3 papers
cs.DB2026
No Cliques Allowed: The Next Step Towards BDD/FC Conjecture
Lucas Larroque, Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja, Michaël Thomazo
This paper addresses one of the fundamental open questions in the realm of existential rules: the conjecture on the finite controllability of bounded derivation depth rule sets (bd…
cs.DB2025
About the Multi-Head Linear Restricted Chase Termination
Lukas Gerlach, Lucas Larroque, Jerzy Marcinkowski +1
The chase is a ubiquitous algorithm in database theory. However, for existential rules (aka tuple-generating dependencies), its termination is not guaranteed, and even undecidable…
cs.LO2025
Restricted Chase Termination: You Want More than Fairness
David Carral, Lukas Gerlach, Lucas Larroque +1
The chase is a fundamental algorithm with ubiquitous uses in database theory. Given a database and a set of existential rules (aka tuple-generating dependencies), it iteratively ex…