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On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System

Summary: Priority system for production rules tied to databases; default order with user-defined overrides. Efficient data structures and incremental maintenance enable repeatable execution and scalable support for multi-level hierarchies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h7fe5c8c7a1fd8015
Venue
VLDB
Year
1991
Pagerank
7.9141449e-05
Overall Rank
2,858 | 80.85%
DOI
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{agrawal_vldb91,
        title = {{On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Cochrane, Roberta and Lindsay, Bruce},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '91},
        pages = {479},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
246 Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance 1991 VLDB 0.00023146423
1,634 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010001512
3,527 Integrating Triggers and Declarative Constraints in SQL Database Systems 1996 VLDB 7.214911e-05
3,608 Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues 2000 VLDB 7.1494e-05
6,035 NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System 1994 VLDB 5.8906344e-05
6,599 Managing Conflicts between Rules 1996 PODS 5.7212281e-05
13,177 Provisions and Obligations in Policy Management and Security Applications 2002 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
13,431 Production Rules in Parallel and Distributed Database Environments 1992 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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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
205 The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System* 1989 SIGMOD 0.00025137529
293 Efficient Management of Transitive Relationships in Large Data and Knowledge Bases 1989 SIGMOD 0.00021884281
614 Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments 1983 VLDB 0.00015527367
739 Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.0001430589
1,377 Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance 1990 VLDB 0.00010857402
1,468 Implementing Large Production Systems in a DBMS Environment: Concepts and Algorithms 1988 SIGMOD 0.00010540751
1,634 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010001512
2,346 Compiling complex database transition triggers 1989 SIGMOD 8.5933699e-05
6,810 Conflict Resolution Of Rules Assigning Values To Virtual Attributes 1989 SIGMOD 5.6602648e-05
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