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Positivism vs. Minimalism in Deductive Databases (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Analyzes three CWA formalizations for disjunctive information; proves Bossu & Siegel's “minimalism” equals a Reiter default-logic encoding and neither subsumes Clark's negation-as-failure. Proposes “positivism” as a semantic synthesis and contrasts positivism vs minimalism in static and dynamic expressiveness, revealing distinct non‑monotonic behaviors. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
753
Venue
PODS
Year
1986
Pagerank
5.5957439e-05
Overall Rank
7,564 | 48.11%
DOI
10.1145/6012.15409

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bidoit_pods86,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '86},
        title = {{Positivism vs. Minimalism in Deductive Databases (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/6012.15409},
        doi = {10.1145/6012.15409},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Bidoit, Nicole and Hull, Richard},
        year = {1986}
}

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