On the Power of Magic
Summary: Formalizes sideways information passing (SIP) and models recursive evaluation as SIP+control, isolating a strategy class subsuming most DB recursive-evaluation algorithms. Shows any strategy is realizable by program rewrites evaluated bottom-up, generalizing Magic Sets/Counting, with safety and optimality results. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 53 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,929 | Factoring Augmented Regular Chain Programs | 1990 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,964 | A Data/Knowledge Base Management Testbed and Experimental Results on Data/Knowledge Base Query and Update Processing | 1988 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,970 | Computing Facts In Non-Horn Deductive Systems. | 1988 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
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 |
| 77 | An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00057043861 |
| 296 | On the Implementation of a Simple Class of Logic Queries for Databases | 1986 | PODS | 0.00028644922 |
| 912 | Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) | 1987 | PODS | 0.00015414126 |
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