MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)
Summary: Presents magic sets, a rewriting that turns goal-directed logic programs into bottom-up evaluation to prune irrelevant facts and leverage efficient bulk joins. Compares ad-hoc linear-rule implementations and emphasizes the challenge of proving optimal evaluation strategies. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Francois Bancilhon (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
- 2. David Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute)
- 3. Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew University)
- 4. Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bancilhon_pods86,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '86},
title = {{MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/6012.15399},
doi = {10.1145/6012.15399},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Bancilhon, Francois and Maier, David and Sagiv, Yehoshua and Ullman, Jeffrey D.},
year = {1986}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13,124 | Factoring Augmented Regular Chain Programs | 1990 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,158 | Classification Of Recursive Formulas In Deductive Databases | 1988 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,160 | A Data/Knowledge Base Management Testbed and Experimental Results on Data/Knowledge Base Query and Update Processing | 1988 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,167 | Computing Facts in Non-Horn Deductive Systems | 1988 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,179 | A Necessary Condition For A Doubly Recursive Rule To Be Equivalent To A Linear Recursive Rule | 1987 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,182 | Recursive Strategies for Answering Recursive Queries - The RQA/FQI Strategy | 1987 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,186 | An Extended Disjunctive Normal Form Approach for Optimizing Recursive Logic Queries in Loosely Coupled Environments | 1987 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 343 | A Message Passing Framework for Logical Query Evaluation | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00020669253 |
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