Combined tractability of query evaluation via tree automata and cycluits

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.ICDT.2017.6zbMATH Open1402.68039arXiv1612.04203OpenAlexW3103492182MaRDI QIDQ3174894FDOQ3174894

Authors: Antoine Amarilli, Pierre Bourhis, Mikaël Monet, Pierre Senellart 

Publication date: 18 July 2018

Abstract: We investigate parameterizations of both database instances and queries that make query evaluation fixed-parameter tractable in combined complexity. We introduce a new Datalog fragment with stratified negation, intensional-clique-guarded Datalog (ICG-Datalog), with linear-time evaluation on structures of bounded treewidth for programs of bounded rule size. Such programs capture in particular conjunctive queries with simplicial decompositions of bounded width, guarded negation fragment queries of bounded CQ-rank, or two-way regular path queries. Our result proceeds via compilation to alternating two-way automata, whose semantics is defined via cyclic provenance circuits (cycluits) that can be tractably evaluated. Last, we prove that probabilistic query evaluation remains intractable in combined complexity under this parameterization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04203

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zbMATH Keywords

provenancetreewidthtree automatacircuitsquery evaluation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal languages and automata (68Q45) Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Database theory (68P15)

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