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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
2257
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1984
Pagerank
0.00040747653
Overall Rank
154 | 98.94%
DOI
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157 Traversal Recursion: A Practical Approach to Supporting Recursive Applications 1986 SIGMOD 0.0004048407
173 Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries 1987 PODS 0.00038731283
406 Global Query Optimization 1986 SIGMOD 0.00023989944
520 LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language 1986 VLDB 0.00021145923
637 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00018812264
850 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 0.00015911875
1,192 Loading Data into Description Reasoners 1993 SIGMOD 0.00013417415
1,997 Decidability and Undecidability Results for Boundedness of Linear Recursive Queries 1988 PODS 9.837483e-05
3,350 Efficiently Supporting Procedures In Relational Database Systems 1987 SIGMOD 7.1867845e-05
4,118 A System for Semantic Query Optimization 1987 SIGMOD 6.4313372e-05
4,403 Implementation of Two Semantic Query Optimization Techniques in DB2 Universal Database 1999 VLDB 6.2054188e-05
4,650 A Chase Too Far? 2000 SIGMOD 6.0169723e-05
5,754 A Parallel Processing Strategy for Evaluating Recursive Queries 1986 VLDB 5.3391931e-05
7,114 Functional Dependencies in Logic Programs 1985 VLDB 4.8224118e-05
8,225 A Rule-Based Object/Task Modelling Approach 1986 SIGMOD 4.550782e-05
12,916 Deductive Databases in Action 1991 PODS 4.1905499e-05
12,999 An Extended Disjunctive Normal Form Approach For Optimizing Recursive Logic Queries In Loosely Coupled Environments 1987 VLDB 4.1905499e-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 0.00064817807
105 Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00049082041
142 Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00041780711
163 Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation 1977 SIGMOD 0.0003980026
462 Access Paths in the "Abe" Statistical Query Facility 1982 SIGMOD 0.00022568219
1,461 HOW DOES AN EXPERT SYSTEM GET ITS DATA? (Extended Abstract) 1983 VLDB 0.00011869463
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