Efficient management of transitive relationships in large data and knowledge bases

  • Authors:
  • R. Agrawal;A. Borgida;H. V. Jagadish

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey;Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey;AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We argue that accessing the transitive closure of relationships is an important component of both databases and knowledge representation systems in Artificial Intelligence. The demands for efficient access and management of large relationships motivate the need for explicitly storing the transitive closure in a compressed and local way, while allowing updates to the base relation to be propagated incrementally. We present a transitive closure compression technique, based on labeling spanning trees with numeric intervals, and provide both analytical and empirical evidence of its efficacy, including a proof of optimality.