@InProceedings{guagliardo_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.22, author = {Guagliardo, Paolo and Libkin, Leonid and Marsault, Victor and Martens, Wim and Murlak, Filip and Peterfreund, Liat and Sirangelo, Cristina}, title = {{Queries with External Predicates}}, booktitle = {28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)}, pages = {22:1--22:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-364-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2025}, volume = {328}, editor = {Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.22}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229635}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.22}, annote = {Keywords: External predicates, Query safety, Computational model, Oracles, Infinite predicates, Access patterns, Relational algebra, First-order logic} }