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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
7.9429561e-05
Overall Rank
2,848 | 80.86%
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 0.00023212582
1,627 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010038961
3,517 Integrating Triggers and Declarative Constraints in SQL Database Systems 1996 VLDB 7.2422477e-05
3,600 Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues 2000 VLDB 7.1765044e-05
6,021 NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System 1994 VLDB 5.9129763e-05
6,588 Managing Conflicts between Rules 1996 PODS 5.742847e-05
13,130 Provisions and Obligations in Policy Management and Security Applications 2002 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
13,384 Production Rules in Parallel and Distributed Database Environments 1992 VLDB 4.9793485e-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
203 The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System* 1989 SIGMOD 0.00025229522
294 Efficient Management of Transitive Relationships in Large Data and Knowledge Bases 1989 SIGMOD 0.00021927874
610 Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments 1983 VLDB 0.0001558453
737 Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.00014359198
1,372 Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance 1990 VLDB 0.00010898439
1,464 Implementing Large Production Systems in a DBMS Environment: Concepts and Algorithms 1988 SIGMOD 0.00010580339
1,627 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010038961
2,333 Compiling complex database transition triggers 1989 SIGMOD 8.6255214e-05
6,788 Conflict Resolution Of Rules Assigning Values To Virtual Attributes 1989 SIGMOD 5.6816623e-05
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