Retrieval-By-Unification Operation on a Relational Knowledge Base

Summary: Proposes retrieval-by-unification (RBU) for a relational knowledge base, enabling unification-join and unification-restriction over term-relations. Term ordering prunes candidate tuple pairs before unifiability tests; also describes a dedicated unification engine (UE) hardware for RBU. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7733
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1986
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