Languages for Relational Databases over Interpreted Structures
Summary: Reworks relational theory for domains with interpreted operations, classifying which equivalences and expressive-characterizations hold unchanged, which require well-behaved structures, and which phenomena are specific to the interpreted setting. Provides algorithms to eliminate unbounded quantifiers (collapsing natural to active-domain semantics in many cases), normal forms for mixed higher-order logics, and an elementary proof that parity is undefinable in the relational calculus with polynomial inequality constraints. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael Benedikt (AT&T)
- 2. Leonid Libkin (AT&T)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{benedikt_pods97,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '97},
title = {{Languages for Relational Databases over Interpreted Structures}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/263661.263672},
doi = {10.1145/263661.263672},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Benedikt, Michael and Libkin, Leonid},
year = {1997}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,292 | An Expressive Language for Linear Spatial Database Queries (extended abstract) | 1998 | PODS | 6.6820595e-05 |
| 4,317 | Safe Constraint Queries | 1998 | PODS | 6.6681018e-05 |
| 4,640 | Exact and Approximate Aggregation in Constraint Query Languages | 1999 | PODS | 6.4903073e-05 |
| 6,318 | Expressive power and data complexity of nonrecursive query languages for lists and trees (Extended Abstract) | 2000 | PODS | 5.8153669e-05 |
| 6,798 | Complexity of Nonrecursive Logic Programs with Complex Values | 1998 | PODS | 5.6797989e-05 |
| 13,169 | Uniform Generation in Spatial Constraint Databases and Applications | 2000 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 794 | On the Complexity of Bounded-Variable Queries | 1995 | PODS | 0.00013941847 |
| 1,950 | Relational Expressive Power of Constraint Query Languages | 1996 | PODS | 9.3195393e-05 |
| 2,716 | Equivalence, Query-Reachability, and Satisfiability in Datalog Extensions | 1993 | PODS | 8.1006747e-05 |
| 3,083 | An Axiomatic Approach to Deciding Query Safety in Deductive Databases | 1988 | PODS | 7.6632607e-05 |
| 4,110 | Linear vs. Order Constraint Queries Over Rational Databases (Extended Abstract) | 1996 | PODS | 6.8008012e-05 |
| 4,523 | Functional and Predicative programming in OODB's | 1992 | PODS | 6.56223e-05 |
| 6,286 | Safety and Translation of Calculus Queries with Scalar Functions (Extended Abstract) | 1993 | PODS | 5.8229958e-05 |
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