Performing Inferences Over Relation Data Bases

Summary: Introduces an algorithm to answer questions whose answers are implicit in relation data by inferring from relations. Uses AI-style inference (state-space, problem-reduction) and outlines a scalable, explainable relational system for large databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2009
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
Pagerank: 5.2415551e-05
Overall Rank: 6,038 | 58.00%
DOI: -

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1. Jack Minker

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,079	Nonprocedural Query Processing For Databases With Access Paths	1978	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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