On the Equivalence of Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/pods/ChaudhuriV92,
  author    = {Surajit Chaudhuri and
               Moshe Y. Vardi},
  title     = {On the Equivalence of Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium
               on Principles of Database Systems, June 2-4, 1992, San Diego,
               California},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1992},
  isbn      = {0-89791-519-4},
  pages     = {55-66},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/137097.137109, db/conf/pods/ChaudhuriV92.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/pods/92},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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