Combining Relational And Network Retrieval Methods

Summary: Hybrid relational-network retrieval avoids duplicates, delivering up to 50% gains on 1:M and larger on M:N relations. During evaluation, relations are built, then joined or used to advance the query, enabling efficient retrieval on link-based databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2303
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,235 | 9.20%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602277

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Authors

1. Huei-huang Chen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Sharon McCure Kuck (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chen_sigmod84,
        title = {{COMBINING RELATIONAL AND NETWORK RETRIEVAL METHODS}},
        author = {Chen, Huei-huang and Kuck, Sharon McCure},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602277},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602277},
        year = {1984}
}

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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
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
3,648	A Universal Relation Database System Implemented Via the Network Model	1982	PODS	7.2267453e-05
4,326	Query Optimization for CODASYL Database Systems	1982	SIGMOD	6.7597302e-05
8,977	Designing Globally Consistent Network Schemas	1983	SIGMOD	5.3406923e-05

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