The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects

Summary: Extends the relational model and calculus with unification and nonrecursive Horn clauses to represent complex objects and support deductive queries and rule-based inference. Introduces an equally expressive Extended Relational Algebra and a sound calculus-to-algebra compilation basis. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7916
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 0.00013651467
Overall Rank: 848 | 94.19%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Carlo Zaniolo (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zaniolo_vldb85,
        title = {{The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects}},
        author = {Zaniolo, Carlo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '85},
        pages = {458},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
63	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00038782376
143	Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries	1986	VLDB	0.0002959213
622	LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language	1986	VLDB	0.00015686753
782	FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language	1987	VLDB	0.00014080876
1,026	Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1)	1987	PODS	0.00012578477
1,816	A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures	1988	VLDB	9.6840978e-05
1,830	Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS	1986	VLDB	9.6641384e-05
1,882	Implementation Techniques of Complex Objects	1986	VLDB	9.5505879e-05
4,146	Efficiently Supporting Procedures In Relational Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	6.8732593e-05
5,798	Query Processing for Distance Metrics	1990	VLDB	6.0856815e-05
8,123	Managing Complex Objects in an Extensible Relational DBMS	1989	VLDB	5.4830239e-05
9,645	Nested Relation Based Database Knowledge Representation	1991	SIGMOD	5.2434488e-05
13,154	An Implementation Model For Reasoning With Complex Objects	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,160	A Data/Knowledge Base Management Testbed and Experimental Results on Data/Knowledge Base Query and Update Processing	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,198	A Rule-Based Object/Task Modelling Approach	1986	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
92	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034759032
357	An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00020283734
2,912	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.9688007e-05

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