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)
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Authors
- 1. Nicole Bidoit (National Center for Scientific Research; University of Paris)
- 2. Richard Hull (University of Southern California)
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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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,965 | Negation and Minimality in Non-Horn Databases | 1993 | PODS | 6.0261858e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,161 | On the Equivalence of Logical Databases | 1984 | PODS | 7.6819215e-05 |
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