On the Expressive Power of F-Logic Language

F-logic language is a logic database language based on frame logic. It is powerful in expressing object-oriented features. However, there was littIe work discussing its capability of manipulating complex objects. In this paper, the authors compare the capability of F-logic with that of logic database languages represented by COL. Through two pairs of semantic-preserving transformations, F-logic programs and their Herbrand interpretations can be transformed into COL programs and their corresponding Herbrand …