Sequences, Datalog and Transducers

Summary: Sequence Datalog extends Datalog with interpreted sequence-manipulation and an extended active domain (all sequences and subsequences) to separate safe from unsafe recursion and ensure finiteness. Unsafe recursion is confined to generalized sequence transducers (transducers-as-subroutines), yielding simple syntactic conditions that exactly capture PTIME and the class of elementary sequence functions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1043
Venue: PODS
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.7686659e-05
Overall Rank: 6,802 | 53.34%
DOI: 10.1145/212433.212440

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Giansalvatore Mecca (Sapienza University)
2. Anthony J. Bonner (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mecca_pods95,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '95},
        title = {{Sequences, Datalog and Transducers}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/212433.212440},
        doi = {10.1145/212433.212440},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Mecca, Giansalvatore and Bonner, Anthony J.},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,434	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010800479
2,708	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	8.2272626e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,003	Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	0.00012705891
1,864	The Expressiveness of a Family of Finite Set Languages	1991	PODS	9.5928463e-05
2,373	Pattern Matching by Rs-Operations: Towards a Unified Approach to Querying Sequenced Data (Extended Abstract)	1992	PODS	8.675907e-05
3,299	SVP - a Model Capturing Sets, Streams, and Parallelism	1992	VLDB	7.5418401e-05
4,467	A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects	1994	PODS	6.6843364e-05
4,577	Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach)	1992	VLDB	6.6215963e-05
6,649	Reasoning about Strings in Databases	1994	PODS	5.8146334e-05
6,845	Text Dominated Databases, Theory Practice and Experience	1994	PODS	5.7560357e-05

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