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On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System

Summary: Priority system for production rules tied to databases; default order with user-defined overrides. Efficient data structures and incremental maintenance enable repeatable execution and scalable support for multi-level hierarchies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8228
Venue
VLDB
Year
1991
Pagerank
8.0911708e-05
Overall Rank
2,820 | 80.66%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{agrawal_vldb91,
        title = {{On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Cochrane, Roberta and Lindsay, Bruce},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '91},
        pages = {479},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
258 Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance 1991 VLDB 0.00023131981
1,590 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010257581
3,475 Integrating Triggers and Declarative Constraints in SQL Database Systems 1996 VLDB 7.3816996e-05
3,528 Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues 2000 VLDB 7.3411417e-05
5,896 NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System 1994 VLDB 6.0486927e-05
6,455 Managing Conflicts between Rules 1996 PODS 5.8742703e-05
12,840 Provisions and Obligations in Policy Management and Security Applications 2002 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,094 Production Rules in Parallel and Distributed Database Environments 1992 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
197 The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System* 1989 SIGMOD 0.00025700767
282 Efficient Management of Transitive Relationships in Large Data and Knowledge Bases 1989 SIGMOD 0.0002242162
598 Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments 1983 VLDB 0.00015910777
716 Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.00014652696
1,329 Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance 1990 VLDB 0.00011140837
1,428 Implementing Large Production Systems in a DBMS Environment: Concepts and Algorithms 1988 SIGMOD 0.00010811922
1,590 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010257581
2,277 Compiling complex database transition triggers 1989 SIGMOD 8.817902e-05
6,660 Conflict Resolution Of Rules Assigning Values To Virtual Attributes 1989 SIGMOD 5.8101577e-05
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