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The Dichotomy of Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Structures

Databases 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show that for every conjunctive query, the complexity of evaluating it on a probabilistic database is either \PTIME or #\P-complete, and we give an algorithm for deciding whether a given conjunctive query is \PTIME or #\P-complete. The dichotomy property is a fundamental result on query evaluation on probabilistic databases and it gives a complete classification of the complexity of conjunctive queries.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0612102,
  title  = {The Dichotomy of Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Structures},
  author = {Nilesh Dalvi and Dan Suciu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0612102},
  year   = {2007}
}
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