Cumulative Updates

Summary: Proposes cumulative updates to resolve ambiguous view updates by deferring decisions until later requests clarify. Formalizes the notion, defines update classes, and provides methods for a class, showing subsumption of conventional single-request updates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8412
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,042 | 10.52%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. S. M. Sripada (European Computer-Industry Research Center)
2. B. Wuthrich (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sripada_vldb94,
        title = {{Cumulative Updates}},
        author = {Sripada, S. M. and Wuthrich, B.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        year = {1994}
}

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,506	On the Complexity of Propositional Knowledge Base Revision, Updates, and Counterfactuals	1992	PODS	8.4897076e-05
2,645	Updating Relational Databases through Object-Based Views	1991	SIGMOD	8.303766e-05
3,512	Query Processing in Deductive Databases with Incomplete Information	1986	SIGMOD	7.355113e-05
5,984	Database Updates Through Abduction	1990	VLDB	6.020428e-05
13,163	A logical framework for temporal deductive databases	1988	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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