Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2004 held at Wilheminenburg Castle, Austria in February 2004.The 18 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. Among the topics covered are data integration, data security, logic programming and databases, relational reasoning, database queries, higher-order data models, updates, database views, OLAP, belief modeling, fixpoint computations, interaction schemes, plan databases, etc.
