Negation as Failure for First-Order Queries (Extended Abstract)
Summary: Presents a negation-as-failure rule for first-order database queries with universally quantified clauses, grounded in Apt & Van Emden's finite-failure and Clark completion. Characterizes failures of standard approaches (order-dependence, no existential negatives, inconsistency) and proposes compiling Horn cases into completed databases with implementation/complexity analysis. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Shamim A. Naqvi (AT&T)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{naqvi_pods86,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '86},
title = {{Negation as Failure for First-Order Queries (Extended Abstract)}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/6012.15408},
doi = {10.1145/6012.15408},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Naqvi, Shamim A.},
year = {1986}
}
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| 13,186 | An Extended Disjunctive Normal Form Approach for Optimizing Recursive Logic Queries in Loosely Coupled Environments | 1987 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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