On the Expressive Power of Logic Programming Languages with Sets
Summary: Compares ELPS-style set quantification and LDL-style grouping, proving that in Horn-clause programs set quantification is expressible via primitive set ops (union/scans) and providing translations between the constructs. Analyzes stratified/unstratified negation’s impact on minimal-model, least-fixpoint and procedural semantics, gives conditions for preserving unique minimal models, formalizes finite-set first-order semantics with membership/constructors, and characterizes the auxiliary predicates needed in translations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Gabriel M. Kuper (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kuper_pods88,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '88},
title = {{On the Expressive Power of Logic Programming Languages with Sets}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/308386.308397},
doi = {10.1145/308386.308397},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Kuper, Gabriel M.},
year = {1988}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,110 | Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1988 | PODS | 9.1532803e-05 |
| 2,986 | Tractable Query Languages for Complex Object Databases | 1991 | PODS | 7.8912631e-05 |
| 8,562 | New Data Models and Languages - the Challenge | 1992 | PODS | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 13,071 | A Domain-theoretic Approach to Integrating Functional and Logic Database Languages | 1993 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 799 | Logic Programming With Sets | 1987 | PODS | 0.00013911498 |
| 1,026 | Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) | 1987 | PODS | 0.00012578477 |
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