Distributed Processing Of Logic Programs

Summary: Predicate decomposability enables parallel evaluation of logic programs with no inter-processor communication. Fully characterizes sirups (nonrecursive, linear, simple chain) decomposability: nonrecursive always decomposable; identifies which linear and chain cases work; provides two sufficient conditions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2472
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 6.8889854e-05
Overall Rank: 4,121 | 71.73%
DOI: 10.1145/50202.50242

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Authors

1. Ouri Wolfson (Technion)
2. Avi Silberschatz (University of Texas)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wolfson_sigmod88,
        title = {{DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF LOGIC PROGRAMS}},
        author = {Wolfson, Ouri and Silberschatz, Avi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/50202.50242},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50242},
        year = {1988}
}

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2,247	A Framework for the Parallel Processing of Datalog Queries	1990	SIGMOD	8.8713691e-05
2,530	Incremental Evaluation of Rules and its Relationship to Parallelism	1991	SIGMOD	8.458663e-05
2,594	Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark	2016	SIGMOD	8.3646367e-05
3,076	A New Paradigm For Parallel And Distributed Rule-Processing	1990	SIGMOD	7.7817058e-05
3,689	Dynamically Distributed Query Evaluation	2001	PODS	7.2010583e-05
4,343	On Distributed Processibility of Datalog Queries by Decomposing Databases	1989	SIGMOD	6.7529086e-05
4,464	Why A Single Parallelization Strategy Is Not Enough In Knowledge Bases	1989	PODS	6.6860087e-05
5,850	Parallelizing Datalog Programs by Generalized Pivoting	1991	PODS	6.0664613e-05
8,858	Optimizing Parallel Recursive Datalog Evaluation on Multicore Machines	2022	SIGMOD	5.3567857e-05
11,336	The Vadalog Parallel System: Distributed Reasoning with Datalog+/-	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,101	Deductive Databases in Action	1991	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
16	MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)	1986	PODS	0.00060089598
63	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00038782376
616	Parallel Evaluation of Recursive Rule Queries	1986	PODS	0.00015712636
1,173	Data Independent Recursion in Deductive Databases	1986	PODS	0.00011822695
1,653	Bounds on the Propagation of Selection into Logic Programs	1987	PODS	0.000101081
1,957	The Parallel Complexity of Simple Chain Queries (Extended Abstract)	1987	PODS	9.4146943e-05
2,015	A Decidable Class of Bounded Recursions	1987	PODS	9.3047297e-05
2,033	One-Sided Recursions	1987	PODS	9.2819369e-05
2,754	Database Theory: Past and Future	1987	PODS	8.164514e-05

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