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How to Forget the Past Without Repeating It

Summary: Proposes Sliding Window Tabulation for bottom-up deductive-database evaluation, storing intermediate facts only while they can affect future answers to avoid recomputation. Delivers time efficiency with significant space savings, a first step toward compile-time garbage collection in bottom-up evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7950
Venue
VLDB
Year
1990
Pagerank
4.613363e-05
Overall Rank
7,978 | 44.50%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7,089 Space Optimization in the Bottom-Up Evaluation of Logic Programs 1991 SIGMOD 4.8371966e-05
12,905 Detecting Redundant Tuples During Query Evaluation 1991 PODS 4.1945683e-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 0.0010066783
365 On the Power of Magic 1987 PODS 0.00025585898
6,417 Optimizing Existential Datalog Queries 1988 PODS 5.0717071e-05
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