Chickens and Eggs: The Interrelationship of Systems and Theory (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Personal perspective on the bidirectional interplay between database systems and theory, using case studies where theoretical results improved systems and systems motivated new theory. Calls out specific database subareas that would benefit from more theoretical input. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 799
Venue: PODS
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,978 | 9.72%
DOI: -

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1. Patricia G. Selinger

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235	An Authorization Mechanism for a Relational Data Base System	1976	SIGMOD	0.00031992425

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