Containment and Minimization of Positive Conjunctive Queries in OODB's (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Defines terminal conjunctive queries for OODBs and characterizes containment/equivalence, using schema typing to minimize object access. For positive CQs provides containment/equivalence characterization and an algorithm that computes exact minimizations as unions of terminal positive CQs with minimal variable space. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h24145a41f950ced0
Venue: PODS
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 8.5959895e-05
Overall Rank: 2,350 | 84.21%
DOI: 10.1145/137097.137869

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Authors

1. Edward P. F. Chan (Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems; University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chan_pods92,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '92},
        title = {{Containment and Minimization of Positive Conjunctive Queries in OODB's (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/137097.137869},
        doi = {10.1145/137097.137869},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Chan, Edward P. F.},
        year = {1992}
}

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24	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00055018384
1,661	On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints	1998	PODS	9.9545204e-05
1,818	Deciding Containment for Queries with Complex Objects (Extended Abstract)	1997	PODS	9.5674072e-05
2,128	Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data	1999	SIGMOD	8.9984814e-05
4,461	Semantic Query Optimization in the Presence of Types	2010	PODS	6.5870588e-05
6,439	Type Inference for Datalog and its Application to Query Optimisation	2008	PODS	5.7826139e-05
7,607	Query Containment in Entity SQL (Extended Abstract)	2013	SIGMOD	5.4842774e-05
12,331	Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries	2016	PODS	4.9769913e-05
13,288	Applying an update method to a set of receivers (extended abstract)	1995	PODS	4.9769913e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075910134
366	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00019914615
698	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.0001468044
874	Object-Oriented Database Systems	1988	PODS	0.00013325135
1,003	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012591126
1,255	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011330686
2,805	Database Theory: Past and Future	1987	PODS	7.9802403e-05
4,084	Type Systems for Querying Class Hierarchies with Non-strict Inheritance.	1989	PODS	6.8142614e-05
4,648	On the Equivalence of Database Restructurings Involving Object Identifiers	1991	PODS	6.4847033e-05

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