A Decisions Query Language (DQL): High-Level Abstraction for Mathematical Programming over Databases

Summary: DQL unifies mathematical programming with database queries for decision optimization over data. Tight integration reduces impedance mismatch and enables more efficient evaluation than loosely coupled systems; makes OR-style optimization accessible to DB programmers with no OR background; demonstrated in an emergency scenario. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: haa7e2e0dd2bd54d5
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.1349531e-05
Overall Rank: 9,759 | 34.39%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559981

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Authors

1. Alexander Brodsky (George Mason University)
2. Mayur M. Bhot (George Mason University)
3. Manasa Chandrashekar (George Mason University)
4. Nathan E. Egge (George Mason University)
5. X. Sean Wang (University of Vermont)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brodsky_sigmod09,
        title = {{A Decisions Query Language (DQL): High-Level Abstraction for Mathematical Programming over Databases}},
        author = {Brodsky, Alexander and Bhot, Mayur M. and Chandrashekar, Manasa and Egge, Nathan E. and Wang, X. Sean},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559981},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559981},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,822	Decisionhouse: Prescriptive Analytics in the Data Stack	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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