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Non-Deterministic Languages to Express Deterministic Transformations

Summary: Non-deterministic Datalog and FO/fixpoint (via a witness operator) precisely capture PTIME transformations, unlike any deterministic language. Also studies determinism detection (static/dynamic/semantic) and termination for these programs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
904
Venue
PODS
Year
1990
Pagerank
6.1422281e-05
Overall Rank
4,491 | 68.76%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3,040 Tractable Query Languages for Complex Object Databases 1991 PODS 7.6707607e-05
5,705 Datalog Unchained 2021 PODS 5.3621239e-05
8,570 Semi-determinism (extended abstract) 1992 PODS 4.4937074e-05
12,833 Adding Disjunction to Datalog (Extended Abstract) 1994 PODS 4.1945683e-05
12,855 On the Semantics of Theory Change: Arbitration between Old and New Information 1993 PODS 4.1945683e-05
12,888 Knowledgebase Transformations 1992 PODS 4.1945683e-05
12,910 A Non-deterministic Deductive Database Language 1991 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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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
172 Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries 1987 PODS 0.00038808816
200 OPTIMIZING DATALOG PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1987 PODS 0.00035012858
2,197 Update Semantics for Incomplete Databases 1985 VLDB 9.3085358e-05
3,317 Data Functions, Datalog and Negation (Extended Abstract) 1988 SIGMOD 7.2283048e-05
6,693 Modelling Non Deterministic Queries and Updates In Deductive Databases 1988 VLDB 4.9598818e-05
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