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Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Information systems --- Interactive computer systems --- Prolog (Computer program language) --- Computational linguistics --- Systèmes conversationnels (Informatique) --- PROLOG (Langage de programmation) --- Linguistique informatique --- 681.3*H2 --- Natural language processing (Computer science) --- 681.3*I21 --- NLP (Computer science) --- Artificial intelligence --- Electronic data processing --- Human-computer interaction --- Semantic computing --- Computer systems --- Online data processing --- Database management: security; integrity; protection--See also {?681.5*E5} --- Applications and expert systems (Artificial intelligence). Cartography. Games. Industrial automation. Law. Medicine and science. Natural language interfaces. Office automation--See also {681.3*H4}; {681.3*J} --- 681.3*I21 Applications and expert systems (Artificial intelligence). Cartography. Games. Industrial automation. Law. Medicine and science. Natural language interfaces. Office automation--See also {681.3*H4}; {681.3*J} --- 681.3*H2 Database management: security; integrity; protection--See also {?681.5*E5} --- Systèmes conversationnels (Informatique) --- Prolog [Langage de programmation]. --- Prolog [Programmatietaal].

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA Workshop on Constraint Databases and Applications, held in Friedrichshafen, Germany in September 1995. The 10 full revised papers selected for inclusion in this volume are written by and for practitioners, researchers, and application users of core constraint database technology; they can be classified in three sections on expressiveness of the various constraint database models; implementation and optimization issues in areas like spatial databases, geographic information systems, scheduling and routing. This book is the first to focus on the extension of the important new programming paradigm of constraint processing to database design and management.

Constraint databases --- Database management --- Congresses. --- Constraint programming (Computer science) --- Programmation par contraintes --- Bases de données --- Congrès --- Gestion --- Congresses --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Geographical information systems. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Database management. --- Computer science. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Database Management. --- Programming Techniques. --- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. --- Informatics --- Science --- Data base management --- Data services (Database management) --- Database management services --- DBMS (Computer science) --- Generalized data management systems --- Services, Database management --- Systems, Database management --- Systems, Generalized database management --- Electronic data processing --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Constraint databases - Congresses. --- Database management - Congresses

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In a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world’s religions played in ameliorating—or causing—the crisis we now face? Religion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a disproportionate burden for creating humankind’s exploitative attitudes toward nature through unearthly theologies that divorce human beings and their spiritual yearnings from their natural origins. In this regard, Christianity has become an otherworldly religion that views the natural world as “fallen,” as empty of signs of God’s presence. And yet, buried deep within the Christian tradition are startling portrayals of God as the beaked and feathered Holy Spirit – the “animal God,” as it were, of historic Christian witness. Through biblical readings, historical theology, continental philosophy, and personal stories of sacred nature, this book recovers the model of God in Christianity as a creaturely, avian being who signals the presence of spirit in everything, human and more-than-human alike. Mark Wallace’s recovery of the bird-God of the Bible signals a deep grounding of faith in the natural world. The moral implications of nature-based Christianity are profound. All life is deserving of humans’ care and protection insofar as the world is envisioned as alive with sacred animals, plants, and landscapes. From the perspective of Christian animism, the Earth is the holy place that God made and that humankind is enjoined to watch over and cherish in like manner. Saving the environment, then, is not a political issue on the left or the right of the ideological spectrum, but, rather, an innermost passion shared by all people of faith and good will in a world damaged by anthropogenic warming, massive species extinction, and the loss of arable land, potable water, and breathable air. To Wallace, this passion is inviolable and flows directly from the heart of Christian teaching that God is a carnal, fleshy reality who is promiscuously incarnated within all things, making the whole world a sacred embodiment of God’s presence, and worthy of our affectionate concern. This beautifully and accessibly written book shows that “Christian animism” is not a strange oxymoron, but Christianity’s natural habitat. Challenging traditional Christianity’s self-definition as an other-worldly religion, Wallace paves the way for a new Earth-loving spirituality grounded in the ancient image of an animal God.

Human ecology --- Animism. --- Birds --- Holy Spirit. --- God (Christianity) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Augustine. --- Bible. --- Girard. --- Heidegger. --- Hildegard. --- Muir. --- animism. --- bird-God. --- environment. --- indigenous.