Normalizing Incomplete Databases
Summary: Formalizes semantics and normalization theorems for incomplete databases with disjunctive complex objects (set/bag), yielding programming primitives to enumerate the encoded possibilities. Introduces partial normalization and a streaming normalization algorithm that produces possibilities one-by-one in linear space (vs prior exponential), implemented in DBPL with substantial space/time improvements. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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| 1,294 | Incomplete Objects - A Data Model for Design and Planning Applications | 1991 | SIGMOD | 0.0001274686 |
| 2,394 | Algebraic Properties of Bag Data Types | 1991 | VLDB | 8.8911581e-05 |
| 2,546 | Towards Tractable Algebras for Bags (Extended Abstract) | 1993 | PODS | 8.5606179e-05 |
| 4,699 | Semantic Representations and Query Languages for Or-sets | 1993 | PODS | 5.98279e-05 |
| 7,147 | Any Algorithm in the Complex Object Algebra with Powerset Needs Exponential Space to Compute Transitive Closure | 1994 | PODS | 4.8131534e-05 |
| 7,782 | New Techniques for Studying Set Languages, Bag Languages and Aggregate Functions | 1994 | PODS | 4.6479178e-05 |
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