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Nothing much yet on Logic, apart from some foundational Philosophical Logic used in the Database Theory. For my earlier work on Modal Logic see my A Matrix Decision Procedure for Three Modal Logics in The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Vol XX, Number 3, July 1979, now republished on this website.
Data Processing: Latest Additions and Plans
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Publication
First Publication of the Website
Site Content at Publication
In addition to
The Home Page
and this Latest News page,
and a brief teaching paper
comparing entity analysis and
object-oriented analysis
Update 1 (U01)
The First Update of the Website End May 2001
Additional Site Content at Update 1
Additional Site Content at Update 3
Webpages of
“Platoclast” and
other database papers.
Paper on Modal Logic (first published in the
Notre Dame Journal).
Copyright © 2001 Adrian Larner. The author, identified as Adrian Larner, asserts all moral rights. Subject to the asserted moral rights, the author grants pro tem unrestricted permission for non-commercial copying of all materials on this site for academic purposes.
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The biggest addition is “Platoclast”, – a series of 30 lectures on database theory.
Also there are the more recent
“lime green”" papers:
Also:
Previous Additions
I have not put much on my Database Page, yet. But I will. In the meantime, better try the Database Papers:
A New Model of Data is heavy going, I’m afraid. It’s an attempt to substitute a simpler yet more powerful structure for the Relation.
A New Interpretation of Data, perhaps equally heavy, describes something different from Entity/Relationship theory and the theory of relations as predicates and tuples as propositions that you’ll find in Chris Date’s recent work, and of course in query engines like Datalog.
(U01) A New Foundation for the ER Model covers the main points of “A New Interpretation ...”, but not at such great length.
(U01) Nulls – A Socratic Enquiry is a bit lighter: Socratic because it begins by asking and answering the question, “What is a Null?”.
(U01) Object Oriented; Database: Choose One Only argues that the OO approach is essentially data structure dependent whereas databases are intended to be data structure independent.
(U01) Two teaching papers (the first was present at first publication of the site, but not mentioned here): Objects and Entities, intended to clarify the similarities and differences of (no surprise) objects and entities; and Notations for Data Diagrams, which is largely self-explanatory. I describe and defend my own preference, the “data mapping” notation.
My Database Book Reviews also contain some of my thinking on database theory. They include reviews of Chris Date's Introduction to Database Systems, Sixth Edition and Seventh Edition, the latter review covering two other recent books by Date and collaborators.
Plans
Plenty of plans, even after U01: some more popular and digestible versions of New Model and New Interpretation, along with some more teaching papers, and other stuff. Very open-ended.
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There is a Data Processing Page, but there isn’t much on it yet. Better try the Data Processing Papers: they show what a multitude of sins “Data Processing” encompasses.
There’s a philosophical paper arguing the Nominalism (eschewal of abstract objects, like sets) that underlies my database approach: “What’s in a Name?”.
There’s a paper called Back to Balance – Beyond Buck-Bound Bangs, which is a sort of swansong to old-fashioned performance theory.
There’s a paper about Intellectual Property in Software, which was done (and may be more useful as) a rather unusual teaching exercise.
You may like to check out The Book Reviews as well. Quite a variety. The little traffic lights show what I thought of them.
I've added a paper on marking projects and other difficult assignments. (RTF only).
Plans
Very open: There are all sorts of bits and bobs that I’ll look hard at before I publish. I must, I suppose, put in something on my bête noire, Object Orientation, other than in the database stuff; but what is there serves them right: they shouldn’t have parked their tanks on my lawn.
I'm working on my patent document – needs scanning in – for publication: list processing (in-storage queuing) without locking in a multiprocessor, using only serialising instructions (“compare-and-swap”, semaphores).
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Oops! Taken a turn for the worse (November 2001). And may not be long for this world.
Many thanks to all the family, health care professionals, friends, colleagues, and students that have cared for me, been in touch with me, sent cheering messages, prayed for me, and thought of me during my illness.
MISCELLANEOUS
Dec 2001