On Datalog vs. Polynomial Time.
Foto N. Afrati, Stavros S. Cosmadakis, Mihalis Yannakakis:
On Datalog vs. Polynomial Time.
PODS 1991: 13-25@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/pods/AfratiCY91,
author = {Foto N. Afrati and
Stavros S. Cosmadakis and
Mihalis Yannakakis},
title = {On Datalog vs. Polynomial Time},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on
Principles of Database Systems, May 29-31, 1991, Denver, Colorado},
publisher = {ACM Press},
year = {1991},
isbn = {0-89791-430-9},
pages = {13-25},
ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/113413.113415, db/conf/pods/AfratiCY91.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/pods/91},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract
We show that certain monotonic polynomial
time queries are not expressible in variants of
Datalog. The proof techniques include lower
bounds for monotone circuit size and a "Pumping
Lemma" for Datalog queries.
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Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, May 29-31, 1991, Denver, Colorado.
ACM Press 1991, ISBN 0-89791-430-9
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Languages for Polynomial-Time Queries - An Ongoing Quest.
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Bounded Arity Datalog (!=) Queries on Graphs.
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Datalog Expressiveness of Chain Queries: Grammar Tools and Characterizations.
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