Semi-determinism (extended abstract)

Summary: Characterizes when nondeterministic queries are semi-deterministic (outputs isomorphic) or uniformly so (intermediate states isomorphic), linking nondeterminism with object generation. Provides decidability (compile/run), counting-query expressibility, and completeness results. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 965
Venue: PODS
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,773 | 39.81%
DOI: 10.1145/137097.137866

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Authors

1. Jan Van den Bussche (University of Antwerp)
2. Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bussche_pods92,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '92},
        title = {{Semi-determinism (extended abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/137097.137866},
        doi = {10.1145/137097.137866},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Van den Bussche, Jan and Van Gucht, Dirk},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,050	Database Method Schemas and Object Creation	1993	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
355	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00020351749
544	A New Approach to Database Logic	1984	PODS	0.00016792556
971	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012875736
1,228	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011579246
2,110	Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	9.1532803e-05
2,400	Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries	1989	PODS	8.6299917e-05
2,637	A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model	1990	PODS	8.3154765e-05
3,712	Non-Deterministic Languages to Express Deterministic Transformations	1990	PODS	7.1777407e-05
4,555	On the Equivalence of Database Restructurings Involving Object Identifiers	1991	PODS	6.6344715e-05
4,831	Stable Models and Non-Determinism in Logic Programs with Negation	1990	PODS	6.4877275e-05
4,934	The Expressive Power of Structured Values in Pure OODB's (extended abstract)	1991	PODS	6.4357823e-05

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