Sequences, Datalog and Transducers
Summary: Sequence Datalog extends Datalog with interpreted sequence-manipulation and an extended active domain (all sequences and subsequences) to separate safe from unsafe recursion and ensure finiteness. Unsafe recursion is confined to generalized sequence transducers (transducers-as-subroutines), yielding simple syntactic conditions that exactly capture PTIME and the class of elementary sequence functions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Giansalvatore Mecca (Sapienza University)
- 2. Anthony J. Bonner (University of Toronto)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{mecca_pods95,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '95},
title = {{Sequences, Datalog and Transducers}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/212433.212440},
doi = {10.1145/212433.212440},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Mecca, Giansalvatore and Bonner, Anthony J.},
year = {1995}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,469 | A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00010562009 |
| 2,763 | Cut and Paste | 1997 | PODS | 8.044061e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,025 | Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance | 1991 | SIGMOD | 0.00012427098 |
| 1,919 | The Expressiveness of a Family of Finite Set Languages | 1991 | PODS | 9.3781849e-05 |
| 2,427 | Pattern Matching by Rs-Operations: Towards a Unified Approach to Querying Sequenced Data (Extended Abstract) | 1992 | PODS | 8.4823408e-05 |
| 3,363 | SVP - a Model Capturing Sets, Streams, and Parallelism | 1992 | VLDB | 7.3742531e-05 |
| 4,559 | A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects | 1994 | PODS | 6.5344897e-05 |
| 4,678 | Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach) | 1992 | VLDB | 6.4731003e-05 |
| 6,779 | Reasoning about Strings in Databases | 1994 | PODS | 5.6842367e-05 |
| 6,990 | Text Dominated Databases, Theory Practice and Experience | 1994 | PODS | 5.6269613e-05 |
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