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Argument Reduction by Factoring

Summary: Factoring is predicate-relative; factorability is undecidable in general. For broad classes, Magic Sets yields a factorable program; factoring enables a rewrite with lower arity and is never slower than the MS program, often dramatically faster. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7897
Venue
VLDB
Year
1989
Pagerank
6.3751001e-05
Overall Rank
4,179 | 70.96%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3,589 Right-, left- and multi-linear rule transformations that maintain context information 1990 VLDB 6.9387274e-05
6,881 Modular Acyclicity and Tail Recursion in Logic Programs 1991 PODS 4.8929836e-05
12,755 Binding Propagation in Disjunctive Databases 1998 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,805 Magic Factoring of Closure Programs (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 4.1905499e-05
12,939 Factoring Augmented Regular Chain Programs 1990 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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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
16 MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1986 PODS 0.00099936325
209 OPTIMIZING DATALOG PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1987 PODS 0.00034147258
359 On the Power of Magic 1987 PODS 0.00025830228
1,611 One-Sided Recursions 1987 PODS 0.00011146101
2,048 Efficient Evaluation of Right-, Left-, and Multi-Linear Rules 1989 SIGMOD 9.689916e-05
3,556 Compiling Separable Recursions 1988 SIGMOD 6.9712392e-05
6,412 Optimizing Existential Datalog Queries 1988 PODS 5.0668361e-05
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