Minimum and Maximum Predicates in Logic Programming
Summary: Introduce min/max predicates with first-order semantics via rules with negation to declaratively express optimization problems (e.g., shortest path). Under monotonicity they ensure a total well-founded model computable via a greedy fixpoint and a rewrite that pushes min/max into recursion, yielding Dijkstra-like evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Sumit Ganguly (University of Texas)
- 2. Sergio Greco (University of Calabria)
- 3. Carlo Zaniolo (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ganguly_pods91,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '91},
title = {{Minimum and Maximum Predicates in Logic Programming}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/113413.113427},
doi = {10.1145/113413.113427},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Ganguly, Sumit and Greco, Sergio and Zaniolo, Carlo},
year = {1991}
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| 2,511 | Aggregation and Relevance in Deductive Databases | 1991 | VLDB | 8.4854377e-05 |
| 2,935 | RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark | 2019 | SIGMOD | 7.9444531e-05 |
| 4,290 | Greedy by Choice | 1992 | PODS | 6.7791707e-05 |
| 5,111 | The Well-Founded Semantics of Aggregation (Extended Abstract) | 1992 | PODS | 6.3602348e-05 |
| 6,203 | Automating Incremental and Asynchronous Evaluation for Recursive Aggregate Data Processing | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.9447217e-05 |
| 7,035 | Optimizing Recursive Queries with Program Synthesis | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.7216112e-05 |
| 8,083 | The Valid Model Semantics for Logic Programs | 1992 | PODS | 5.4911506e-05 |
| 8,858 | Optimizing Parallel Recursive Datalog Evaluation on Multicore Machines | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.3567857e-05 |
| 9,960 | Optimizing Nested Recursive Queries | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.1879626e-05 |
| 13,101 | Deductive Databases in Action | 1991 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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| 527 | The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates | 1990 | VLDB | 0.00017108864 |
| 1,297 | The Alternating Fixpoint of Logic Programs with Negation (Extended Abstract) | 1989 | PODS | 0.0001126031 |
| 2,511 | Aggregation and Relevance in Deductive Databases | 1991 | VLDB | 8.4854377e-05 |
| 4,831 | Stable Models and Non-Determinism in Logic Programs with Negation | 1990 | PODS | 6.4877275e-05 |
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