Methods and Rules

Summary: Extends Datalog with methods, classes, inheritance, overloading and late binding by translating to Datalog with negation for uniform semantics. Compares static (C++-style) and dynamic resolutions, links to view specs and runtime class hierarchies, under stratified/well-founded semantics with standard evaluators. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2685
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 6.105443e-05
Overall Rank: 5,734 | 60.67%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170044

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Serge Abiteboul (INRIA)
2. Georg Lausen (University of Mannheim)
3. Heinz Uphoff (University of Mannheim)
4. Emmanuel Waller (INRIA)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{abiteboul_sigmod93,
        title = {{Methods and Rules}},
        author = {Abiteboul, Serge and Lausen, Georg and Uphoff, Heinz and Waller, Emmanuel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170044},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170044},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,369	Semantic Query Optimization in the Presence of Types	2010	PODS	6.7390374e-05
6,310	Type Inference for Datalog and its Application to Query Optimisation	2008	PODS	5.9176726e-05
12,965	Implementing Abstract Objects with Inheritance in Datalog^neg	1997	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,024	Object Migration	1994	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,026	A Polymorphic Calculus for Views and Object Sharing	1994	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
355	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00020351749
877	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013464822
1,145	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.00011987662
3,191	Method Schemas	1990	PODS	7.6525725e-05
3,476	Data Functions, Datalog and Negation (Extended Abstract)	1988	SIGMOD	7.3807586e-05
3,480	Integrating Object-Oriented Data Modeling with a Rule-Based Programming Paradigm	1990	SIGMOD	7.3771957e-05
4,919	LLO: An Object-Oriented Deductive Language with Methods and Method Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	6.4452856e-05

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