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Recently inductive databases (IDBs) have been proposed to afford the problem of knowledge discovery from huge databases. Querying these databases needs for primitives to: (1) select, manipulate and query data, (2) select, manipulate and query “interesting” patterns (i.e., those patterns that satisfy certain constraints), and (3) cross over patterns and data (e.g., selecting the data in which some...