Loading Data into Description Reasoners

Summary: Converts description-logic KBMS inferences into SQL queries to leverage relational-DBMS optimization while preserving an object-centered semantic view. Addresses translation optimization when semantically equivalent SQL varies in syntax across DBMSs, offering unique DL-based reasoning beyond standard RDBMS/deductive extensions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h6ec68e28c37c1195
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 8.1695181e-05
Overall Rank: 2,656 | 82.15%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170073

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alex Borgida (AT&T; Rutgers University)
2. Ronald J. Brachman (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{borgida_sigmod93,
        title = {{Loading Data into Description Reasoners}},
        author = {Borgida, Alex and Brachman, Ronald J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170073},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170073},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
94	Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining	1994	VLDB	0.00034579889
467	Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases	1995	VLDB	0.00017766906

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
155	Common Expression Analysis in Database Applications	1982	SIGMOD	0.00028527932
368	An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00019864474
2,936	How Does an Expert System Get Its Data?	1983	VLDB	7.83645e-05
4,603	CLASSIC: A Structural Data Model for Objects	1989	SIGMOD	6.506144e-05

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