The Parameterized Complexity of Database Queries
Summary: Introduces parameterized complexity to the DB theory community and frames query evaluation as parameterized decision problems. Shows that evaluation of first-order queries and conjunctive queries, when parameterized by query (formula) size, is parameterized-hard, highlighting inherent complexity barriers. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Martin Grohe (University of Illinois Chicago)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{grohe_pods01,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '01},
title = {{The Parameterized Complexity of Database Queries}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/375551.375564},
doi = {10.1145/375551.375564},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Grohe, Martin},
year = {2001}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,725 | Beyond Worst-case Analysis for Joins with Minesweeper | 2014 | PODS | 9.7902443e-05 |
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Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 390 | Conjunctive-Query Containment and Constraint Satisfaction | 1998 | PODS | 0.00019248147 |
| 421 | On the Complexity of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1997 | PODS | 0.00018516535 |
| 1,690 | Robbers, Marshals, and Guards: Game Theoretic and Logical Characterizations of Hypertree Width | 2001 | PODS | 9.8609347e-05 |
| 2,365 | Hypertree Decompositions and Tractable Queries | 1999 | PODS | 8.5654557e-05 |
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