EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF RELATIONAL CALCULUS EXPRESSIONS USING RANGE QUERY THEORY (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Defines a relational-calculus subset and evaluates all expressions by range-query theory in space O(N) and time O(N log^d N). With d small per predicate, ~95% of commercial requests on standard RAM run in O(N log N) time and O(N) space. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hfc3b7c9241017b75
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 5.050482e-05
Overall Rank: 10,264 | 31.00%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602281

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Authors

1. Dan E. Willard (Bell Communications Research; State University of New York at Albany)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{willard_sigmod84,
        title = {{EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF RELATIONAL CALCULUS EXPRESSIONS USING RANGE QUERY THEORY (Extended Abstract)}},
        author = {Willard, Dan E.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602281},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602281},
        year = {1984}
}

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14,721	Quasilinear Algorithms for Processing Relational Calculus Expressions (Preliminary Report)	1990	PODS	-

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