Semantic Acyclicity on Graph Databases
Summary: Characterize semantic acyclicity for UC2RPQs over graph databases: decidable in 2EXPSPACE and EXPSPACE-hard (even without inverses). Evaluation of semantically acyclic UC2RPQs is FPT; provide a robust approximation theory when no equivalent acyclic UC2RPQ exists. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Pablo Barceló (University of Chile)
- 2. Miguel Romero (University of Chile)
- 3. Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{barcelo_pods13,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '13},
title = {{Semantic Acyclicity on Graph Databases}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463664.2463671},
doi = {10.1145/2463664.2463671},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Barceló, Pablo and Romero, Miguel and Vardi, Moshe Y.},
year = {2013}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 719 | Querying Graph Databases | 2013 | PODS | 0.00014529156 |
| 818 | Hypertree Decompositions: Questions and Answers | 2016 | PODS | 0.0001366708 |
| 3,531 | Efficient Evaluation and Approximation of Well-designed Pattern Trees | 2015 | PODS | 7.2274159e-05 |
| 10,115 | Semantic Acyclicity Under Constraints | 2016 | PODS | 5.0789354e-05 |
| 12,456 | Does Query Evaluation Tractability Help Query Containment? | 2014 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 297 | GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion | 1990 | PODS | 0.00021840374 |
| 305 | A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.0002159111 |
| 390 | Conjunctive-Query Containment and Constraint Satisfaction | 1998 | PODS | 0.00019248147 |
| 421 | On the Complexity of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1997 | PODS | 0.00018516535 |
| 699 | Query Containment for Conjunctive Queries With Regular Expressions | 1998 | PODS | 0.00014686953 |
| 1,148 | Graph Pattern Matching: From Intractable to Polynomial Time | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00011809728 |
| 1,468 | Expressive Languages for Path Queries over Graph-Structured Data | 2010 | PODS | 0.00010566509 |
| 9,169 | Efficient Approximations of Conjunctive Queries | 2012 | PODS | 5.2141412e-05 |
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