The parallel complexity of simple logic programs

  • Authors:
  • Foto Afrati;Christos H. Papadimitriou

  • Affiliations:
  • National Technical Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece;Univ. of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We consider logic programs with a single recursive rules, whose right-hand side consists of binary relations forming a chain. We give a complete characterization of all programs of this form that are computable in NC (assuming that P ≠ ). Our proof uses ideas from automata and language theory, and the combinatorics of strings.