A Self-Controlling Interpreter for the Relational Production Language

Summary: RPL 1.0 prototype uses relational memory for working data, with LHS queries and RHS updates, linking expert systems to the relational model. A self-describing interpreter enables conflict resolution, error handling, and metrics via meta-rules, exploiting intra- and inter-rule parallelism. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2480
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 5.5267409e-05
Overall Rank: 7,872 | 46.00%
DOI: 10.1145/50202.50250

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Lois M. L. Delcambre (University of Southwestern Louisiana)
2. James N. Etheredge (University of Southwestern Louisiana)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{delcambre_sigmod88,
        title = {{A Self-Controlling Interpreter for the Relational Production Language}},
        author = {Delcambre, Lois M. L. and Etheredge, James N.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/50202.50250},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50250},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,906	Relational Database Behavior: Utilizing Relational Discrete Event Systems and Models	1989	PODS	5.1972596e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0007727299
6,748	The Effect Of Large Main Memory On Database Systems	1986	SIGMOD	5.7844786e-05

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