Querying Contract Databases Based on Temporal Behavior

Summary: Temporal contracts enable efficient querying by combining temporal behavior with relational attributes. Two complementary index structures enable evaluation of a novel temporally-enabled permission notion for queries over contracts, from model checking. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4400
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.1725247e-05
Overall Rank: 12,179 | 15.36%
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