Temporal Aggregation in Active Database Rules

Summary: Introduces TREPL, a temporal-aggregation language for active rules, filling a gap in composite event languages. Semantics map TREPL rules to Datalog_ls, enabling user-defined temporal aggregates and TSMS-like expressiveness; applicable to ODE, Snoop, SAMOS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h707489ccbc1f4021
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 5.5263594e-05
Overall Rank: 7,441 | 49.98%
DOI: 10.1145/253260.253359

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Iakovos Motakis (Cambridge Technology Partners; University of California Los Angeles)
2. Carlo Zaniolo (University of California Los Angeles)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{motakis_sigmod97,
        title = {{Temporal Aggregation in Active Database Rules}},
        author = {Motakis, Iakovos and Zaniolo, Carlo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/253260.253359},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253359},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,569	Optimization of Sequence Queries in Database Systems	2001	PODS	8.2869645e-05
6,304	GRETA: Graph-based Real-time Event Trend Aggregation	2018	VLDB	5.8183983e-05
8,489	Event Trend Aggregation Under Rich Event Matching Semantics	2019	SIGMOD	5.3316951e-05
9,942	Complex Event Analytics: Online Aggregation of Stream Sequence Patterns	2014	SIGMOD	5.1061569e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
612	Composite Event Specification in Active Databases: Model & Implementation	1992	VLDB	0.00015573929
639	Composite Events for Active Databases: Semantics, Contexts and Detection	1994	VLDB	0.00015297525
653	The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System	1996	VLDB	0.00015106313
706	Sequence Query Processing	1994	SIGMOD	0.00014643264
1,491	Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database	1992	SIGMOD	0.00010508893
3,783	Providing Better Support for a Class of Decision Support Queries	1996	SIGMOD	7.0225701e-05
4,120	Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems	1995	SIGMOD	6.7947455e-05
5,604	Managing Temporal Financial Data in an Extensible Database	1993	VLDB	6.0697862e-05
9,049	Using the CALANDA Time Series Management System	1995	SIGMOD	5.2305466e-05

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