This volume contains the proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented
Databases. Its central tenet is that the object-oriented and
deductive paradigms for modeling, organizing, and processing
data complement each other, rather than competing, and that
problems involving massive volumes of complex data can best
be solved by integrating the best of both approaches.
Central questions in the area are:
- How do we design a tool that presents the best of the
object-oriented and declarative ideas?
- How can the users of this tool express their problems in a
combination of declarative and procedural features?
The volume includes 29 papers that contribute towards
answering these questions.