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Polynomial Time Query Processing in Temporal Deductive Databases

Summary: Shows that if temporal rules induce least models with period polynomial in database size then yes–no queries (and finite representations of all answers) are computable in polynomial time, and gives a bottom-up algorithm BT that terminates under this criterion. Since polynomial periodicity is not directly decidable, defines decidable inflationary and undecidable I-periodicity, and proposes a syntactic multi-separability approximation to capture tractable cases. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
916
Venue
PODS
Year
1990
Pagerank
6.7783966e-05
Overall Rank
3,767 | 73.80%
DOI
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