Derived Data Update in Semantic Databases

Summary: Presents a generic semantic-database framework for propagating updates to derived facts into consistent changes to base and other derived data. Provides update algorithms and validates them with an experimental prototype. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8093
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 5.709055e-05
Overall Rank: 7,080 | 51.43%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. I-Min Amy Chen (University of Southern California)
2. Dennis McLeod (University of Southern California)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chen_vldb89,
        title = {{Derived Data Update in Semantic Databases}},
        author = {Chen, I-Min Amy and McLeod, Dennis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '89},
        year = {1989}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,600	Rule Management in Object Oriented Databases: A Uniform Approach	1991	VLDB	6.1541906e-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
15	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00061144858
139	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029742792
595	An Authorization Mechanism for a Relational Data Base System	1976	SIGMOD	0.000159408
2,880	Choosing a View Update Translator by Dialog at View Definition Time	1986	VLDB	8.0033861e-05

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