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Chickens and Eggs: The Interrelationship of Systems and Theory (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Personal perspective on the bidirectional interplay between database systems and theory, using case studies where theoretical results improved systems and systems motivated new theory. Calls out specific database subareas that would benefit from more theoretical input. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h33cbf7a7cbd08191
Venue
PODS
Year
1987
Pagerank
4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank
13,466 | 9.47%
DOI
10.1145/28659.28686

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@inproceedings{selinger_pods87,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '87},
        title = {{Chickens and Eggs: The Interrelationship of Systems and Theory (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/28659.28686},
        doi = {10.1145/28659.28686},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Selinger, Patricia G.},
        year = {1987}
}

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