A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects
Summary: Introduces Lcp, a query language over tuple+finite-list "list-object" types that exactly captures polynomial-time generic functions on list-based complex objects. Key novelty: an iteration primitive driven by a second control list and a syntactic growth constraint allowing intermediates to be output or reinjected while ensuring PTIME (excludes finite-set/recursive types). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Latha S. Colby (Data Parallel Systems, Inc.)
- 2. Edward L. Robertson (Indiana University)
- 3. Lawrence V. Saxton (University of Regina)
- 4. Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{colby_pods94,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '94},
title = {{A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/182591.182611},
doi = {10.1145/182591.182611},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Colby, Latha S. and Robertson, Edward L. and Saxton, Lawrence V. and Van Gucht, Dirk},
year = {1994}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,763 | Cut and Paste | 1997 | PODS | 8.044061e-05 |
| 4,166 | Similarity-Based Queries | 1995 | PODS | 6.7666324e-05 |
| 6,318 | Expressive power and data complexity of nonrecursive query languages for lists and trees (Extended Abstract) | 2000 | PODS | 5.8153669e-05 |
| 6,938 | Sequences, Datalog and Transducers | 1995 | PODS | 5.639474e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,919 | The Expressiveness of a Family of Finite Set Languages | 1991 | PODS | 9.3781849e-05 |
| 1,968 | A Call to Order | 1993 | PODS | 9.2967501e-05 |
| 2,427 | Pattern Matching by Rs-Operations: Towards a Unified Approach to Querying Sequenced Data (Extended Abstract) | 1992 | PODS | 8.4823408e-05 |
| 2,457 | Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries | 1989 | PODS | 8.4375276e-05 |
| 2,515 | Towards Tractable Algebras for Bags (Extended Abstract) | 1993 | PODS | 8.3644485e-05 |
| 3,363 | SVP - a Model Capturing Sets, Streams, and Parallelism | 1992 | VLDB | 7.3742531e-05 |
| 3,629 | The Powerset Algebra As A Result Of Adding Programming Constructs To The Nested Relational Algebra | 1988 | SIGMOD | 7.1505568e-05 |
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