A Language and a Physical Organization Technique for Summary Tables

Summary: Proposes an algebraic language for manipulating set-valued relations that underpin primitive and arbitrary summary tables. Presents a physical organization technique for summary tables and an implementation model for the resulting operators. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h76bfb39cde4345db
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 7.0176249e-05
Overall Rank: 3,793 | 74.50%
DOI: 10.1145/318898.318899

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University)
2. Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University)
3. Francisco Mata (Case Western Reserve University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ozsoyoglu_sigmod85,
        title = {{A Language and a Physical Organization Technique for Summary Tables}},
        author = {Ozsoyoglu, Gultekin and Ozsoyoglu, Z. Meral and Mata, Francisco},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '85},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/318898.318899},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/318898.318899},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,899	Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications	1993	VLDB	9.4070548e-05
1,920	Implementation Techniques of Complex Objects	1986	VLDB	9.3768105e-05
2,932	OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences	1997	PODS	7.8403303e-05
4,624	A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes	1988	SIGMOD	6.4973062e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
140	Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations	1982	PODS	0.00029346895
260	Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions	1982	VLDB	0.00022880477
1,390	Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases	1982	VLDB	0.00010816545

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