The Computer Journal 1982 25(2):239-241; doi:10.1093/comjnl/25.2.239
© 1982 by British Computer Society
Optimal Evaluation of Queries
G. Papakonstantinou *
N.R.C. Democritos Computer Center, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
It is shown that the general case of optimal evaluation of Boolean expression queries, with different cost and truth probabilities for the different variables and without the uniqueness restriction, is a special case of finding the optimal decision tree of a limited entry decision table.
Received June 1981.
* N.R.C. Democritos Computer Center, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

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