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A Temporal Relational Algebra as a Basis for Temporal Relational Completeness

Summary: Defines a temporal algebra with five operators plus a linear-recursion operator for discrete linear time. Equates its expressive power to a safe temporal-calculus with until and since, offering a basis for temporal relational completeness. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7928
Venue
VLDB
Year
1990
Pagerank
9.8377097e-05
Overall Rank
1,996 | 86.12%
DOI
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Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,583 Temporal Logic & Historical Databases 1991 VLDB 0.00011259345
2,760 Temporal versus First-Order Logic to Query Temporal Databases 1996 PODS 8.1634739e-05
3,813 Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems 1995 SIGMOD 6.735525e-05
4,510 Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach) 1992 VLDB 6.1250352e-05
12,901 A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries 1992 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
614 Logical Modeling Of Temporal Data 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019177247
3,136 Handling Infinite Temporal Data 1990 PODS 7.4913222e-05
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