Research

My main areas of research, with a number of publications, include:

• databases and distributed databases - the relational multidatabase;
• knowledge bases - Expert systems, decision support systems, knowledge base management systems and deductive databases;
• logic programming with Prolog and its industrial applications.

Recent research interests, with a few publications, include:

• neural networks;
• fuzzy logic ;
• computer simulation through the system dynamics paradigm;
• integration of paradigms.