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)
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Authors
- 1. Yukihiro Morita (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd; Institute for New Generation Computer Technology)
- 2. Haruo Yokota (Institute for New Generation Computer Technology)
- 3. Kenji Nishida (Institute for New Generation Computer Technology)
- 4. Hidenori Itoh (Institute for New Generation Computer Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{morita_vldb86,
title = {{Retrieval-By-Unification Operation on a Relational Knowledge Base}},
author = {Morita, Yukihiro and Yokota, Haruo and Nishida, Kenji and Itoh, Hidenori},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '86},
pages = {52},
year = {1986}
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