Polynomial Time Query Processing in Temporal Deductive Databases
Summary: Shows that if temporal rules induce least models with period polynomial in database size then yes–no queries (and finite representations of all answers) are computable in polynomial time, and gives a bottom-up algorithm BT that terminates under this criterion. Since polynomial periodicity is not directly decidable, defines decidable inflationary and undecidable I-periodicity, and proposes a syntactic multi-separability approximation to capture tractable cases. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jan Chomicki (University of North Carolina)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chomicki_pods90,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '90},
title = {{Polynomial Time Query Processing in Temporal Deductive Databases}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/298514.298589},
doi = {10.1145/298514.298589},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Chomicki, Jan},
year = {1990}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 917 | Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial | 1995 | PODS | 0.00013054852 |
| 2,951 | Pushing Constraint Selections | 1992 | PODS | 7.8066026e-05 |
| 4,655 | On the Representation of Infinite Temporal Data and Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1991 | PODS | 6.4691508e-05 |
| 8,376 | Optimizing Nested Recursive Queries | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.3279812e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 720 | PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract) | 1988 | PODS | 0.0001447659 |
| 1,014 | Why Not Negation By Fixpoint? | 1988 | PODS | 0.00012473729 |
| 4,344 | Relational Specifications of Infinite Query Answers | 1989 | SIGMOD | 6.6389007e-05 |
| 4,555 | Temporal Deductive Databases and Infinite Objects | 1988 | PODS | 6.5302546e-05 |
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