On the feasibility of checking temporal integrity constraints

  • Authors:
  • Jan Chomicki;Damian Niwiński

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PODS '93 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We analyze the computational feasibility of checking temporal integrity constraints formulated in some sublanguages of first-order temporal logic. Our results illustrate the impact of the quantification on the complexity of this problem. The presence of a single quantifier in the scope of a temporal operator makes the problem undecidable. On the other hand, if no quantifiers are in the scope of a temporal operator and all the quantifiers are universal, temporal integrity checking can be done in exponential time.