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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| 12,988 | An Extended Disjunctive Normal Form Approach For Optimizing Recursive Logic Queries In Loosely Coupled Environments | 1987 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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