Decidability and Undecidability Results for the Termination Problem of Active Database Rules
Summary: Maps the decidability/undecidability frontier for termination of recursively firing active rules, identifying boundary cases in one-literal and unary-update languages. Relates trigger power to while, negated Datalog, boundedness, and query containment. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 21 2026)
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Authors
- 1. James Bailey (King's College London)
- 2. Guozhu Dong (University of Melbourne)
- 3. Kotagiri Ramamohanarao (University of Melbourne)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bailey_pods98,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '98},
title = {{Decidability and Undecidability Results for the Termination Problem of Active Database Rules}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/275487.275517},
doi = {10.1145/275487.275517},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Bailey, James and Dong, Guozhu and Ramamohanarao, Kotagiri},
year = {1998}
}
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| 2,653 | Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective | 2013 | PODS | 8.2898925e-05 |
| 3,433 | On the Decidability and Finite Controllability of Query Processing in Databases with Incomplete Information | 2006 | PODS | 7.4181806e-05 |
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| 2,662 | Equivalence, Query-Reachability, and Satisfiability in Datalog Extensions | 1993 | PODS | 8.2831426e-05 |
| 3,829 | Behavior of Database Production Rules: Termination, Confluence, and Observable Determinism | 1992 | SIGMOD | 7.088463e-05 |
| 5,074 | An Algebraic Approach to Rule Analysis in Expert Database Systems | 1994 | VLDB | 6.3746118e-05 |
| 5,270 | Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases | 1995 | PODS | 6.2908453e-05 |
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