An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System

Summary: Optimizing translation mechanism between a PROLOG expert system and a relational SQL DB, via an intermediate language that decomposes the optimization problem. Provides target-language independence, enabling expert-system–database integration and external deductive capabilities within existing relational DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2256
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 0.00040645847
Overall Rank: 154 | 98.94%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
172	Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries	1987	PODS	0.00038808816
175	Traversal Recursion: A Practical Approach to Supporting Recursive Applications	1986	SIGMOD	0.00038338694
410	Global Query Optimization	1986	SIGMOD	0.00023934971
519	LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language	1986	VLDB	0.00021154077
632	The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects	1985	VLDB	0.00018923134
854	Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS	1986	VLDB	0.00015933596
1,194	Loading Data into Description Reasoners	1993	SIGMOD	0.00013414765
1,991	Decidability and Undecidability Results for Boundedness of Linear Recursive Queries	1988	PODS	9.84713e-05
3,346	Efficiently Supporting Procedures In Relational Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	7.1924206e-05
4,119	A System for Semantic Query Optimization	1987	SIGMOD	6.4365852e-05
4,408	Implementation of Two Semantic Query Optimization Techniques in DB2 Universal Database	1999	VLDB	6.2109612e-05
4,654	A Chase Too Far?	2000	SIGMOD	6.022356e-05
5,743	A Parallel Processing Strategy for Evaluating Recursive Queries	1986	VLDB	5.3442345e-05
7,115	Functional Dependencies in Logic Programs	1985	VLDB	4.8270439e-05
8,227	A Rule-Based Object/Task Modelling Approach	1986	SIGMOD	4.5551494e-05
12,906	Deductive Databases in Action	1991	PODS	4.1945683e-05
12,988	An Extended Disjunctive Normal Form Approach For Optimizing Recursive Logic Queries In Loosely Coupled Environments	1987	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
58	Efficient Optimization of a Class of Relational Expressions	1978	SIGMOD	0.00064826446
104	Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00048766186
144	Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00041462501
162	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00039758372
479	Access Paths in the "Abe" Statistical Query Facility	1982	SIGMOD	0.00022217448
1,462	HOW DOES AN EXPERT SYSTEM GET ITS DATA? (Extended Abstract)	1983	VLDB	0.000118756

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