brave and cautious reasoning.

Keywords

peer data exchangeincompletenessinconsistencyintegrity constraintsrelational databasesprioritized logic program
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 1 - 43
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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